I've been thinking a lot about time and how little of it we truly have. One of the things that gets to me these days is 'wasting time'. I wish people spent more quality time together and even by themselves. Just utilizing that time. I really wish people saw all the opportunity that is directly in front of them, or at least some of it; and ACTED on it. This relates a lot to teenagers in high school. I've felt very encouraged by the following quotes.
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
-Steve Jobs
“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
― John Piper, A Hunger For God
"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."
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Monday, March 5, 2012
We must not forget...
People sometimes laugh when I get emotional about the importance of history in our culture.
It's something I always have and always will feel passionate about. Tonights post is on something that we must never forget. We must teach it, over and over again, until the end of time. Nothing even remotely similar to this should ever repeat itself. Yet, we see that it does even today. It is extremely sad and heavy.
Schindler's List: directed by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List has inspired in a multitude of unique and unexpected ways. I am a teenager living in the 21st century. The horrendous reality of the holocaust was a little over seventy years ago, and despite all the teaching on World War II I receive in school, it can be a little difficult to relate emotionally to the terrors that happened to over six million jews. Our society dehumanizes the people who died through numbers, making it almost impossible to understand the entire breadth of what they actually went through. Movies like this need to be continually made and shown to public audiences through out the world. As humans, we need visuals; things that make it relatable and real in some way or another, in order to even begin to wrap our minds around the fact that genocide occurred and still does occur even to this day.
What needs to happen is the continual teaching of World War II, especially what happened to all the people who were not of the aryan race and who lost their lives during war. The teaching must be accompanied by some sort of emotionally connected movie, story, simulation, or real word diaries of someone who experienced it. I worry that time with the survivors of the holocaust is running out, and we must not forget or devalue what happened in any way, shape or form. When we forget or think we’ve become so much more improved in our modern day society, is when the threat arises of history repeating itself. We must keep teaching, learning, growing, and problem solving.
The holocaust was one of the most horrendous events ever to occur, and proved how a ruthless dictator is just the beginning. It’s no one man’s game, and it was never about Hitler. It was about the people who followed him, and why, and how they ever slept at night knowing that even just one human life was being put to shame and anguish by being forced to strip down to their bare bones and walk into a gas chamber. “When a man saves one life, he saves the world entire” This quote from Hebrews was shared in the movie, and It really spoke to me. One life, even, is worth the entire world. Millions of lives? Those are all opportunities and chances and passions lost. Death is never justified. And we must remember that Hitler wasn’t some all powerful omniscient guy who prophezised about the glorious future and success of Germany. What intrigues me is the way in which all his followers took what he said, and creatively and horribly found a way to make his words a hellish reality.
Thank you for reading, I hope the significance of learning and relearning our history has sparked something inside of you to learn and grow with the knowledge of previous years. We must use it to better the future of the world.
Schindler's List: directed by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List has inspired in a multitude of unique and unexpected ways. I am a teenager living in the 21st century. The horrendous reality of the holocaust was a little over seventy years ago, and despite all the teaching on World War II I receive in school, it can be a little difficult to relate emotionally to the terrors that happened to over six million jews. Our society dehumanizes the people who died through numbers, making it almost impossible to understand the entire breadth of what they actually went through. Movies like this need to be continually made and shown to public audiences through out the world. As humans, we need visuals; things that make it relatable and real in some way or another, in order to even begin to wrap our minds around the fact that genocide occurred and still does occur even to this day.
What needs to happen is the continual teaching of World War II, especially what happened to all the people who were not of the aryan race and who lost their lives during war. The teaching must be accompanied by some sort of emotionally connected movie, story, simulation, or real word diaries of someone who experienced it. I worry that time with the survivors of the holocaust is running out, and we must not forget or devalue what happened in any way, shape or form. When we forget or think we’ve become so much more improved in our modern day society, is when the threat arises of history repeating itself. We must keep teaching, learning, growing, and problem solving.
The holocaust was one of the most horrendous events ever to occur, and proved how a ruthless dictator is just the beginning. It’s no one man’s game, and it was never about Hitler. It was about the people who followed him, and why, and how they ever slept at night knowing that even just one human life was being put to shame and anguish by being forced to strip down to their bare bones and walk into a gas chamber. “When a man saves one life, he saves the world entire” This quote from Hebrews was shared in the movie, and It really spoke to me. One life, even, is worth the entire world. Millions of lives? Those are all opportunities and chances and passions lost. Death is never justified. And we must remember that Hitler wasn’t some all powerful omniscient guy who prophezised about the glorious future and success of Germany. What intrigues me is the way in which all his followers took what he said, and creatively and horribly found a way to make his words a hellish reality.
Thank you for reading, I hope the significance of learning and relearning our history has sparked something inside of you to learn and grow with the knowledge of previous years. We must use it to better the future of the world.
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