Vaethos

 Topic of the day: Honor. Is it an actual trait/belief or is it just an ideal that has never really existed? Were there times when people adhered to a moral code and really truly believed in it? In the English language, honor is in fact stated as a noun, an actual substantial force. It is defined as honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions. So from here, where does one draw the lines to shape this entity? Can a criminal be honorable if he states in all honesty who and what he is, is fair in his commitance of his crimes, (as a serial killer who kills unbiased and randomly), and bears his sins with integrity? I suppose that

 Beauty is a funny thing, always different to each person's perspective, and while many people can agree on something being beautiful they will usually state different reasons. To a further extent, the things one may find beautiful tend to change with your maturation, for now at the age of seventeen I look into the candy shop and what would once have been an amazing display of godliness to me now is passed over quickly to turn my gaze to an attractive girl walking by. Personally, I find the most beautiful thing in this whole universe to be the law of entropy. How can you find something more gorgeous than the simple scientific fact that for so

Absolution. Something I’ve sought after for years and years. Something I think most Americans, even those who don’t know the meaning of the word, desire in the pits of their stomachs. There are those who claim it is anarchy that would save the world, and others still who tell us that they could save the world themselves with their new form of government, their new form of enslaving those around them. Absolution – The act of absolving; a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties. And who could ask for more? A life of true freedom, one where the cause is not the preemptive to the effect, an