Christmas and the New year

In this post Ilike to talk about Christmas. When I dicovered that Christmas was on a sunday, at first I was disappointed because I won't be able to play anything, but overtime I discoverd that Christmas was extra special on sundays because we get to know the nativity more. what I really wanted for Christmas was a Wii and a Rosetta Stone Mandarin, but mom said they were expensive, but on Christams Day, I got them!!!!!
The reason why because I never lost faith, trust and hope. On Christmas Day I got a big package, but when I opened it the was a small present inside instead of a big gift. Biggest lie of the week! But when I opened the small present. It was my Rosetta Stone Mandarin! Her's some advice, the greatness of the gifts you get are not by size but value. A large gift may have a small value. while a tiny gift may have an enormous value. Next time it's December i'm going remember the Nativity more.
For the new year, i'm going study the scriptures more often, be better in school and be a good deacon and live a rightous life by passing the sacrament and not playing bad video games.
Remember, keep the Christ in Christmas.

conflict, sickness and trials

I ment to do this post a long time ago. Weeks ago was The Attack on Pearl harbor's 70th anniversery! It began with Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku, Zuikaku, 'Vals', 'Kates', and a bunch of Zeros. While anonymous people were attending church, and on the Battleships, such as Arizona, the bases expolded, ships were sunk, innocent people lost thier lives.The shadow of war had just crept on to America's doorstep! It wasn't until 1945, that the great clash between Washinton DC, London and Moscow and Berlin, Rome and Tokyo ceased.Even though it was a tough time for the US. It was the attack that helped the USA enter the war and win it.
We all have problem in our lives, for example, I have had a sickness that develops a rash and spreads tiny bumps on me skin. The cause is a mystery, I discovered it at school. when my mom first saw it she was not to worried. But now its spead on my forehead to my lower chest. My mom kept me home from school for a couple of days to make sure I don't spread it. I don't know if it's an virus or an allergic reaction. I visited two docters who had no idea what it was. But my spirits are high. My brother calls it Steeasles and I call it Shippen Pox. I'm pretty confident that it will leave and I will get better.
Here's a reminder, everything on earth is flawed and we all have trials. But overcoming them is a step to eternal life.

I'll miss you grandma Dora

In this post I will like to tell you about my Great Grandma Dora.
The day after yesterday I went to Southern Alberta because yesterday was my Grandma Dora's funeral. On the 29th of November she died after being in a coma. Once I heard about her death, my heart broke into pieces. Since that day, i'd never been able to keep my mind off her. We arrived at the church early, and once we did we looked at pictures of when she was young. We also saw her dead mortal body lying in a coffin with the lid open. She was in her temple clothes, and it looked like she was sleeping. Only she wasn't. In the coffin she looked so peaceful. Moments later we went to the chapel. There we sang songs, had prayers, and grandma Shipley and aunt Barbara told about her life. After that we went to Temple Hill Cemetary. After they took the coffin out, said a prayer and we said goodbye to everyone, I burst into tears.

I loved her with my life. She was very special to me, like a diamond. In my prayers I always mentioned her fulfilling her mission in the spirit world, and that Grandpa Harold would always feel the spirit while he is lonely.
The best way that I can show love for Grandma Dora is by being a good deacon, teacher, priest, and missionary. Her death is like a scar, but soon faith will heal it.

CLEAN LANGUAGE IS COOL

In this post I like to take about profanity and write a review about nocussing.com.
When I went to my Bishop Youth Discussion, my bishop showed me a movie about clean language. It talked about a boy who has been hearing profane language at his school. So he starts the No Cussing Club and his uncle creates a website called nocussing.com that got over 200 000 members. However sadly his website has been hacked 3 times and the hacker puts on profanity and pornography. There even been bomb and death threats, and packages telling him to give up. All he ever wanted to do was end profanity, and idiots hack into his website!? Seriously! Blaspheme and Profanity are really offensive to god and other people! And about nocussing.com. I think it his great that the uncle started a website as well as his nephew starting the No Cussing Club.
If you had a choice between $100 and joining the No Cussing Club, Choose the club, I can think of a more benefits of joining the club than with $100!

