2. Username: crystal dibella
3. Website Address: http://crystaldibella.blogspot.com/
4. Midterm Grade: B-/C+
5. List all post you have done
Week 1
Post 1 Where Are We?
If this question was asked to elementary students what do you think would be their answer? I asked my 2nd grade daughter this question where are we and her response was California. Which is true we do live in the state of California, then she began to say Ontario which is also true we do live in the city of Ontario.Myself answering this question i would answer it very similar to her we do live in Ontario California United States and that is what i know of. But where are we is one of the hardest questions to ever really find out the answer there can be so many answers to this question.
Many people say that universe was created in a big bang and that space did not exist before that. Since it created space itself it didn't occur just in one spot. They say that it happened everywhere but space itself expanded, it didn't expand into space that existed before. Do many people believe this also?
Post 2 Response Myth of Eternal Recurrence
I total agree with these ladies I could not imagine my life in repeat mode always making the same mistakes and doing the same thing could really get to someone. A routine is fine to have exspecially if you have a busy life and it helps you in your day to day list of things that need to be done. But usually people do not really do it in a same order they just know what has to be done and it gets done.
There are many people though that do the same thing everyday so many times in a row or a day and if they do not do it they might have a nervous break down.
I enjoy living my life different everyday so that i learn from mistakes that i have made and i decide not to make them again i could not bare to keep makig the same bad decisions you will not get anywhere in life doing that. I belive that change can make you a better person and help you have a better life.
Post 3 The Chandian Effect
There are many people though that do the same thing everyday so many times in a row or a day and if they do not do it they might have a nervous break down.
I enjoy living my life different everyday so that i learn from mistakes that i have made and i decide not to make them again i could not bare to keep makig the same bad decisions you will not get anywhere in life doing that. I belive that change can make you a better person and help you have a better life.
Post 3 The Chandian Effect
When I heard about this effect i could not believe what i had read and seen from the youtube videos about people having visions of someone telling them what to do. I have never had someone come to me in a vision or anything like that so i was very interested in finding out more about this. I have discovered from the information on the presentations that there are two major factors overwhelming experiences and also the knowlegde of a person or a object as the center of the experience.
Many people could have an out of body experience and not even know it and has effected someone's life in a good way. It can be thought of as non realist in many people eyes they dont believe until it has happened to them. For some one to know when they are going to die amaze me to have that kind of feeling that of pain and all then he ends up being untouched by death. Things like this happen all the time around the world i believe but i never have seen a real case.
Post 4 The Wonder Tissue Of The Universe
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What will happen after we die is waht many people are
afraid of becuase we will never know what may occur. As we become closer to
death there are questions that fill our heads and we wonder if we will find the
answers. I could not image my heart stopping and then going on for a period of
time. Its kind of like your cheating death for a few minutes.
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Even though we can be tricked by computers i believe it just says how good technology has become over the years .We can be tricked by nature and the technology we have developed over the years of life. Technology has development mechanical people and hallo grams that are sometimes mistaken for real human being to many people. I have seen a mechanical people that has looked just like James Dean and I was speechless at first telling myself is that him. But as i became closer then i realized it could not of been him and i felt it and seen it was not a real person.
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Basically the point of showing this film is that drinking coke is what alot of people drink when they eat with there food. There not a perfect coke that we can find and drink sometimes we may get one that taste different to us. Also that sometimes seeing the coke getting poured into a ice cold cup you may want to drink it instead of a can of coke. I remember being a young child and my father would make eggplant that was stuffed in ground beef. I hated the taste of it so much and i had informed my father that i did not like it but he insisted that i ate it even if i didn't like it. I was not able to get up off the table until i had eaten it all from my plate. Over the years i came up with a plan that i would put it in napkins and go back and forth to the restroom and flush it down the toilet. I know that w
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In the you tube video that I
had watched over and over a quote from Errol Flynn "No contradiction has a place
in human nature, it social values just as it has in mathematics. Contradiction
is neither true or false.....It is". I still was not getting a good
understanding of it, but I think what he ment was that a combination of ideas or even
features of a situation which are opposed to one another. The argument could go either way some people can say
it is deep insight or others may say it is an excuse. Myself personally I am not
sure which i side with anyone can contradict someone with what they are doing
with their life or even how they live. Contradicting someone you may not always
get the right or wrong answer you are looking for.
