"BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The confirmed death toll from the weekend earthquake and tsunami in south Asia soared sharply to 114,000 on Thursday as the Indonesian government announced that nearly 80,000 people had died in that country alone."
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-MSNBC News
and once again:5h17................what could we have possibly done to piss mother nature off that much?
"BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll from the earthquake and tsunamis that devastated coastal areas in southern Asia soared to nearly 77,000 on Wednesday, and the Red Cross said it feared that it could exceed 100,000 once bodies buried in the mud and wreckage are counted."
-MSNBC News
5h17................what could we have possibly done to piss mother nature off that much?
The Rule of stuff is that Problems can only be solved for a limited amount of time. I am going to change that rule. The problems of individual countries are always going to exist. But the problems of the world can be solved. The bigger problem can be fixed forever if everyone sees it. Of course everyone isn't going to see it so, we need to find a way to make it work. Many, if not all, little problems are spawned from those that are bigger problems. Problems of the world. Problems with the Human Being. Now of course the only way to solve those problems is purly science fiction. Things like Tha Matrix and such are solutions to Human problems. The world problem....I haven't quite figured out what it is yet, but im working on it. I guess that is the first problem to solve... and probably the most difficult: What is the World Problem? Well...It's a problem. That is about as far as I have gotten. Right. The next step is to make everyone see that the problem relates to them. The conflict that keeps popping into my head is the Middle Eastern Conflict. Unfortunatly, I dont know how it relates to anything. So that is another problem. (Just like my typing) That is a religion problem, and until both sides realize that it doesn't matter, it won't stop. I guess that is another problem isn't it. Becuase to me it doesn't matter. But to many of them it is their entire life, it is all they know. Darn. Well there goes that solution. OK. It does matter, but how. I don't know enough about the conflict (Israel/Palistien sorry for not clarifying earlier)So, if anyone reading this knows alot about the subject please explain it to me. Email or comment, i don't care. * So I think that if the world can work togeather then all of the countries can fix their own problems because the world can a) help and b)they don't need to worry about fixing the world because it is already fixed. but how will that help. well, If the world leaders can realze that If they help each other that they can all prospeer.. i guess that is the first step (the second is to rephrase what I said so it makes sense). right.....where was I? um...how will they prosper? well [refer to the *].
The world is a big problem with many little ones. Alot of people think that by fixing the little ones, we can fix the big one. That could work. But I think it will be easier to flip it and do it the other way around. Fix the big problem to fix the smaller ones. The little problems will never ever ever ever ever ever (pretend like I feel like typing that about a hundred times more) go away. You fix one and it is solved you fix another , it is solved. Unfortunatly, that second one you fixed was fixed by chinging the first one. Thus the first prolbem has come back, just changed. Pick a problem in the U.S. hmmm like the economy. It can be fixed by getting help from the world. Some countries are better off than others. To fix everyone, we need to act like a socialism and make everyone mostly equal. there is always going to be people who are better off than others, thus there are people who are worse off. But we can untie everything and make it so it is individual and not global. Then i guess we will get a HUGE mass of people who start equal. Then some feel that they are better than others. So then they get more stuff. These people get together and brak off making a better off country. Thus we now have towo. Darn back to where we started...sorta. Well I guess we need to consider that when we are acctually trying to figure out the problem.
Dan, you told me once that instead of running away from the problems, fix the ones here. and gave me some example form a Mitch Albom thing (i think) well, here isn't going to do anything, so I think im gonna fix the world
Sorry i just wanted to make my ego fell better by saying that....jk i didn't mean it
( I need to get my bitter spitefulness out if I write alot)
yyyyyyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeanyway
So we dont know the problem that we are trying to figure out the solutions to. please notice how I said solutions. Im sure that there is more than one solution. Becuase there most likly isn't going to be a way to fix everything, so we will pick the solution that fixes the most things.
