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Damn the snow. I was planning to go for a walk at the Arboretum today but God changed His mind. Behold, it must snow today. Sigh…
Anyway, I spent my whole evening at Ypsilanti, trying to help the race crew building the car. One thing worth noting; yesterday session was tense. Never in my life as a Solar Car member have I experienced what I had last night.
At first, the Power Electrical team had wanted to install the wiring on the car but the mechanical team needed to do something first. So, we disappointedly gave up our plan and instead, rescheduled our timetable and went out to Ypsilanti in order to help out the mech team. Once there, Mirai and Ivan needed to test the battery so they left me with our rival, which is the Mech team. While I had nothing to do for the Power Electrical team at that time, I decided to help out Mech. After all, although we’re rivals, our goal is still the car.
The rush of adrenaline started around 2100 hours, I at first stage was given the task of preparing some glue. Later, I had to go into the car to install some carbon stuffs on the car. The interesting thing was that the team had the operation timed. I, well we were racing against time and the Engineering Director even raised his voice, trying to keep people on track. At one time, we screwed up something and he was looking really mad
Nevertheless, we did finish up the work sometimes around midnight.
After the work session, I have decided to hate two thing, fiber glass and ethanol. Fiber glass makes the hand itchy while ethanol burns the hand. Therefore, the moral of the story is not to join the Mech team. Power Electrical rules.
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy and nothing is the best when it comes to ways of behaving. However, hypocrisy is better than honesty. That is for sure. First of all, I define hypocrisy as displaying two kind of behavior in two different situations. I see hypocrisy as a superset of honesty. In fact, the people whom first used the phrase “honesty is the best policy” are hypocrites themselves. Honesty on the other hand is simply the notion of being true to oneself i.e. following rigidly the principles (ideal, rules etc) that one has set on oneself.
The world around us constantly changing and this need us to adapt. Hypocrisy is a way to adapt to the ever changing world. One proof is China before the age of pre-pax Americana and during pax Americana. They were somewhat against the capitalist system and closed their system from world scrutiny. But now, we found that China is even in the WTO, the organization that they once looked in disgust. They only did this after they saw that it will benefit them to join the organization despite the fact that this is against their ideal.
Sometimes, two similar cases need us to deal with them differently. One case is the United States’ stance on North Korea and Iraq. They are applying double standard on those so-called members of Axis of Evil simply because it benefits them to do it. Surely, to fight on two fronts separated by the mountainous Asian terrain is folly. Also, using the same threat on North Korea will be a grave mistake since China is certainly more interested in the Korean Peninsula scenario than the Iraqis’ problem.
The affirmative action movement is classic case of hypocrisy. Yes a long time ago, there was discrimination of certain group of people against others. Discrimination no doubt is bad and the affirmative action was born from the notion that discrimination must be cleaned out from society’s mind. And now, the movement itself is discriminating certain sorts in favor of a few particular groups. Isn’t this hypocrisy?
But of course, when one reads this, one will wonder what the connection between hypocrisy and honesty is. The relationship is, as I said before, honesty is a subset of hypocrisy.
If you don’t agree with me then consider the following situation. You have an ability to do something that nobody else possesses. A friend of yours knows this and asked you to use your expertise to do something for him or her as a favor. His or her request was against your principle and thus, you presented your friend with a monotonous no as an answer. Later, a stranger approached you and asked you to do the same thing that your friend had asked you. As a return, the stranger promise to reward you with something that you need but can’t afford to buy it. So, will you be honest and fair towards your friend by saying no to the stranger or will you obey the stranger’s request and get the thing that you really want?
If you think the last scenario is not strong enough, then imagine that the reward was your life and the request was to murder someone else. Will you be true to yourself and your friend or will you be a hypocrite?
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[136] Of types of blog
Go to http://www.__mars.blogspot.com/#88596289 after reading this thing. And please, don’t link to it. A no means no.
The term blog is a short hand of the word web log. In a short time, the term became weblog and later as most people know became the blog phenomenon. The phenomenon quickly changed how personal websites are designed and maintained. Furthermore, to some extend it changes how the public receive and convey information to and fro the public. With this widespread influence of blog, several distinct groups of bloggers came into existence. In black and white, there are two distinct groups. One is the serious blog while the other type is personal blog.
Serious blog mainly consists of political motivated content. This type ranged from Libertarian ideology to the Green movement. Another branch of serious blog is the judgmental type. The content usually contains opinion on lots current events, whether the issues originated from the main stream media or from the blogosphere itself. Some of it are prejudiced to certain groups while few others simply analyze in a so-called “unbiased” view. On second thought, the two kinds might be the same thing.
The serious branch also contains blogs that review various subjects such as games and technology. Others are simply a collection of forwarded email, photos, haikus (or poems), fictional stories etc. posted in short but random intervals. Of all blogs, these blogs are the most unique (and weird).
The second kind is the personal blog. Personal blog is merely an extension of the idea of personal website. It contains at best random rambling, ranging from “what I did today” to “fuck the world”. Some of it are exceptionally good and typically crossed into the serious blogosphere. The others, usually with cliche title (e.g. “it’s all about me”) are simply personal diaries. The latter type has small scope and usually receives visit only from friends and families. It’s worth mentioning that most surfers hate these personal online diaries.