6. What is Gumby Land Thinking?
7. Explain littlewood's Law of miracles and how it can explain extraordinary phenomena
The Littlewood’s Law of Miracles is when someone has a theory of how many times they will be able to encounter a miracle in a short period of a time. It can also be in a long period of time as in minutes or hours but usually it is not in long periods of time. When finding information on Littlewood it seems that he defines a miracle as an event of a special significant that occurs at a frequency of one in a million. Which really amazed me one in a million for a miracle to happen but as I see on TV it seems like miracles occur all the time. Then again that is TV and I was not there to see the miracle happen in real life to actually believe it myself.
There was also a fact that he assumed during the hours that a human is awake and know what is going on around them basically alert. A human will experience one even per second which is kind of hard to believe we experience things all the time. But it is possible since he says that humans are alert for eight hours per day. I wonder if there was a study on that because I know some people like myself that have insomnia and I basically am alert probably more hours than eight. I actually did some research on myself come to find out I am actually alert eleven hours or more since I have such a hard time sleeping. I think depending on the person they may be alert eight hours or more or even less. I can recall a time as a young child I remember going to the fair and trying to throw dimes into items to win them. I tried so hard and kept missing and they will land on the floor so I started saying land in land in and one finally landed in I was so happy.
8. What does the Mummy and the Wolfman archtypes represent in terms of Eastern and Western religions? Explain it via Eros and Thanatos.
Now in western religions they are different as in Christianity which
they believe that the soul is sinful. In their minds life is supposed to be
followed by God’s will and that each people and their body are real. In Western
religions said that death is a continuing life in either heaven or in the hell
which ever place the human goes to.This means that humans continue on living even when they are dead they
do not start a new life just continue with theirs. Now this is similar to Mummy
they were supposed to be able to avoid death by preserving their physical body
which did not work out. Thanatos defeat Eros life via the body because the body
was preserved but they life was no longer there. The Eros that was the Greek
god of love but that was also known for sensing the love of wisdom. As in the
desire to have eternal life and accepting when a person is no longer alive and
they continue on with there life after they are dead.
9. What is celluar automata and why does Stephen Wolfram think that it represents a "new kind of science"? Be sure to detail your answer.
10. Who was Alan Turing and how did he contribute to our potential understanding of artifical intelligence?
Alan Turing was born June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom he died June 7, 1954 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Turing’s homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, at that time homosexual were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He died from cyanide poisoning from cyanide poisoning which is when a living organism is exposed to a compound that produces cyanide ions when dissolved in water. Many people thought that it was a suicide but his mother did not believe that she thought it was an accident.
When he was alive he was an English mathematician and was a leader in Artificial Intelligence. This is the ability of digital computers or a machine to perform task which require human intelligence.He also had the Turing test which was a test of a machine’s ability to perform intelligent tasks. This test had been the standard for measuring artificial intelligence for the past fifty years. Not like when he was alive people rely mostly on computers now not like before. We have so much access to information just at a click on a button type something in and find out what it’s about. This technology is much easier now than before I can say we have it much easier than compare if we lived in those years before us.
11. Why does Patricia Churchland champion neurophilosophy?
Patricia Churchland was the one that introduced the term Neurophilosophy she was a Canadian American philosopher. From my understanding neurophilosophy is between philosophy and neuroscience it makes sense though because of the name it basically combined together. Before all of this Churchland had become fed up with philosopher’s that attempted to develop a theory of the mind. She seems like a strong willed person that knows what she wants and when there a problem she speaks her mind.She had begun to grow more frustrated with people and suspected that human cognition was the understanding of the brain.
She had decided to continue on her education on neuroscience so that she can do more research on neuroscientific techniques. With this research she was able to find patterns of human brain activity and knowning how the brain works could let others know the process of cognition.There was a point that Mrs. Churchland had made two arguments the first she stated it is not simply one neuron, it is an interactive set of neurons that do it. The other argument was that she said I believe that there is still much to discover and that people need to open their minds to this research. With the second argument I totally agree because there are a lot more things we still need to discover over the years of life. Whether it is when I am still alive or in the future for my daughter and hopefully grandchildren maybe in the future.