Oh if per chance a World Problem Major from Harvard (or anyone who can give input and ideas and suggestions on how to find the problem) is reading this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get in contact with me.
We can fix the world. We just need to know what to fix.
so, im in French classright now. before lunch the Frau used her cow bell and the bell rang. When the bell rigns group C of the student population is herded to the feeding grounds to eat their lunch for a prealotted amount of time. THen another bell is rung and that group is herded again to their designated rooms.If any of the cattle...ahem...I mean students try to leave before hand, they are pushed back into the masses by use of cattleprod...ahem... verbal command.
This is just one example that I thought up today of how regulatedour lives are. For myself I wake up at a certain time everyday to work out or something of the like for a certain amount of time. Then I haveschool for 6 hours. School is broken up into 90 minute blocks with 6 minute passing time and 30 minutes for lunch. Then I leave todosome after schoolactivity for another certain amount of time, go home, work on homework, eat dinner, and sleep for 5 hours or so. Then I get up at a certain time everyday......... and so on.
Life is really boring...if you just look at the basics. Unfortunatly the human is somehow capable of making complecated, even those most basic of concepts. I agree that the human mind has advanced, an unfortunate side effect of this is that we complicate things as well. People can complicate things as simple as what kind of cloths they are going to wear.
I have also noticed that the reason people complicate things is because of other people. Why do you care what you look like? because other people are going to see you. Why do you care how you act, because other people will watch you. Why do you care what you do in school or for the community? because other people care. The only reason that people do anything is because of other people. Why do you have a job? To pay other people for letting you be taught or having a house or car, etc.
I wonder if cows have the same depth of mind. Is the only thing cows think about is what they are eating? Hmmm this grass is alittle dull, I better go over there. Or is it more complicated than that? Do the cows get upset because their hooves don't match their spots? Do they have social groups and other cows they look up to? Or is it all just about the grass?
Mmmmmmm, this grass tastes great!.... I mean talk to you later...........yeah
So quiet
another wasted night,
the television steals the conversation
exhale,
another wasted breath,
again it goes unnoticed.
Yeah. So, everyday i see you, i notice things that I haven't before. Why i notice these things; why im even looking at you is beyond me. But I have begun to remember how you first entered my life...
Through a dream
Everyday, I saw you in the hall, since freshman year. EVERY SINGLE FRICKEING DAY. Why did you die in that dream? i dunno. but what i do know is that because of that dream, you appeared into my line of sight and have dramatically affected my life.
Please tell me you're just feeling tired
cause if it's more than that I feel that I might break
out of touch, out of time.
Please send me anything but signals that are mixed
cause I can't read your rolling eyes
out of touch, are we out of time?
Each time I saw you, you looked different. You are a well known person that I don't know at all. You didn't even know that I exsisted untill we just happened to be in the same class, and sport. Even then, you didn't see me.
T'wasn't untill I finally started leaving weak remarks hinting towards the fact that i saw you everyday, watching your every move. Adoring you in a sort of crazed freshmany sort of way.
Close lipped
another goodnight kiss
is robbed of all it's passion,
your grip
another time, is slack
it leaves me feeling empty.
Even today, when you know that you have become a kind of sybol for what life is to me, you don't have a difference. Which I guess is normal, it just feels wierd. What I have for you now is not the same as before. Tis no longer a kind of adoring, but admiration, for what you do, and how you think. Yet, still I notice things, why I don't know...nice new sweater.
I'll wait until tomorrow
maybe you'll feel better then
maybe we'll be better then
so what's another day
when I can't bear these nights of thoughts
of going on without you
this mood of yours is temporary
it seems worth the wait
to see your smile again
out of the corner of my eye
won't be the only way you're looking at me then.
Once again, Thanks Bob Dylan
you
you no longer hold the position of idol, i dont think you ever did. I was just to blinded to see you for what you are.
a symbol
you are not the things I idolize, but you are a very good walking symbol of them....still unfortunatly, the mere sight of you sends a shrill through my spine...in a good way...?
