"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person"

Two thoughts today. thats right, only two! the first one focuses mainly on the quote in the title line, which I took from John Green's Paper Towns, which was a fantastic book and I'd highly recommend it, just be careful as it does have some crude parts and I think language. But it was really well written. Anyway, "what a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." This is true in a lot of ways. Firstly, I think that I should point out that although I am a firm believer in the sacredness of person-hood, I feel that there is a limit. A person is not a god. They cannot be everything to you. Their opinions and thoughts and words and actions should never be the only thing that spins the world. We have a God in heaven for that, and we don't need to place all our Self worth in someone's hands.  Secondly, people make mistakes, they have flaws and they aren't always doing things in your best interest, and to perfect them and make them this wonderfully perfect un-flawed being in our minds is dangerous. When they let you down(as they will, don't doubt it, kind of like Daisy let down Gatsby..hmmm...) you will get hurt, and everything will be truly miserable.Understand? People are people, make mistakes, not God. 1st thought now fin.

 Next thought. Why do we undervalue human life ( I know, weird especially after my first thought of today.)? When I talk about this, I;m mainly focusing on issues like abortion, euthanasia, and anything in which an embryo(THATS A BABY GUYS) is grown in a test tube or petri dish and then killed for "research". Today at my DNA lab at Stonybrook, a very sweet looking graduate gave us a talk an tissue engineering, which in some ways is interesting if not morally confusing. Honestly, when she was talking about  the advances being made with different stem cells, I was really interested and it seems like a great thing. The Adult Stem cells were very successful and stable in the experiments and I think are already being used to help heal people. Unfortunately, they're now researching embryonic stem cells, which are more unstable and work less often. The poor girl kept tripping and saying baby instead of fetus or embryo, and it just makes me wonder if people realize how wrong they're being?

People's lives are all valuable, whether they're old or very young. "A person's a person no matter how small!"(Horton Hears A Who, Dr. Seuss.) There's been a lot of dehumanizing going on lately, all over for several years now. I am not one of those crazy people who think this is all a conspiracy to make us fall into slavehood for the man, but I do think that people should realize the precious gift of human life, be it the very old/sick/feeble, or the very young, who honestly have no voice to speak(On the note of abortion, if you're a woman who says its your right, cuz its your body, to kill your unborn child, there is a 50% chance that child is a male, in which case there is a penis in your uterus, which is not a female body part, thus making it not your body to kill. Just saying.)

Two thoughts done now. Han's tired. She just got home from a trip yesterday and slept for 5 hours before going to a lab, coming home, doing school, rehearsal, exhaustion, goodnight. May you all have a pleasant tonight and tomorrow! I'm going jump rope. And hula hoop. I'm five. FUN TIMES.