12. Is Consciousness phyical? Explain with examples.
There are times though that people will need to
use books when they need to do a project or even to do research. Even though
e-books help more with space they are sort of expensive to purchase them sometimes
there are books that you can find online that are free which help a lot. I have
found books to help me with my English 67 class the professor had made us look
for a book on the topic he had given us. To prove that we actually went and
looked for a book instead of looking it up on line this made us go to the
library. I found myself in the library looking up all kinds of books, but if I was
able to look it up online I would not waste my time. I could of got the project
done quicker I think if I was able to look it up online I think it helps
everyone.he
basis
14. What is apophenia? Give an illustration of it
The term Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena is the definition that I had got on Wikipedia.com. Which in my understanding is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. It can be that these patterns we see are nonexistent also we may think that we see something but in reality there is nothing there. This was defined in 1958 by a man of the name Klaus Conrad it had come to represent how humans seek patterns in random nature in general. Conrad had focused on finding abnormal meanings or even random experiences by psychotic people. This was described as a term from psychiatry and use for natural tendencies of human beings to find impersonal data.
15. How does the Himalayan connection explain UFOs?
16.What is Sam Harris dilemma? Do you think he is right or wrong
17. What was the most interesting film you watched this term?
The film that had caught my eye the most was the time machine film I thought it was very interesting. Just being able to go back in time to see history being made would be something that interests me very much. If there was anytime I could go back in time I would go to when my mother was a teenager which was in the 70’s and see how it was for them at that age. Maybe I would appreciate more what I have now because I can honestly say we are spoiled with what we have now and expect it.
Then again I would also want to go to the future and see my great great great grandchildren. I bet anything this world will be so much different and many things will have been changed. It would be great to see how education is also changed from now. If I was able to find someone or had a lot of money to pay someone to use the time machine I would definitely take in consideration.
18. What was the most interestin reading for you this term?
In week 6 I found the reading on the Exploring the physics of being a psychic suffer to be very interesting. David Lane’s story was very intriguing to me to see that it’s not just me that does chants sometimes. I think that if I was attempting and I say attempting since I do not know how to. I would probably being saying a chant also so that I could ride a wave myself I never had the ride a wave or be in the ocean. I have done a chant before as a young child when I had gone to go see shamu at Sea World. I remember yelling for shamu to jump up and splay us.
I continually said splash us, splash us I thought that we were not going to wet since we were sitting in one of the top benches. I turn to speak to my father for a second and before I knew It I seen shamu coming our way and splashed us all with his tail. After that had occurred I found myself sometimes doing chants in my head when I wanted things to happen.
19. What was the most unusual thing you learned this term?
The most unusual thing that I have learned from this semester was on flame on. I could not believe they said that homosexuality regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them. I believe that anyone is entitled to their own opinion about someone. But they should not put someone down about liking the same sex. I have friends that like the same sex and I would never treat them different or tell them something to hurt their feelings.
They have hearts just like anyone else I have a close guy friend and he as sweet as can be. Just because he likes males other people do not want to be around him because they think others will make fun of them. Even they might come to the conclusion that the other people that are associated with them are the same. It just suprises me how some people can be so cold hearted and treat another person so mean. It just shows me that this world may not be such a good place with all this negativity surrounding us. If people actually took the time to get to know the people that like the same sex they would realize that they are not bad people they simply just want to be accepted by other people.
Even though we can be tricked by computers i believe it just says how good technology has become over the years .We can be tricked by nature and the technology we have developed over the years of life. Technology has development mechanical people and hallo grams that are sometimes mistaken for real human being to many people. I have seen a mechanical people that has looked just like James Dean and I was speechless at first telling myself is that him. But as i became closer then i realized it could not of been him and i felt it and seen it was not a real person.
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Basically the point of showing this film is that drinking coke is what alot of people drink when they eat with there food. There not a perfect coke that we can find and drink sometimes we may get one that taste different to us. Also that sometimes seeing the coke getting poured into a ice cold cup you may want to drink it instead of a can of coke. I remember being a young child and my father would make eggplant that was stuffed in ground beef. I hated the taste of it so much and i had informed my father that i did not like it but he insisted that i ate it even if i didn't like it. I was not able to get up off the table until i had eaten it all from my plate. Over the years i came up with a plan that i would put it in napkins and go back and forth to the restroom and flush it down the toilet. I know that w
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An example of gumby land thinking could be recarnation which some people chose to be when they are no longer among this earth. Another example of gumby land thinking is spirtual healing which many people believe works. It is said to be a way that many people become better again with no understanding of how. This is usually expected to be done by a priest mostly since they have a connection with god. From my understanding Gumby Land thinking is simply the idea when a person creates a belief and many others believe in the same belief. Wolf gang paul's witticism gets avoiding because of the fact that it has not really got test on it. Any hypothesis or theory needs to get tested out to know for sure if it works or notas bad to waste food but i could not help it the taste was not good to me.
