Kelsey Engbrecht
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was written plainly for the Average Joe and was instantly popular (knock on wood for our own little blog). While we have no problem with Thomas Paine (we love Thomas Paine), we hope that perhaps this blog can serve as a home to ideas that are a little less popular. We think that unpopular ideas are OK -- in fact, they're important. Because even though we live in a culture that's combative and absolutist when it comes to the hard topics, those unpopular opinions could very well be the start of the next heliocentric theory, and wouldn't you just love to be the guy who could say, "y'know what, I gave Copernicus' crazy idea a shot before anyone else!"
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense was written plainly for the Average Joe and was instantly popular (knock on wood for our own little blog). While we have no problem with Thomas Paine (we love Thomas Paine), we hope that perhaps this blog can serve as a home to ideas that are a little less popular. We think that unpopular ideas are OK -- in fact, they're important. Because even though we live in a culture that's combative and absolutist when it comes to the hard topics, those unpopular opinions could very well be the start of the next heliocentric theory, and wouldn't you just love to be the guy who could say, "y'know what, I gave Copernicus' crazy idea a shot before anyone else!"
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Luther is full of bright, educated, independently minded students. One of us might think another is completely wrong, but we are confident and informed in our opinions. And (for the most part) we own up to them. I would say from my own experience that a shocking number of casual conversations in the caf or union or around campus are intelligent and cover topics that are relatively important (I don’t want to draw the line about what’s important and what’s not, because that’s partially the point of the blog -- to figure that out).
I think that we’re uncommon, and I think that we have uncommon ideas. Most of us are from the Midwest (stereotype: sheltered, Lutheran, homogenous, complacent), but come to Luther with extraordinarily open minds (and those of you who aren’t from the Midwest, I appreciate that you came here with an open mind about Iowa!). I don’t think that most college students think the way we do or discuss thoughts and opinions in the way that we do.
So let’s get started.