Friday, January 21, 2005

Bad Root Canal

OK so Galia is standing here and isn't helping give me any ideas on what to write about.
But she does have a cool shirt that says "Good girls go nowhere and bad girls go to Toronto" which makes up for it. (Lena, what do you think?) I walked in Galia READING yesterday..A NOVEL! I just had to make fun of her for that. Her reply was "maybe I will kill somebody?" in a very innocent tone. I'm not sure who she wanted to kill, but presumably it wasn't me.

Tonight I'm going to Masha's birthday. It's a Russian pot-luck. Which is a new thing.. because Russian's don't do the whole pot-luck thing, it's kind of a Canadian thing. But we've just created something very new and very exciting that will change the face of social gatherings forever.. The Russian Pot-Luck.

We went to the Conferation Centre yesterday for a tour, which was AWESOME! This building is where Canada BECAME A COUNTRY!!! Isn't that exciting? Johnny A. McD and some other dudes from upper and lower canada got together and drank alot of brandy and ate alot of lobsters and decided how to build a country. They had a picture of Queen Victoria and one of Prince Albert. Seeing Prince Albert made me think about why a Prince Albert was named a Prince Albert. Maybe this ugly british monarch was the first to get it done? I definately saw some rebeliousness under all that unfashionable clothing.

We had a guest speaker to our presentation yesterday which was about history. The speaker dude was supposed to talk about the history of PEI. how fascinating!(sarcasm font) He kind of (not really kind of but, more really really alot) went off on a tangent about the biases in history and history is just story from one perspective telling tiny tiny piece of the truth (which doesn't exist anyways apparantly). So basically history is a big bag full of lies. LIES LIES LIES. He pointd out that HISTORY Is like the word HIS and STORY.. coincidence?

He also talked about how religion is outdated, and depending on what religion is, I guess I can agree with that. But to say such a bold statement about the entire planet is a little much for me to wrap my head around. He said love is natural and hate is taught. He claims that hate is driven by fear..fear of everything pretty much.

It's not very often that you hear somebody with such non-mainstream views of everything and anything but with the ability to speak about them so well. He encouraged everybody to throw out history books and go into the forest to learn about nature. THen he showed us some history books he wrote that were for sale. If you ask me (which you probably wouldn't) he kind of shot himself in the foot. But maybe that was part of his plan..




5 comments:

geekbot said...

Alot of people at the EAD seemed to believe he shot himself in the foot, but I don't really agree to that. All he was saying in the end is that "history" are events re-told from others points of views, and shouldn't be taken so seriously, and that its important to make our own judgments about things on a more personal level. So, him talking about his books, is simply him saying: "This is my point of view, feel free to check it out if you'd like.", which is, in the end, simply my point of view. :P

Anonymous said...

Post some pictures of the big storm! You got any?

McQueen

Anonymous said...

Hej Amy!

Här är en kommentar på svenska som du ville ha.
Det är väldigt roligt att läsa om vad du gör.

Kram

Richard

Anonymous said...

Hej Amy!

Här får du en kommentar på svenska som du ville ha.
Det är kula tt läsa om hur du har det.

Kram

Richard

Anonymous said...

Bad Root Canal eh, I try to forget that..as should you.
But it's just so funny.
-galen