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10/30/2012

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Hello from visual overload! The past week, I’ve been reading a chapter book a day for a reading journal due a couple of days ago, and on top of that I’ve been keeping up with my 88 pages a day for my challenge, and I’ve had textbooks and things to read for class, and so pretty much all I’ve done this past week is read, read, and read some more. But because of that, I’m not two-thirds of the way into my book list, which is nice :) Toward the end, though, I’m going to have to start picking up the more involved reads. Wuthering Heights
and I, Claudius are still on the to-read pile, not to mention A Patriot’s History of the United States (it’s like a textbook, only with no pictures, smaller print, and longer chapters…). And even with all the reading, I still have a ton more homework to do. It’s like it never ends!
On a more interesting note, registration started yesterday, so I’m all signed up for next semester’s classes! Yay 5 a.m! And tomorrow’s Halloween! Last I knew, we weren’t completely sure what we were going to do, but I think scary movies are going to be involved, so that’ll be…
interesting. Then at the end of the week will be Jill’s birthday camping trip! So there’s lots of fun stuff coming up, but not much use talking about it now-I guess that means I’ll have a lot to talk about next week :D And for now, it’s Question Tuesday!

Anna Beth:

If our country’s entire education system operated with no cost to students/their families (meaning that elementary school through grad school & etc. would be free and accessible to everyone), how do you think our country would be different, and do you think people would be happier? *Ignore the impossibility of this ever happening. Just pretend*
I actually wrote a paper about this for my Utopia/Dystopia Colloquia last year. I think the country would be SO much better off if we could manage this, though, of course, getting people to agree to it would be the difficult part, since it would take a lot of money initially. But
imagine how much we could improve people’s lives if everyone had access to the same quality education! We could reduce, and conceivably eliminate the gap between rich and poor, because a lot of what keeps people stuck in low-paying jobs is the fact that they can’t afford the investment of an education that would give them access to higher salaries and careers that they aspire to. If it were free to everyone, then anyone could go back to school and get the education necessary to better their position in life. Also with a better educated population, crime rates would go down, because less people would be tempted to resort to stealing or other crimes, because they could make their own money. And you learn more than just facts and theories in school. You also learn about moral issues and right and wrong, so people would (hopefully) be more caring and compassionate and willing to help those who were in need. Really, the benefits would extend far and wide, to improving the standard of living because more educated people would make more important discoveries to save lives and make
things more efficient, and eventually outweighing the initial cost of the whole thing by coming up with ways to reduce and even eliminate the deficit. So, if we could do this, life would be awesome. The end.
If you could combine 2 species of animals to produce a result similar to CatDog, what 2 would you combine?
CatDog is kind of gross. But I guess I’d pick a…CatBird? That’d be interesting.
Do you have any personal goals for the road trip? (Example: my goal is to write every day)
To have fun and not lose anything important?

Jill:
Why is it so adorable when a guy brushes the hair out of a girl’s face?
Because it’s so sweet :) I guess it’s kind of universally recognized as a way for him to show interest, so it’s the idea behind it, and the possibilities of a relationship developing, that make people get all smiley and “Aw”y.
Which is worse: physically cheating on your spouse or emotionally cheating on
them?

I’m not sure what you mean by emotionally cheating? Do you mean developing feelings for someone other than your spouse? I feel like physically cheating is worse. It can’t be undone once it’s happened-there’s no going back. But if you develop feelings for someone else and resist them, then that shows that you still value the sanctity of your marriage and want to be able to save it, even if your feelings make it hard. It still might be possible to get help and get back your feelings for your spouse before your thoughts become actions. It’s obviously still possible to save a marriage after physically cheating, but there’ll still always be that knowledge of the big mistake that got between the two.
If you were married to a man but then fell into a coma for 15 years, how lenient or non lenient would you be if he had an extramarital affair and then you suddenly recovered and woke up?
Well, obviously, I would not be very happy about it. I don’t really know about leniency, though. I guess we’d have to talk about specifics- whether it was just a moment of weakness, or whether he’d completely moved on while I was gone, whether he still wanted to be married. That would be a pretty awful situation to be in, though :/
Do you have a favorite flag (not counting the USA) if so, which one?
Umm…. Argentina’s is pretty.

Anna Beth wins favorite this week! I am fairly certain that I told her about my paper when I wrote it, but seeing as it was a whole year ago, I suppose I’ll forgive her for apparently forgetting about it. And anyway, it was fun to think about again :)

Love,
Sara
13 Comments
Jill
10/30/2012 01:23:25 am

I think you're being too easy on emotionally cheating. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you that physically cheating isn't worse, but the automatic assumption that you are resisting attraction and a relationship with another person when emotionally cheating is interesting. In theory you could just be staying with someone because it's easy and not because you actually value the relationship while putting all your focus on someone else.
And it's true that physically cheating would be a big obstacle to work through (if you chose to work through), but a spouse that's emotionally cheating or putting all their attention on someone else and stuff would also be hard to work though (I guess)

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Anna Beth
10/30/2012 01:42:13 am

At least maybe your spouse could have feelings for another person but then get over it without you ever actually knowing. Then again, if they did that with physically cheating, I wouldn't want them to hide it. I would want them to be honest. But if nothing physical ever came of it and then it was over I'm not sure I'd ever want to know.

