December 14, 2006
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By the way, that is not me in the picture. I am not a scary old man in a park late at night. I found it on google because I thought it fit the mood of the page.
The singularity of my position, and every human’s position but especially my own to me and especially everyone else’s to them, is in that of my own individual existence, which truly has my attention. Every low I sink to, every high I experience, is one more for the records of my life, the one that I have known and felt as a human. We can see other’s lives, but we only know our own. And through this I have a spark of realization every time I feel a consuming emotion: I am feeling this now, and it is thus revealed to me to be one of all possible feelings, and where it falls uniquely in my life means I am living one of all possible lives, and yet I wonder where every other human is who is feeling this now. For even though I appear physically the same from day to day to others, the way I feel varies dramatically, and so others, too, must be quietly feeling the drama of existence. Hidden is everyone’s true existence, and we are left in a state where there are only three ways to know humanity: from ourselves, from others, or from our judgements. That list goes from most credible to least credible. Read a book and you will get filtered eloquence from afar; have an honest conversation with a person and you will get raw humanity up close. Although the range of experience oscillates from good to bad, I am truly happy that I do get to experience one of all possible lives.
As a student there are two ways to live your life: Stressed or Apathetic.
There is the first danger, which is our certain deaths, and the second danger, which is that we might forget about the first danger.
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There’s a large blog competition going on in the online world. It’s for the “Best Educational Blog” award, and people vote which blog they think is best. There are 3 finalists: 2 of these finalists are secular, and the other one is a Christian homeschooling mom! Hundreds of us homeschooled teens are working to vote for her blog in this poll, because her blog deserves it most, especially when you look at what’s being said about Christian homeschoolers. The two secular bloggers have commented each other saying things like “Homeschoolers s*ck,” and “The important thing is that IvyGate and I (the two secular blogs) crush the homeschoolers.”
They are sure that we don’t stand a chance in this poll.
And that’s the reason I’m commenting you. Currently, “Spunky’s” blog (that’s her nickname ) is behind in the poll by about 300 votes. However, if she gets all of our support, she’s sure to win. And if we win this little competition, it sends a suttle yet impactful message to those folks who believe we as homeschoolers can’t make a difference. This is a way we can show our strength as caring homeschool teens who support a Christian worldview.
We must remember to do everything for the Glory of God, and at the same time, we’ve got to stand strong (in Christ) against the secular world that believes we can’t have an impact as homeschoolers.
If you’d like to view her site before you go voting for her, you can find a link at http://www.therebelution.com/blog
The poll closes this Friday, so we’re running out of time. I ask you to do 2 things.
1. Please go here [ http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_educational_blog.php ] and vote for “spunkyhomeschool.” You can vote once every 24 hours until Friday on every computer you have.
2. If you’re inclined to do so, copy and paste this comment to maybe 5 (or more) other people who you know would be interested in helping. This would be a huge help.
The picture doesn’t look like an old man to me. It looks like a young guy with blond hair lolz
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Nicely written post with some truth to it
! Feelings are relative from one to another. Someone’s misery is another’s normalcy.
Either that, or you’re the only person who is either real or alive. The scary old man in the park could match the mood of the page because you projected you mood into your projection of what you’ve convinced is the Google search engine being displayed to your conscience by what you believe to be a computer.
Yeah, so I’ve been thinking paranoid thoughts all day about the possibility that the world is a conspiracy. Unlike sollipsism, which can be disproved by dying, my theory can never be disproved. Now, the people trying to manipulate me teach me that reason declares any theory that can’t be potentially disproved can’t be verifiably true, but I know better! They also tell me that the world isn’t a conspiracy, which is exactly what they’d want me to think if it were a conspiracy, which it clearly is!!!
That, or it’s just the way it seems like it is. Who knows?
I take the apathetic approach most days.
No wait!!! i just checked it and we almost have a 100 Lead!!! Thank you very much, if we continue to accelerate like this, and actually win. It sure will be a shock to those Professors at Penn State!
thx alot. God Bless. haha i liked what you said about a students life, so true… thats actually why i logged back in, to make sure my paper on whether “Love follows obedience, or Obedience follows love” Was completely gramatically correct. anyways Goodnight!
-Sam
Good thoughts, and nice expression of them.
I love your insights (as always) … are “stressed and apathetic” really the only two choices? How about planning ahead so one can do a good job, but one is not stressed because it is not at the last minute? Although I will admit sometimes there are just not enough minutes in one’s day. My 7th grade son seems to take the apathetic road, so his parents have to apply the pressure of ‘losing things he likes to do’ if his grades aren’t up. What ever happened to internal motivation? hmmm … ponderings of a frustrated mother.
I thought your picture was of a blonde, younger man.
I love your insights (as always) … are “stressed and apathetic” really the only two choices? How about planning ahead so one can do a good job, but one is not stressed because it is not at the last minute? Although I will admit sometimes there are just not enough minutes in one’s day. My 7th grade son seems to take the apathetic road, so his parents have to apply the pressure of ‘losing things he likes to do’ if his grades aren’t up. What ever happened to internal motivation? hmmm … ponderings of a frustrated mother.
I thought your picture was of a blonde, younger man.
im going to your choir concert solely with the purpose to judge your singing
Thank you for your thoughts.
GOD BLESS