Heres a project I did for school, hope it inspires you.
I have a dream; for the world to break free from the jail of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, and live together in peace in the garden of love, joy, and compassion. There is too much hatred and violence for this world to contain. Too long have we lived with these chains bounding us. We must strive for the peace that our great, too soonly departed, brother, Martin Luther King, saw over that mountain. We must not be afraid to slip and fall down that mountain, for we, united, will always get back up. We must get over that mountain, to that place Martin saw so many years ago, and go we will, because we are brothers.
I have a dream; for the world to break free from the jail of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, and live together in peace in the garden of love, joy, and compassion. There is too much hatred and violence for this world to contain.
There is too much people for this world to contain. Hatred and violence even it out just a little.
You say that we should break free of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, but removing the ability of people to do/feel these things is to remove freedom, thus creating the jail that people would feel the need to break free of.
I'm certainly not condoning any of that, I'm just pointing out that life isn't and can never be sugar cookies and rainbows. To restrict people from doing/feeling things that are negative (in the majority's mind) is to remove freedom (causing a group of people that feels like they are being repressed) and contrast (thereby removing the ability of future generations to appreciate/recognize good).
Sorry to be so direct, but the faster you understand all of this, the sooner you can focus your efforts promoting something worthwhile and achievable, not dreams you have!
Must... Obey... Cloud... anyways, Joker, you make a great point, but do you think school actually allows freedom of speech? If I didn't write what they told me too, there would be trouble. It's all an illusion. If we don't follow there rules, then we're out of there. How else to you explain the brave and coragous kids sudden move after they disagreed with the school? It's a cospericy I tell you.
I have a dream; for the world to break free from the jail of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, and live together in peace in the garden of love, joy, and compassion. There is too much hatred and violence for this world to contain.
There is too much people for this world to contain. Hatred and violence even it out just a little.
You say that we should break free of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, but removing the ability of people to do/feel these things is to remove freedom, thus creating the jail that people would feel the need to break free of.
I'm certainly not condoning any of that, I'm just pointing out that life isn't and can never be sugar cookies and rainbows. To restrict people from doing/feeling things that are negative (in the majority's mind) is to remove freedom (causing a group of people that feels like they are being repressed) and contrast (thereby removing the ability of future generations to appreciate/recognize good).
Sorry to be so direct, but the faster you understand all of this, the sooner you can focus your efforts promoting something worthwhile and achievable, not dreams you have!
I agree, there has to be balance. without these, "negatives", without those who make that "other" decision, out world would be too simplictic. Too idealic. When the trust of the matter is, the world isn't and can not be all sugary sweets.
Ever seen Hot Fuzz?
Standford was the PERFECT village. But, freedoms were taken away. without freedom how can you live?
I have a dream; for the world to break free from the jail of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, and live together in peace in the garden of love, joy, and compassion. There is too much hatred and violence for this world to contain.
There is too much people for this world to contain. Hatred and violence even it out just a little.
You say that we should break free of hatred, drugs, violence, teenage pregnancy, and anger, but removing the ability of people to do/feel these things is to remove freedom, thus creating the jail that people would feel the need to break free of.
I'm certainly not condoning any of that, I'm just pointing out that life isn't and can never be sugar cookies and rainbows. To restrict people from doing/feeling things that are negative (in the majority's mind) is to remove freedom (causing a group of people that feels like they are being repressed) and contrast (thereby removing the ability of future generations to appreciate/recognize good).
Sorry to be so direct, but the faster you understand all of this, the sooner you can focus your efforts promoting something worthwhile and achievable, not dreams you have!
TheCosmicFrog Wrote:
While I don't agree with everything said
The "teenage pregnancy" thing also touched a nerve for some reason :S
you also forgot to mention poverty, oppression of labor and war... mlk was actually shot while helping organize a sanitation workers strike (well, at the very least that's why he was in memphis at the time).
and i don't think one can refer to drugs (i assume you mean illegal ones) as solely negative. no one would take them if they didn't have some benefits. they (at least the majority of them) can be dangerous, but they can also have their benefits if one takes their dangers seriously and uses them responsibly. particularly in the areas of medical and spiritual use.
you also forgot to mention poverty, oppression of labor and war... mlk was actually shot while helping organize a sanitation workers strike (well, at the very least that's why he was in memphis at the time).
and i don't think one can refer to drugs (i assume you mean illegal ones) as solely negative. no one would take them if they didn't have some benefits. they (at least the majority of them) can be dangerous, but they can also have their benefits if one takes their dangers seriously and uses them responsibly. particularly in the areas of medical and spiritual use.
Good points... if anything was solely negative, it would not be around... even something like war does some "beneficial" things... improves economies, reduces overpopulation, settles disputes, increases rate of innovation, etc. I'm not endorsing war per se, but I'm just trying to show that everything is relative. For the people making millions sellings guns to countries, war is great... for the guy that got shot during the conflict... not so great.
i was mainly mentioning them b/c they were issues that most americans don't even remember or know that mlk was active in protesting. i personally abhor war, given that it always hurts more people than it benefits and is not w/in the interests of the majority of citizens of involved countries... barring of course some revolutions or insurrections where the oppressed do fight for their interests as well as the interests of their fellow citizens.
