I want everyone who reads this to ask me 4 questions. Any 4, no matter how random. I have to answer them honestly. In turn, you have to post this message in your own journal, and you have to answer the questions that are asked of you.
1: I’m inclined to say Tom Clancy. He’s a terrible author, he’s not writing his own books, he’s not doing anybody any particular amount of good, and killing him would not cause irreparable tremors to world stability that would ultimately do more harm that good in arenas that I give a damn about.
2: I do not promote a ban on flag burning. It is a means of expression and protest that has existed within the rights of citizens of this country since its birth, and I don’t believe that we should be taking rights away from people according to the will of a group of holier-than-thou political advocates who hold the American flag in place of ‘the cross’ and the American president in place of the messiah. In this day and age, blind nationalism has replaced radical religious faith, and I believe both to be ridiculous and more harmful than helpful. Secondly, the infringement of absolute property rights that is made when you tell somebody that they cannot destroy something that they bought and rightfully own in the eyes of the law would throw all kinds of other rights that was have onto unstable ground, and we don’t need that. We have better things to be thinking about as a country, especially if we’re bent on going out into the world and converting the heathens to democracy. That said, I believe that people should be more educated about the symbolism of the flag. Ask anybody, most know very little about the symbolism of the flag. Some seventy percent of surveyed highschool students in this country already believe flag burning to be illegal. The old adage comes around, don’t talk about what you don’t know.
3: I do, but the image comes with some bitterness to me. I had a boyfriend of exactly that description who took his own life last summer, several months after we broke up. Whenever I see one said thin, pale boys in long leather trenchcoats out of the corner of my eye, part of my mind thinks it’s him.
4: The former. There is too much in my mind and heart that I am unable to express with the language that my mouth knows for that language to be guiding my thoughts. That said, I do tend to think in English… but the more German I learn, the more interchangeable the words become as they move into the more heavily-used bits of my head. So, thought most certainly dictates language, in my opinion.
I disagree... Tom Clancy has caused the production of some Awesome videogames, and i know some people who would be very sad indaviduals if their personalities hadn't been shaped by said games.
haha, and Brian, who i believe would be worse off than John, because john would have found something else to aid him in his climb to adulthood, as we had books and roleplay and the like.
2: I do not promote a ban on flag burning. It is a means of expression and protest that has existed within the rights of citizens of this country since its birth, and I don’t believe that we should be taking rights away from people according to the will of a group of holier-than-thou political advocates who hold the American flag in place of ‘the cross’ and the American president in place of the messiah. In this day and age, blind nationalism has replaced radical religious faith, and I believe both to be ridiculous and more harmful than helpful. Secondly, the infringement of absolute property rights that is made when you tell somebody that they cannot destroy something that they bought and rightfully own in the eyes of the law would throw all kinds of other rights that was have onto unstable ground, and we don’t need that. We have better things to be thinking about as a country, especially if we’re bent on going out into the world and converting the heathens to democracy. That said, I believe that people should be more educated about the symbolism of the flag. Ask anybody, most know very little about the symbolism of the flag. Some seventy percent of surveyed highschool students in this country already believe flag burning to be illegal. The old adage comes around, don’t talk about what you don’t know.
3: I do, but the image comes with some bitterness to me. I had a boyfriend of exactly that description who took his own life last summer, several months after we broke up. Whenever I see one said thin, pale boys in long leather trenchcoats out of the corner of my eye, part of my mind thinks it’s him.
4: The former. There is too much in my mind and heart that I am unable to express with the language that my mouth knows for that language to be guiding my thoughts. That said, I do tend to think in English… but the more German I learn, the more interchangeable the words become as they move into the more heavily-used bits of my head. So, thought most certainly dictates language, in my opinion.
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