Yeah, so I don't feel like posting right now? It's figgin late, and the people that I talk to are psychopaths, so good morning, and peace.
Chris Carl
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Greetings Earthlings
Greetings Earthings.
You know, so far, I have been pretty ambiguous about what actually happens at the Congressional Academy, so I've decided to actually give you a good representation of what is actually going on here. I'm giving you the abridged tour of what Congressional Academy is offering as far as actual learning is concerned. Here's a summary of what I got from the AMAZING readings today!
Readings:
The Declaration of Independence (1st Sentence) (1776)
Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Sections 4-8, 54, and 123.24 (1690)
Resolves of Boston (1772)
Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted (1775)
Class Meeting #2
Common Session 2
a. “What makes America one people?” – not blood, religion, but ideals and shared common principles.
i. Other countries have trouble dealing with the idea of many different people but one body, and have immigration trouble because all of their citizens are so because of blood.
b. Self-Evidence – evidence that is given in the proposition, e.g. Pythagorean Theorem
i. Self-evidence is only so once the person is educated. Jefferson asserted that everyone must be first enlightened to it, and then continually educated to it, lest it be forgotten.
Seminar #2
b. 2nd Treatise of Civil Government, Locke
i. State of Nature – a primal state of lack of all government, which entitles perfect, theoretical freedom. In this state, everyone is a king to another. This realm is guided by Natural Laws.
c. A Farmer Refuted, Hamilton
i. Natural laws:
1. Universal, instantly understood, existent everywhere, unalienable, immutable, and eternal.
2. Dictated by the God or Maker and superior to human laws.
3. You can give up these natural laws in practice for the sake of practicality, but you still have it built in.
b. Reason is an impressive faculty, but some laws (like divine laws) cannot be understood through human reason. It must be taught.
i. As species, our capacity for “smarts” is the same, but the level or content of education changes.
c. Aristocratic Theory (Three levels of being):
i. Gods – pure reason and super-dimentional existence.
ii. Beasts – purely irrational and instinctual.
iii. Humans – mediation between, both God faculties and Beast faculties.
d. What Natural Law Stipulates
i. Equality – all have same natural rights and natural obligations.
1. In everything besides natural rights and obligations, we can be different in any aspect, and there’s nothing unjust about that.
ii. Natural Rights (among those, there might be more)
1. Life
2. Liberty
3. Estate
4. Pursuit of Happiness
5. Property
iii. Property
1. Property encompasses everything that you give value to, have a right to, and does not infringe on someone else’s property.
2. The most important rights are not estate, so the class divide dissolves and equality surface. It’s not equal ownership, but equal opportunity to be potential owners.
Today we actually visited the National Archives and apparently that is where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is. However, there was a time when cameras were actually allowed. Apparently, sometime in February of this year, some guy was told that his camera would be taken away because had the flash on. Turns out, this guy flipped out and assaulted the cop. SO no, no photography AT ALL!!! Anyways, it was absolutely amazing, lovely documents, and I got a poster of the Declaration of Independence, and a poster of Rosie the Riveter, both of which I will promptly hang once I get home.
So yeah doods! I can't wait till the next string of notes.
Congressional Academy Log #4: 6/28/10, Greetings Earthlings
Peace,
Chris Carl
You know, so far, I have been pretty ambiguous about what actually happens at the Congressional Academy, so I've decided to actually give you a good representation of what is actually going on here. I'm giving you the abridged tour of what Congressional Academy is offering as far as actual learning is concerned. Here's a summary of what I got from the AMAZING readings today!
Readings:
The Declaration of Independence (1st Sentence) (1776)
Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Sections 4-8, 54, and 123.24 (1690)
Resolves of Boston (1772)
Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted (1775)
Class Meeting #2
Common Session 2
a. “What makes America one people?” – not blood, religion, but ideals and shared common principles.
i. Other countries have trouble dealing with the idea of many different people but one body, and have immigration trouble because all of their citizens are so because of blood.
b. Self-Evidence – evidence that is given in the proposition, e.g. Pythagorean Theorem
i. Self-evidence is only so once the person is educated. Jefferson asserted that everyone must be first enlightened to it, and then continually educated to it, lest it be forgotten.
Seminar #2
b. 2nd Treatise of Civil Government, Locke
i. State of Nature – a primal state of lack of all government, which entitles perfect, theoretical freedom. In this state, everyone is a king to another. This realm is guided by Natural Laws.
c. A Farmer Refuted, Hamilton
i. Natural laws:
1. Universal, instantly understood, existent everywhere, unalienable, immutable, and eternal.
2. Dictated by the God or Maker and superior to human laws.
3. You can give up these natural laws in practice for the sake of practicality, but you still have it built in.
b. Reason is an impressive faculty, but some laws (like divine laws) cannot be understood through human reason. It must be taught.
i. As species, our capacity for “smarts” is the same, but the level or content of education changes.
c. Aristocratic Theory (Three levels of being):
i. Gods – pure reason and super-dimentional existence.
ii. Beasts – purely irrational and instinctual.
iii. Humans – mediation between, both God faculties and Beast faculties.
d. What Natural Law Stipulates
i. Equality – all have same natural rights and natural obligations.
