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Stonehenge Rap

Now, listen here, I'mma tell you about a story

It involves a circle of rocks and all their glory

People could not have build it, had no inventory

So all the speculations just had to be so gory

Maybe Aliens came down to build the Stonehenge

Maybe it was to avenge certain revenge, a challenge?

I can tell you now that no one knows for sure

But the lack of answers just raise questions more

Something maybe a bit of a bore, just leave you to snore

But I swore I’d be sore, if ya’ll just hit the floor

So don’t walk out that rather small wooden door

Don’t just leave me here to do a couple of chores

Just wait a second, and I’mma tell you why

Because the Stonehenge is what makes my brain fry

I’d pry or cry or maybe even die

I’d fly so high to try and see why

Just what brings these random questions to mind

Am I trying to spy on an invisible third eye?

I guess it’s just one of those things that we’ll never know

Although, it’d be great if answers weren’t so slow

I’d wish they’d glow through snow or grow to show

What’s it that will throw our woe and make us say “Woah”

Reflection Number 2

When we think of Gandhi, we instantly think of a person who was pure to the last molecule in his body, what most of us do not realize is that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was just a man with a clearer outlook on life. “Action expresses priorities” is one of the many quotes that Gandhi used to describe man in general. It describes basic human nature, stating that man will do often what he thinks is necessary to achieve his goals, or priorities. His words also describe his priorities as well, showing that his actions, which were resisting through the act of non-violence, were the only way he believed it was correct to reach freedom from the reign of the British. 

One thing that we know about Gandhi is that, not only was he a Hindu, but he was a government worker, moving all the people in the entire country with any act that he made. Into his political work, Gandhi brought the aspect of religion as another tool of his in his aid to stop any conflicts. “A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.” Expressing that Gandhi's religion, along with most the civilians in the country he was now running, needed to be a major factor in the choices he made to better benefit all parties. Gandhi was not a very strong or bulky man, not that he needed to be, because even though he was skinny and physically weak, he was strong spiritually and mentally, showing great perseverance while standing up to the British and guiding his country through the path of non-violence in many acts of defiance such as the intense walk to the beach, where him and his companions made salt near the sea, illegally. 

Yoga was an interesting experience for me, personally. It really cooled down my systems which I normally have running on full engine, not because I need to, but usually because it's just nice to get everything you need to get done finished and then go have fun, all the while driving ahead full steam. However, while doing yoga, all of my problems and the thought of going to play soccer or playing drums or anything at all, just disappeared. It was physically stressing, no doubt, but not to the extent to where I would refrain from all forms of yoga forever. I think I do see why yoga did play a big part in Hinduism, even though we only preformed one form of yoga, the physical one, it was beneficial to my inner peace. It made me feel at rest with myself, just seemingly slowing down time for a while, at least when I wasn't stretching my groin to it's limits.

Reflection #3
During the meditation process that we underwent a few classes back, I found out a few things about myself, the most prominent was that my mind is a lot more jumpy than I previously thought. It made concentrating unreasonably difficult, almost impossible, even with all the silence and how much I was actually trying to leave my mind wrapped around the meditation. The fact that everyone else was actually trying made my experience slightly easier, however my train of thought would never stop. What I learned about myself is that concentrating on nothing is one of the most complex tasks that I've ever been asked to do. 
The one thing that I learned about Buddhism is how calm Buddhists monks must be to be able to deal with the rest of the world with such a passive attitude. I know that we, as teenagers, are not exactly the loudest of the age group, but we can be pretty obnoxious even when we don't try and that could've upset or annoy most people, and I find it fascinating that the monks were so polite towards our noise level. Buddhism is lived out very silently in Bongwonsa, that's probably the first thing I think of when it comes to our trip. It was very silent, clam and peaceful, which might reflect the Buddhist religion as a whole, seeing that their representatives are like that. Bongwonsa is also a very calming location, the mountainous foundation along with the personality of most of the people there complied into a nice, quiet, remote location that may spark my interest once in a while. 



My Shema
My idea of God is that the idea of God and/or higher beings is an invention of the human mind to explain the unexplainable. Obviously, we don't have the technology to see what happened in the very first days of Earth's existence, therefore we can not disprove the idea of "God" entirely, however there are many other explanations that could just as easily match with the little evidence we have. Even if there was a God for any religion out there, because almost every religion states that if you don't believe in that religion you will go to Hell, and because there are more than two religions, we are all going to Hell when we die. I don't think there is a superior being/s watching everything you do, everyone you interact with, everywhere you go, just to see if you break one of his ten rules to send you to a place of infinite torture, pain and agony. A place where you burn in a rotten underworld, the ultimate form of despair and anguish, where you can never escape and you will suffer for all of eternity... Even though he loves you. Every theory has inconsistencies Because of this, I choose to not believe in God or any other higher being. Stating something like this usually angers many people and so I try my very hardest to stay off the topic of religion (and politics) while in conversation with anyone. I guess I would have to say that my religion is just scientific all the way, because I like to believe in things that can be disproven and/or proven, also, the origin of life in the scientific way, where carbon atoms luckily happen to form intellectual beings with the capability of thought, is just as legitimate as any other theory, especially considering the fact that the Earth is 5 billion years old, the human species, just 100,000, and considering that the universe is infinitely big, it had to happen sometime. 

Shema: In my belief, God is an invention of the human mind to explain the unexplainable. Humans have a natural incline to answer everything, even if they have nothing to support their claims, which is where I believe the idea of "God" started. Humans were made by luck and extreme odds, not by a higher being with the power and intellectual superiority to create. In my opinion, anyways.