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I love to read, policy debate...and learning random facts.

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"I look at that dot and I think that's here, that's home, that's us. On that dot everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human-being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joy and suffering thousands of confident and mutually exclusive religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love every mother and father, every hopeful child, every inventor and explorer, every revered teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. -Carl Sagan

Talk to me about

space, nature, and humans. Trust the process when you must, but question everything.

People don't know that I'm good at

policy debate ;)Oh, and sometimes I can make up a lot of bull....

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  A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Nov 5 2012: ...sometimes I love makeup though. I love "pampering" my looks (as you can see by my profile picture). Is that me giving in to society?

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Nov 5 2012: I feel going my own way will also cause me to be conflicted even more due to the fact that I will need to have some sort of acceptance. I can't be an antisocial who thinks only her what is correct but...I am just confused as to what to do. Sometimes I listen to songs that are so derogative towards women yet I enjoy listening to them. Is that wrong? It is all unclear.

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Nov 5 2012: Not many women will say “we have had enough already, and we are not going to take it anymore.” Those are only feminist who might say something. Even then it will be difficult because there aren't many of them. The ones that claim feminism are usually claiming it to their convenience. They don't want equality all the time, just when it favors their situation. The rest seem to be fine with this "oppression".

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Nov 5 2012: I just feel society’s attempts to control, manage, and ensure what the personality of a population is has been based on the power of beauty and expectations. This has led to different conflicts internally and externally in everyday life. This form of control is the root of all atrocities we seek as human beings. We have diminished ourselves in favor of the jurisdiction of the population

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Oct 12 2012: Why do you say that?

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Oct 12 2012: thanks for the response and lyrics! :)

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Oct 12 2012: I agree as well John but women seem to be more pressure than men.

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Oct 12 2012: I agree on your last comment fully. I also know how trying to straighten your hair could be a pain and time consuming. It's ironic how people with straight hair want it curly and vice versa. Not everyone but that's what I see. I personally like straightening my hair but it is so tedious and it usually hurts my wrist since I have thick long hair. Women and society...I just don't understand.

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Oct 12 2012: I believe your last question really hammered it. WHAT is an attractive person? Maybe it's true beauty is in the eye of the beholder because everyone is attractive to different kinds of people. What do you think is attractive?
  
  What do you mean by men who are more difficult to reach?

• A reply on Conversation: Why are women so pressured into becoming this "beautiful" icon for society?

  Oct 12 2012: :)
  I can say that this response, without a doubt, made me smile uncontrollably.
  Romance is a nice idea. I really need time to come up with a coherent response though.