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In the you tube video that I
had watched over and over a quote from Errol Flynn "No contradiction has a place
in human nature, it social values just as it has in mathematics. Contradiction
is neither true or false.....It is". I still was not getting a good
understanding of it, but I think what he ment was that a combination of ideas or even
features of a situation which are opposed to one another. The argument could go either way some people can say
it is deep insight or others may say it is an excuse. Myself personally I am not
sure which i side with anyone can contradict someone with what they are doing
with their life or even how they live. Contradicting someone you may not always
get the right or wrong answer you are looking for.
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There are people that believe in different things in this world and chants, prayers, and petitions are some of them. They want something to happen so bad that they think praying for someone or something will help them ease the pain they feel. As if someone relative was in the hospital on their death bed the family may begin to pray for them to stay with them on earth it can be some sort of comfort doing that. Chants may not always work for some people but there could be someone to get lucky enough for them to work.
6. What is Gumby Land Thinking?
What is Gumby Land Thinking you ask well it is basically the idea that a
person makes up and many believe in this idea. This thinking was based on the
popular TV show character that was called Gumby. There was also a claim from Gumby
land thinking that it had to deal with what happen with Gumby land. Art Clokey he had went to India when
he was having a very hard time in his life of course he had took Gumby with him
on his trip he could not just leave him.
As Mr. Clokey was on his trip he had met a spiritual guru that was named
Sathya Sai Baba he met him and his life changed. When the guru seen
Gumby he sprinkled him with holy ashes and said that at that point Gumby was
the incarnation of spiritual love. After they had left
India there was a shrine that was placed there for Gumby. There were people
that believed he was not the incarnation of love for the fact that it was never
tested out.
7. Explain littlewood's Law of miracles and how it can explain extraordinary phenomena
The Littlewood’s Law of Miracles is when someone has a theory of how many times they will be able to encounter a miracle in a short period of a time. It can also be in a long period of time as in minutes or hours but usually it is not in long periods of time. When finding information on Littlewood it seems that he defines a miracle as an event of a special significant that occurs at a frequency of one in a million. Which really amazed me one in a million for a miracle to happen but as I see on TV it seems like miracles occur all the time. Then again that is TV and I was not there to see the miracle happen in real life to actually believe it myself.
There was also a fact that he assumed during the hours that a human is awake and know what is going on around them basically alert. A human will experience one even per second which is kind of hard to believe we experience things all the time. But it is possible since he says that humans are alert for eight hours per day. I wonder if there was a study on that because I know some people like myself that have insomnia and I basically am alert probably more hours than eight. I actually did some research on myself come to find out I am actually alert eleven hours or more since I have such a hard time sleeping. I think depending on the person they may be alert eight hours or more or even less. I can recall a time as a young child I remember going to the fair and trying to throw dimes into items to win them. I tried so hard and kept missing and they will land on the floor so I started saying land in land in and one finally landed in I was so happy.
Eastern religions like Buddhism believe that the soul is pure they
do not believe the same views on death as western religions. They also have a
strong belief that our physical body is what carries our mind. Also that in
reincarnation it is the central belief which means to them that death is a
release from the human body.
Death to them is like a new beginning of the
next incarnation so Thanatos which is death are desired. This is actually very
similar to the Wolfman which suffers from being half human and half beast. They
also suffer from the thirst of blood anyways wanting to bite someone. It is known
amongst the world that they go out and hunt when there is a full moon out to quench
their thirst they need to feel to continue on with life and lusts for blood in
every full moon.
9. What is celluar automata and why does Stephen Wolfram think that it represents a "new kind of science"? Be sure to detail your answer.
Stephen Wolfram had explained
that nature follows a mathematical rule that is what he believed in. He always
had to follow rules and the patterns of them the simplest rules can create
complicated pattern. He liked to explain the use of mathematics by using a grid
and cells which I think is great it helps people understand things better. I
think it is actually much easier for someone to explain things in math with
grids because sometimes things are hard to understand. In the video cellular
automata Stephen Wolfram explains that a shape of a
grid that has patterns of phenomenon it is calculated. The grid could be 1
dimensional 2 dimensional that also could be hexagonal shape using random
numbers of dimensions.
