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[Oct. 5th, 2004|05:31 am] |
Define: love
ohhhh man I'm really asking for it on this one. |
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| perception vs. reality |
[Sep. 26th, 2004|02:23 am] |
so I'll start this with a simple statement: opinions are varied.
opinions on anything. we, being human beings, the terrible, greedy, selfish, disagreeing beings we are. we can't even agree on simple things. who would make the better president. simpler. which flavor is better. more advanced, complex things. love. everyone has their own opinion on everything tangible.
then there are the intangible things, as we view them. these things make up the certainties in our lives. things that we can tell from our five senses. not our opinions on them, but what they are. shapes, colors, sensation, flavor. not that we necessicarily agree on what we think of them, but due to common understanding, two people can both agree on what something actually is. take something like...pain. two people can both put their hand on the bottom of a heated oven and agree that what they are feeling is excruciating pain. both people can also agree that their skin appears to be burned after toucing this oven. these are certainties. common understandings. whether the feeling of pain is enjoyable or not can be argued, but the fact that the feeling is, in fact pain, cannot be argued.
and now before the actual arguement, the scientific approach. the nervous system:
breaking it down more. we have our five senses...well the five proven senses, which would be, vision(sight), audition(hearing), gustation(taste), olfaction(smell), and tactition(feel) there is also a little known sixth sense called Proprioception, which is basically body awareness. the manifestation of the senses on ones own body. basically, the art of being able to move. knowing that If you move your limbs a certain way, they will move in the given direction that they should, depending on how you move them. this is the sixth sense.
so basically, how it works, is, you have the base of the nevous system, the neuron. there are little receptors in the neurons called dendrites. they are all over your body, and account for the senses. the neruons read impulses, and send them through their axons into the axon terminals. this is where the synapse is fired into the next neuron in line to your brain. when the snyapses are fired, what happens, is the axon terminals quickly exchange Na+ and K+. the Na+ leaves the cell, as the K+ enters. this creates a charge, which allows whatever sensation is being transmitted to move on to the next neuron, which this event also happens in. these synapses fire all the way until they reach the brain, where they are interpreted, and recognized as sensations. ever been slapped in a spot so many times in a row that it has become numb. this is because the nerves are becoming tired, from firing so many synapses in a row. after the synapse is fired, the K+ is replaced again with Na+ so the neuron can be used again. repetition of an intense sensation in the same area can cause the senses do dull for a short period of time, due to lack of resting time. also, an overflow of either of these chemicals can kill. my anatomy teacher told me a story of a nurse that she knew at one point
she killed a man, because she accidentally mixed a vial that was supposed to go into his IV with a vial of Na+. it took under a minute for him to die. because of the imbalance in Na+ and K+, the mans neurons all flooded with sodium, and were unable to react to anything. I can only imagine how he felt seconds before he died. It was like his body just turned off. that simple.
but enough of that. now to the interesting part. we know how now the body works, and how it sends these impulses and senses to the brain. the question now is, how certain are our certainties? we can break it down into something simple first. as simple as...say. colors. take two people. they look at a picture of a granny smith apple. both people (assuming both have proper vision) agree that the apple is green. its that simple a common understanding. they are taught from birth that the color they see is green, so it is green. but who is to say that both of them both see green in the same manner. there is NO SOLID EVIDENCE that they do. as much as they can agree that something is the same color, they cannot agree that they both view it the same way. things are named a certain way for a reason; so that we can differentiate. humans have a common understanding that things are a certain way. like chicken. it tastes like chicken. sweet tastes like sweet. my sweet could be your sour. how could you possibly tell if i taste it the same way as you, you are not im my body. our bodies are in tune to have the same reactions to things, such as squeezing your eyes and tensing up at the taste of lemon juice. but who is to say that a person's body couldn't react the same way to what you sense as sweet, just as a means of being able to exist on the same plane.
this leads to another level of this thought. if things like that can be as tangible, how tangible is the world itself. I have a firm belief that everything is composed as energy. all life is basically energy that is able to exist on the same wavelength. to be able to exist on the same plane, things must take some sort of form. our brain is the only thing that can allow us to sense whatever form it is. so basically. we exist. we are solid objects. we are not ethereal. but how solid is that even. My solid could be your liquid. My solid could be your static. How can we ever tell. the only thing that allows any of this to take form is our brain, which is the center of whatever energy we are. people see different things as beautiful, but it is all due to our common understanding. the same way that one in every 15 kids likes the taste of bruessel sprouts. these are the rebel thinkers...the ones whos minds function slightly differently, although we all have to work towards this common understanding.
this is only a theory, but it could also be a school of thought. who knows. Im stopping this entry because that last paragraph was starting to ramble and repeat
I wish that for one day I could see through the eyes of someone else.
or even more fascinating: I wish for one day I could see what it is like to be born blind. I can only imagine what the blind man can see.