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You Are a Warrior Soul |
You're a strong person and sometimes seen as intimidating. You don't give up. You're committed and brave. Truly adventuresome, you are not afraid of going to battle. Extremely protective of loved ones, you root for the underdog. You are picky about details and rigorous in your methods. You also value honesty and fairness a great deal. You can be outspoken, intimidating, headstrong, and demanding. You're a hardliner who demands the best from themselves and others. Souls you are most compatible with: Old Soul and Peacemaker Soul |
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My life is rated PG...?
What is your life rated?
I look to it for strength,
I look to it for confidence.
I look to it for courage,
I look to it for bravery;
why can't I look to you?
I look to it for ego,
I look to it for humility.
I look to it for a reason,
I look to it for an excuse.
you weren't there for me to look to you.
I look to it for nothing,
I look to it for everything.
happness, sadness, excitment, boredom
where were you?
I look to it with resentment,
I look to it with appreciation
It is there to look at,
you aren't
"I am the Lord," he said. His bandanna was damp. It was hot and he wished it would rain.
The orange thread poked out from the edges of his machine. It was still long. This was good. He lowered the machine's head into the grass and it buzzed steadily. He did not pull the throttle. His hands and arms hurt from the vibration and he wanted to catch his breath. The grass did not know its time was near. It did not understand what the sound of an engine meant. The sound meant he was making things beautiful again.
His orange thread hung motionless among the high grasses.
His sunglasses slid down his face and he pushed them up. He was alone. They would not pick him up until after lunchtime. He pulled the throttle and heard the high whine.
"I am the Lord," he said, severing the high grasses.
by Matt Demo
I think the best a part about humans is that we can control our body, in all functions, using our brian. Wow that sounded very....dumb didn't it! But im serious. Mind over matter. One can lose wieght just by wanting to. This also goes for over coming desieses. The hard part is learning how to use this art of your brain. I have heard and read in many places that meditation, both active and unactive help this. One of the most common being Tai Chi Chuan. AND GUESS WHAT. TAI CHI AT THE REC BABY!!!!!!
Today was really fun.
I got out of bed really late because my alarm clock has broken and I cannot afford a new one at the moment.
I feel a bit strange because we've just moved to Idaho and there's a weird smell in the house.
I'm so normal
Last night I had to go and pay Joshua's bail. He's such a jerk. He got arrested for punching the Walmart clerk in the face for refusing to sell him beer. He's only 16!
I want to tell the world that I love you all! You're all so special to me!
I am updating this journal for the first time in ages, because I've been in prison.
Today, I got a digital camera! Yes! Here's ten thousand photographs of my cat.
I want to say thanks to the academy for giving me this award.
I went to the doctor yesterday, and he said I have bipolar disorder, which makes me different enough to be interesting, but the same as all the other cool people with bipolar disorder.
You should all do this quiz! It's amazingly accurate. You just put in your name and birthday, and it will tell you you're a moron.
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That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with this poem I wrote. It's about my friend Robert, who has bipolar disorder. Just like me. And Heidi.
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So long sweet summer,I stumbled "According to the seed that is sown,upon you and gratefully basked in your rays.So long sweet slumber.So is the fruit you reap.I fell into you now you're gracefully falling away.The door of good of will gather good results.Hey thanks, thanks for that summer.It is cold where your going The door of evil reaps evil results.I hope that your heart is always warm.I gave you the best that I had.If you plant a good seed well,You pased on my letters& passed on the best that I had.Then you will enjoy the good fruits."
Not too sure if I have done this one already....oh well!
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So, ive been watching the people at my school latly, and it's kind of funny. Not just the people at my school, but people in general. The majority of people, let their emotions get in the way of everything. They let their emotions blind them. So someone gets mad, and they are completely oblivious to everything except the single thought they are thinking. It's like they lose sight of everything, and their minds can only process one thing at a time! People need to learn to control their emotions, including myself. I am proud of myself becuase I was getting pretty agrivated, and i managed to srug it off in a matter of minutes. It feels godd when you do something right. The hard part is acctually doing it.
