On the nature of the Sacrament

Well, the title of this is mainly to make me sound smart... because I don't really think it needs to be discusses since it is such an obvious topic anyway.

However, He is risen! happy Easter to everyone! Which is just one, me, since only I read my blog.

Lately my life has been rather topsy turvy as one might say. I am not sure why it is so but I just feel like I have been topsy turvy. It may be due to my many run ins with the law... They just don't understand that I have to somehow procure funds more my political party! Is some bank's money really more important than the glory the Petersen Party would bring to America???

Well anyway, enough of that, onto another topic. I have begun writing a song... it is a sad story song, I don't want to give to much away but I think it is amazing. Though, I am overly self confident and I would say that regardless of the quality of the song.

I sometimes feel like I am just free associating when I am blogging and throwing random tid bits in everywhere... I never read them as it goes against my code so I can't be sure...

I wonder if that means I have add?? Or maybe I just have a lot of brain power and many thought float in my head at one time, faster than I can talk or write. There is that confidence again... hmmmm

Anyway, I am going to go listen to Moulin Rouge now, which is possibly my favorite movie at this point in my life... I don't know why though I suspect it is because I relate with Ewan Mcgreggor so much. I just really feel for him and it makes me emotional... not a lot of movies do that for me... anyway I will talk to myself later...

Morality

So, once again, I sit on campus bored and with nothing to do except study.

Which I refuse to do.

Instead I have decided to once again write a blog which basically consists of whatever is on the top of my mind and which no one will ever see.

But it passes the time and gives my hands something to do.

Anyway, I have been thinking a lot about morality lately. Ethics as well. Big issues which for some unknown reason are hard to address. I think it is because of guilt, guilt makes people feel bad so they avoid thinking about it so that they can avoid feeling bad. Natural human response I suppose, though conscience and guilt are also human responses... so these things must be combating, unless the former isn't really a natural response and is something that is learned.

I guess I should think about childhood then, to see if it is something that would be learned. At least for me, when I was a child, guilt would often times make me fess up in order to get rid of the guilt. So maybe it is more natural to face up to the consequences to get rid of guilt than to avoid the situation altogther... or maybe I was just a weird kid.

Well, assuming that I am the norm and most people are this way, at what point do we learn avoidance? Is it after punishment that we become afraid of punishment? Is the lessening of guilt not as strong a force as threat of discipline? Of course this varies from person to person, though, depending on the person it seems like an awful lot of people i know seek avoidance at this point in their life.

If the majority of people seek to hide their crimes, then their must be some catalyst that is experienced to create this urge - if the above is all true. And if this urge stretches across so many people, it must be a restricted list of events that can cause this... otherwise this urge would vary greatly among people. So something that all people go through. I suppose the opposite could be true as well, maybe their are many many events that can cause this change from nature which makes it unavoidable. Unless your character can survive this onslaught...

Well I am going to class now.

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So I am sitting in the library it IPFW and am completely bored out of mind. I don't even have anything of substance to write about. I just feel like doing something instead of just sitting here, pandering about. Is that even the right usage of the word "pandering?" I don't really know what it means but it seems to fit the general tone of my mood. In fact thats how I use most of my words, just disregard their actual meaning. But now that you know my secret it won't work anymore... darn.


Hm... I am listening to the Scorpions and the Berliner Philharmoniker on an album called "Moment of Glory." Awesome album even if you don't like generally like the Scorpions, if that is possible. Basically an orchestra doing the scorpions songs. Scorpions play of course too with Meine still doing the vocals though their are a few guest vocalists.

Since I was listening to this album and doing nothing I went ahead and looked them up on wikipedia and found out that Don Dokken sang for the Scorpions for awhile. Apparently my rock history education has been very lacking. This also caused me to discover that Dokken is also from Germany...

Intrigued by my sudden realization of general German rockeness I decided to look up some other bands. I turned to Skid Row - American. However, their lead singer is of course Sebastian Bach... so still German ties.

Good thing I am taking German. I feel as though my rock ability can only improve from it.

Deutschland

Dieser gesamte Pfosten ist auf Deutsch. Bewilligt, ist die Grammatik am wahrscheinlichsten schrecklich, und einige Wörter können nicht übersetzen, aber sie wird ruhiges aussehen wie voller Deutscher zu jeder, das nicht Deutschen lesen kann. Dieses bildet mich das erzogene Gefühl.

Senatus Populusque Romanus

I recently started watching the HBO series "Rome" and I am utterly in awe. In fact, I am so much in awe, that I am awed by how much in awe I am. Anyway, I have discovered that there are quite a few good shows on HBO, including such great shows as Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," but my favorite is definitly Rome.