Instead of using obscene language here are some replacements
f-word - Frack, water fracker (since tracking to get natural gas taints the water)
Bull****- Bolshivek
d-word- hoover dam
s-word- shiitake (mushrooms)
a-word- acid or acid bath

Lest We Forget

For remembrance day to remember those who died in many wars and those who are still fighting, I would like to post a poem made by my brother Grayson.



IN WAR: Past, Present and Future

Soldiers sail overseas,
Their wives and children are filled with pleas!
Crossing their fingers because they don't know,
What lingers on the trenches
On the benches below!

In Flander's Fields poppies grow,
Where soldiers bloodstreams used to flow
Beams of light
screams at night
Winds blow
Grenades explode
Fill the troops with so much fright!

Bi-planes fight in the bright blue sky
Soldiers know they're gonna die
Crosses cross row by row
Their spirits fly in the blue night sky

Now they are in Afghanistan
Fighting the Taliban

Soldiers walk in the dark
Trying not to get a mark
Guns, grenades where the light's gonna fade

Guns and grenades blazing
Soldiers gazing

Artillery fire, soldiers gonna die here
Rotting bodies, decaying hobbies
River of blood, what a dud
Tears drop,
Fears mop and grow

Now in the future, poppies grow where blood flowed
On Remembrance Day
We think of soldiers fighting and dying

-- by Grayson Fox Shipley




I hope we remember the people who are giving their lives to protect our freedom!

THE MANY REASONS WHY RURAL IS BETTER THAN URBAN

Listen, I know I live in the city but I wish I could move from Edmonton to Magrath or Barrhead. Here are the reasons why.

1. I can see stars in Barrhead and Magrath, in the city I can't because of the lights.
2. Less litter or vandalism, in the city, it's very common.
3. Rural life has no criminals, city, plenty of them.
4. Barrhead and Magrath has extraordinary creatures such as, frogs, bats, minnows, ducks and deer, Edmonton, quite rare.

5. Rural, you can here birds sing, bees buzz and other wonderful natural sounds, urban, the only thing you here are cars, jackhammers and other loud obnoxious noises
6. Town the air is fresh and sweet, city, nothing but smog and air pollution

7. Barrhead and Magrath are very wise with their resources, and they are renewable, Edmonton, just fossils fuels and the guys that extract them are plagued with greed and foolishness, plus they take more they they need!
8. Town, easy to find your way back home, city easy to get lost!
9. The town has lots of members of the church.
10. In a town, everyone knows each other, city lots of strangers.

In future blog posts I will talk about stuff such as whaling, over hunting, overfishing and pollution.

Good Times

In my life there were really good times. one of them was getting a HD screen TV with a blu-ray player. Another was getting a better computer. Another was getting an apple TV. On it you get cool stuff such as Netflix, YouTube the iTunes store movies and the ones you already purchased. And another good time was getting a Venus Flytrap! By just getting one, it enticed me to study Carnivorous plants. And going on vacation. Such as, The trips to Magrath. The USA road trip, Going to Barrhead, and the around the world trip. Another was a science center summer camp. There I went on my first plane.

It was only a small one. Another was Getting an iPAD. The best one was going to Ottewell. There I took the laptop program, where I did most of my work on the computer.
Another was seeing my first natural disaster. You see we were driving from Waterton and I saw smoke on the horizon. Once we got nearer to it, we discovered that the grainery at Magrath was on fire, luckily no one was hurt.
My life is great, but because these things happened it made it awesome!

Thanksgiving

I'm having a great Thanksgiving, so I'm going talk about the things I'm thankful for.

1. My family, because they guide me through harsh times
2. Heaven, because it is the most happiest place
3. Health, because it is important to everybody
4. My grandparents and great-grandparents, because they love me
5. God, because he is my eternal father

6. Jesus Christ, because he made a great sacrifice
7. The Church, because I learn from it
8. My friends, because I have fun with them
9. The Holy Ghost, because it comforts me
10. Shelter, so it can protect me from the elements
11. Food, so it can give me strength
12. Water, so I can stay hydrated
13. Nature, so I can adore its beauty
14. The book of Mormon, because it teaches me the gospel
15. Apple, because it has simple and awesome technology
16. Thomas S. Monson, because he is a great prophet
17. Love, so I can be comforted
18. Earth, so I can be tested
19. Natural Disasters, so I can study it's power
20. Baptism, so I can be cleaned of my sins
21. The priesthood, because it prepares me for my mission
22. My country, because it's where I live
23. War, so I can study the cause and effect
24. Night, so I can sleep
25. Autism, because it builds character

