Well here we are at the end of the semester. I have neglected to write hear a couple times, but not much has happened. I just feel like I've been doing a lot of work and have forgotten to get back on this. But my failings are not what I wish to talk about. I'm going to discuss what I've earned over this semester.]
What have I earned over this semester? A few new friends, some experience, and a kidney stone (not literally...). More than anything else though, I've received moments. Lots of different kinds of moments, happy moments, sad moments, hungry moments, etc. Basically what I'm saying is that I have not received as much physical things, as I have intangible things. I just haven't taken any real pride in any of my work yet, I guess. Nothing that I've made or written matters to me much at all. Maybe that's just the kind of person I am, or maybe it's because I really haven't done anything of actual value yet.
But a new semester starts in a month and we will see what I gain from that. I hope for a greater understanding of what I plan on doing in life, but we will have to wait and see. Until then, I'll just take my moments.
So here we are. It's been a long time coming, but I've been busy and lazy. A week ago in Focused Inquiry, we spent our class period discussing what would happen if "the grid" went down. For those who don't know, the grid is basically the network that everything electronic runs on. The internet, cell phone networks, and lots of different forms of communication is what composes the grid. Knowing that, what would happen if the grid went down?
First of all, I believe it would take a while before everyone actually realized it happened. People might notice that their cell phones aren't working and that their internet is down also, but that happens, at least to me, every once in a while. However, as soon as word got out, I believe that chaos would indeed reign. Personally, I would go home immediately and work out a plan with my family. That would probably include staying in the house with guns ready.
However, for amusement, if I was alone I would probably go home and grab my (model) revolver. Then I would head down to the nearest gun store and grab an actual pistol, rifle, and plenty of ammo. After that, I would probably try and go to my friends' houses and see what they're planning. In the end, I would stay camped out with my friends in a single house until we needed food. Then we would loot a grocery store or steal someone else's food. Boring? Maybe, but safe.
In case you haven't noticed yet, I haven't been doing my class ratings. My teacher has begun to attempt to train himself not to cuss as much in classes, and thus I have decided to forgo the rating system for now. There is a possibility that I will create a new, more accurate one, especially considering that I'm going to have Scott for another semester. But will I continue this blog for another semester? We will see.
This weekend I had a couple things that I definitely needed to do: I needed to finish my FI paper and I needed to write 2 lab reports for Engineering. I did none of them. I probably could've done everything on friday and gotten it out of the way, but I didn't. And that brings me to my topic for this post.
I find that when I know I need to work, but don't feel like it, I usually don't get much done. I tend to stray away from whatever my objective is and do other things. This ends up in a lot of wasted time doing something like watching Youtube videos. Thus, in order to fix this, I have created my Philosophy of Laziness. If ever I know I should probably feel like doing work, but don't want to, then I don't. It's that easy. I don't waste time by convincing myself that I'm going to do work and then slowly drift through the internet. I just tell myself that I don't feel like doing it, and then do it later.
I know some of you are probably wondering how I get anything done. Well, this weekend I didn't get any of the stuff I needed to do done. So today is the day I have to do it all. Sure, it's a price to pay, but it was worth it. I had friday, saturday, and sunday off without any worries! And all I had to pay for it is one day of hard work. Also, I tend to write better when I'm closing in on a deadline. I don't know why, but ideas just flow out of my fingertips onto the screen when I feel pressure.
Well, that's my Philosophy of Laziness, plain and simple. Feel free to adopt it yourself, I have no problem with that. Three cheers for procrastination and all of its wonderful benefits!
To live eternally is to suffer exponentially. Life gained, or forever lost? Who has the right to say? Endless amounts of stories have been written containing eternal life, a main one being the bible. What would have happened if Adam and Eve had eaten of the tree of life? How many people have hoped for such a miracle in their lives?
Thanatophobia- a fear of death or dead things and those related to both
Given the chance to live eternally, who would say no? The fear of death is what drives our decisions. We realize our mortality relatively early in life, however we do not comprehend it until later in our lives. With every decision we make, a dark presence lingers over our shoulder. Who among us would give up the chance to slip away from the Great Deceiver?
Death whispers worries into our ears, making us care greatly about our decisions. Death is the topic of so many modern discussions, such as religion, abortion, and war. No one wants to die.
However, that is not to say that none have accepted death. Some accept death and move on like normal, others accept death and then take risks they normally wouldn't take, and then others accept death and wish it upon themselves for many reasons. For instance, is not dying for someone the greatest expression of love possible? Holding another's life far above your own, enough to die for them?
Now let's take a look at eternal life. Living forever also entails suffering forever and everything else that comes with life. Everything bad that has happened in your life as of right now will happen an infinite amount of times. On the other hand, every good thing that has happened will also extend over eternity. Eternal life is not the angel we think it is. With every action there comes an equal and opposite reaction. Who says eternal life is exempt from this? And on the opposite end, who says death is exempt from this?
