Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Pictures,写真,사진술

I was just thinking. I have been around a lot of people taking pictures lately and I have been in a lot of photos growing up. When pictures were first made some people said and thought that pictures might steal souls. That has made me wonder ,with the amount of pictures I've had taken of me and if they did steal souls which photo would have it? Would my soul be in an early picture of me as a baby or a more recent picture after I developed my personality. Do all the photos have a part of my soul in them? And most importantly if part of my soul is in a picture can I ever regain it?

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Dictators

I watched "The President's Last Bang",a movie about the assassination of Park Chung-hee a few days ago. It made me think about how there have been many dictators in history. Most are viewed harshly and like criminals now but like all people most were not all bad. Some seemed to help develop their countries making life better in some ways even as they dealt harsh treatment on their own people. How is it that the same actions were from the same people. Would they still have helped make the economical and technology changes if they had not been the dictators they were?