It's only March, and I'm only in 10th grade, but I've got a lot left to do before school ends in early June, such as taking 2 AP exams, an MOS test, my (remaining) 3rd quarter + final exams, doing community service, finding a place to employ me, and finishing an online class outside of school. Not to mention all these contests there are for scholarships and summer internships!
I have lots of it.
Summer is the time for fun, when you can basically just forget about schoolwork (until the last week, when you remember you had summer homework) and stress, isn't it?
Except that I don't know what I'll be doing for my two-and-a-half-months of summer vacation (it's LONG here in the USA!) I don't have many friends, and the most I have lined up right now is two programs I could possibly do that last for 5 weeks combined and are both on opposite sides of the country from me and each other (one's up north and one's out west).
5 weeks may seem like a lot, but that's 5 out of about 10, so I have a lot of free days...
If I can't come up with 10000 art or other projects, this will be me all summer.
Also, I doubt that I will get all As on my 3rd quarter exams (some subjects are hard! Especially in IB!) as required by my dad as a condition of getting to choose my own summer programs. We made a contract saying that if I didn't, he got to choose the programs, or worse, he could choose not to send me anywhere at all.
That's unfair because he let my brother go all the way to Washington DC with his class for a week, and he's 2 years younger than me. He can't not let me go anywhere!
The problem here is that my 13-year-old brother has been halfway across the country without his parents, and I've never even been out of state without them.
There are some people out there who believe that atheists "want to be god". Being an atheist myself, this tends to annoy me.
I've seen people on the internet saying this:
A = "I"
Theist = "God"
Therefore "atheist" = "belief that oneself is god"
No.
No.
Just no.
I wonder if these people ever tried to analyze the words of the English language. For example, prefixes.
The actual meaning is:
A = "Without"
Theist = "Belief in God"
Therefore "atheist" = "without belief in god"
In case you are not convinced, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[3][4][5] Most inclusively, atheism is the absence of belief that any deities exist.[4][5][6][7] Atheism is contrasted with theism,[8][9] which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.[9][10]
Or in case Wikipedia doesn't do it for you, let's take a look at the print dictionary, Webster's Dictionary, 1981 edition:
Atheism, n. disbelief in the existence of God
Atheist, n. one who disbelieves or denies the existence of God
There you have it. "Atheism" is not a synonym for "narcissism".
Narcissism according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
Narcissistic personality disorder, (noun) a personality disorder characterized especially by
an exaggerated sense of self-importance, persistent need for admiration,
lack of empathy for others, excessive pride in achievements, and
snobbish, disdainful, or patronizing attitude.
So basically thinking that one is the center of the universe and/or god himself.
If you're still not convinced, maybe this will blow your mind.
You think atheists believe themselves to be something they do not believe in.
IT MAKES NO SENSE.
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Please note that I am not using this song to symbolize the entire USA. I am simply using it to refer to "Jesusland".