The modern view of eternal life is muddled with nothing but happy thoughts, while the modern view of death is muddled with just dark thoughts. My question is this: who really has the upper-hand in religion? The Immortal God, or the mortal man?
the written english languige has been butchered over time. With the online age we have tryd to make it sound, when read, like we speak it. In other word, we write how we speak now. with pauses and everything. This results in fragments, repeadted ellipsis, and a large number of other crap. However, it has changed over the thyme that the internet has been around.
now, our writing has become not only how we say things, but also abbreviations for how we say things and laziness. Every one is lookin for a faster way to say what they want to say, to the point of leaving out punctuation, making abberviations (wtf?), and just plain ignoring what their typing. And now what we right has slowly bled onto how we speak.
Every heard anyone say "lol" out loud? Who we r online has become who we r in person. Some of us have simply used some poor grammar to make it clear HOW were saying something when writing online. This is used only in personal emails and such though. however, most others've just rezorted to laziness and then let it affect they're normal lives. Ridiculuos.
learn totype , learn to use grammar correct, learn to punctuate learn 2 not use abbreviations, and especialy learn to spell. Stop letting what you say online affect what you say in person.
Today, I will be writing about the chaos theory. Let's begin by defining our term to make it clear what it is we are discussing.
Chaos Theory- The study of unpredictable and complex dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to small changes in external conditions.
We are going to be looking at specifically the idea of chaos theory in a global sense. In this sense, chaos theory is the study of all actions and their unseen effects on our everyday lives, in other words, the butterfly effect of chaos theory.
Let me explain this more clearly. Let's say you are in the library. You've just sat down at a computer and some dust came off the seat. This makes you sneeze. Now, when most people view this scenario, they see a simple cause and effect. You needed to do something, and in return something else happened. However, chaos theory looks at the ripples of your action that you may not immediately notice.
Using our earlier scenario, you sit down at the computer and then you sneeze. However, by sneezing, you have just distracted a person from the paper they are writing on their computer. He has lost his train of thought and now looks back to his paper in hopes of regaining it. He had a great argument to write, but now he can't seem to recall what it was. So, he simply writes down a half-ass argument to support his claim. Once again, the ripples do not stop here.
By having written that half-ass argument, his final thesis is not as convincing. The student then hands in his essay and receives a 80 on his paper for not having a more supportive argument, among other reasons. Your sneeze has now cost a student a good grade. But it continues further.
That student, having received a lower grade than he expected, is now disappointed in himself. He put a lot of time into that paper and still received a bad grade. This was a very important essay and he didn't do nearly as well as he thought he would. He blames it on the teacher for being too hard on grading, and in return drops the course. By dropping the course, the student now has a lot more time for his other homework. He puts more effort into those and receives good grades accordingly.
The student may have dropped that one course, however it wasn't necessary for his degree. The students goes on to graduate at the top of his class because he did so well his first year that he had much more confidence in himself in the following years. This student gets hired by a well known company and gets paid extremely well, due to his understanding of his major.
The student becomes rich rather quickly and, having always been partial to movies, attends the first showings of many upcoming movies. However, one night as he leaves in his Ferrari, he gets hit by a drunk driver and dies immediately.
You were in the library and you needed a computer. You sat down on a chair and some dust flew into your nose, causing you to sneeze. Your sneeze goes on to kill the person across from you.
Now, you might say that there are so many other factors involved. That is absolutely true, and that is what chaos theory is. I just took a look at the butterfly effect that your sneeze had on a person's life. To look at all the butterfly effects is what chaos theory is.
So what is the best way of defining Chaos Theory? -Shit happens.
No, there will be no rating for this week's classes. My teacher didn't really do much teaching at all this week, so I'll spare him the criticism, though I did enjoy both classes.
Anyway, today my classmate, Brent, and I had the pleasure of my teacher's company after his first class. We sat in his office, mentioning different bands and websites of the weird. I believe we three were slightly late to class, but it didn't slow class at all. Today, we simply peer-reviewed stories that everyone wrote as an essay. Easy, quick, enjoyable. A little, sugar-coated treat of a class.
So now I am left to wonder what made Mr. Scott want to be a teacher? He seems to have the uncanny skill of keeping a class's and individual's attention at all times. I wonder, did he develop this before becoming a teacher? or after?
I guess what I'm wondering is, did becoming a teacher make him who he is, or did he become a teacher because of who he is? If the first one, what made him want to be a teacher in the first place? And how long did it take him to learn to such a skill?
Many questions, all are unanswered. Right now I can only speculate. I'm not sure whether I would enjoy analyzing him more or just straight up asking him.
