Thursday, September 22, 2005

*EUPHORIA*
I MET NEIL GAIMAN LAST NIGHT!!!!!! OH MY GOD!! THE SEXIEST, MOST GORGEOUS, UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL, SUPREME HUMAN BEING ON THIS EARTH!!

Well, technically it wasn't "meeting" since I just kinda gazed in utter awe and wonder when I got my book signed (and a picture! I got a picture!). His voice: wonderful. His appearance: a lot damn better than most guys you'll ever meet even though he was utterly exhausted. A few white hairs, tired eyes, and he still had a grand sense of humor and was polite and sweet and wonderful and great and glorious and magnificent and oh! just everything that could ever be is in him. The Perfect Guy. Even has the accent (albeit English, not Irish or Scottish, but British Isles nonetheless). My book is signed. I got to see him - hear him - in person. He exceeded all my expectations and hopes. Abso-bloody-lutely wonderful. If I'd died last night I would have shot straight up to Heaven on pure bliss alone. If I die anytime in the near future I'll die happy because I got to see him. *bliss, bliss, bliss, bliss, bliss*

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

*meh*
I'm still tired and sick of the situation that I'm in. Now I just want it over and done with as soon as possible so that I can move on with my life. My ESP seems to be working over time and I think I really need to start listening to my voices more often. At the moment, Sam isn't speaking to me but is making me figure things out for myself. Damn and double damn. My problem is that I'm suffering from conflicting emotions. I hate conflicting emotions and I believe Folken was absolutely right in his little speech at the end of Escaflowne.

Need to actually do some work. Random updates on my psychological welfare later.
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Friday, September 16, 2005

*tired*
I'm in the middle of an emotional roller coaster right now. It comes from not being aware of how much someone means until after it's too late and that there was nothing you could have done to change anything in the first place and that now, not because of the choices you made but the other did, you are at a point of no return and hope has been utterly crushed. Am I a big enough person to keep on or have I reached my breaking point? I don't quite know yet. I just know that I'm very tired of the whole thing and everything like it.

"...to reach the unreachable star.
This is my quest, to follow that star
no matter how hopeless, no matter how far..." - "The Impossible Dream," Man of La Mancha
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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Technical Difficulties
Well, we've got a new computer! Huzzah! We just don't really have anything on it at the moment, including the internet, which means all my work is still being run off our old one. Problems getting on-line are insuing and I still haven't managed to fix my e'mail exactly the way I want it yet. -_-* Still, I shall endure and it will get fixed eventually.

Erstwhile, I've finally been asked to "shut-up." Well, not exactly. I've been waiting for a bit now for a teacher to ask me not to talk so much in class. Actually, that's wrong too. What it is: I am impatient and I hate waiting five minutes for someone to answer a teacher's question so I'll go ahead and do it because I want to learn and I am finding it interesting. Basically, I've been asked to curb my enthusiam. Now I have to strive to do that.
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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Lazy Day Sunday
I actually wrote a paper before it was due!! Written on Confucian values. Don't think it's very good, but it's only worth four percent of my grade so I'm not too worried about it. It's amazing, a lot of the ideals expressed in Confucianism corrolate with ideals in Christianity, Judaism, and the basics of what Socrates kept going on about. "Virtue above all else, virtue involves being good and moral and not caring about what other people think and what the world says you should do." I don't believe in coincidences. That the same principles be preached halfway across the globe by people who didn't know anything about each other (and let's not forget, seperated by time as well) had the same thought process must mean something. Especially when the world conciders them wise maybe we should no only listen to them but actually do what they say.
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Saturday, September 10, 2005

Taking time off
Just spent about a half hour doing nothing really except taking a break from work. About halfway done with my essay about Confucius. The guy had some pretty interesting proverbs. Some of them remind me of Socrates. Okay, spent enough time relaxing. Have a good weekend y'all.
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Friday, September 9, 2005

Abortion is Not Moral
Disclaimer: I know this is a bit cliche, deal. We were discussing arguments in philosophy and my teacher put up an argument to show that abortion is immoral. There were some complications with the premises so he changed it to capital punishment. This sparked my interest to create an argument to prove that abortion is immoral. If you find a discrepancy in my premises let me know and I'll correct it so that the conclusion follows.

