my brain hurts

k so though its a bit early i think i have figured out what my favorite classes are.... philosophy and american foundations. this may change as the semester goes on but for now they are my favs. philosophy is great i love it... but it hurts my brain. its like i cant really grasp anything but i find it all so interesting at the same time. im cool with it. so far we've talked about socrates, plato ya know the basics.they're pretty legit dudes. i think the biggest thing that ive gotten from it so far is that justice is not subjective, it cant be. justice has to be objective and it is something that exists beyond the visible world. its real but nonphysical all at the same time. ok see thats one of those things that i agree with but i still cant quite grasp it. it gets even more interesting because in my american foundations class( pretty much a basic US history class) we're discussing right and wrong and agency and accountability and freedom. yeah i know its a lot. im discovering mostly that there is a great benefit in not being single minded. not that im flawless in this category but i think my moving to washington really helped me to become less single minded. im still working on it. but theres just soo many ways to look at things and to define things and although its not wrong to be concrete in things i think we always have to be open to molding these beliefs or at least accepting others beliefs also. i feel like sometimes as humans we use religion to excuse our single mindedness.... i mean we use religion to do a lot of things that its not particularly intended for. one kid mentioned that if you just follow the laws of the land.. no matter what they are that you'll be blessed... easy for him to say, hes a white male. if people never questioned the laws of the land nothing would ever change. the point of this life is to change and to question things. and even though we're this free nation lalalala there is still so much changing and molding that we can do. i think thats what is so great about the constitution, not that its always used correctly, but it is open to change. and i think we need to be open to change also. disclaimer it kind of sounds as if im quoting the obama campaign with all this change talk... im not. :) like i said i am still single minded in ways. anyways i could go on forever so i wont. quote of the week... "any exception to moral principle no matter how well reasoned or rationalized, poses a real danger to individuals, to the rule of law and to society." -Elder D. Todd Christofferson