Hate speech can help us see.

Hate speech can be used as a way to initiate change. And it may also be a way of helping to prevent people with the same ideas that are not excepted will not group together and fuel each 0thers ideas. Imagine this: I am an Asian student living in a dormitory with all different sorts of students with differing cultural backgrounds. One of the differing backgrounds does not like Asians, but is unable to talk about it in front of people, so this person finds others who feel the same way he does and then they create a group that hates Asians. Instead of talking about this issue with others who do not support this idea the idea is able to fuel itself with support from the same views. But, if the issue was talked about publicly or with someone of differing views there might be a chance for the view to change.

What is art?

Everyone knows and nobody knows. Anything in this world could be consederred art depending on who you ask. But, how do we determine whether or not something is obscene?

Roommates

What do you do when one of your roommates has a drinking problem that is effecting the household?

Can we ever really know anything?

How many times throughout your day do you say that you know? I know. I know that you are standing in front of me right now. I know what I see. I know even what I dont see. These are all things that I say and that I have heard from other people. But, how do really really know? If our minds are our own how do we know what we think we know is true? Our lives are shaped by what we experience externally, and how we react to them internally. We all live in our own worlds that are unique and all very very different from the next. I know that this is air I am breathing and this is a computer I am typing on, but sometimes when I dream I think that I am doing something that I not really doing. Is it up to a matter of faith? Is it a matter of fact? Are the two ideas combined to create what we know to be true?