My World, My Voice

I started playing this online game called Evony several years ago because my brother and boyfriend at the time both played it and liked it.  We started up new characters on the same server and started our own three person alliance just for some social fun together.  It was fun for a while and then we got bored and moved on to other things. Of all the games I have ever played online, I played them because a friend asked me to join them.  After some time had passed, this game called Evony came out with a newer version called Evony Age II.  I decided it would be fun to play a game just for myself for once, not as an invitation from someone else... so I did. Evony uses a game model that is free to log on and play, but if you spend money in their cash shop you can advance quicker and more easily than the freeloaders.  They build in certain roadblocks to encourage you to spend money or else spend months and even years trying to get the very rare drop that will let you advance.  For the m

On October 25, 2011 I woke around 3:00 AM and had an urgent desire to write down some thoughts.  When I read it the next day I thought it had some good ideas within it and that maybe I'd refine it at some point and share it.  I've decided instead to present it here in it's raw format, just as I wrote it that early October morning. There are ideas within that perhaps I will expand upon at a later date, but for now I hope the world can open up to these thoughts and embrace the messages of Change, Tolerance and Harmony that our whole world needs. Change what is not working. Why do our Congress and Senate hold sessions where people get up and talk, yet no one is listening? Why do people vote by party lines? Why the lack of personal decision? We need smaller groups with equal representation.  Include civilians in meetings, each group can come to a consensus and speak to the larger body.  Everyone present pays full attention to those speaking and contributes. Abolish par