Wolfram has been studying cellular automata for more
than ten years and has been trying to make these rules into nature also. He had considered this to be this new kind of science because it is challenging the foundations of all modern science. Wolfram's "new kind of science" is the simple abtract rules like elementart computer programs. He also believed that the computational realities of the universe make science hard. But he argued that understanding the importance of them we can learn to use them in our own way.
10. Who was Alan Turing and how did he contribute to our potential understanding of artifical intelligence?
Alan Turing was born June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom he died June 7, 1954 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Turing’s homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, at that time homosexual were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He died from cyanide poisoning from cyanide poisoning which is when a living organism is exposed to a compound that produces cyanide ions when dissolved in water. Many people thought that it was a suicide but his mother did not believe that she thought it was an accident.
When he was alive he was an English mathematician and was a leader in Artificial Intelligence. This is the ability of digital computers or a machine to perform task which require human intelligence.He also had the Turing test which was a test of a machine’s ability to perform intelligent tasks. This test had been the standard for measuring artificial intelligence for the past fifty years. Not like when he was alive people rely mostly on computers now not like before. We have so much access to information just at a click on a button type something in and find out what it’s about. This technology is much easier now than before I can say we have it much easier than compare if we lived in those years before us.
11. Why does Patricia Churchland champion neurophilosophy?
Patricia Churchland was the one that introduced the term Neurophilosophy she was a Canadian American philosopher. From my understanding neurophilosophy is between philosophy and neuroscience it makes sense though because of the name it basically combined together. Before all of this Churchland had become fed up with philosopher’s that attempted to develop a theory of the mind. She seems like a strong willed person that knows what she wants and when there a problem she speaks her mind.She had begun to grow more frustrated with people and suspected that human cognition was the understanding of the brain.
She had decided to continue on her education on neuroscience so that she can do more research on neuroscientific techniques. With this research she was able to find patterns of human brain activity and knowning how the brain works could let others know the process of cognition.There was a point that Mrs. Churchland had made two arguments the first she stated it is not simply one neuron, it is an interactive set of neurons that do it. The other argument was that she said I believe that there is still much to discover and that people need to open their minds to this research. With the second argument I totally agree because there are a lot more things we still need to discover over the years of life. Whether it is when I am still alive or in the future for my daughter and hopefully grandchildren maybe in the future.
12. Is Consciousness phyical? Explain with examples.
Before I answer if Consciousness is
physical I first want to define what it is which is the state of being aware or
objects or something within yourself. It can be defined as awareness or the
ability to experience or to feel and the executive control system of the mind.
From what I understand it is as if say you’re playing football and someone
throws the football your way awareness is necessary to be able to catch it. If
not then the person could get hurt or even the ball could go to the opposing
team and could cause the game and your team to lose.
There are some philosophy writers of
consciousness that were concerned to defend a point that is trying to get
across and organize their material too. An example of the truth behind miracle
was the Sai Baba miracle people came to find out that he was caught on film
using magic tricks. There were people that witnessed him “accidentally”
dropping tablets which he snapped that contained dried and burnt cow dung. With
this meant that it was not a real miracle he made it all up just to make people
think that it was really but in reality it was not. From what witnesses had
said he carried vibhuti tablets in between the third and fourth fingers of his
right hand and also had a spare tablet in his robe just in case he needed it.
13. Why does your professor argue in the codex funeral that books are dead?
My professor argued that the codex
funeral hardcopy books are dead now. With this argument I definitely agree with
my professor David lane that books are dead I have noticed that a lot lately. A
lot of new technology has come about over the years like the iPad, kindle, and
other kind of devices. There are some people that still depend on hardback
copies of books rather than spending unnecessary amounts of money on
electronically books. I remember as a young child I use to have a collection of
books from Walt Disney but as I got older and needed more space I got rid of
them. I think sometimes people think that having too many books can take up a
lot of space in their room or house unless they have an office to store them.
14. What is apophenia? Give an illustration of it
The term Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena is the definition that I had got on Wikipedia.com. Which in my understanding is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. It can be that these patterns we see are nonexistent also we may think that we see something but in reality there is nothing there. This was defined in 1958 by a man of the name Klaus Conrad it had come to represent how humans seek patterns in random nature in general. Conrad had focused on finding abnormal meanings or even random experiences by psychotic people. This was described as a term from psychiatry and use for natural tendencies of human beings to find impersonal data.
