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The Reformation

Lucy Carter

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“Yes, the brain creates consciousness to generate thought, but because consciousness develops one’s awareness and perception, that would mean that the mind dominates the brain, because, by manipulating a person’s awareness and perception, it does not simply generate thought like the brain does, but instead, it controls thought.”

“What do you want?” I asked, trying to ignore him. “Probably something that you want.” I rolled my eyes at the emphasis of the word you. “And what would I want?” I asked. “To go back to Africa. If you want to live in America as if it's Africa, then you might as well go back to Africa.” “Go BACK?” I asked, emphasizing my incredulity at the sound of the word back. “Isn’t that where you came from?” “I mean… I could see it in my ancestry… my parents were of African decency… but I was born in America, and I am legally an American citizen.”

“People in Africa actually sold each other before the triangular slave trade began, so although I think slavery glorifies dehumanization, I wanted to show that there was no racism in slavery. It's not very probable for one race to be racist against its own race of people, or for the Africans to enslave other Africans out of racism against other AFRICANS! Rather, the only racism behind slavery was the INTERPRETATION and the EXPLOITATION of it. Originally, slavery was about commercialism and power, not about race, since Africans sold other Africans, but whatever people did with racial supremacy and the suppression of Native Americans and Africans was what actually could have been the strongest cause of the racism that used slavery as a cushion of support. Slavery isn’t racist. Rather, it could be used to support racism.”

“A person could still have what are considered to be “good” intentions and do something that does not benefit others. For example, in this old Anime show called MY Hero Academia, there was this villain called Stain who had really good intentions for heroes: he thought that heroes should live up to their potential and do their hero work out of dedication, not just for fame and money, but to enforce those ideals, he would attempt to murder heroes whom he believed did not live up to those ideals. His intentions would be morally right by current philosophical standards on morality, but he was destroying members of humanity, which is not beneficial to those members. His intentions didn’t actually follow the duality, because although he intended for humanity to be heroic instead of greedy, he still had spite in himself, so part of his intentions were for the benefit of humanity, but the other part was not. They were, in fact, for the detriment of heroes he disliked. He was not COMPLETELY following the benefit-intention duality.”

“You are not God, but you’ve got to start believing in yourself.”

“You are becoming friends with such a bully. He committed many acts of bullying.” “So did we.” “What is that supposed to mean?” I spent a few minutes explaining Reformation’s history of intolerance against Capacianists–how we threatened and condemned them the same way they have been threatening and condemning us.”

“Yeah,” I agreed, “the author just immediately tries to write down as many emotions as possible. Initially, I thought that the method of writing was ineffective, but eventually, I realized how the structure potently manifested her passion for her own thoughts about mental illness and the restrictions of herself and the woman in the yellow wallpaper. First off, the experience-oriented writing was relevant to the conveyance of the author’s ideas, because since the writing was, well, about experiences, the issues the author was addressing appeared to be more based on the reality of society, not a hypothetical model of it, and the issues really were based on the reality of society, since some of the events in the book were actually based on events in the author’s life. Also, the spontaneity and honesty of the writing was an effective choice of the author. I observed that the narrator’s silence in the presence of her husband and her spontaneous and expressive writing were juxtaposed, which emphasized the restrictions the narrator was put in and also her progressive views on mental health and her ability to stay true to herself. Also, this way of writing exemplifies that the narrator had to hold in so much thought because of her restrictions. She wrote without hesitation! In other words, her spontaneous writing and the lack of thematic structure in her writing showed her ability to stay true to her own beliefs.”

“Will the quotient of any number divided by zero ever be defined?”

“Why is humanity made to make all the discoveries? Why wasn’t it some kind of animal that ruled over everything and made history books?”

“Why can’t the romance genre be more like what Jane Austen writes? Jane Austen actually wrote relevant commentary about social class, wealth, and marriage, while this modernalike society’s romance is about people, both men and women , falling in love at first sight (because of physical appearance, in other words), and sometimes for money. There are also many stereotypes and cliches that do not show how real-life society functions. If Jane Austen were alive, she would hate what romance has become.”

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