I am fortunate enough to have all of the existing episodes available for viewing in Comcast's On Demand, so I have seen every thing available up to the current point in the series. I believe this makes me an expert, so I will enlighten you on the premise of the series if you haven't already guessed. Keep in mind that I will most likely misspell several things.

Season 1 begins with Caesar in Gaul, finishing up the war, and Pompey in Rome worrying with the senators over Caesar's ambitions. The show slides around from multiple perspectives. Caesar's of course, along with Pompey and the Senate (mainly Brutus and Cicero), Atia (Caesar's niece), Marc Antony, and two soldiers who were mentioned in the real life Caesar's commentaries on the wars, Lucious Vorenus and Titus Pullo. This is part of the genius in how Rome draws you in, you see Rome and their culture from every perspective - the nobles, the politicians, the rulers, and the comman man. This may also mean you have to watch and episode or two to get really drawn in, as it can take more time to see everyone and have their personalties built, though I admit I was hooked from the opening battle scene.

Season 1 continues on with what we know from history, Caesar's march on Rome and his eventual defeat of Pompey, and also what we don't know, which is mainly the story of the two soldiers, Lucius and Pullo, and how their stories intertwine with Caesar's. The season concludes with the death of Caesar and Season 2 begins with some foresahdowing of the power struggle between Antony and Octavian (Caesar Agustus later).

The only real negative point I have read in any review is the lack of cliffhangers due to the fact that everyone knows what is going to happen next in the story and that this also detracts from it as being a drama. I believe there are two main points against this. One, we pretty much know the story of every single action movie - Girl plays hard to get, hero does some fighting, hero gets girl, more fighting, hero almost dies, hero beats villain against all odds, hero kisses girl and they either live happily ever after or he rides off in the sunset. Yet they are still entertaining because we love to see how things play out. This also brings up the point that the acting in Caesar is phenomenal, I believe every single character as who they are, from the guy with no legs shouting about Caesar's death to the Senator Cato. Their ability to immerse you in the Roman world is probably what draws me to the series so much, but, I digress. My second point of contention is that their is quite a lot of fiction thrown in to create the cliffhangers. Lucius and Pullo's stories, and my desire to find out how they will turn out, are sometimes what would make me sit through yet another hour of an episode. Some characters also have their personality's changed to make the show into more of a drama than just an educational history lesson.

Well, I believe I have spewed on long enough. I would like to say, though, that I often jump around quite a bit in unorganized writing and this may not best represent the series. This is why I urge you to watch it for yourself. I promise you will not be dissapointed.

The Nintendo Wiiiiiiii

I played a nintendo wii the other day.


I am in awe. I think Stephen Colbert puts it the best though.

Sad

This has apparently been going on for a while but I just heard of it and was completely horrified.

Story

I thought we were done with practices like these after the Spartans. I guess I was just naive. Hopefully America will never stoop to this.

The New Generation

I was thinking that I should post something that is really worth reading, full of deep insights and embellished with rich rhetoric. Then I changed my mind, because this is really funny.

My father showed this to me a while ago and I just wanted to make sure more people could enjoy it.

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So I am sitting at home, telling myself that I can do nothing except start on my Senior Project, which is basically a large book report that is due on Monday. So I decide to write in my blog where the last post is probably from somewhere in August. At least I am practicing my writing, so it's not a complete waste. At least I hope so.

Hopefully, this will also mean that I can start writing in my blog, and even though no one ever views it, someday a whole bunch of people will. On that day a some employee for a large publishing company will decide that my blog could be a multi million dollar seller. My blog would then be published into a book fulfill that young employee's dream, regardless of the fact that it can be viewed for free on the internet.

None of this really matters that much as long as my inheritance comes through. For those of you who don't know I am currently Ninth in line to become a Danish Nobleman. I would have an estate in the Herskind County, and would have "symbolic" lordship over it. This is also why I have not done anything to work on my senior project except for reading the book, and also why I will probably only write a paragraph or two tonight.

I did hear an interesting theory on procrastination once though. The theory states that procrastination - instead of a product of laziness, is in fact an excuse. It goes on to say that the procrastinator, upon receiving a low grade, can blame the procrastination. On the other side of it, if he receives a high grade, he imagines how much more he could have achieved if he had actually put effort into the project.

Well, I suppose that I have procrastinated enough that I can use either excuse with ease, so I am off to start my project - after one match in Gears of War of course...