Down to the Prairie

Just after Barrhead, my family went down to Magrath to see my Grandma and our great grandparents. The ride was 6 hours (though it felt like 24). Before we arrived we did a little stargazing, I caught sight of the Big Dipper. When we arrived we saw Grandma Bonny, Brenda and their pets. There had two puppies named Wolfe and Bentley and their cat named Tiger. There were all thrilled to see us. After that we got into bed. Believe it or not, Tiger crept in to my room and got up on the bed. But she eventually left. In the morning I was the first one up. When I got upstairs, the dogs came rushing to me and jumping on me. After that I got a little exercise. Much later we went to see our other Grandparents, Grandpa and Grandma Bennett, then Grandpa Lyman and Grandma Joyce and then Grandpa Steele and Grandma Loree. I was really exited to see them. Did you know that Grandpa Steele has a Katana (Japanese sword)!! Best of all they all live in Cardston, the same town, so we don't have to go to Lethbridge and then Cardston again.
When we were in the South we dropped by at a Restaurant at a place called Twin Butte. In case you didn't know, this guy bought an old store and turned it into a Mexican Restaurant. My dad loved that place, and so did I. After that we went to Red Rock Canyon were we waded, threw rocks and admired nature's work. And the water was chilly! Then we went to Waterton, where we skipped stones, ate ice cream and saw Deer! I felt Unhappy to leave all that but I'll be back November.

Scout camp

After school last Friday, my dad dropped me off at scout camp. The location was Birch Bay, past the Esso oil refinery. When I got there we had a little game of ball tag. After that we had hot dogs for dinner. After darkness fell we gathered around the campfire. Then we had a game of capture the flag in darkness. I didn't use my lantern because I said to myself "light is my enemy" because it would just give away my position. I came close to the flag, and managed to slip past two guards but someone caught me before I could locate the flag and as a result I was in jail for half an hour before I got out. The second attempt was worse than the first because when I was sneaking in the field someone ambushed me from the trees, and I was in jail until the end of the game.
Later that night one of the the leaders was lighting a fire with a candle but it went out, everybody was shouting and clapping but it was ineffective. Then I start rubbing by hands and guess what. I made the fire start with my hands!!!!
After that we sung campfire songs and did skits. Mine (with Brad and Tyler) was about a guy who was bankrupt and a doctor being sued jump off a bridge! We didn't go to sleep until midnight! The morning was rotten, when I woke up I was freezing!!! Brad, Nicky, Tyler, Tried to wake me up. But I wouldn't budge. They got me out of bed by threatening to throw me in a nearby lake. I would die of Hypothermia!
When I got out, breakfast was waiting. After that we went to the activity area. The first one I did was archery. The arrows were blunt but at the right speed the could puncture the human body. Another one of them is the mini zip-line, Only a few feet in length. However it was still fun. The most frightening part was the tower zip-line! There was an other one but the one I went one had a 10 FT FREE FALL!!!!!! Before that you had to climb a ladder.Once you done that you had to cross a wooden bridge, and the wood was 2 feet apart!! When I was on the bridge and ladder my mind was swarming with VERTIGO!!!!!!!! When I went down the zip-line, I was saying "I'm too young to die"!!! After it, I was saying stuff like "I feel sick and disoriented, "CAN WE DO THAT AGAIN!?!?!?" or "THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!!"or "that was scary, BUT TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! It was the most EXTREMIST thing I've ever done in my entire life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN THE OL' WILD BOREAL FOREST

