"Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart"

        Last week I watched the movie "The Pianist." That movie is really sad, but it is a part of history. When I watched the movie, I didn't think it was actually a real story until the end of the movie when it said the name of the German office. It is really amazing to me how cruel people can really be. I don't know how to even begin to comprehend the mindset of a Nazi. To know that you are killing millions and millions of countless innocents would tear me up inside. 

        "The Pianist" is a story of a family living in Warsaw, Poland during WWII. During WWII, Poland was occupied by Germany(similar to things going on today. Tibet ring a bell?) That means that the Nazi's invaded Poland(EVEN AFTER THEY SIGNED A PEACE TREATY) and that Poland belonged to Germany. When a country is occupied, it affects everybody. The new foreign language is taught in schools, there are armed officers everywhere, the laws are changed to adapt to the captors nationality, and the people living in the country have a LOT less freedom. I wouldn't even call it freedom or living.

          The movie shows how the family is invaded by Nazi's and is taken to a ghetto in Warsaw. The common term "ghetto" for a run-down neighborhood is used jokingly now; but back in WWII that's what the Jewish citizens were forced to live in. The ghetto was separated from the actual city of Warsaw by walls, guards, and barbed wire. The ghetto was also, pretty much, a holding place for Jews before they were shipped off to concentration camps like cattle.

            Although there were killings in the ghetto, mass slaughters were most likely carried out in concentration camps. An infamous concentration camp is Auschwitz. In concentration camps, genocides occurred. Not only were Jewish people persecuted; but there were also gypsies, handicap people, and anyone that didn't meet the code of Hitler's mercy.

             The young man and his family in this movie were sent to the ghetto in Warsaw. They resided in a cramped apartment, living a poor lifestyle, for more than two years......then one day the trains arrived.

              Nazi's told the residents of the ghetto that they would be going on to a better place to live. That was 110% bull. People boarded trains and were sent to concentration camps to suffer, starve, be tortured; and eventually die by suicide, murder, or illness/disease. The young man was spared his life by a Jewish officer, hired by the Nazi's in the ghetto. The rest of his family was shipped off to die. 

              In concentration camps, there were different forms of death. Today, most people may think that the only way genocide was carried out in the concentration camps was by gassing. That is very incorrect. The Nazi's used "shower houses" to kill their prisoners. The process was that each person got a bar of soap and went into the warehouse and they locked the doors. With the doors locked, the Nazi's gassed the whole building and people suffocated to their death. Other forms of termination consisted of prisoners digging big pits and then kneed on the edge of the pit. Nazi officers would proceed by shooting them and the bodies falling into the holes; pretty much they dug their own graves. Officers would also have random line ups and pick random prisoners to kill. Just for their own sick nasty pleasure.

               When my history class studied Attila the Hun, the movie we watched showed a psychological analysis of his life and the overall outcome of how his mind works. The psychologist concluded that Attila was a psychotic killer that took pleasure in bloodshed. If what Attila did is similar to the Nazi's, then all Nazi's were either forced into being a Nazi or a psychotic killer.

               How could a person be convinced that killing a living person is right? There is no way that a sane, normal, loving human being could kill a person shamelessly; let alone millions of people! To think, that there were menacing Nazi officers by day that led out countless executions; and by night they were loving siblings, husbands, wives, aunts, uncles. The Nazi's that came from families of love seem like they can somehow justify murder in their minds. Hitler claimed to be a Christian. If God loves everybody, as it is taught in Christian religions, then how could a "good Christian" be filled with so much hate? How could anyone think that wiping out populations and killing children would be okay? Well, my answer to that is one phrase I was taught by my history teacher: Overall humans are bad, but they can do good things.

