Nick's+Nostalgia

=**PHILOSOPHY BRAINSTORMING:**// Who am I? //// What do I believe about life, truth, my future? //// What do I believe is my purpose? //// How does the way I live and approach life reflect who I am and what I value? //= • Think about what texts that we’ve read specifically connect to me – Big ideas, images, lines, etc. __

Our world, this world we live in, is often thought of as a dark and dangerous place where people die and where only despair survives; why do we think like this? Are we born evil with original sin and must work our whole lives to redeem ourselves and prove worthy or do we take sin in through society around us? To this question I do not know the correct answer; however, to me it feels as though it is a combination of the two. We are not born evil exactly the opposite we are born perfect with the purest souls and as we grow old and temptation takes its own hold we fall into darkness, a darkness that we fight for the rest of our lives to be free of. Some give into this temptation and their souls are torn apart by the horrible actions they commit and they will forever be marked and watched over as being poor with no spirit while the rest of us endeavor to become the best people we can be accepting ourselves for who we are and hoping to become the worthies of the world. We must strive to be the best of the best and purest of souls; we must be positive and see the world as a place of beauty and hope instead of evil and despair. This is my philosophy.



During the whole of a dull and dark soundless day In the autumn of the year An air of stern deep and irredeemable gloom Hung over and prevaded all.

We have lost all sense of other considerations Because they are artificial Only the facts are real and important to us.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land Surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural Englishmen fight for England, Americans fight for America, Germans are dying for Germany, And Russians are dying for Russia There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting this war. Surely so many countries cannot all be worth dying for.

This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.'



I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor On the chin at night sneaky with a knife Brought up and down on the magazine of a battleship Sanbagged underhanded in the dark Without a word of warning.

By the sympathy of your human hearts For the sin ye shall scent of all places Whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, forest- Where crime has been committed and shall exult to behold the whole earth One stain of guilt one mighty blood spot.

We lie under a network of arching shells and live in suspense of uncertainty If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all We know neither know nor can determine where it will fall.

In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life Irreproachable in outward act Yet shrouded in dismal suspicions Kind and loving, though unloved and dimly feared; A man apart from men.

The spirit gone man is garbage That was Snowden's secret Ripeness was all.

Though go not like the quarry slave at night Scourged to his dungeon But sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust Approach the grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him And lies down to pleasant dreams.

Be not the slave of your own past Plunge into the sublime seas Dive deep and swim far So you shall come back with respect With new power and advanced experience That shall explain and overlook the old.

Let us be simple and well as nature ourselves Dispel the clouds which hang over our brows And take up little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor But endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.

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