January 2010
56 posts
teachers
Teachers are always giving grief about how they are never given the respect they deserve, and how society takes them for granted, and how the system has wronged them, and blah blah blah.
And it is true. Teachers do not get the respect they deserve. The kids treat them like crap. The PARENTS treat them like crap. The stuff they need to put up with on a day to day basis. A teaching position,...
December 2009
75 posts
lewis;
on apologetics
Man is becoming as narrowly “practical” as the irrational animals. In lecturing to popular audiences I have repeatedly found it almost impossible to make them understand that I recommended Christianity because I thought its affirmations to be objectively true. They are simply not interested in the question of truth or falsehood. They only want to know if it will be...
tea
I feel like I could really get into tea. I don’t know why.
I really like coffee. Strong coffee. Dark coffee. Rich coffee. Deep coffee. Warm or cold, sweet or bitter. I like it.
So when I drink tea… It always seems so weak to me. It doesn’t matter how long I let it stew, it always taste weak and light and nothing like the boldness that is coffee.
I admittedly haven’t had...
Christmas
I wish that there was an easy way to make people take a moment to consider the true significance of Christmas.
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to...”
– Nikola Tesla
panic →
panic →
skills
avrair:
they take a truckload of experience to be properly refined. their main objective differs substantially depending on personal interests. they are necessary for most any means of success. they are mainly affected by emotion and intuition. Mastery of the art requires a great deal of objectivity.
so, it’s hardddd. whyyyyyyy. D:
I can never figure out if I have good “people...
99 Red Balloons - Nena
The German version is...
“Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means...”
– Colin Powell (via soupsoup)
thought
Is torture justifiable? A good question. Here’s a better one. Is torture EVER justifiable?
Ask the first, a good deal of people will say no. Ask the second, and then those same people have a hard time answering. BUT, there will still be those few who do. My question is, how can they possibly say that?
Let us look at the following situation.
A kidnapper has been apprehended. The kidnapper...
Tesla →
Yeah, this pretty much sums it up. Ignore the limited profanity.
My gosh, was he a jerk, though.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Watch*Facepalm*
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will...”
– Adolf Hitler
Suicide →
Bunny suicide.
“Our national debt is so huge it’s not even a real number. We owe like 5...”
– Dr. Saturday
html
HTML is a pain in the butt. If anyone who was even remotely fluent with HTML took a look at my butchered attempts to embed a twitter widget, they would probably break down crying.
I mean. Come on. My tumblog description is actually the twitter widget title, and the twitter widget title is actually the included “follow me” link. What? What? What?