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Sara
10/30/2012 05:24:28 am

Saying you're staying in a marriage "because it's easy" doesn't seem consistent with what marriage actually is. Marriage takes work. Besides, your suggestion that the person never had feelings for the spouse in the first place means there are more problems than just the emotional cheating- like that they never should've gotten married in the first place.
I'm not saying emotional cheating isn't a problem, just that it seems to me more like a precursor to physical cheating, so it's less bad (but still bad).

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Jill
10/30/2012 01:24:20 am

Also, why in the world do you have something like 'A Patriot’s History of the United States'?

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Anna Beth
10/30/2012 01:42:42 am

That's what I was wondering.

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Sara
10/30/2012 05:25:08 am

My dad suggested I read it back in APUSH :/

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Anna Beth
10/30/2012 01:39:09 am

YES! I win! I'm pretty certain this is 12. You can check if you want, but I counted a few weeks ago, sooo....I get Question Tuesday! Or something. You're going to have to explain the specifics of my prize. =)
On to your questions:
1. I agree that an educated population would be a great thing in that people would be smarter, and maybe there would be less crime. Maybe. Then again, everyone goes to high school, and you remember some of the kids in high school. Just because they had access to education didn't mean they took advantage of it. Granted, I think it would be better with free college, because then the people who really wanted to learn. But what you said about free education giving people "access to higher salaries and careers that they aspire to" is also true. However, there still have to be people to do those jobs that nobody wants. I mean, we still need trash collectors and factory workers and stuff like that for our economy and society to function. I'm sure there would realistically still be plenty of these even with free education. But just imagine if everyone decided to take advantage of free higher education. Now think of all the competition for jobs there is now. For those high-education, high-paying jobs, there would be a ton more competition, and no one would want to apply for jobs that are below their education level. But due to competition, a ton of people with free phds would end up working at fast food restaurants. So I'm not so sure people would be satisfied. Don't get me wrong--I'd love free college, but if everyone did take that opportunity and were truly influenced by it, I could see a lot of unrest.
CatBird..."I don't know about you guys, but I just drew a sick picture of a cat morphing into a bird." --Garrett, Adventure Now
Argentina's IS pretty!
What if your husband fell into a coma, and when he woke up, he fell in love with someone else?

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Sara
10/30/2012 01:59:57 pm

Even with free education, though, not everyone would want it. And I feel like there would always be plenty of high schoolers willing to work in fast food. As far as trash collectors and other undesirable jobs go, the salaries would have to increase to make up for the unpleasantness. I don't think PhD people would end up working in restaurants. For one thing, with more education and smarter people, someone would probably come up with a way to automate those jobs so that the things no one wants to do, don't have to be done by people anymore. That would leave people freeer to do what they wanted to, as more prefereable jobs would be created.

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Sara
10/30/2012 02:01:15 pm

You did win! I'll go back and check later- you should tell me the specific dates to make it easier...
Anyway, that means you get to be in charge of questions next week, so whatever questions i get go to you. And you get to decide what i talk about next week in leu of answering questions.

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Rachael
10/30/2012 02:53:07 am

With the whole free education thing: I would be super afraid that the quality of education would drop. Crimes rates might go down and more people would have better jobs, but would it actually be by a huge amount? There are still a lot of people out there who have to drop out know to help out with their family's finances or are too lazy to get a higher education even if they have the money. And a lot of people know what the right thing to do it, but still choose to do immoral things....

What if your spouse would only cheat on you physically once, or always want another woman your entire marriage? (Say, his childhood friend who died young and he never told you he was thinking of her)

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Anna Beth
10/30/2012 09:45:16 am

I feel like that happened in a James Joyce short story...I mean the part about the childhood friend who died. Have you read "The Dead?"

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Sara
10/30/2012 01:56:10 pm

But if they have to drop out, they'll always be able to go back, no charge. And there will always be people who choose to commit crimes regardless of education, but I'm saying this would bring down crime when it's commited out of need or ignorance, as opposed to general cruelty. If education were free, everyone would have access to it, so they'd always have the opportunity to better themselves, even if they didn't take advantage of it.
And it would be a concern that quality would go down since the government was paying for all of it, so that would be something that those in charge would have to keep in mind and work to prevent.

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Jill
10/31/2012 02:54:22 pm

Which do you dislike more, hypocrisy or deciet?

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