how can you be “good” without being religious?

there is this teacher at my school who is agnostic.  i don’t have him, but i know from people talking to me that he says all the time about the most importnat thing you can do in life is be a "good person."  i’ve never hearn anything more ridiculous in my life.
How can someone who [...]

4000 everyday

on thursday at school there were all these kids who were not talking all day.  it was a protest of abortion- they carried around with them little papers that said they are staying silent to honor the 4000 human beings silenced everyday and everytime they went to a class they showed that paper to the [...]

the dentist

i went to the dentist today instead of 8th and 9th period.  i know some people are afraid of the dentist but i look foreward to it.  getting out of school, that is.  i don’t particularly like the whole floride thing and then i don’t like when they polish my teeth. 
but is still like the [...]

“cool”

i figured out recently that real maturity is when you realise that being cool is one of the lest importnat things in life.
i remember when i was in middle school and junior high and i used to try so hard to be cool, i would emphasize the things about me that i thought would make [...]

there are bigger problems than “teens not reading”

like "teens not watching enough discovery channel."
i noticed, from working in the library first period, that there is litterally a MILLION different organizations focused solely on getting teens to read.  everywhere you go there is signs that say how great reading is and how much better off you will be if you read. 
first of all, [...]

reverse censorship

wow i just realised a talk about censorship a lot.  well it’s and important topic.
today i realised something in school.  in english we are reading the canterbury tales, which i have no interest in reading.  and i was thinking- the library and school district did this whole banned books week, telling us that we should [...]

so i’ve made a decision

and i guess i’m gonna take this whole "writing" thing, seriously.
i don’t know why but i keep thinking about writing and being a writer and what it would be like and even though i’m not going to go to college for writing (and i’ll tell you why later) i still want to be a writer.  [...]

am i rude?

yeah, probably, but you know i don’t like labels.
i never say hi to people, when i’m ringing people out at work or when i’m checking people’s books out at the library (i work in the school library during my first period study hall)  i never look them in the eye and usually never even look [...]

i don’t want to study history any more

because no one can get it right!
in ninth grade i had a history teacher named mr. Wilhide.  i thought he was a good teacher, he just stood in front of the class and talked and all we had to do was take notes and then do a worksheet for homework and then take a test.
ninth grade [...]

i don’t know if i agree with Henry David Theraeu

i thin i mentioned before that i read Walden, and i really liked it.  i generally agree with theraeu, but he tends to rant a lot, and make unfair generalizations.  one of the things that i always agree with him about is that old people can’t teach us anything.  it’s true, young people can learn [...]