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07/12/2004: "Jeremy Lavine = Genius"
I don't remember where I ran across them, but I'm glad I saved copies of these essays, because they truly give me hope for the future of our country.
Many many moons ago, the Peruvians committed human sacrifice to satiate thier gods and end the flood that was caused by El Nino. In today's modern dog-eat-dog work-a-day world of scientists, diplomats, McSalad Shakers, and George Bush Jr., we no longer have access to such solutions. We are too proud. We will not commit human sacrifices. We refuse to satiate the Peruvian gods. Thus, they remain angry and keep killing us and burning down our trees with El Nino.
Instead of satiating the gods, many of these "scientists" have tried to control El Nino with "science." They put up expensive fish-attracting-bueys[sic] that run on flashlight batteries. Imagine, fighting the power of the gods with flashlight batteries! Needless to say, this didn't work and everyone died.
I honestly like kids who are this tired of the status quo and are willing to fight back.
Replies: 7 Comments
on Monday, July 12th, Erik said
How did you get these?
on Monday, July 12th, Dan said
I found 'em on the internet somewhere, and alas, just don't remember where.
on Thursday, October 21st, Albert said
http://douglas.min.net/essay/ Here, if you still wanted to know.
on Thursday, October 21st, Dan said
Yeah! That's it exactly!
on Tuesday, December 21st, Jenn said
he's got a deviantart account, atleast, he used to. he posted all his essays there and that's where I first read them... there are so many more then the four I've seen circulating around the net, but I can't find the page again. x_x
on Wednesday, January 5th, Jeremy Lavine said
Hi my name is also Jeremy Lavine and i was wondering if you knew how to get a hold off the other Jeremy Lavine. Hes sounds like a interesting person and i was wanting to contact him. Thanks
on Wednesday, January 5th, Dan said
Unfortunately, I don't... and I only know/knew his name because it's on the top of his essays. He definitely seems like an interesting person, and a periodic re-read of his essays both cracks me up, and makes me a bit sad. Not only does the public school system seem to fail for kids who don't care about being there (the McCounterDroids of the future), but for the bright ones that should be there and should succeed. I think it just points out to me how grateful I should be for some of the fine teachers I had.