I think that the trick s to step back, and look at how much this wil acctually effect everything. Say I was pissed becuase i didn't want to do something, and someone made me do it. Let's say that I just hated what I had to do and got really pissed. The kind of anger where you want revenge. I know, most of the time you know how to stop being mad...you just dont want to! Well, Just take a few seconds and think, if I went around people and was like "I'm really pissed at this person, I hate them!!!" What would everyone think?? im sure they would think lower of you. Now I'm not the kind of person that is like, oh I care what everyone thinks about me. There are a few people who influence me whom I look up to, but not many.
I do care how ever, how people persive my attitude. Attitude is the most contagious of our emotions. If you are angery at someone, and you express it publically, then people usually take one of two sides. First, there is the "I'm with you side. Yeah I agree, that person sucks. He/she is a terrible person. What they did to you is awful!!" etc., you get my drift. Then there is the sid ethat just thinks your a worse person. "Oh jeez, there he goes again. He needs to stop hating people...." etc...again you get my drift.
So just try to avoid these kinds of things in the future.
Peace.
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
"May barbarians invade your personal
space!"
You are highly confrontational and possibly in a
bad mood. You would have sworn in this quiz,
if I had made it an option.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
ah
ahhhh
a
h
ahhhhh
1 MORE HALF DAY!!!!!!!!!!
i cant stand it!!
anyway.... good song = Several Ways to Die Trying by Dashboard Confessional
Anyway, things with the man worked out alright. If you want proof check out his Blurty. If you don't know the address, then you don't need to go there!. haha
peace. love. craps.
see ya!
well, I have been chosen as the 2004-2005 Drum Major. It is a good feeling, but i am sorry for those guys that didn't make it. We all practiced so hard. I am just confused right now. I know that I would have been upset if I didn't make it, but why do people have to hate me? I practiced just as hard, if not harder than other people. My audition didn't go nearly as well as I had hoped, but that's only a part of it. I have been told that my interview was alot of it, and the parts of my audition i didn't screw up on were also good. So why are people trying to make it seem like i was picked by age. I'm not going to mess up at games. By then I will have enough practice where it will be second nature. Again, people make it seem like what I have earned is a bad thing. Man im sorry you didn't get it, but hating me isn't going to do anything. Getting your friends to hate me isn't going to do anything. Hat Mr.L isn't going to do anything. Why don't you guys get that.
I'm lost, help me please. i need a light.
Im not sure if this is true for other people, but I know that in my life, there is one focus point. now its not like any certain things, it is always changing. I tis the things that you wait for, you know the thing that mkaes you get up in the morning and really look forward to the day. At several times, including now, that thing is a person. This person isn't someone i have a crush on or anything like that, it's just someone (more like someones) lthat i really admire. I look forward to seeing these people in my day, and if I dont see them, i get kind of down.
Bleib Tapfer
...I still envy you
You know those movies that are kind of sappy, yet inspiring; where the main character has friends that are really good at stuff. You know, it just seems that the only friends he can make are the ones that can do something really really well, yet he doesn't see anything in himself...
... that's how I feel.....
....I have friends moving away that are awsome in foriegn languages (like fluent in like 5 languages), I have several friends that are extremly musically talented, I have more than enoguh friends that are really really smart, not to mention the ones that are all athletic. Then there are the ones that are really good at being a kid (like those ones that are über community service ones...mine is meeting Tiger Woods to do some sort of commercial, and the friends that are just good at everything in general. Finally, I have the friends that combine half of those togeather with a hint of bad ass and a mint to top it all off...
...I envy all of you
....Yet in myself...i feel empty...not really good at anything...i dont want do be felt sorry for, or pittied of anything, i just kinda feel wierd....I think that...
