Friday, October 30, 2009

What Is Taoism?

Taoism is An old religion started by a man named Lao-Tzu. Taoism originated around 2000 years ago in China. The religion ha also spread to Korea and Japan. Taoism has millions of followers today. 20 million to be exact. The "Holy Book" of the religion is called the Tao Te Ching. Religious holidays are important to Taoists. They celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Lantern festival, Tomb Sweeping, the Dragon Boat, Ghosts, and Mid Autumn festivals, Double Ninth Day and Lao-Tzu's birthday. Wow, thats a lot of holidays. The Taoists also have rituals, practices, and beliefs like everyone else does. They believe in death and the afterlife as well as immortals. The purpose of life and the Tao plus chi. There is a lot of beliefs. Their clothing style consists of dresses or robes. Is there a hierarchy? Yes, there is believed to be an old family that had a hierarchy but it doesn't really specify who. But they are to have lived in China. So I have learned a lot from this. for more information, please check out this link.



Friday, October 2, 2009

Why people boast about themselves?

Well I think that people boast about themselves, is because they are jealous of you. There are some other reasons why this happens. One is because they have no life and want to cause people to share what they feel. Another reason is that they are so arrogant of themselves, or full of themselves that they have to boast about everything they do. It's making people feel bad about what they have done. Making the "Bullyer" look like a hero. Like today for example. I was enjoying myself in a little game of football in gym class right? So i threw some interceptions so what? Then I have members of the opposite team come over and yelled right in my face, "YEAH" or "WHAT?" or "You going to cry now?" I wanted to do something about it but i just let them because i knew they had no life at all. Being sore winners and keep on boasting in the locker room? Oh well. Just let them carry n with their lives and you carry on with yours.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Surviving Freshman Year

Freshman year is supposed to be a great year for you. People get worked up right? Don't worry about you bombing a test or if a bully wants to steal your lunch. You've got four years to make up your grades. Be yourself, I encourage that. I've been myself and I have loads of friends! Eat lunch. Food gives you energy for the rest of the day. Oh, another tip. Don't over work yourself. If you get too involved with clubs or outside activities, some of them will clash together and you will rip your hair out and scream!!! Please look at this website: www.wikihow.com/Survive-Your-Freshman-Year-In-High-School

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Intro

As part of Team 3, I am excited to be blogging this year on the topic of co-existence. Our city is a pretty good city, but there is room for improvement. Major improvement. Some of the roads are terrible! Litter everywhere, vandalism all over! But I shouldn't get ahead of myself.