Your cry of Love Rings out across the Lands.

I'm experiencing a lot of camp feelings right now.
I need to figure out a way to get a high quality version of the camp singing You're the word of God the Father this summer.
Fun Fact:  That song is also know as, Across the Lands.
I'm having milk from the milk machine at supper.

ps. I used the wrong your....how on earth did I get into university?

My Child, the Holocaust Denier

  I still can't, I never will be able to rationalize how the Holocaust happened. Or how in '94 we let it happen again, and how we let it happen in Bosnia, and darfur, and that I want so desperatley for the human race to say no, no to genocide, no to killing,  to hatred. To say yes to love, to say yes to compassion, yes to stopping the killing, yes to doing whatever it takes to end genocide. But we won't, we can't.  I am extremely pessimistic, but my compassion over rides that.  I often say, I hate everyone, but I don't I don't hate every one.  I just want to spread this compassion across the entire universe, to let people know that they are loved, that every human living on this planet deserves to be here, deserves to be alive and to be happy.  That there is no logical reason that you are inferior because you're of a different faith, or ethnicity, or because you live somewhere you are less of a person, that you don't deserve to live.
I live in a world where people are still killed because of who they are, where children don't get to to go to school, where women have to walk miles to get dirty water, where women die in child birth, where people don't have health care, where churches have to hide.  Where the biggest super power anyone has ever seen is slowly collapsing and the rich rule this world with money they made off the backs of the poor. I live in this world, this world we created out of war, and messed up history and nuclear weapons, and money.
So all I want is for people to feel the compassion I feel, the compassion that wracks your body, with the guilt of all the mistakes the people before you have made.  The compassion that makes you cry at the mere mention of the holocaust or Rwanda.  Where you still cry thinking about Vietnam, a war your country didn't fight in, and that ended 20 years before you were born.  The pure and utter compassion that makes you want to adopt all of the hurting children across this world and tell them that their life is worth it and that you love them.  Just to feel the smallest inkling deep inside them, the smallest bit.  Just to understand love.
I want my children to be like this.  I want them to not be able to fathom that one man would take his hatred to such an extreme, to kill 11 million people because of who they were.   That another man at the same time would kill 18 million of his own countrymen because he was paranoid.  That in the 90's only a year after I was born people would kill their neighbours because white men told them a horrible lie.  Where they believe it was never.  Where they live in a world where sick people don't draw Swastikas on table and books.  Where people don't us the n word.  A world full of love, where genocide is such a distant memory.  But I don't want the memory of these genocides to fade away, I want them to always be here to remind us where we came from, to remind us to never let it happen again.

Sorry I haven't blogged in forever.  I have an exam in an hour, and then I'm officially done all my exams next Wednesday.
Anyway I found this spoof suspension video, it's put together incredibly well.  Almost spot on.

You may have already watched this, you may not have but you should watch it anyway.  





I’m an incredible cynic.  I am just scared that this Kony thing is going to become fad something you support for a week or two and then forget, like the Haitian earthquake or the Arab spring.  People are still going to continue dying.  This battle cannot be given up until Kony is arrested and tried at the Hague.  I know it’s the cool compassionate thing to do.  But remember human life, remember to be compassionate no matter what.  Always remember to love.

Guess who's writing another essay on Communism and Russia?

If you guessed me then you win...
The prize is Nothing.

Also remember that time I mixed Presidents Choice pudding and Cool Whip and it tasted like soap?

Hockey Fights and Lost Lives

I don't want to sound heartless, because I'm not, I've just observed things.  Whenever talk about banning fighting in hockey comes up Rick Rypien, Wade Belak, and Derek Boogaard are always mentioned, because they were enforcers.  These men did not die because of head trauma. Yes, Boogaard died because of his addictions to painkillers, because of trauma, but the actual trauma was not his killer.  Belak and Rypien committed suicide. Because they had issues far greater than the sport of hockey.
All of these men were fighters and hitters and did all of those things that they want removed from the game.  But these things were not their killers.  So I don't think it's fair to them, to mention them in your crusade to end fighting in the game.
I am not trying to down play the fact that they died, not at all.  I'm trying to show the people that mention them when fighting comes up how wrong they are.
I feel for these men every single day.  For their families and their friends.  For the NHL that is left with gaps where these men should be.

In my Poli Sci class we were talking about Alienation this week.  We of course discussed the feminist side of alienation.  One point I thought was particularly interesting, alienated from motherhood.  The basic idea is that women no longer have control on how they mother.  Of course freedom of their body was discussed in the context of abortion and birth control. But also the fact that women are controlled in the amount of children they can have.   There are so many pressures, you can't over too many children because the world is already overpopulated, why bring more polluters, consumers etc. into this world.  Poor women shouldn't have children because they cannot support them.  Why would you give up your career to have children?  So on and so on.
I just thought it was interesting that our society has come to that.  Where in one breath well tell girls that it's okay to kill a child and in the next say that they're wrong for wanting to have children.

Do you know what?
Russia still has a Communist party.  You would think of all the countries in the world they would be the least likely, and the found out for 60 years that it didn't work for them.
Can't say they're not optimistic.