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| So i posted about evolution and certain social issues on my findingfireintheice.blogspot.com if you read it, PLEASE comment. thanks. | | |
| So, I post on blogspot now. If anyone would like to be kept up to date on the postings of said blog, please email me at hageshii-fubuki@hotmail.com, and i'll put you on my mailing list. i'll email out whenever I post. thanks ya'll. and again, the blog is findingfireintheice.blogspot.com | | |
| In the last couple of weeks or so of school, I had virtually nothing to do. So what does one do when one is bored with nothing to do? Read, of course! So I decided to read 1984, partly because I was curious, and because I like stories that have socialistic governments and rebels. And that is exactly what 1984 is about. The story follows Winston Smith as he struggles to survive in a pervasivley tolitarian society. George Orwell (George Orwell was his pen name, his real name was Eric Blair.) wrote 1984 as a fictionalized form of the Soviet Union at the time. Much of his inspiration for the characters in the book came from the Soviet Union. Big Brother, who is the ruler of land that Winson lives in, bears a physical resemblance to Stalin. Winston lives in Oceania, one of four states on earth. The states are always at war with each other, and they are usually at war with one state and then will switch in the middle of the war and be at peace with the state they were just fighting. And it has always was that way. Winson works in in one of the four ministries of the state, he works in the one dealing with rewriting history. Once the state says something, then this ministry takes all the newspapers from before and any written thing and changes it to what the state wants. History is constantly being rewritten and erased. This way the state has complete control over it's citizens. All of this is very interesting, but the one thing about 1984 that really stands out is their idea of thought crime and their thought police. Their are "telescreens" in every place, public and private. These are meant to monitor everything that everybody does. If you do anything contrary to the wishes of the state, it is a crime. If you think the wrong thing, and the state catches you, you're in trouble. Often, the children of many people ratted them out to the thought police, saying they heard them saying things in their sleep. If you make the wrong facial expression, you get busted. And the thing is, they don't kill you. You just vanish. All record of you is erased. You never existed. One of Winston's friends was terminated because he was too smart. So why am I telling you about the thought police and thought crimes? I just wanted you to know that it's on the verge of happening in America. Not to the extent of there being a thought police and screens in every room to watch you. But there is a bill going through Congress currently, called HR 1592. HR 1592 is a hate crimes bill, and would penalize people for saying anything derogatory about homosexuality or alternative lifestyles. Anything you say can be made to look like a thought crime, and thus is a thought crimes bill. HR 1592 would criminalize derogatory thoughts about homosexuality. This would effectivley silence churches and the gospel of Jesus Christ. We would be persecuted for expressing our religious beliefs. Do we really want a thought crimes bill in our country? NO!!! Hate crime legislation is unconstituntional. The first amendment garantees freedom of speech!!! HR 1592 would strip the constitution. HR 1592 would seek to silence the truth!!! We can't let that happen. Petition your legislator to stop this atrocity. The day that I lose my right to witness to somebody, will be the day of the death of freedom in America. If that day has not already come... Link: www.pacificjustice.org
Verse: John 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." | | |
| Well, a quick update. I've been insanely busy with things vastly more important than blogging and we just finished our finals yesterday so now maybe I'll have time to post. And motivation. So it's been over a month since I've posted, which I'm fine with. There aren't many people on xanga anymore anyway. Anyways, onto my post. I had two ideas for a post. One was to discuss the thought crimes of the book 1984 compared to the thought crime bill going through Congress right now. The other is about ignorance and apathy. The latter has become increasingly relevant as I've continued to observe things. So let's begin. There is a mentality in my class room and elsewhere, that being stupid is cool, and that flunking a test is pretty freaking awesome. They may care about their grades, but just try and fit in and say that they don't care. Or they may genuinely not care. Either way, it's pissing me off. Being stupid is not cool. It's stupid. Gloryfing in your laziness is idiotic, and foolish. Ridiculing education to the point where you can't comprehend doing homework outside school is absolutley ridiculous. Education is good, God gave is to us for a reason. Aren't we supposed to have dominion? And doesn't that mean educating ourselves in how to do that best? I say yes. God commands us to be educated, and furthermore, to do all to his glory. Reveling in laziness and thinking bad grades are cool, is idiotic. But that's not really the thing that eats away at me. What really ticks me off, is how easily people use the phrase, "I don't care." It's stupid! What's more, you can use that phrase and not know how much it affects the people hearing that. Will they think that's all you don't care about, or if you use it frequently, do you even care about anything? Or say somebody works hard on something and then someone says, " I don't care"? Have we lost all sense of other peoples feelings? Or say a tutor works with his student hard on a test, and they get a bad grade and the student says that he doesn't care? Is he thinking at all there? How does that make the tutor feel? Probably really bad. People need to stop being so wrapped up in themselves, and start caring again. Because apathy is definitly not biblical. God created all things and have value, and we're to do all things to the glory of God. So knock it off ya'll. Ok, I'm done ranting. | | |
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