Just a Kid

I started this blog because I believe that kids have more to offer this world than economic stimulus in the clothing sector. A mentor of mine once told me that teenagers are more like their adult selves than children. Let’s face it – we know about adult issues and many of us have started to participate in solving national issues. Although we’re still not adults yet, we’re past all the whining and screaming and we know how to act “mature”, whether we do or not. We are more like our adult selves than we are kids.

However, as much as adults we are, what is adolescence but a time to be wild? Sometimes we just need to shed the “adult stuff” and be kids. Push the boundaries of our limits and try new things. Sometime after you’ve pondered maturity, finished your conversation about current events with your parents, done all of your homework and checked over your final draft of an essay, finished putting the finishing touches on your latest blog about the idolatry of celebrities and their effect on society… sometimes you just need to be a kid.

American Dream

“If your problems start with my car, my house, my computer, my iPod, etc. then your filthy stinken rich…” ~ Tyler Strange

What are your problems? Are your problems with what you see in the mirror or with the what’s in the fridge? Are your problems which fridge to buy or how your going to pay for food to put in it? Are your problems how your going to pay for food or where you’re going to find it? Are your problems in your wants or your needs?

The American dream is supposed
to be a simpler way of life but how often does a modern society make the simple things incredibly difficult? Youth today live in a crazy world filled with drugs, sex, guns and violence. The norm has not only been changed into well dressed ditzes, but well dressed ditses who are told they are the future. However, those that will prevail are the thinkers.

“Thought leads to speech, speech persuades action, action changes the world.”

Rules

Rules are nessesary to have a “civilized” society. Enforcing the rules is a difficult problem because not everyone in society is the same. That doesn’t mean that special treatment should be rewarded to those “good” people. Explain how each scenario is just.

Scenario 1:
A student is walking down the hall after the bell has rung, he’s not walking fast. The principal catches him and gives him ISS. However there is no rule that says he gets ISS for being late to class.

Scenario 2:
A straight a student, who’s never got in trouble, is late to school in his rush he doesn’t realize as his ID gets caught on something in his car. As he walks past a teacher the teacher tells him to put his ID on he looks down and realizes he forgot it somewhere. He starts retracing his steps and is stopped by the principal who without question throws him in ISS.

Judging?

Do you remember when you were five playing with little yellow trucks in the sandbox in your backyard? What was it that made you so imaginative and free? The best part about being five is that the world is all your own. You didn’t know what was “Right” or what was “Accepted” you came up with your own rules. When you were five it didn’t matter what others thought of you, what you did, or who you played with. It was you and your friend and the toys you both shared. It didn’t matter whether that friend was red, white, black, or tan. It didn’t matter whether that toy was a tiny toy car or a motorized toy car. So why should it now?

Un-imaginable

“Imagine you’re the Un-imaginable. What would you imagine?”

What has our society taught us? Have they taught us how to want. We all want things such as a new car, new phone, or even for everything to go our way. Perhaps in our dreams we think about how great it would be to have everything. What then? What happens if you get all of that?

Imagine you’ve gotten all your wishes granted. What then would you wish for? Naturally you’d wish for the very thing you don’t have. Nothing.

(Pilot) – Critical Thinking

Where are we today as appose to yesterday? Have we become one more day more civilized or advanced? How can we know of our own advancement from our own subjective points of view? Advancement is relative. Relative to yesterday did we advance and grow more civilized?

Explaining human flaw isn’t only a controversial thing, mostly because the people your pointing at usually don’t like it when you do that, it also makes people think. The most important thing for humans to do is to think. The philosophies that we live by were all thought of at one point or another by some person or another. However when do philosophies become “old fashion”. One example of such “old fashion” philosophies is white supremacy. The idea of whites being more superior to others was such an accepted belief that it wasn’t questioned. What changed? The Christian belief of creationism was so widely accepted that it wasn’t challenged for centuries. What changed?

Time is a puzzling thing given to people. How we use it is up to us but thinking back there are examples of well used time and not well used time (excuse the English). When our human race was at it’s best was during the periods of change. Progressive movements that have shaped our world today such as the movements to end slavery and segregation. Even the movements to allow evolution to be taught in schools shows that kind of progress the human race is making. However as I said before progress is relative in this case the kind of progress i’m talking about is progress relative to truth. The progress brought by one thing critical thinking.