All in all, most readers, in my opinion, would find the former class to be more interesting with the exception of this and that than the latter version.
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[58] Of check this out!!!
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Check this out!!!
It has been a long time since I last felt bliss. For once in my disordered life, I managed to snatch a frame of time that doesn’t run nor crawl. Time just stood still for me at one particular moment, just for me alone.
It was late in the morning; I woke up naked from bed with weary eyes and heard a few birds chipping nearby. It’s a dream, I told myself but yet, I knew my awareness was simply present at that time. I sat on the bed, unmoved and confused.
My eyes were struggling to cope with the intense but much welcome sunlight. Confusion overwhelmed me but the confusion simply brought my heart pleasure. The sound of chipping birds just continued on without even a second of pause. It sang continuously and I could swear to God that my other self was singing and dancing in chorus with the rhythm.
Moments passed and when another moment was about to pass through me, I started to notice the condition of my messy room. But finally, I was freed from slumberland. Awaken, I quickly realized that the birds were resting near my wooden window.
Two sparrows, overlooking the sun-lit side of the proud Michigan Union were singing together happily.
Those two flying creatures saw me but they ignored as if they knew that I will never have the heart hurt such a small but lovely beast. They just sang as if there are no worries in this world. I also had forgotten all of my worries. I need not to worry because time stood still for me. When time stops, there are no worries for any of us. Hell freezes – eternity is all we have for everything.
I stared at them but seeing not them. I saw through them. Instead of seeing two singing sparrows, I saw the bluish sky with the mighty Sun shone brilliantly over the earth. Winter had left me quietly.
Wrapping myself with my favorite soft blanket, I came closer to the birds, standing closely to them. The sparrows just ignored me and sang without lapse. I just stood near the window with my chaotic hair, finding myself enjoying the sparrows’ offering.
It’s spring. The equinox must be nearing. Thank God it’s coming.
1045 hours. Fifteen minutes to my next class. Time suddenly sped and the sparrows flew away leaving me alone. Sigh…
Would you believe me if I said that time travel if possible?
You might be remembering Michael J. Fox in the Back to the Future series upon the word time travel but throughout our life, we are traveling through time. We are traveling into the future while experiencing the past without us realizing it. There is no such thing as the “present time”. There are only the past tense and the future tense. Present tense is irrelevant in our life. Past and future tense are the present tense. In a sense, time travel is possible but present time is impossible.
The notion of present time is so vague if you sit down and think about it. It’s like how do you know whether God does exist or not?
Is it possible to have a time that is at the “present time”? Certainly you would say yes but consider this; everything take time to travel. The photons that our retina senses are the photons that were created billions of years plus roughly eight minutes in the core of our star. So, we are sensing the photons that were created during even the mono-cells life forms were still non-existing when we see go out and burns ourselves under the sun.
There is no such thing as “present time” because light does not travel instantly from one place to another. Light needs a certain amount of time to travel. If light travels with infinite speed, only then can we say that we are experiencing “present time”.
Even this paragraph, is the light that was produced by the c.r.t. a few microseconds ago. Therefore, you are reading the thing of the past when you read it.
Moments later, you will read the following sentence and that will be your future time but right now you are reading this sentence which was the product of electrons bombardment a few microseconds ago, which means that your retina actually was sensing the photons that were produced microseconds ago when you were reading the last sentence. Thus, the first sentence of this paragraph that you read was the past when you were reading it but right now you are reading this sentence. You might think that when you are reading the last sentence, you are reading it but no, you read it, not reading it. (When you were reading the sentence before the last sentence, you saw that sentence before the last sentence, not seeing it. Got it?)
To say that we are living at the present time, is really saying that we are experiencing the past in the near future. We are just moving too slowly to realize this fact.
The notion of present time is not easy to describe. Even scholars of the past were confused until the word instantaneous was fully described by calculus. But yet, none of us could really grasp the meaning of present time in everyday life because to have instantaneousness , time must be set to zero and if that holds true, time does not move. Present time is meaningful if it is an instantaneous time. Instantaneous time is meaningful if only time stops. Present time is meaningful if and only if time stops. Unfortunately, time does not stop except at the event horizon. Therefore, the word “present time” is meaningless.
We are traveling through time. Time travel is possible but “present time” is a phrase that describes something impossible.
Present tense is irrelevant in our life but because we are moving too slowly (only a small tiny bit fraction of the speed of light), we are allowed to use present tense. We are allowed to use present tense because we can’t comprehend the experience of experiencing the near past in the near future. The fragment of time called the time where experiencing the near past in the near future is known as the present time. This means that the present time(p.t.) is a moment(a scenario, experience, etc), I called it Mmt over time(t) where time is zero.
p.t. = (Mmt/t) where t = 0. But if A is a real number and B = 0, A/B is meaningless but yet of course, we can use limits method but still, limits use the idea of nearing the 0, not 0. Thus, the limits method does not describe instantaneousness but rather, an approximation of instantaneousness.
This is illogical. I need to sleep.
Here is something that I found over the net. Heart touching, for me at least. God, let me see the light, someday.