Sister Helen Prejean

Yo. Today I'm gonna blog about a nun (is she a nun? Are Sisters nuns? Probably.)
She is pretty bwas.
I first found out about her during the last few lessons before school broke up for summer last year. We got to watch a film called 'Dead Man Walking', which was about capital punishment. It was about a man who had been convicted for the murder and rape of a young woman, and the murder of her boyfriend. Until half-way through the film he claims he didn't do it. Then he admits the truth.
He's the bad guy, right?
Kind of. He's a Bad Guy, but not The Bad Guy, depending on your view of things. The film was about how he enlisted the help of Sister Helen Prejean to... I dunno, clear his soul or something? Her job was to help him 'die with dignity', to help him admit his crimes and accept what he did and accept the punishment -death.
Through this film, you see the horror of having to kill someone for a murder. You meet the victim's parents, who want retribution and rightly so, and then you meet the criminal's family and...
I dunno. It's hard to say what one feels when watching that film.
Well anyhoo, the film 'Dead Man Walking' is based on the book 'Dead Man Walking' which was written by the real Helen Prejean. And she wrote the book from first hand experience, because it was her job to care for the souls of those who had no friends, for those who had done the unspeakable. They are the scum of the Earth, but it is said by most Christians that we have a forgiving God, and we should be more forgiving.
As mortals, we cannot forgive a rape and a murder. Those things are sick- mostly the rape. Unspeakably disgusting. But should we kill people for it? In my opinion there is no 'humane' way to carry out capital punishment. You know how the lethal injection is supposed the be the best way to do it? There are three stages to that injection: first they paralyze you. You cannot move, but you can still feel things. Then they destroy your insides; lungs fall in, muscles loosely let one's bowl contents fall out, your organs dissolve. You are still awake at this point. Then they finally stop your heart.
Other than the slightest twitch of the face, the viewer can not tell how much pain you are in. As GLaDOS from the Portal games says:
"You don't feel pain, or at least you cannot COMMUNICATE that you feel pain. I consider that a failing, by the way."
They can't show you how much pain they are in.
Yes, they probably deserve it.
But do we have the right to do that to another human being?
Well anyhoo, in R.E these past few days we have returned to the topic of capital punishment, and we watched a documentary about it. At some point we also saw an interview with Sister Helen Prejean but I am terrible at finding videos on youtube, so here is a random interview with her. The one we saw was quite humourus, as she did impressions of people who directly quoted the Bible to defend capital punishment. People trying to out-quote a nun? Ha!
As was said in the film and, according to the documentary,  real life; "Killing is wrong, it doesn't matter who does it, if it is me or your government."

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Mffm.

Why do revision? Why do schoolwork? You are useless; nothing you do is going to work. Not a good friend. Not a good student. You're going to fail in the exams so why bother revising.
So I'm just going to sit here, last day of term, and stare and bits of paper and pretend to revise. But why bother? I'm not clever. The information never sinks in.
Oh, we have passed 4444 views. Clever us.
I can't get to sleep because a voice in my ear tells me how useless I am, and as a sidenote hoe I should go and throttle my brother in his sleep.
Ah, these are the days. School again.

Let's think positively, shall we?
I actually woke up at a good time this morning. Eight-of-the-clock. Sure, I'm aiming for seven-of-the-clock, but it's progress!
Last night I managed to do four or five stupidly hard Sudoku. You know how you need 1-9 in each row, box and column? And they give you numbers at the start? These guys don't give you numbers. They give you clues to what the numbers may be. Grrrrrr.
Well, from left to right on my favorites bar (the websites I try to visit daily) I have the following news:
-RANDOM WORD GENERATOR: didn't click it.
-FLIGHT RISING BETA TEST: one of my baby dragons has grown up. The rest of the litter will mature tomorrow. I have seven dragons: my two starter dragons, and their two children, and three adopted dragons. The two adopted ones have matured so far, giving me four adults to use in battle at the Colosseum, and three little babies to admire all the time. The soon-to-be-adults are Eliza, (a purple mirror dragon named after a character in Fire World), Emerald (a completely green dragon, who is adopted. I love her so much: so cute!) and Bluetongue. Despite a green mother and a grey father, the purple and blue dragons are in fact naturally born into my clan. Weird.
-SMITHSONIAN DINOSAUR BLOG: didn't click it.
-GOOGLE TRANSLATE: didn't click it. If you are bored, go onto google translate, type something funny in, and make the voice-person say it.
-CUCKOO YOUNG WRITERS MAGAZINE: didn't click it.
-FACEBOOK: had a look through things. Today I was tagged in a picture of a really cute Cthulhu; d'awwwwww! (Cthulhu being the tentacled god of madness. Look him up, then read some Lovecraft. Like Poe, but more aliens)
-HOTMAIL: didn't click it.
-ROMANTICALLY APOCALYPTIC: it updated! The people who make it are moving into a new studio, so the picture isn't done by Alexius, but by another artist who does fantastic drawings of the adventures of Stalky and Lifealope. This week one of Annet's robot-thingys woke up, and found a patch of grass which is ILLEGAL! So she summoned lots of robot bugs called 'Gardeners' and burned the place down. 
-HOMESTUCK: it updated! The adventures of Jane Crocker, who is upset at the minute because Jake is being an arsehole. Also, Roxy got covered in glitter, so even if she is invisible and can fly, she is being tracked through the streets of Durse.
-POST OF RANDOM STUFF: I'm here aren't I? I've also checked the blogs at the side: James Gurney (who wrote Dinotopia!) made a post about abandoned buildings (huh, should he read Romantically Apocalyptic?) and also, I felt inspired to post something today.
-DEVIENTART: Alexius made a post about the new studio/office/thing, his new intern, and a book which has one of his artworks on zee cover (I had a look at it. Post-apocalyptic love story anyone? I'm not too keen on love stories myself). Someone thanked me for 'fave'ing an epic sketch of Flight Rising dragons, and a paleo/fantasy artist has returned to his art school which has better internet than his house so he is posting pictures like billio.
-GOOGLE: What would I need to google at this time in the morning?

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School

Ah, school. How I hate thee.
I was revising most of yesterday for the chemistry resit. Today I need to revise some more. But I can't be bothered.
So I'm putting this post on the blog, then I am off to write some more of my story, Draconic Entomology, and then I'm going to work on the fanadventure with my friends (it's like a role-playing fanfic for Homestuck) and maybe I'll do some more stuff on the Beta Test of Flight Rising.
I'm a beta tester guys.
And when this game comes out, if you choose to play it, you shall be addicted to it just as I am. SO MANY DRAGONS!
And with that, I shall leave you with:

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