An
example of this is on 11-11-11 which was actually almost a year ago, people noticed
the pattern of numerology and said that they were going to run wild on that
day. Over a hundred years ago clocks had circular analog dials and the date was
used as roman numerals. Humans have both love and fear for patterns in numbers especially
the numbers 7, 11, 13, or even the 666. Which the 666 is known to everyone as
evil I have never heard anyone say those are lucky number just bad ones. Just
like the number 13 it represents to some people the day Friday the 13th
which is to mean bad luck and also from scary movies it is protraded as bad.
Many of the scary movies things happen on that day Jason is one of the well
known movies his intentions are based on killing.
15. How does the Himalayan connection explain UFOs?
It has been said for many years that people
have had seen UFO’s over the years and probably many years to come. These are
sightings of unidentified flying object in the sky some sighting have also been
landed in fields or other places. There are always reports of these experiences
that are reported every year sometimes more than once. Even though there are
never any evidence of these sightings or proof to explain these things
happening. I have heard of many sightings in the sky but yet to see one for
myself and am not sure if I will ever.
There was some mentioning of spiritual experience of a yoga master from
India in the Himalayan Connection. The person that seen this was Faqir Chand he
had a vision that guided him and some of the fellow soldiers to victory in
battle. The visions helped them get through some tough times when they were in
the middle of battle seeing there men die and get hurt. This is what Faqir
Chand said “It was all
unexpected and strange for me. I enquired of them, "Our Guru Maharaj is at
Lahore. I am not your Guru. Why do you worship me?" They replied, "On
the battle field, we were in danger. Death lurked in hand. You appeared before
us and gave us correct directions. We were spared." I was wonder struck by
this explanation. I had no knowledge of it at all. I, myself, being in trouble
at that time, had not even remembered them. A mystery shrouded the whole thing,
"who appeared inside them?"16.What is Sam Harris dilemma? Do you think he is right or wrong
Sam
Harris had said that the universe is whole and without contradiction. What may
appear like a contradiction at one level of physics or biology is always
resolved at higher vibrational energies or perhaps, as Miller points out, by
"miracles." Which means that miracles understanding them and which would
cause anyone seeking the knowledge of the world. The universe is whole and
without contradiction it appears like a contradiction at one level of physics
or biology will be resolved.
There are huge questions that arise about that
which he does not even mention one is that are we to treat humans flourishing.
I think that there are miracles in this world that can happen you just have to
believe in them and they will happen. Listening to other people does not help
the mind because they can make you believe other wise.
17. What was the most interesting film you watched this term?
The film that had caught my eye the most was the time machine film I thought it was very interesting. Just being able to go back in time to see history being made would be something that interests me very much. If there was anytime I could go back in time I would go to when my mother was a teenager which was in the 70’s and see how it was for them at that age. Maybe I would appreciate more what I have now because I can honestly say we are spoiled with what we have now and expect it.
Then again I would also want to go to the future and see my great great great grandchildren. I bet anything this world will be so much different and many things will have been changed. It would be great to see how education is also changed from now. If I was able to find someone or had a lot of money to pay someone to use the time machine I would definitely take in consideration.
18. What was the most interestin reading for you this term?
In week 6 I found the reading on the Exploring the physics of being a psychic suffer to be very interesting. David Lane’s story was very intriguing to me to see that it’s not just me that does chants sometimes. I think that if I was attempting and I say attempting since I do not know how to. I would probably being saying a chant also so that I could ride a wave myself I never had the ride a wave or be in the ocean. I have done a chant before as a young child when I had gone to go see shamu at Sea World. I remember yelling for shamu to jump up and splay us.
I continually said splash us, splash us I thought that we were not going to wet since we were sitting in one of the top benches. I turn to speak to my father for a second and before I knew It I seen shamu coming our way and splashed us all with his tail. After that had occurred I found myself sometimes doing chants in my head when I wanted things to happen.
19. What was the most unusual thing you learned this term?
The most unusual thing that I have learned from this semester was on flame on. I could not believe they said that homosexuality regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them. I believe that anyone is entitled to their own opinion about someone. But they should not put someone down about liking the same sex. I have friends that like the same sex and I would never treat them different or tell them something to hurt their feelings.
They have hearts just like anyone else I have a close guy friend and he as sweet as can be. Just because he likes males other people do not want to be around him because they think others will make fun of them. Even they might come to the conclusion that the other people that are associated with them are the same. It just suprises me how some people can be so cold hearted and treat another person so mean. It just shows me that this world may not be such a good place with all this negativity surrounding us. If people actually took the time to get to know the people that like the same sex they would realize that they are not bad people they simply just want to be accepted by other people.
