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It's 11/1/11! isn't that a sign of some Apocalypse? I'm sure someone is shitting their pants now.
Just a boring day for me, have class at 9:30 AM (Sociology of Mental Illness), and then I have this class about woman's inequality in the workplace followed by Biological Ethics....fun! Big test in Sociology of Social Services tomorrow... God damn it! I just found a bug in the chamomile tea I made :(
On a random note, yesterday I was thinking about how ideas influence behavior, and I came to the conclusion that all ideas are designed to control two distinct areas: 1) perception of the world (i.e. worldview) and 2) actions. I'll probably write a blog post after this about my thoughts on ideas..
Wrote it, check it out: Controlling Ideas.
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Today's classes were so strange (i.e. fucked up). In my first class we watched the oddest documentary that was made in the 1950s about this mental institution (or was it a prison?) in Russia. 80% of the video was old naked men stomping around and getting food poured down their noses with a hose/funnel. They also put this cotton ball (or that was what it looked like) in this guy's eye socket. After that class got done, I got food and relaxed in my dorm for a bit before my next class. In that class the topic was the sex slave trade that is going on TODAY (I was completely ignorant of it), and it is just awful. In Thailand, it is common for a family to sell their daughter in order to buy a color television. It's apparently a huge industry over there (black market, but even the police are involved, and if the girls/women escape, the police rape them and bring them back to their captors). And apparently this kind of thing happens all over the world. I guess many business men from the United States and Europe go to Thailand to have sex with enslaved children (shame they charges can't be brought against them in their home countries). And after that class, the next one's topic was abortion. It was funny how upset some of the people got when a pro-life student was making points (clearly an abortion survivor who wants their cake eat it to). What was annoying was how the teacher implied that all pro-lifers were religious. While many Christians are pro-life, many of them are not. I've also come across many pro-life atheists.
It's 11/1/11! isn't that a sign of some Apocalypse? I'm sure someone is shitting their pants now.
Just a boring day for me, have class at 9:30 AM (Sociology of Mental Illness), and then I have this class about woman's inequality in the workplace followed by Biological Ethics....fun! Big test in Sociology of Social Services tomorrow... God damn it! I just found a bug in the chamomile tea I made :(
On a random note, yesterday I was thinking about how ideas influence behavior, and I came to the conclusion that all ideas are designed to control two distinct areas: 1) perception of the world (i.e. worldview) and 2) actions. I'll probably write a blog post after this about my thoughts on ideas..
Wrote it, check it out: Controlling Ideas.
Updated
Today's classes were so strange (i.e. fucked up). In my first class we watched the oddest documentary that was made in the 1950s about this mental institution (or was it a prison?) in Russia. 80% of the video was old naked men stomping around and getting food poured down their noses with a hose/funnel. They also put this cotton ball (or that was what it looked like) in this guy's eye socket. After that class got done, I got food and relaxed in my dorm for a bit before my next class. In that class the topic was the sex slave trade that is going on TODAY (I was completely ignorant of it), and it is just awful. In Thailand, it is common for a family to sell their daughter in order to buy a color television. It's apparently a huge industry over there (black market, but even the police are involved, and if the girls/women escape, the police rape them and bring them back to their captors). And apparently this kind of thing happens all over the world. I guess many business men from the United States and Europe go to Thailand to have sex with enslaved children (shame they charges can't be brought against them in their home countries). And after that class, the next one's topic was abortion. It was funny how upset some of the people got when a pro-life student was making points (clearly an abortion survivor who wants their cake eat it to). What was annoying was how the teacher implied that all pro-lifers were religious. While many Christians are pro-life, many of them are not. I've also come across many pro-life atheists.
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