Just War?

We have to do our TOK presentation (Therory of knowledge to the uninitiated – it’s like philosophy) on just war, so I just wondered people’s views on the idea.

I’m a pacifist in ideology, but I suppose that as an absolute worst case scenario that war can be implemented. I think that nuclear weapons should never be used and that usually the way in which wars are fought undermines any use that they may have originally had. Superpowers often have too many vested interests, and so a country in need of genuine supposrt is overlooked in favour of one that has resources that they need.

Hardly original, but meh. I’m never sure if war actually helps at all – I suppose they got rid of Hitler and Saddam in the end, but taking Rwanda as an example, military intervention often didn’t help those who were really in need.

A cheery subject.

Why couldn’t we have just chosen something to do with music like everyone else, eh?

TCH Girl.

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ILB (I’m lucky because…)

I’m gonna make thsi a daily feature, I haven’t really been keeping up with this thing at all. Every day I’ll write down five thinsg that make me lucky.

Hopefully it’ll end any would be whining. ><

1. I'm going out tonight. albeit to a church quiz, btu beggars can't be choosers.

2. My poetry's started to pick up a bit on deviantART. Woohoo!

3. Finally started revising. At long, long last.

4. Read A Child Called It and thought it was really well written and sad.

5. Am getting better and better at typing without looking at my fingers. ^^

TCH Girl.

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I’d rather go naked than wear Primark.

Honestly.

Join my group.

They exploit their Bangladeshi workers, who earn under twenty pounds and month, which is below their living costs. They have recently enjoyed a 20% increase in profits, whcih is frankly quite despicable.

Just thought I’d vent my spleen a little over the internet.

Asda and Tesco also treat their wokers treat their workers to similarly low wages.

I find it odd that people aren’t prepared to pay just a little bit more to make sure that person who made the clothing is okay.

TCH Girl

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more info: guardian article.

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a really great time over the holidays.

But now, unfortuantely, it is timed to droop our rested heads and get back to the daily grind.

I haven’t been on for a while, but now I’m full of pip and ideas. Mostly pip.

My new year’s resolutions are, in case you are mildly interested:

1. Get a job.

2. Do homework on time.

3. Revise more.

4. Exercise more.

5. Demonstrate/volunteer – do my bit for charity more.

6. Stop biting my nails (again, I stopped and started again in december -_-)

7. Perfect the manuscript to Plain Jane, my novel. Yeah, we can all dream.

8. Start other books.

9. Read more poetry.

10. Write more poetry.

Either chin up, another year full of fresh adventures and stuff to look forward to.

Yey.

TCH Girl

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War on Terror

As I sit here, idly gulping my way through a bowl of Ready Brek and musing on the world today, I have to type awkwardly around the bowl.

Just thought I’d share.

^^

The decision to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan didn’t really suprise me to be honest. I just have a bit of an issue with the so called war on terror.

People like me are cynical, but I have a problem with the title. It’s more  afight than a war, seeing as wars usually start and end and have a victor. With terror being more a state of being, its impossible to really ‘win’ – people are terrorized around the world everyday by things other than sucicide bombers and means with large arse bazookas.

It’s more a fight really – a beating so that its has to curl its legs up, go home and tend its wounds and come out later for another round.

Terror’s never really beaten, it’s just kept at bay.

Either, it caught me once, it’ll catch me again, and maybe again after that, who knows?

But sirs, ladys, I have a shotgun, so it better know who its messing with.

TCH Girl

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Obsessions

Unfortunately, not much is going on in my excuse fo r life, so I thought I’d go off on a little tangent.

Just a little one.

My current obsessions are:

1. Coffee

Recently I’ve become a hell of a lot more of a coffee person – i alwyas used to love herbal tea, but I think mild hysteria and cabin fever during teh winter has caused a shift. I lov elove love the gingerbread lattes by starbucks, you must have one.

Immediately! Go now!

2. Cake

White sponge cake, choclate cake, icing, sprinkles, FROSTING – gimme gimme.

I need fat for the winter, you see, girl’s gotta hibernate.

3. Le interweb

Cannot be lived without unfortunately. In particular:

a) wordpress.com
b) galadarling.com
c) deviantart.com

Super lovage to them all.

4) French

J’adore le francais. No cedilla, but meh.
Je t’aime!

Honourable mentions: fig rolls, carmael wafers, teen vogue, God and cups of sugary tea.

I seem to be obsessed with food

What are you obsessed with?

TCH Girl

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All ya needs an education…

It’s uni application time for a lot of people my age now. What joyous joy.

Everyone at uni already seems to be a having an actual whale of a time - one boy described it as ‘living the dream’ but me, I’m a little doubtful. There’s so much to worry about – will i get the grades, will I make any friends, will I run out of money because I spent it all on drugs and alcohol (like one guy I know).

I chose a course in Philosophy and English. I’ve applied to Nottingham, Southampton, Sheffield, Kent and Bristol. I really, really, really, really really really wanted to go to London but things like money and my mum whining mean I just looked for a city scape.  

It’s such an important decision – people leek my mum and her university friends have half convinced me you get stuck in the place you go to university in forever, so I’m eager to pick somewhere I like enough. But there’s getting the grades too; I hope I can.

Here’s the thing – I know that entering university is supposed to be fun, but I’m actually really scared. What if it goes completely wrong, I hate the town or make a blind fool of myself on fresher’s week? There’s so much that can go wrong. It’s a kind of painful excitement – there are so many new and different things to anticipate that I don’t know where to look.

I’m watching Beauty and the Geek as i watch this, isn’t it annoying. I love it but sometimes, people are just dumb. It’s not fair people can just coast on looks. But there’s old Jealousy speaking for me; she’s an ugly bitch anyway, she has plenty to say about anyone with a half decent face.

Music wise, I’m currently in love with the wombats – aren’t they amazing?

Either way, I’m off – my back hurts from bending over the laptop,

Toodles!

TCH Girl

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Pretty things.

These are videos that cheer me up when I feel depressed.

Pretty things always help.

TCH Girl.

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sex sex SEx sEX sex…

Well, howdy doody!

I do believe I’m supposed to type an introduction in this here box, but I seem to be crumbling under the pressure.

Watch this space, you dig?

Thar shall be beautiful things.

TCH Girl.

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