School Spirit

Contrary to popular belief, school spirit is not in any way important.  It's having fun that's important.  If someone likes going to school football games, then what's important is having fun, not cheering for your team.  Of course, there are other points that complement school spirit.  Without it, no one would really care about anything pertaining to the school.  Clubs could potentially not be formed, support for sports teams would dwindle, and the entire foundation of the American educational system would collapse upon itself, causing a cataclysmic event that would shake the entirety of the cosmos, rupturing time and space and bring about the end of reality as we know it.

Okay, so that last part might have been overkill, but you never really know.

Anyhow, the value of school spirit is a bit overdone, to be honest.  I guess I have some school spirit.  It's fine to like certain aspects of your school, but overall I'm not too big a fan of the rest of it.  I find too much bias towards sports and certain other things in the school, rather than an equal amount of attention towards everything in the entirety of the school.  Because of this, it's hard to have complete respect for the school and the decisions it undergoes.  Then again, it bought to Canon Rebels that I get to take pictures with, so I guess I can't complain.

Another reason it's not a big deal is that, in the end, it doesn't really matter.  You're going to graduate (at least, I'd hope you will), move on to college, and then go out in the real world.  No matter how big of a hot shot you were in high school, it's not going to just move on with you into your future jobs.  People may respect you and think you're great for being the one painting your entire body red and blue and bringing a blow horn to deafen people while you scream until you lose your voice, but is that really something you want to put on a resume?  And if, for some god-awful reason, you do put something like that on a resume, it's not like that's going to make you any more likely to get a job.

I'm just me, though.  I do what I do because I like doing things that I would actually do.  I don't truly care about the school all that much, so why exert the energy to make it seem like I do?

Thanks, Comedy Central

Wow.  A show for a ventriloquist.  Is Comedy Central grasping for straws, or something?  First, we've got Mind of Mencia; thank god we're rid of that.  Next we get The Sarah Silverman Program?  How is that compensation?  We've just had our minds dumbed down to nothing by the horrible "comedy" of Carlos Mencia and his damned "DE DEE DEE!" and you feed us more garbage?  Low blow, Comedy Central.

Just as we climbed out of our pit, though, you dealt the (hopefully) final blow.  There we were, blinded from the dark in our dank, nightmarish prison, with Sarah Silverman dangling her horrible comedy in front of our faces, exclaiming, "It shoves the horrible 'comedy' down its throat or else it gets the Mind of Mencia, again!"  When she's finally taken away and we, who have been left alone to desperately grope and grasp our way out of this pit of stink, finally reach the beautiful and warm embrace of sunlight, you have Jeff Dunham step in with his puppets.  He gingerly picks us up, assuring us everything will be okay.  Before we know it, though, we're chained to a wall with Jeff sitting there in a dress, playing tea time with us and his alter ego puppets.

So thanks a lot, Comedy Central, on giving us another horrible show that will be canceled after one season.  Dear god, I hope it will be...

Ethics / Values

Ethics and values: They vary greatly from person to person.  It's been made obvious from people like Hitler and Stalin, in comparison to people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.  Yeah, I dropped some names.  What are you going to do about it?  Regardless, my point remains valid: No matter how wrong it may seem to other people in the world, your values are still your values...  Except Hitler's.  He killed millions of people...

Moving along, I have many morals and values, just like every other person.  Sort of.  Some people in the world just kind of live without any idea of what a moral is.  They do things for themselves and think nothing of the repercussions that could transpire should they continue this negative lifestyle.  These people, however, are few and far between, though I'm sure one day you will meet one of these people.  My advice is to stay far away from them.  You may feel as though I'm unethically putting myself before them, but in the end, it's best to keep far away from any of these people.  Hey, you can't say I didn't warn you.

Finally, I guess we'll get to my ethics and values.  First off, I try to be as nice to people as I can be.  Even if they wrong me, I feel bad for anything that really happens to them.  If they've really wronged me, though, I will feel nothing but contempt for said person.  Of course, in the end, I'll just get over it and feel bad about anything that has to do with me being mean towards a person.  It's a curse, and it seems like people take advantage of it at times, but whatever.  I feel good for not being the one doing the wronging, so it's worth it in the end.  I also value open-mindedness.  I can't take people who can't reason with their own selves and see the big picture.  If they can't accept something because of their inability to do so, then I'll lose some respect for them.

I don't respect how America teaches children about some things, as well.  This is a school blog, though, so I guess I shouldn't be commenting on such touchy (and controversial) subjects.  Now that I've chosen to lay off that, I'll just say that I also feel that caring is an important emotion.  One that lacks caring is one that is not fully whole.  It may sound mean to say, but in my world I think it makes very much sense.  That's all I've really got to say right now, though.  You guys have me in a bind.