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| #0985679^^%^&^: TERRITORIES |
[May. 10th, 2004|04:32 pm] |
although I was completely wasted the other night, I can distinctly remember much of what was going on. I took a beer that i was assuming was for everyone, and this asshole comes and starts threatening me because it was his. I apologized and he sat there bitching me out. I even offered to pay for the goddamn thing and he wouldnt shut the hell up so I went inside. then he started throwing my shit out.
there were also several incidents that night of people bitching about people that they liked or were "in love with" blah blah blah. all of the drama was getting to me and I was in a miserable mood because of it.
so what I'm getting to is....why are people so fucking goddamn territorial like that? we are all whether we like to admit it or not. whether it is over our own belongings, or perhaps another human being that we want to believe "belongs" to us in some sort of weird way. theres so many people out there that I've seen that would fight for their lives for a girl, or a boy, or something like that. I just came out of a situation like that myself and I'm beginning to realize how stupid this really is. people don't belong to other people, so why get pissed off when someone else does what makes them happy? are we in it for each other, or for ourselves? I know Im not in it for myself. I never really was and I dont plan on being, but as for the world, I just dont get it. we are all like dogs, pissing on whatever we can get near just so that we can claim it on ours. what is belonging anyway? what is there really to own besides a few silly material things. we just all need to find ourselves?
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| (no subject) |
[May. 9th, 2004|11:41 pm] |
my hiatus from this account is over. I will be updating it frequently from now on.
expect an update tomorrow. |
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| Public display of something #oo2. |
[Nov. 21st, 2003|12:58 pm] |
The other day, while I was promoting for work, a dog came up to me. an Australian shepard to be exact. the dog came up to me and started sniffing me, but when I went to pet it, it ran away. it kept coming close to me, and then running away again. i walked away and promoted a few more houses, and the dogs owner came out of her house, across the street, and started screaming at the dog. the dog ran away.
I compare this to the recurring situation with the abused wife. her husband beats her to the point where she hates all men.
theres plenty of other similar situations, many of which i have seen in my lifetime, but I'm not going to bring them up.
the point I'm trying to get across is, people act instinctively, from things they learn. alot of the time they don't even realize they are doing it until anywhere from 2 weeks to 20 years down the road they regret it. people have traumatic experiences, they are hurt, or taught that a specific behavior is right, and they instinctively act it out, constantly. sometimes they just avoid a subject, sometimes they fuck certain things up, in a cycle, constantly.
are these things really that hard for us to break out of?
or maybe is it as simple as noticing our behaviors, disliking them, and changing them.
Things one holds inside themself are only as real and solid as they want them to be.
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| Caption activity #oo1 |
[Nov. 19th, 2003|02:18 pm] |
Write a caption, or explaination for the picture inside the LJ cut.
be as creative, detailed, or vague as you feel necessary.
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| public display of something #oo1 |
[Nov. 18th, 2003|02:25 pm] |
something happened to me about a week ago.
I woke up in the morning and I fell out of bed
I went about my normal morning routine (rushing to get clothes on, and walking to 7-11 for coffee in a daze)
when I reached 7-11, I got my coffee and went to the counter, where I noticed something. Tic-tacs are now 30% bigger. It took me a couple days to realize why, but after seeing that, I was pissed off for the rest of the day.
People are never happy with anything. they always want bigger, better, more improved, more features. always looking for better than what they have in life because they never seem to be happy with what they have, even if it IS good.
bigger..
better..
faster..
Now with a built in cappucino machine...but WAIT! If you call in the next 10 minutes, your cappucino machine comes with a teeny tiny cappucino machine! Inside of it! WITH a built in water purifyer!
oh joy.
Life is slowly becoming based on this, and people are being lulled into a silent form of ADD. We can't keep attention on one thing long enough, so we ditch it for a newer, more updated version.
version 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc.
you see a box labeled, "NOW 0.00004773% bigger, FOR THE SAME PRICE" you automatically think it is better because there is more.
or maybe, anything with a new feature. Ditch your older, crappier model for it! it has a screen that is one inch bigger! hoorah!!
people are like this with other people too. I can't count how many times I've been abandoned by friends, even one of my past girlfriends (I think that's one of the reasons)like 2 years ago, because I DONT DRIVE. I am not an updated model. I don't come with the fully detachable drivers liscence, therefore, I am not good enough. Ditch me, throw me in the garbage, find new friends with drivers liscences and fast cars.
people are fickle.
this happens in relationships too. I know as a fact this has happened to me,at least once, and, a while ago, when I was a dumb, immiture lad, i did it to someone else. one person in the relationship simply cannot hold relationships. they find a new person that seems more interesting, and immidiately throw the old model in the garbage. maybe marketing is really trying to force us into this role. a race of people that can't hold onto anything, because they always are looking for better.
well I say, when something good comes to you in life, dont go looking for better. If you have something that makes you happy, you shouldn't care about anything else. I say, learn to be happy with what you have. if something better is supposed to come along, it will make itself completely obvious.
we, as people need to fix this problem on our own, especially in the categories of friendships and relationships, because if we keep hurting each other, we will continue to lose all respect and trust for other people.
what people don't realize is that they themselves are changing. everything and everyone is always changing. sometimes the changes are just to slight to notice until they grow.
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 17th, 2003|11:07 pm] |
My eyes are open.
so what happens next?
time to light a fuse of my own.
annnnnd. begin! |
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