wearethedead
Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
scienceWell, I'd like to start off my first blog (on this name) with a greeting to all who takes the time to read it. I have used mindsay in the past and have no come back to it. It has been over a year, and sometimes I miss writing things down. I don't keep a journal becuase I want people to read what I have to say, and if I were to keep a journal, it would seem kind of nosy to read it. Myspace is absolutely absurd and I do have a facebook. I'm a freshman at Winona State University in Minnesota.
I'm a little uneasy becuase I don't want to come off sounding immature or anything like that. Which is a little awkward, becuase I'm sure everyone wants to sound wise and intelligent. In the past I've written blogs that were pretty depressing, mainly self-improvement but I've changed a lot. I am highly involved with Invisible Children which deals with the children in Northern Uganda and will deal with children unseen across the world. I also love to read, and am reading a lot in my Science Fiction class. A lot of people ask me "What, do you learn about aliens in that class?".. Which technically isn't true. I learn about novelists predicting outcomes of our societies if we continue to live the way we are. Which is simply amazing to me. I've read books like 1984 by George Orwell and Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. I'm going to leave with an idea from the most recent book I read called The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula La Guin dealing with patriotism.
A person cannot simply love nor hate his country. I say his becuase in the Left Hand Of Darkness there is niether a male or female race, it is all bisexual (which I will most likely blog about in the future). You may enjoy the pleasures of your country, the aspects, the culture... but it is not the country itself that you love. You cannot hate a nation. You cannot show emotion towards a territory. We are all on this world together, and we do not love our countries, we love the people in the countries, therefore we should love everyone and not cover the idea that we are territories. " We do not serve our country, we serve humankind."
--Christopher
I'm a little uneasy becuase I don't want to come off sounding immature or anything like that. Which is a little awkward, becuase I'm sure everyone wants to sound wise and intelligent. In the past I've written blogs that were pretty depressing, mainly self-improvement but I've changed a lot. I am highly involved with Invisible Children which deals with the children in Northern Uganda and will deal with children unseen across the world. I also love to read, and am reading a lot in my Science Fiction class. A lot of people ask me "What, do you learn about aliens in that class?".. Which technically isn't true. I learn about novelists predicting outcomes of our societies if we continue to live the way we are. Which is simply amazing to me. I've read books like 1984 by George Orwell and Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. I'm going to leave with an idea from the most recent book I read called The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula La Guin dealing with patriotism.
A person cannot simply love nor hate his country. I say his becuase in the Left Hand Of Darkness there is niether a male or female race, it is all bisexual (which I will most likely blog about in the future). You may enjoy the pleasures of your country, the aspects, the culture... but it is not the country itself that you love. You cannot hate a nation. You cannot show emotion towards a territory. We are all on this world together, and we do not love our countries, we love the people in the countries, therefore we should love everyone and not cover the idea that we are territories. " We do not serve our country, we serve humankind."
--Christopher
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