Nazi Concentration Camps:

• Germany:
  • Bergen-Belsen (probably 2 subcamps but location is unknown)
  • Börgermoor (no sub-camp known)
  • Buchenwald ( 174 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Dachau (123 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Dieburg (no sub-camp known)
  • Esterwegen (1 sub-camp)
  • Flossenburg (94 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Gundelsheim (no sub-camp known)
  • Neuengamme (96 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Papenburg (no sub-camp known)
  • Ravensbruck (31 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Sachsenhausen (44 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Sachsenburg (no sub-camp known)
• Austria:
  • Mauthausen (49 subcamps and external kommandos)
• Belgium:
  • Breendonck (no sub-camp known)
• Czechoslovakia:
  • Theresienstadt (9 external kommandos)
• Estonia:
  • Klooga
  • Vivara
• Finland:
  • Kangasjarvi
  • Koveri
• France:
  • Argeles
  • Brens
  • Drancy
  • Gurs
  • Les Milles
  • Le Vernet
  • Natzweiler-Struthof (70 camps satellites et kommandos)
  • Noé
  • Récébédou
  • Rieucros
  • Rivesaltes
  • Suresnes
  • Thill
    • for these camps, no sub-camp known
    Work camps created by the Government of Vichy in Maroco and Algeria. Thousands of jews were sent to these camps by the French pro-nazi government of Petain:
    
  • Abadla
  • Ain el Ourak
  • Bechar
  • Berguent
  • Bogari
  • Bouarfa
  • Djelfa
  • Kenadsa
  • Meridja
  • Missour
  • Tendrara
• Great Britain (*Note: Alderney in the Channel Islands was the only place in the British Isles where German concentration camps were established. In January 1942, the occupying German forces established four camps, called Helgoland, Norderney, Borkum and Sylt.)
  • Aurigny
• Holland:
  • Amersfoort
  • Ommen
  • Vught
    • Arnhem
    • Breda
    • Eindhoven
    • Gilze-Rijen
    • 's Gravenhage (The Hague)
    • Haaren par Tilburg
    • Leeuwarden
    • Moerdijk
    • Rozendaal
    • Sint Michielsgestel
    • Valkenburg par Leiden
    • Venlo (Luftwaffe airfield)
  • Westerbork (transit camp)
• Italy:
  • Bolzano
  • Fossoli
  • Risiera di San Sabba (no sub-camp known)
• Latvia:
  • Riga
  • Riga-Kaiserwald
  • Dundaga
  • Eleje-Meitenes
  • Jungfernhof
  • Lenta
  • Spilwe
• Lithuania:
  • Kaunas
  • Aleksotaskowno
  • Palemonas
  • Pravieniskès
  • Volary
• Norway:
  • Baerum
  • Berg
  • Bredtvet
  • Falstadt
  • Tromsdalen
  • Ulven
• Poland:
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau - Oswiecim-Brzezinka (extermination camp - 51 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Belzec (extermination camp - 1 subcamp)
  • Bierznow
  • Biesiadka
  • Dzierzazna & Litzmannstadt (These two camps were "Jugenverwahrlage", children camps. Hundreds of children and teenagers considered as not good enough to be "Germanized" were transfered to these places - see our article about the The “Lebensborn ” — and later sent to the extermination canters)
  • Gross-Rosen - Rogoznica (77 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Huta-Komarowska
  • Janowska
  • Krakow
  • Kulmhof - Chelmno (extermination camp - no sub-camp known)
  • Lublin (prison - no subcamp known)
  • Lwow (Lemberg)
    • Czwartaki
    • Lemberg
  • Maidanek (extermination camp - 3 subcamps)
  • Mielec
  • Pawiak (prison - no subcamp known)
  • Plaszow (work camp but became later subcamp of Maidanek)
  • Poniatowa
  • Pustkow (work camp - no subcamp known)
  • Radogosz (prison - no subcamp known)
  • Radom
  • Schmolz
  • Schokken
  • Sobibor (extermination camp - no subcamp known)
  • Stutthof - Sztutowo (40 subcamps and external kommandos)
  • Treblinka (extermination camp - no subcamp known)
  • Wieliczka
  • Zabiwoko (work camp - no subcamp known)
  • Zakopane
• Russia: (The real number of concentration and extermination camps established in occupied Soviet Union by the Nazies is unknown. The following list contains the name of the major camps. Some of these camps were under Romanian control; e.g. Akmétchetka or Bogdanovka where 54,000 were executed between December 21th and December 31th, 1941)
  • Akmétchetka
  • Balanowka
  • Bar
  • Bisjumujsje
  • Bogdanovka
  • "Citadelle" (The real name of this camp is unknown. The camp was located near Lvov. Thousands of Russians POW were killed in this camp)
  • Czwartaki
  • Daugavpils
  • Domanievka
  • Edineti
  • Kielbasin (or Kelbassino)
  • Khorol
  • Lemberg
  • Mezjapark
  • Ponary
  • Rawa-Russkaja
  • Salapils
  • Strazdumujsje
  • Yanowski
  • Vertugen
    (for all these camps, no subcamp known).
• Yugoslavia:
  • Banjica
  • Brocice
  • Chabatz
  • Danica
  • Dakovo
  • Gornja reka
  • Gradiska
  • Jadovno
  • Jasenovac
  • Jastrebarsko
  • Kragujevac
  • Krapje
  • Kruscica
  • Lepoglava
  • Loborgrad
  • Sajmite
  • Sisak
  • Slano
  • Slavonska-Pozega
  • Stara-Gradiska
  • Tasmajdan
  • Zemun

"Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart"

-Anne Frank

Sorry, Readers

Sorry. I have been sick these past days and still am not close to my best.
I didn't ditch this blog, I've just been sick.
Sorry. :(
I will post a new blog tomorrow(hopefully!!)
I love you guys!

-The air

Animal Rights?

            







This is undercover footage of Animal Cruelty. I couldn't stop crying after 1 minute. I only made it to 3 minutes before I had to turn it off.




 Some people may argue that animals should or shouldn't have rights. The thing is that now animals are coming to get more rights than humans. If animals are put in cages it is called cruelty....So what about keeping humans in cages, like prison?

I'm not saying by any means that it is right to abuse animals at all, what I am saying is that we need to be tolerant of other peoples opinions.


Some people may argue that we have animals to test on so that things are safer for humans.
Others argue that we shouldn't test things on animals.
So who is right??


If you read on a shampoo bottle or other product you use and it says "Not tested on animals" DON'T BELIEVE IT. If it wasn't tested on animals, then how would they test it to make sure it worked? Surely they wouldn't test it on humans. The laboratories need to test their product to make sure the shampoo doesn't sting your eyes.
Personally, this makes my stomach sick. I don't see how someone could throw soap in an animals eyes, causing it pain. The animals in testing facilities live in foul cages, with little food or water and pretty much living in their own feces.
From tests preformed on them, some have open sores on them that cause them pain.
There are extremes on both sides of the argument. Peta is a good example of that. It is an amazing organization and does so many great things for animals, but sometimes it may come off a little too strong. This is not a bad thing at all, it is so great how people made an organization to stand up for what they believe!!(:


So what do you think? Do you think that animals are meant to be tested on for the good of humans or do you think that it is cruel?
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, so whatever you choose isn't the wrong answer, but it may not be the right answer either...it's YOUR answer, and YOUR opinion and that is very valuable. It's valuable to be able to create your own opinion and not just follow what others may say.

Stand up for what you believe, and never let someone tell you that what you believe is wrong, but do be respectful of others and their opinions too(:
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What Is Religion?

RELIGION:"a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs(Dictionary.com)"

Wait...I thought that religion had only to do with God and Jesus Christ and worshiping them? 
Religions some of us may know are Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, Mormon, Buddhist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Apostolic Lutheran, Muslim, etc.
Is that all religion is? Do you not have a religion if you're Atheist or Agnostic? Do you have no religion if everything you believe is based on scientific theories?
In my history class, we learned an acronym that represents all aspects of TRUE religion:


C-Creation Theory
E-Evolution Theory
N-Nothing
T-Transport Theory


This doesn't mean that you have a religion only if you go to church every Sunday, this means that whatever you believe is your religion. 
Believe in God? That's your religion. Believe in evolution? That's your religion. Believe in nothing? That's your religion. Believe that humans came from a different planet? THAT'S YOUR RELIGION.

Creation Theory: This basically states that you believe in a higher  power that created the universe. This doesn't necessarily mean just God, this includes Native Americans, Christians and Muslims, etc. So if the Greek believed in many Gods then did they believe in the creation theory? 