After the first 2 days of Jr. High we went to grandma and grandpa's house in the coniferous forest of the north. Before we left my dad bought a quad but there were some technical difficulties. We weren't the only ones visiting, Mike, Sandra, Daniel, David, Val, Heather, Scott, Dionne, Suzanne and Kirk and their children were all their. The first thing we did was riding on the quads. After that we had a campfire. Some of my uncles left wood on the ground, and the fire was burning it! I said they were MAD! So I ran to the house to warn them of the oncoming Armageddon, but they didn't care. Luckily the area was not burned in a fiery inferno.
The next day we went tubing. Before that I went searching for leeches. I called Thunder Lake, The Leech Breeding Grounds since there were lots of them. When the boat arrived I was the second rider to go on the tube. I went on the single tube and on the first time I went I fell off. You see, a series of waves shook me off balance and caused me to plunge into the lake. The minute my head was above the surface of the water I shouted, "Help! man overboard!!" But I really enjoyed the adrenaline rush.
On the final day in Barrhead we went tubing a second time and I fell off again only this time I flipped. You see, when I was approaching Grayson's tube (we were riding together) my tube flipped and I plunged headfirst into the lake again.
We also did fireworks on one of the days before and I have to say they were really amazing.

THE FIRST DAY OF JR. HIGH!

It's the first day of school. I really enjoyed it! Before I left my eyes spied a hot air balloon with all the primary colors(red,yellow and blue). The minute I got there I went to room 26 where I did a practice lock down and where my teacher explained everything. The first subject I did was drama I explained to the teacher that I had a lot in common with drama then we did a little game to know each other. After that I did math. We did a movie that taught us about facts such as that in the future China will have the most English speaking people and that the first text commercial appeared in December 1992. The next one was Mandarin. I didn't learn any words but the good news is I can finally take Mandarin on the laptop program. If I'm successful I can speak another language. Another subject was science units coming up are planet earth structures and forces etc. Another one was Language arts, where I heard a funny story about a guy who needed to use the washroom and ended up vomiting in the hall! The gr. 7er's avoided it but the students of grade 8 walked through it! Just sick! After the final bell I walked through a small gap in the fence and jaywalked home! Don't tell anybody and I mean anybody that I did that! Or else.

The beginning of the end

I'll tell you the things I did in London before I leave to Canada. When we got there we settled at our apartment. That morning we walked through westminister abbey where we saw many coat of arms, the tomb of elizabeth 1, even graves right underneath our feet!
We also saw Churchill's war cabinets where I saw maps, typewriters, a 1900's timeline, Churchill's cigar, royal marine guards (fake not real) commonwealth allies (on a map) etc. etc. My dad bought 3 war books for me to read. One was about the M4 Sherman tank another was about airborne tactics, the last one was about the kamikaze suicide weapons. I also went to Downing street where the prime minister lives.

While in London we took a lot of trains. One announcement said that pickpockets operated at the station. As soon as I heard that I became very suspicious of everyone. On Thursday we saw the Tate modern museum where we saw the movie The Itch of the Golden Nit, which was made out of children's drawings. Before that we saw my favorite place, the imperial war museum. We saw tanks, planes and artillery. We went to this area where what it would be like during the blitz (the nazi firebombing campaign), and what it be like to be in a World war 1 trench, well the trench had models of british soldiers and the area smelled like Sulphur. Sadly we did not see everything but no worries we returned and saw the rest today! We also saw the Holocaust exhibit and it was just tragic what happened. On a little documentary Joseph Gobbels (head of the nazi propaganda) was speaking about the Jewish people. I never heard such lies in my entire life!

We are now preparing to go home. I will be really happy to see my family again, but I'll miss the wonders of Thailand, Hawaii, Egypt, Turkey, and England.

This is the Shipley around the world trip, 5 countries, 4 continents, 3 oceans, 2 many flights and 1 BIG EXPERIENCE

Aegean adventure

This is my final day in Turkey, but first let me tell you what I did the previous days. We went to Pamnukale where we waded in hot springs and swam in cleopatra pool among ruins of the ancient city hierapolis and we saw saw tombs, ruins and the necropolis. Yesterday we went on a boat tour with our relatives on the Aegean Sea. We swam and dived and used a plank as a diving board. We saw fish sea urchins even a white tube worm! We also had a BBQ on the boat, the food was extraordinary. For entertainment I jumped off the boat while doing an action pose. Today I am going shopping and to the Marmaris castle. Yesterday my father was stopped by the police just because he forgot to use a hand signal when turning. (he was trying to get around a garbage truck stopped in the middle of the road). At that moment I thought we were going to the slammer, the big house, the grey bar hotel. My dad spoke english really fast to get out of it because the police couldn't understand a word he was saying.

