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SophiaGrace
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I've decided that I'm both a strange/stupid person.
In the past two weeks I've done some pretty dangerous stuff all for the sake of curiousity.
This past week I cancelled my subscription to my beloved Green Lantern comics and on the way home I spotted this crumpled object along side the road. I thought i had seen a face, like a doll wrapped up in a blanket...and I immediately worried that it was actually a small infant in the blanket. So I pulled over into a parking lot and proceeded to walk alongside the small highway with semi's whizzing past me. Although I thought there was enough room by the side of the road to make it safe enough for me to walk...it was still intimidating whenever a large truck would roar past me. When I had gotten to the little bundle, I nudged it with my foot and then gingerly picked it up with my hands only to find that it was just a blanket that someone had somehow lost while driving by. I felt pretty stupid. A woman in a car slowed down and asked me if I needed a ride, but I waved her on...wondering if I looked like some sort of hitchiker or just a person whose car had broken down and was trying to get to a nearby gas station.
The second incident involves me reading a book and then wanting to study more about it in a way that makes the words I've read "jump off the page into real life". When I was reading the Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, I had watched an hour long biography about the author and had attempted to go visit the local museum of his house in Baltimore, which is quite close to me. Unfortunately it was closed because I had looked it up in the off-season.
So yet again, I suppose a book has influenced me to learn a bit about my world that has been influenced by the book I'm currently engaged in. Right now I am in the middle of reading Mein Kampf, which is Hitler's autobiography and I have been googling various things such as Poison Gas during WW I, Nazism in America, Nazi Germany, the Hapsburg Empire in Austria, the wikipedia entry on Hitler, the holocaust and the history of Judaism.
Anyway I decided to go to an actual Neo-Nazi rally which was occuring nearby and I decided to go by myself because I sure as hell wasnt going to say "Hey want to go to a neo nazi rally with me just for curiousities sake?"
YEAH RIGHT.
So I went alone, driving nearly an hour away, quite sure that I might not even find the rally at all. I went through the Visitor's center at the park that it was held....down a ramp....meandered my way into a path that wound through a forest thinking " This has probably been a waste of time.
"
But, within the span of 10 minutes I begin to hear a loudspeaker....indistinct at first and I assume it may be the Neo-Nazis. My pace quickens as I become curious and my feet lead me to an opening in the path. I stop in my tracks, unsure of what I am seeing. At first all I saw was a bunch of red flags and a group of people entirely dressed in black. I looked closer to see if there was any violence that had broken out. There appeared to be none, so I took a few steps closer, crossing over a road that seperated me from an ancient battlefield upon which the rally was taking place. The place was filled with the prescence of police on motorcycles and lines of them seperating the counter-demonstrators from the Neo-Nazis.
I was looking across the battlefield trying to see if I could see or hear anything when the counter-demonstrators (which i've already mentioned were wearing black and had red flags) shoved a newspaper and a flier into my hands. What matter of thing was this?? I looked at the newspaper..and realized it was a communist newspaper. Which I found highly strange. I had expected that a counter-demonstration would consist of Jewish groups, anti-racism groups or a GLBT alliance. Those options had made sense to me. This group did not. Some of the members of this group had black hankerchiefs tied around their faces and sunglasses on, to distort their facial features.
I flipped through the pamplet casually, while looking at the counter-demonstrators through a corner of my eye. I noted most of them looked my age or even younger, which suprised me...though one or two of the members looked much older.
As I flipped through the pamplet I heard them begin to shout "No Nazis, No KKK, No Fascist USA!" and other chants.
Then, I saw another group cloaked in black clothing walking down the same wooded path that I had just come on. This group had T-shirts on that had the symbol of Anarchy emblasoned on their front. They too were chanting anti Neo-Nazi slogans.
This was too much for me. I didnt understand why an Anarchist group was there, nor had I known they had even existed except for a few rogue Anarchist minded individuals that hated society. I left with the pamplet in my hand and walked back to my car unmolested. As I was putting a key into my car, i saw a helicoptor fly over head. Later I learned through newsreports that it had been called in to circle above the rally.
When I got home I thought to myself "Well, that was reallly really stupid. Why do I do stupid honeysuckle like this?"
and the answer is...curiousity.
have you ever done something stupid purely for curiousities sake?