1. In everything besides natural rights and obligations, we can be different in any aspect, and there’s nothing unjust about that.
ii. Natural Rights (among those, there might be more)
1. Life
2. Liberty
3. Estate
4. Pursuit of Happiness
5. Property
iii. Property
1. Property encompasses everything that you give value to, have a right to, and does not infringe on someone else’s property.
2. The most important rights are not estate, so the class divide dissolves and equality surface. It’s not equal ownership, but equal opportunity to be potential owners.
Today we actually visited the National Archives and apparently that is where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is. However, there was a time when cameras were actually allowed. Apparently, sometime in February of this year, some guy was told that his camera would be taken away because had the flash on. Turns out, this guy flipped out and assaulted the cop. SO no, no photography AT ALL!!! Anyways, it was absolutely amazing, lovely documents, and I got a poster of the Declaration of Independence, and a poster of Rosie the Riveter, both of which I will promptly hang once I get home.
So yeah doods! I can't wait till the next string of notes.
Congressional Academy Log #4: 6/28/10, Greetings Earthlings
Peace,
Chris Carl
Sunday, June 27, 2010
First Contact
Oh man,
I'm just telling you, every time I go to D.C., it is a whole other experience no matter from what angle it is coming from. It is spectacular, the approach over Regan National Airport is superb, with a grand view of the Pentagon, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, just amazing. I can't ever get over that. Out of 14,000 High Schools that applied, only 112 students got in, 1 declined. Jeebus.
At the airport, the chaperons were well ready to greet us, very obvious amidst the gray backdrops of Regan's Baggage Claim, but the ride to the hotel was sweet and to the point, and I mingled with kids from literally every state, and I know for a fact that we have a good group as a whole.
I'm an icebreaker, so I pulled out the game of Egyptian Rat Screw and that totally softened the mood, and we talked about colleges, the program, how much we didn't read, who was valedictorian of the class, etcetera, etcetera.
The opening session by Professor Sikkenga was really superb, after dinner of course. He allowed us to analyze the first few texts that we had in much different detail, by analyzing Jefferson's words slowly in his two letters detailing his perception of the Declaration of Independence's significance. In his "Letter to Henry Lee" (May 8, 1825), Jefferson is crystalizing that the Declaration was not just random ideologies just to speak them, but to imortalize that what is common sense. In his "Letter to Roger Weightman" (June 24, 1826), Jefferson is musing that this document will actually be the pillar for a revolution of reason and self-government, particularly in light that the War of 1812 had effectively secured this idea.
We have been split into groups, deemed Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. Obviously I'm in the kool kid's club with Washington and we are so going to tear butt at this.
We had our group tackle the next question with Professors Hess and Portteus who are amazing people by far. We tried to cover the entire session, but we ran out of time for study sake. We will continue tomorrow, but the National Archives are also coming up. SO PUMPED!!!
I need to go now, and it's pretty frikin late, but I will definitely upload photos and whatever I can to make this even better!
Congressional Academy Log #3: 6/27/10, First Contact
Peace,
Chris Carl
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson (Roomate's [Gavin] Quote)
I'm just telling you, every time I go to D.C., it is a whole other experience no matter from what angle it is coming from. It is spectacular, the approach over Regan National Airport is superb, with a grand view of the Pentagon, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, just amazing. I can't ever get over that. Out of 14,000 High Schools that applied, only 112 students got in, 1 declined. Jeebus.
At the airport, the chaperons were well ready to greet us, very obvious amidst the gray backdrops of Regan's Baggage Claim, but the ride to the hotel was sweet and to the point, and I mingled with kids from literally every state, and I know for a fact that we have a good group as a whole.
I'm an icebreaker, so I pulled out the game of Egyptian Rat Screw and that totally softened the mood, and we talked about colleges, the program, how much we didn't read, who was valedictorian of the class, etcetera, etcetera.
The opening session by Professor Sikkenga was really superb, after dinner of course. He allowed us to analyze the first few texts that we had in much different detail, by analyzing Jefferson's words slowly in his two letters detailing his perception of the Declaration of Independence's significance. In his "Letter to Henry Lee" (May 8, 1825), Jefferson is crystalizing that the Declaration was not just random ideologies just to speak them, but to imortalize that what is common sense. In his "Letter to Roger Weightman" (June 24, 1826), Jefferson is musing that this document will actually be the pillar for a revolution of reason and self-government, particularly in light that the War of 1812 had effectively secured this idea.
We have been split into groups, deemed Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. Obviously I'm in the kool kid's club with Washington and we are so going to tear butt at this.
We had our group tackle the next question with Professors Hess and Portteus who are amazing people by far. We tried to cover the entire session, but we ran out of time for study sake. We will continue tomorrow, but the National Archives are also coming up. SO PUMPED!!!
I need to go now, and it's pretty frikin late, but I will definitely upload photos and whatever I can to make this even better!
