[Teen/VVP] Peace and Justice
Well... today we began off with technical difficulties. But we did get a cool comic strip of how to customize an avatar... sadly enough... the places mentioned in that comic strip...I couldn’t find on Teen Second Life... but oh well ^^;;~ we met someone named Ming and he helped Joe and me get new clothes... ^^;;... Hmm.... what else.... well I found out that 80L$ = about ten US cents... keke ^^;;... or something like that. Basically it isn’t much ^^;;. What else, What else? Well today, we began our VVP program with a discussion about Peace and Justice. I didn’t really share my thoughts on that since....I think that those things vary depending on setting and circumstance.
I came across a very interesting question a couple of weeks ago: Can there be a price put on freedom? A lot of people would answer no, because it seems logical that freedom is something man must strive for, but then...if you think about it... in our system of government....it can be...right? Especially since there is a price to bail yourself out of jail if you do something wrong... and this type of use of money is probably used everywhere...especially places with corrupt governments and systems of law. But this brings up the question: Is it just for a guilty person to buy off his freedom, when an innocent one cannot because he does not have the money to do so?
Anyway, as for peace, is it true that there can be no peace without war? I understand that life needs a balance of some sort... but do those balances go to the extremes of war and peace? I forgot who it is that said it, but someone said that there needs to be justice in order for there to be peace. So that brings up, is man kind capable of judging what is just--especially when mankind is so very flawed? And if not, then that proves peace to be nothing more than an idea--or dream--or rather something that is unattainable.
It sounds...maybe blunt to say, but if you think about it, there is a reason this world cannot achieve this "Utopia". Society will never be perfect....because life would be too boring, which is what makes things like second life so interesting. Second life...you can make it out to be whatever you please for it to be like...I guess it gives people a sense of power...which makes it so desirable. Its interesting...you can either reinvent yourself, or remain exactly the same. Its weird, because after I began playing second life....as I walk around the real world and see people...I can see them in a completely different way... I can just imagine how they would look in a virtual world.
Anyway~ ^^;; I got off track~ well today...we were taught how to make billboards in Second Life ^^;;~ (for anyone who's read the Great Gatsby doesn’t that word always remind you of Dr. Eckleburg?) Anyway... my group had to work on Absence of Peace... and we had to make a Billboard on that...and it was an interesting assignment....but I don’t think we worked together as fast as we should have~ because we came across...some difficulties... ^^;; like Ting not having any money and her being the one creating the object....which made it hard for her to actually put in the picture we wanted...so Christina had to teleport herself from the Sandbox off GK island to give her money to post the picture up... ah~ the confusion that all created ^^;; but it worked out pretty well at the end... ^^;; even though we were kind of late in putting up our billboard. But it is through failure, mistakes, and obstacles in life that we learn...right? Anyway...we ended up making our Billboard's texture of a car bombing in Iraq....and that was what we thought the absence of peace was equivalent to: war.
So over all, even though we started the day off with some net difficulties, the day was pretty good ^^ and we learned a lot of things~ ^^~ and I guess I will end the blog right here since I've already written a page and I don't think anyone really wants to read all this.