P1 "Moral," in this argument, is synonomous with "just"
Similarly "immoral" is synonomous with "unjust"
P2 Stealing is the taking of someone else's property without permission of that
person.
P3 According to United States law, stealing is unjust.
P4 Each person's life belongs only to himself.
a) while one may be responsible for another's life he does not own that other person's life, e.g., if a mother decides to slay her new born baby she is charged with infantcide, or, in layman's terms, murder. Murder, of course, is the stealing of life from another.
P5 Abortion is the taking of one human being's life by another without the
former's consent.
a) what constitutes life: the devision, multiplication, and growth of cells, thus life at the moment of conception.
b) what could constitute to being a human being:
i) chromosomes - at conception all chromosomes that creat a Homo sapian sapian are present, thus a human being comes into existance at the moment of conception.
ii) physical make-up, i.e. presence of two hands, two eyes, nose, etc. - saying that the fetus is not a human being because it doesn't physically resemble a full grown human being is the same thing as saying malformed person is not a human being. However, a man will be tried for murder, a.k.a. stealing another's life, if he slays a malformed man the same as he would for one who had the figure of Adonis. Thus we have a contradiction and cannot accept this as a requirement to being human.
iii) ability to care for self - some adults cannot care for themselves, infants and toddlers definately cannot care for themselves. Killing (stealing life) an invalid, child, or any person who falls under the classification "cannot care for self" is a homicide victim, thus another contradiction and we cannot accept this as a requirement for being human.
iv) ability to practice reason well - again, infants, children, and some adults (i.e. crack addicts) do not have the ability to practice reason well. Yet, if one was to steal the lives of any of the above it would be considered illegal and thus another contradiction and thus we must throw out this definition as well.
c) if any claims to being human are denied for person already on the planet and out of the womb there is hypocracy and contradiction within the system for deaths of them by another are considered murder, stealing of life, and an unjust action.
C Abortion is an unjust act according the precepts of stealing set up by the United States laws for it involves the stealing of life from another without the other's consent and as it is unjust it is also immoral.
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Thursday, September 8, 2005

Finished
Wrote a four page paper on whether rational thought was worthwhile. Finished it at about midnight this morning. "Midnight this morning" *heh* Now I just need to wait 'til Tuesday to see how I faired.

I'm currently perfecting an argument about the morals of a contemporary issue. I may post it. God bless y'all in your works for the rest of this week.
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Monday, September 5, 2005

Labor Day
I was planning on writing a decent length post, but I'm a little back logged so it'll have to wait for either later today or this week. Working on English readings and contemplating my philosophy paper. I have finally decided the subject I'm going to write about but have yet to start writing it.

Should reason be held important? Is it right to live life through reason? Or did Socrates live his life in vain? Etc.
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Thursday, September 1, 2005

*hmmm*
Ah! I did not read all the replies to one of my posts and was remise with the one I wrote afterwards. *laughter* Bowie-ite wishes that I tell y'all of the infamy of my family. My sisters and myself were in the newspaper shortly before Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came out. We were interviewed and had our picture in the paper. It was pretty cool. Any of y'all who wish to read the article, just message me and I'll find the address (I'm pretty sure it will still be on-line).

Other things: certain elements of mankind are making my skin crawl. My neighboor is getting evictated. She's moving out anyway and yet the bastard has thrown all her stuff on the front lawn. Looters. The loss of the American Dream. I don't exactly know what the American Dream was, but I have a vague idea of what it once was and am very sure that we have lost it. I feel moved to write something about it. More later.
Had an interesting discussion about Plato and Socrates in philosophy this morning. Got a nice handout that some of y'all may enjoy reading. Will post later.

Cheers
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