Congressional Academy Log #3: 6/27/10, First Contact
Peace,
Chris Carl
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson (Roomate's [Gavin] Quote)
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Adventures Have Not Begun [Yet]
Dear LOYAL readers,
No, the adventures have not started yet, but I have a few details that I feel like I should outline about my journey. I truly am so pumped right now that I actually have butterflies in my stomach as I am reading this. But no matter. Currently as I type, I have strewn all of the materials that I am packing across several rooms and have not yet brought that all around into a few suit cases.
Here are all of my travel details so that you may stalk me (further):
American Airlines Flight 1068, Departing from Miami Airport at 9:35 A.M.
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway; Arlington, VA
Duration: Sunday, June 27th 6:00 P.M. to Friday, July 19 12:30 P.M.
My packing includes for these thirteen days:
2 Suits
2 Pairs of Dress Pants
6 Ties
3 Silk Squares
7 T-Shirts
5 Undershirts
4 Overshirts
2 Tropical Shirts
3 Pairs of Shorts
2 Pairs of Blue Jeans
1 Pair of Black Jeans
7 Boxers
7 Pairs of Socks
3 Pairs of Shoes
Tangerines
Chewey Bars
Doritos
HP dv6t Laptop
Panasonic Lumix DMC-Z56
RIM Blackberry Curve 8520 Black
Apple iPod Classic 160GB Black
Oh, and my Pocket Knife for good luck (if I can find it...).
The adventure starts tomorrow, and here are a few links of some live action of my musings for your pleasure.
Congressional Academy Log #1: 6/26/10, The Adventure Has Not Begun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLZ4GYJ0cw
Congressional Academy Log #2: 6/26/10, The Adventure Has [Still] Not Begun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2aTE8RCkA
Peace,
Chris Carl
"A fool talks just to say something. a wise man talks because he has something to say." - Albert Einstein
No, the adventures have not started yet, but I have a few details that I feel like I should outline about my journey. I truly am so pumped right now that I actually have butterflies in my stomach as I am reading this. But no matter. Currently as I type, I have strewn all of the materials that I am packing across several rooms and have not yet brought that all around into a few suit cases.
Here are all of my travel details so that you may stalk me (further):
American Airlines Flight 1068, Departing from Miami Airport at 9:35 A.M.
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway; Arlington, VA
Duration: Sunday, June 27th 6:00 P.M. to Friday, July 19 12:30 P.M.
My packing includes for these thirteen days:
2 Suits
2 Pairs of Dress Pants
6 Ties
3 Silk Squares
7 T-Shirts
5 Undershirts
4 Overshirts
2 Tropical Shirts
3 Pairs of Shorts
2 Pairs of Blue Jeans
1 Pair of Black Jeans
7 Boxers
7 Pairs of Socks
3 Pairs of Shoes
Tangerines
Chewey Bars
Doritos
HP dv6t Laptop
Panasonic Lumix DMC-Z56
RIM Blackberry Curve 8520 Black
Apple iPod Classic 160GB Black
Oh, and my Pocket Knife for good luck (if I can find it...).
The adventure starts tomorrow, and here are a few links of some live action of my musings for your pleasure.
Congressional Academy Log #1: 6/26/10, The Adventure Has Not Begun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLZ4GYJ0cw
Congressional Academy Log #2: 6/26/10, The Adventure Has [Still] Not Begun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2aTE8RCkA
Peace,
Chris Carl
"A fool talks just to say something. a wise man talks because he has something to say." - Albert Einstein
Friday, June 25, 2010
Let the Chronicles Begin
Hello, my name is Christopher Carl, and I am currently a student at Dreyfoos School of the Arts. I find that this blogging stuff may prove to be super useful, so I decided hell, I'll try it. I intend to use this for a personal database of my thoughts, adventures, and musings, although some other social networking sites have already portrayed a wide variety of that already.
I intend to make this blog witty, humorous, slanderous, raw, and occasionally questionable. Reading my blog is your choice alone, and you shouldn't expect anything out of it because I intend to make it very "unexpectable".
If you are an aquaintance of mine, welcome to my world. Hopefully this will only encourage you to stay any thing like acquaintance or maybe even good friend?
If you are an enemy of mine, or just simply don't like me, I can assure you that this will only make you hate me more, and probably give you a laugh at the same time.
If you are a friend, don't be surprised.
Oh, and if you're a college admissions dude or dudette, welcome to my world (just try not to consider this aspect of me in the application? Unless you want crazy people, of course)!
Regards,
Chris Carl
P.S. I'm gonna regret this in ten years.
"Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, 1775
I intend to make this blog witty, humorous, slanderous, raw, and occasionally questionable. Reading my blog is your choice alone, and you shouldn't expect anything out of it because I intend to make it very "unexpectable".
If you are an aquaintance of mine, welcome to my world. Hopefully this will only encourage you to stay any thing like acquaintance or maybe even good friend?
If you are an enemy of mine, or just simply don't like me, I can assure you that this will only make you hate me more, and probably give you a laugh at the same time.
If you are a friend, don't be surprised.
Oh, and if you're a college admissions dude or dudette, welcome to my world (just try not to consider this aspect of me in the application? Unless you want crazy people, of course)!
Regards,
Chris Carl
P.S. I'm gonna regret this in ten years.
"Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, 1775
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