Turkish delight

Right now I'm in Marmaris, a town not far from the Aegean sea. I'll tell you what I did in Istanbul. I went to the famous blue mosque which had six minarets and the tiling on the inside which was blue. I also visited Highia Sophia where my sister Sophia got her name. My favourite place was the turkish naval museum. Which had warships from world war one. Galata tower was fascinating and I went vertigo just by going on the balcony. We went to istakal ave. on a tram where I overeacted about an upset stomach.
After Istanbul we flew on a plane to Cappadocia. It is in the Eastern part of Turkey. The best part is we slept in a cave. We explored. We went to the cavern cities where the Hittites and early christians settled. We saw an extinct volcano which formed hoodoos. We climbed the uchisar castle and journeyed across zelve valley.
Then we flew to Marmaris, the town I mentioned earlier. We traveled to both the Medetariannian and the Aegean sea. I visited my cousins. I even played mortal combat a (video game) with them. We went to the ancient city of Ephesus. Ephasus is where Paul preached and was home to the Ephesians. We also went to an abandonded Greek town called Kayakoy. We drove down the datcha peninsula and went to the ruins of Knidos.
I love turkey but still, there is no place like home.

Aquarium adventure

Istanbul was a lot of fun. One day we rode the tramway to the Forum. It's a shopping mall in Istanbul. My dad was going to buy DVD's but first we went to the aquarium. It was called Turkuazoo. I began to like it as soon as I saw the first exhibit. There was a turtle called the mata mata turtle which was found in the amazon river. The next exhibit was full of red bellied piranhas! I heard this story that when a bus crashed into the amazon, 39 people were eaten alive by those ferocious fish!! The next exhibit had puffer fish which was fascinating. The next one had the legendary Arapima. These fish can leap out of the water a whack people off their boats and the person would soon drown. There was a red tailed catfish which could swallow a man whole! Some of the ocean exhibits were full of stingrays. In an 80m underwater tunnel, one stingray flew directly over me. The aquatic tunnel had also sand tiger sharks, a nurse shark and a zebra shark. In one exhibit there was whole family of clownfish, and in another there was very rare fish that reproduced only once in its life! In another there were lots of crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters etc. There was a horseshoe crab exhibit where you can even touch them.
Later we did find DVDs. One movie we saw but did not buy was called Shark in Venice. We get to have a family movie night every night when we come home.
Right now I am in Cappadocia. It is very hot but it will be a lot of fun.

Sahara Safari

Egypt was great! Before I got on the plane to Cairo, I had a little nap because I was supposed to get on the plane at 2am. The sleep went well, I woke up at breakfast, longer than anybody on the whole plane! A couple hours later we saw the pyramids. In one photo it actually shows me holding one of them.The people there were very friendly, they offered gifts, souvenirs and even camel rides! One guy even picked me up and put me on a camel even though I didn't ask him to. But sadly we didn't buy anything or go on a camel ride. After that we saw the sphinx and there was a well where people dropped money in as a donation such as dollars, pounds, euros, etc. At one place two men were arguing over a camel and moments later they began beating each other up with sticks. I said to myself "why can't the people here settle things in a less violent way". The swimming pool at our hotel was very nice so nearing the evening we cooled ourselves off. When we got to our rooms me and Grayson watched the news channel. But the fun in Egypt ended early in the morning because we only stayed there for a day.

Batty in Bangkok And Market Mayhem

I'm just about to leave Thailand and flying to Egypt. Earlier I went to an ancient city that use to be the capital of Thailand but when the armies of Myanmar invaded in the 1700's It became a ruin. In some of the small hollow dome ruins were bats waiting for night to come. There were dozens! Then we headed to a nearby canal we saw catfish even freshwater turtles! I even got to touch a shell of one! We fed them as well as the catfish. The turtles ate the food one pellet at a time in a single snap .
Yesterday we drove to the floating market and the dangerous market. The floating market was on a smelly canal while the dangerous market was on a railroad track! Everyday the train comes and people have to move their goods to the side and when the train passes they put them back to sell. I saw a catfish getting chopped (which made me sick) and snakes and frogs to eat! The floating market was really amazing they sold slide whistles and other instruments and toy weapons made of wood, such as spears, swords, crossbows even guns! I'm going to miss the tasty Thai food while I'm gone but the ones in turkey and Egypt will be just as delicious. (Egyptian food by the way, never tried) Well let's hope it will be tasty.

