Ashley's Philosophy Corner

     Surely there is no greater call, no greater duty, and no greater work to occupy that of the young man's time, than to go out amongst the nations, and proclaim His beliefs of peace and happiness, of the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ here upon the earth today. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHMI51d9ROk

P.S. My brother is going to be one of those missionaries in a few months. :)

Austin's Funnies Corner

This video could very well be placed in the random awesome corner, because it's very random, and very awesome, but I got too many amused laughs out of it to not put it in the funnies corner. So, enjoy! You have to admit, it's a pretty cool spectacle for the eyes.

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

This video is of a fusion jazz band of exceptional talent. If nothing else, you have to appreciate the Improv skill that went into the making of this song. Not only that, but this is Dixieland jazz, which is a spirited, motioned, and severely difficult fast-tempo form of jazz, and one of my favorites. Especially towards the end, there's something about it that just makes every part of you want to move to the thrill and the beat of it. I hope you appreciate and enjoy it as much as I did!

Anna's Great Literature Corner

    Here are some quotes from a dauntingly sad classic novel that contains much wisdom, especially concerning the purity of a woman in an impure world.
   
    “A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
--Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    “Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
--Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
--Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    “Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
    "Yes."
    "All like ours?"
    "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
    "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
    "A blighted one.”
--Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

    "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

--Unknown

    "If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world."

--Elaine S. Dalton, Previous General Young Women President

Austin's Funnies Corner

    A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.

    Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday, their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room, he loaded with horse manure.

    That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.

    "Why are you crying?" the father asked.

    "Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read the all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimistic twin.

    Passing the optimistic twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.

    To which his optimistic twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"

--Unknown

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

I think this video is wonderful, and very inspiring. I mean, to see the transformation...wouldn't it be nice to have a home like theirs? As they say in the video, there's always something you can do. Making your home a happy, beautiful, and holy place, isn't a huge undertaking of incredible change. It's through the small and simple things. :)

Anna's Great Literature Corner

    "Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven."

--Old Christmas, byWashington Irving

    

    "The whole earth  was brimming sunshine that morning. She tripped along, the clear sky pouring liquid blue into her soul."

--Unknown, by Theadore Dreiser

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

    Here is a little taste of what my religion, (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) believes. If you have a question, if you're confused, if you need an answer, go to the source. There is no use in repeating learned prayers, when all God wants you to do is pour your heart out to him and ask what you really want to know. He's your father, and he wants to hear from you.  I know that if you do pray, in some way, in his way -in the best way possible, he will answer. Watch, and don't be afraid to be inspired. :)

Austin's Funnies Corner

Here is another Studio C. My brother actally used this idea for a skit during his leadership training scout camp. Pretty clever, you gotta admit. I hope you like it!

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

Lots of videos on this post. Here is another Piano Guys video. Beautiful, is really what I think it is. May you enjoy it as much as I have. :)

Anna's Great Literature Corner

    Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

    "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

--G.K. Chesterton

Austin's Funnies Corner

    There was once a man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great", he said: "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"

    He now writes error messages for Microsoft Corporation.

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

Here is yet another link that leads to a wonderful website of good people doing good things. Recently, I've been hearing a lot about poronography awareness and protection. It's become a real plauge, a danger and a threat to all of humanity. It's not the most pleasant subject, but I feel, especially since I've learned so many great ways to protect myself from it, and especially since this blog is something you find on the computer, where pornography is a particular danger, that I ought to share a link to this website: http://www.fightthenewdrug.org/ 

It goes to the homepage, where you can see their video, which is highly recommended to watch. So feel free to check it out, and be a part of the fight against poronography, and the standing up for what's good and wholesome and upllifting. 

Anna's Great Literature Corner

Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,

Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again. And then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked

I cried to dream again.

--William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

    "No matter how scary it may be, no matter how wrong it may seem, we should never hold back from what we're meant to bring to this world."

--Macy Adams

I Am Me

Let em' think what they will

Let em' think what they want

That doesn't change the person you are

Let em' say what they will

Let em' say what they want

That doesn't change the person you are

You are who you'll be

So take my advice

And say to yourself,

I am Me

--Macy Adams

Austin's Funnies Corner

    

This one is not the best Studio C, but is still pretty amusing. I hope you like it! :)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

    Here is another link to a fantastic website I heard about today in church for the random acts of kindness foundation. (Who knew there was one?) The link goes to the first page of random acts of kindness ideas, and it really does give you good ideas on how to just be a good and kind person and help make this world a better place.  Again, feel free to explore on it. They've got a lot of great stuff to look at and take back to do on your own as well. http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-ideas

Anna's Great Literature Corner

    A few wonderful quotes from "Great Expectations", by Charles Dickens: (Really great book by the way; You should read it. :)

    "In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."

    

    "If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent of which it used to be hidden in mine...it is the key to many reservations."

   

    "That was memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been."