Evolution Theory: This is a scientific theory that states our Universe was created from a single atom exploding and expanding and always expanding(because the Universe is always growing). They believe that after Earth was created and balanced that we evolved. At first was bacteria and plants and then more complex forms began to evolve. Eventually this led to chimpanzees and then to humans.(They believe we are evolved from apes. Where is the proof?!)

Nothing: Say you don't believe in anything. You don't believe in God. You don't believe in a higher power. You don't believe in science. 


Transport Theory: This is a theory that a long time ago there were humans or aliens living on Mars. Today we can see that Mars is obviously not a livable environment for humans. There is proof that Mars could have been, at one time, very similar to Earth. Some people believe that once Mars began to show signs of becoming what it is today, that whatever was inhabiting Mars came to Earth and that we evolved from whatever life forms those were.

We are all human. Since we are human, we have to put our faith in something, it's just natural. Wait...how does "nothing" fit in there? 
Nothing is a religion because you PLACE YOUR FAITH in nothing.

There are, of course, many other theories, but these are just the basic ones. So what do you believe? 
There is no right or wrong answer because we don't  know for sure. We never will know 100% what happened.
That's the beauty of humanity. It's also the ugliest aspect of us.
It's beautiful because there is a lot of good that can come by us believing this and it's so amazing how many different choices there are. 
It's very ugly because people have fought wars over this. Over RELIGION. People have died.  I see why humanity causes wars, I just don't see the point. We should let other people live the way they want to. It's all good to go help protect another country, but what if they don't want you there? 
HUMANITY NEEDS TO SEE that we are so ARROGANT. We need to respect people and the way they live. We need to try to have love for everybody, because in the end, who knows how our lives will end up?


There are so many possibilities on this Earth. It's absolutely stunning to see and hear about all the different theories. So far, none of them have been proven  right...but none of them have been proven wrong. 


What do you believe?
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A Stone Henge in Georgia??!

So we all have probably heard about the Stone Henge in Europe, well did you know we have one in the United States of America??'
There is a granite statue, similar to the stone henge in Elbert County, Georgia. Unlike the stone henge, the Georgia Guidestones (as it is called) were put up in 1979.
So why am I using my valuable time to read more about it and then tell you about it if it is just another monument?

One Day in June 1979 a man who went by R.C. Christian walked into the Elbert Granite Finishing company. He was very well dressed and said he wanted to have an edifice erected with a message to mankind. *An edifice is a large structure*   R.C. Christian said that he was a representative of  a group of men that wanted to give guide and direction to humanity.

Do you know what is crazy??? THERE ARE NO RECORDS OF R.C. CHRISTIAN. He used a fake name, and to this day, THIRTY-ONE YEARS LATER, NOBODY KNOWS THE REAL IDENTITY OF THAT MAN.

These are the 10 "commandments" listed on the  Georgia Guidestones (engraved in 8 different languages!!!):

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9.Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite

10.Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature. 

In the Georgia Guidestones, there is a hole drilled into a stone and in the night sky you can look through it and see the north star at ANYTIME. 

It seems that R.C. Christian was obsessed with the alignment of the moon, sun, and stars. 

Who would this remind you of? Hmm...let's think...THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PERHAPS?

Oh, yeah!!! THEM!!!! They built pyramids PERFECTLY aligned with star constellations. 

COINCIDENCE? NOT A CHANCE.

So if this is so crucial to humanity, why haven't more people heard about this? I only found out today.

Think of all the things that are hidden from us...all the history we are missing out on!!! IT'S INSANITY!!!

What do you think? Is this coincidence? Who is R.C. Christian? Were any of his words relevant to us? 

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THIS IS REAL??

This year I am taking a World History class where I am going against the rules of society,pretty much, and actually LEARNING something! There is SO MUCH that we don't learn in school that is all a part of our history. So if we never learn it, how will we ever know?
Did you ever hear about what archaeologists found in Turkey? They believe it to be Noah's Ark. No, not the water park in Wisconsin, but the NOAH'S ARK FROM THE BIBLE!
They've had measurements taken and the measurements are EXACTLY THE SAME as the ones recorded in the bible!
The ark was said to land on Mount Ararat...so what do you think about these photographs? Hmm? 

Check this out!!