In the past two weeks I've done some pretty dangerous stuff all for the sake of curiousity.
This past week I cancelled my subscription to my beloved Green Lantern comics and on the way home I spotted this crumpled object along side the road. I thought i had seen a face, like a doll wrapped up in a blanket...and I immediately worried that it was actually a small infant in the blanket. So I pulled over into a parking lot and proceeded to walk alongside the small highway with semi's whizzing past me. Although I thought there was enough room by the side of the road to make it safe enough for me to walk...it was still intimidating whenever a large truck would roar past me. When I had gotten to the little bundle, I nudged it with my foot and then gingerly picked it up with my hands only to find that it was just a blanket that someone had somehow lost while driving by. I felt pretty stupid. A woman in a car slowed down and asked me if I needed a ride, but I waved her on...wondering if I looked like some sort of hitchiker or just a person whose car had broken down and was trying to get to a nearby gas station.
The second incident involves me reading a book and then wanting to study more about it in a way that makes the words I've read "jump off the page into real life". When I was reading the Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, I had watched an hour long biography about the author and had attempted to go visit the local museum of his house in Baltimore, which is quite close to me. Unfortunately it was closed because I had looked it up in the off-season.
So yet again, I suppose a book has influenced me to learn a bit about my world that has been influenced by the book I'm currently engaged in. Right now I am in the middle of reading Mein Kampf, which is Hitler's autobiography and I have been googling various things such as Poison Gas during WW I, Nazism in America, Nazi Germany, the Hapsburg Empire in Austria, the wikipedia entry on Hitler, the holocaust and the history of Judaism.
Anyway I decided to go to an actual Neo-Nazi rally which was occuring nearby and I decided to go by myself because I sure as hell wasnt going to say "Hey want to go to a neo nazi rally with me just for curiousities sake?"
YEAH RIGHT.
So I went alone, driving nearly an hour away, quite sure that I might not even find the rally at all. I went through the Visitor's center at the park that it was held....down a ramp....meandered my way into a path that wound through a forest thinking " This has probably been a waste of time.
"But, within the span of 10 minutes I begin to hear a loudspeaker....indistinct at first and I assume it may be the Neo-Nazis. My pace quickens as I become curious and my feet lead me to an opening in the path. I stop in my tracks, unsure of what I am seeing. At first all I saw was a bunch of red flags and a group of people entirely dressed in black. I looked closer to see if there was any violence that had broken out. There appeared to be none, so I took a few steps closer, crossing over a road that seperated me from an ancient battlefield upon which the rally was taking place. The place was filled with the prescence of police on motorcycles and lines of them seperating the counter-demonstrators from the Neo-Nazis.
I was looking across the battlefield trying to see if I could see or hear anything when the counter-demonstrators (which i've already mentioned were wearing black and had red flags) shoved a newspaper and a flier into my hands. What matter of thing was this?? I looked at the newspaper..and realized it was a communist newspaper. Which I found highly strange. I had expected that a counter-demonstration would consist of Jewish groups, anti-racism groups or a GLBT alliance. Those options had made sense to me. This group did not. Some of the members of this group had black hankerchiefs tied around their faces and sunglasses on, to distort their facial features.
I flipped through the pamplet casually, while looking at the counter-demonstrators through a corner of my eye. I noted most of them looked my age or even younger, which suprised me...though one or two of the members looked much older.
As I flipped through the pamplet I heard them begin to shout "No Nazis, No KKK, No Fascist USA!" and other chants.
Then, I saw another group cloaked in black clothing walking down the same wooded path that I had just come on. This group had T-shirts on that had the symbol of Anarchy emblasoned on their front. They too were chanting anti Neo-Nazi slogans.
This was too much for me. I didnt understand why an Anarchist group was there, nor had I known they had even existed except for a few rogue Anarchist minded individuals that hated society. I left with the pamplet in my hand and walked back to my car unmolested. As I was putting a key into my car, i saw a helicoptor fly over head. Later I learned through newsreports that it had been called in to circle above the rally.
When I got home I thought to myself "Well, that was reallly really stupid. Why do I do stupid honeysuckle like this?"
and the answer is...curiousity.
have you ever done something stupid purely for curiousities sake?
