Seventh Blade's blog

Today I was playing some football with my friends, and during break to get water I was just staring at the trees imagining how they are connected with the Earth and how they grow all about, and how if I was looking from a bird-eye view I'd see these wondrous leafless trees everywhere consuming the Earth as they are stealing the life from it. My peer promptly questioned why I was dumbly transfixed on a group of trees and then it sort of hit me; I know why I'm staring at these trees, but why isn't anyone else?

I've always looked at things this way, but I guess I never before figured how stupid I must look (which is probably why for years people who don't know me too well have thought I was incredibly dumb or an avid stoner). But why are these average images so amazing to me and no one else? Well, I realized today that I'm inducing myself into a semi-hallucinatory state when I try and make
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Today in Debate, we were having mock debates to prepare for an upcoming tournament. In one of my rebuttal's, my value had been justice and I countered an opponent's argument by saying by his logic, slavery was justified. Afterwords, the captain said it was great that I brought it back to slavery, that's pretty much a trump card if I'm arguing why something is unjust.

That got me thinking: why is slavery unjust? Does it not strike anyone as odd that slavery just suddenly became unjust? Prior to the mid-18th century, for the most part, slavery was accepted. Few found it unjust. Take African slavery for example. Before the movement against it started, most people didn't care to respect any rights of these people. But once the movement started, many joined along, and as time went on it just became taught that slavery was evil.

I have two problems with that. One, slavery was abolished because
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