Diarrhea of a wimpy kid

Okay, so the reason why the post is titled diarrhea of a wimpy kid is because I have the sickness itself. My mother didn't realize how bad it was until the day before the day we left Krabi to Bangkok. But mom showed a scripture verse that rose my spirits. It told me that God knows what I feel like and that he will help me fight my illness. The rest of the days In Krabi were great. We went snorkeling for almost every day and we walked around a site where the 2004 tsunami hit. We saw shipwrecks and wildlife details. It was totally AWESOME!!! We hung out on beaches and me and Grayson (my younger yet annoying brother) were slammed by the tide. It was fun actually. Those were the glory days. Right now I am in Bangkok where my overprotective mother and my dad who keeps flicking me (adults have no sense of humor). We are going swimming.

monkey Business

Right now my location is Krabi, a village on the coast of the Andaman Sea. Yesterday we had a great adventure. I went to the tiger temple. Believe me, it exhausting. I climbed 1236 stairs to get to the summit of a nearby mountain. On the way there I saw many monkeys. Well it was harder going up than down. Some stairways were steep others were not. After that we went to a fish farm. It was restaurant too. I saw groupers , puffer fish even mud skippers. They caught a red snapper and then we ate it.
Earlier in Bangkok I saw the bridge on the river Kwai. There I saw paintings about the life of prisoners of war (POW's) and their Japanese captors. My dad bought five DVDs that I claimed to be frauds. But surprisingly they worked well.

Venom: to cure or kill

Right now me and my family are in Bangkok, Thailand. Today we got to go to a snake farm.

When I was at the snake farm there was this video how a snakes venom could affect the nervous, respiratory and muscular system. But the snakes venom can also be used to produce antivenin for treatment. Venom can be helpful and harmful.

Then we got to see different snakes at a live show. They showed the king cobra in a little presentation.

I was the first to to hold a constrictor. It was huge! Everyone said a little prayer so the snake wouldn't kill me. I was trying to be funny and I said "bye, see you in heaven". Then they they showed me a small snake, I was like "that's the snake?" (because they were going to show me a large one) Just then they put a gigantic python around my neck, I was like "I don't want to be eaten by a snake"!

Besides it would be heartbreaking to see a firstborn son be suffocated then devoured by a constrictor!
It was totally awesome!
I love Thailand as just as much as southeren Alberta, Barrhead and Hawaii.
But still there is no place like home!

Highlights and lowlights from around the world

So far my trip has been good and bad in different ways. I am in Thailand right now. The food is delicious. But when I was in Chiang Mai I went to a buddhist temple.

it was great but before I left I was caught by surprise by a monsoon. That was bad.


Earlier in Hawaii I was on a rocky beach and I saw the Black Pearl in port. Hawaii was where pirates of the caribbean 4 was filmed. My parents almost died by moving too close to the edge of the ocean. They said I was being dramatic and paranoid. The flight from honolulu to bangkok was 16 hours. I was exhausted during the flight.




I was on an elephant ride in Chiang Mai It was fun but a bit bumpy and hot.

The elephants have a reputation for collecting baht (Thai money). I was in the the mountains and I saw the place where the king's mother lived.

Two butterflies were only 5 cm away from me, it was really beautiful to see.

Now I am going to see a snake farm the snake is my favorite reptile.
I'm really excited. Some of the snakes are deadly but luckily that is where they make the antidote.

Dear Canada

Happy late 180's b-day, Canada is the best. I like slurpees, Barrhead, Magrath, Edmonton, Waterton, Alberta and it's neighbor the USA.
I'm thousands of miles away in beautiful Hawaii. I saw a sea turtle and fish in a lagoon. I really miss you. The flight was 6 hours. I'm going pearl harbor, The bridge on the river Kwai in Thailand the imperial war museum in london and galipolii in turkey.