I need
a...
religion??? (im looking)
My sport...
Crew(krü), n. 1. A sport practiced
in rowing boats where the
participants willfully awake before
dawn and run to practice where
they spend one or two hours
sitting on a hard wood seat
and pull on oars to such a
level as to cause their bodies
to go into oxygen debt, resulting
in the formation of lactic acid
in their blood, which causes
substantial pain and discomfort
in all major muscle groups.
This activity is usually performed
twice a day in the name of fun,
and is conducted under the
demonic supervision of a
person called "Coach",
with the help of his trained
servant named "coxswain".
and now for one of the greatest songs in the historyof all music... BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY !
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I’m just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I’m easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn’t really matter to me,
To me
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s ,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn’t mean to make you cry-
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I’ve got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all-
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can’t do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,
Any way the wind blows....
There are two ways to think about pain. There is one that it hurts and distracts you. It is added wieght to your problems. In that state of thinking, you only become more frustrated, and more angry. It is pointless to give yourself more pain, so why don't you think of it diferently.
I think of pain as body awareness. Im not some self mutalator that hurts myself for fun. no, it just works like this. If I get hurt doing something, for example today I got four open bleeding wounds( one is the size of a dime and the other three your pinky fingernail) and three fair sized blisters from rowing. Now I dont see these pains as added wieght, I see themas things I did wrong that I can fix. When I feel pain, it re-focuses me to what I am doing and reminds me why I am doing it. Pain can acctually be pretty usefull if you think about it right. Well, that is todays shpiel. (the last entry was supposed to be yesterdays...hehe)
I see pain as weakness escaping the body.
-bleib tapfer
You know, there is something really agravanting when a group of people are working as a team, and one of them decideds to not pay attention. That just ruins it for everyone. Everyone works hard to get the job done and one person, just for a second, decides that they aren't going to pay attention... and look what happens...moron
On a lighter note, Something really cool happens in things like a band or orchestra where you have 60 some people all concentrating on the same piece of music, or the same melody. It just is a really cool feeling. What's even cooler is when someone to whom you have respect for plays with you, when you can pick him and yourself out of the band just playing togeather...that is also really cool.
...AAAAAAaaaaaand there is just something about a bike horn that brings a smile to my face, and a warmth to my heart.
Some people think that knoledge and wisdom are the same thing or are just closly related. I think that they are absolutly different. Knoledge, you can learn with out doing anything. You could be the biggest couch potatoe and still have knoledge. That's just the way it works. Wisdom, on the other hand, comes from doing things. It comes from getting out there and acctually watching someone do something, than doing it yourself. There is no imitation for wisdom. The other part of wisdom is age or events. By events I mean a tragic event in your life. For some reason unknown to our race, events like this make us stronger and wiser.
Gotta fly
Es Por Ti
Juanes
Cada vez que me levanto y veo que a mi lado estás
Me siento renovado
Y me siento aniquilado
Aniquilado si no estás
Tu controlas toda mi verdad y todo lo que está de más
Tus ojos me llevan lentamente al sol
Y tu boca me habla del amor y el corazón
Tu piel tiene el color de un rojo atardecer
Y es por ti...
Que late mi corazón
Y es por ti...
Que brillan mis ojos hoy
Y es por ti...
Que he vuelto a hablar de amor
Y es por ti...
Que calma mi dolor
Y cada vez que yo te busco
Y no te puedo aún hallar
Me siento un vagabundo
Perdido por el mundo
Desordenado si no estás
Como mueves tú mi felicidad
Y todo lo que está de más
Tus ojos me llevan lentamente al sol
Y tu boca me habla del amor y el corazón
Tu piel tiene el color de un rojo atardecer
Y es por ti...
Que late mi corazón
Y es por ti...
Que he vuelto a hablar de amor
Y es por ti...
Que brillan mis ojos hoy
Y es por ti...
Que calma mi dolor
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