From,
Steele

OBSESSIONS

I have had many things in my life that I can't stop talking about.
When I was little my obsession was space. I had a book about the planet Neptune. It helped me learn how to read when I was three because I could read and spell all the names of the planets.
My next obsession is natural disasters. I love forest fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, but my favourite one is a tornado. I like it because of its destructive power.
Another one is World war 2. I began to like it after I read a book on the attack on pearl harbor.
I also dressed up as Emperor Hirohito for Halloween.
The next one was war itself. I have studied weapons, battles, sieges, tactics, and armies, navies and air forces. Then I became interested in the American civil war.
After I was inspired by a video game called Civil War: Secret Missions. This obsession began earlier in 2005.
My biggest obsession is video games. Here are the video game systems I had then and now, Start to finish.
1. A plug in Star Wars game [2004-2005]
2. PS2 [2005-]
3. Wii [2009-]
4. Mac computer [2007-]

So you see, I have had many obsessions in my life.

DIS-CONTENT

Earlier last week I launched this campaign to rid the electronic world of sin. I began with the game Darkest of days, a war game I like but can't play due to suggestive content. I shared the issue with the developer, PhantomEFX and telling them to add an option that can change the rating (See the post FRUST-RATING for more information). Then I was inspecting the game ROME: TOTAL WAR original and barbarian invasion expansion pack and I found that it contained a rating that had infrequent nudity (or little clothing). I felt very frustrated!! You don't have to have any nudity to make a good game. My wish is that I could clear the Mac App Store of inappropriate content and that game developers would stop making games with bad content.

FRUST-RATING

I'm sick and tired of ratings that include swearing, alcohol, drugs, sex, nudity, gambling and M, 17+ and R ratings. Well here's an idea. why don't the movie and video game companies add an option that can delete and add content and change the rating from M to T 17+ to 12+ etc. That way the people who like and dislike the bad content can enjoy it. They can get twice as many people to buy it. They would be TRILLION no ZILLIONEERS!

Reasons why this "rating option" should be included in every video game and movie.

1. People get addicted to that kind of content.
2. Addiction takes over agency (the freedom to make any choice you want).
3. I'm only 12 1/2 years old.
4. They can earn more money from more suitable ratings
5. Some families don't accept it.

And I want EVERY video game and movie company to read this entry.

DIARY OF A DEACON

Every Sunday I go to church. When I turned 12 I became a deacon. I pass the Sacrament. Earlier when I turned 8 I was baptized. The result washed away my sins. I also had access to heaven. I was given a temple recommend so I can do baptisms of the dead. I don't baptize corpses,
I fill in for the dead person, you know take his place.

Here's my first testimony
I like to bear my testimony, I know the church is true, I know Heavenly Father is real. I know the scriptures are true In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

I love Canada!

Canada.

The country I live in. Not to mention the second largest country in the world. It was created on July 1st 1867, when the french and English joined the 2 sides together. Canada is quite attractive
indeed due to its tourism. The top ten reasons why I love Canada is because...
1. My grandparents live here.
2. I live in the capital of one of its provinces
3. It is democratic
4. Slaves in the United States escaped slavery by seeking refuge in our country
5. Because of its attractions.
6. I love Stephan Harper.
7. Healthcare; when I fractured my wrist. It didn't cost any money
8 . Magrath
9. Better chocolate
10. and best of all
SLURPEEEEES!!!

This is me

Hi, my name is Steele, I have autism, and I am going to tell you what I think about the world I live in. My religion is Christianity. I am a Mormon.

What I like: video games, computer games, heaven, Thai food, painless deaths and most importantly my family

What I hate: ads with immoral stuff and profanity, smoking, tobacco, painful deaths, alcohol and hell.

When I grow up I am going to be a video game developer for 5 yrs. The headquarters of my company will be in southern Alberta.

After that I'll be joining the
air force and if I am lucky my plane will be hit by a surface to air missile, I'll die a painless death and head to heaven. I'm not trying to be suicidal I just want to get to heaven.