Reflection On Tech Usage

About my technology usage time, I guess I’m pretty satisfied with it, since I don’t really use much technology, only the essentials, probably like my phone or my laptop, but mostly the phone. My phone is probably the only technology that I use much, since it’s pretty much needed in my daily activities.

I don’t tend to rely on technology too much, so that proves that I’m efficient with my time and all. And since I lost or broke most of the gadgets that I owned, I’m not really able to have much activity varieties like I used to, and it probably changes my perspective so nowadays I rarely find interest going on the Internet, aside from communicating. I probably would go on either because of school works or just because I’m that bored, which I usually have books to company me, but in specific cases, I’ll retreat to technology temporarily. And besides, imagining myself as being a technology master person is just... weird. Half the time, I don’t even know what to do when I go on the Internet, because I don’t really play games, because most of them nowadays are just so boring and lame, and I don’t know any “nice sites” or anything, so I tend to Google them, and find myself opening these weird lame sites which aren’t entertaining at all… So my only choice is to open one of those comedy sites, or Youtube, where I watch funny stuffs... Even when it entertains me, the image of me laughing in front of a computer screen is still weird... even though everybody’s probably doing it as well…

I can’t say I have a positive response on having technology in our daily lives, having the humans getting used to it and eventually depending on it fully. I do try to not depend on technology much, but mostly everything nowadays requires at least a little bit of technology using. But as a student, it made our life easier and harder at the same time, like we can type a report rather than hand writing it, somewhat copy paste the internet for our reports or researches. The hard part is like when teachers expect us to learn so much more than the curriculum in the past, it has changed a lot nowadays, we are learning in a much wider range, which I mind, there’s just so much unnecessary learning to do and we’re missing out on what is really essential for our future or something. Anyways, other than that, my family is always occupied with their own gadgets, which ‘causes laughing at random times while staring at their phones or anything, being ignorant with each other since we are all so “busy”, and overall, technology prevents us from having socialization even among my own family. But with friends, I guess it’s a different case because we can now just text unlimitedly to each other 24/7, as long we have Internet or the phone services.

While doing tasks, I expect myself to finish the highest priority activity first, and I don’t know why but I unintentionally am always distracted by all the weird “captivating” applications. But after I get super close to the deadline, like an hour or so, I start panicking and I finally get started on it, for real this time. Even my “method” works, it shows just how lazy I am, and I hope I would improve sooner or later and realize how horrible and inefficient my way of doing tasks is.

The Professor & the Student

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with God, the Almighty. He asked one of his new Christian students to stand.
Professor :You are a Christian, aren't you, son? 
Student: Yes, sir. 
Professor: So, you believe in God? 
Student: Absolutely, sir. 
Professor: Is God good? 
Student: Sure. 
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is God good, then? Hmm? 
(Student was silent) 
Professor: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good? 
Student: Yes. 
Professor: Is Satan good? 
Student: No. 
Professor: Where does Satan come from? 
Student: From.. God. 
Professor: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? 
Student: Yes. 
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct? 
Student: Yes. 
Professor: So who created evil? 
(Student didn't answer) 
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they? 
Student: Yes, sir. 
Professor: So, who created them? 
(Student had no answer) 
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.%. have you ever seen God? 
Student: No, sir. 
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God. 
Student: No, sir. 
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter? 
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't. 
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him? 
Student: Yes. 
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son? 
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith. 
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has. 
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat? 
professor: Yes. 
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold? 
Professor: Yes. 
Student: No, sir, there isn't. 
(the Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events) 
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it. 
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre) 
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness? 
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness? 
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light... But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it's called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you? 
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man? 
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed. 
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how? 
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey? 
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do. 
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir? 
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going) 
Student Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher? 
(The class was in uproar) 
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class broke out into laughter) 
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures? 
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable) 
Professor: I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son. 
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving! 
That student: was Albert Einstein.

Cracking Your Knuckles Does Not Hurt Your Bones

Cracking your knuckles (or any of your joints) can have therapeutic benefits. When you crack one of your joints you are pulling the bones that are connected at the joint apart from each other. This process stimulates your tendons, relaxes your muscles, and loosens your joints. Chiropractors do this for spinal joints when your back is sore and stiff, but you can do this on your own for your knuckles, toes, knees, neck, etc. 

Unfortunately, there can be too much of a good thing. Cracking your knuckles will never lead to arthritis (despite what your mom keeps telling you), but scientists have discovered that it can cause tissue damage in the affected joints. Knuckle-cracking pulls your finger bones apart which stretches your ligaments. Too much stretching of your ligaments will cause damage to your fingers akin to the arm injuries sustained by a baseball pitcher who throws too many pitches. In addition to making your hand really sore, this ligament damage can also result in reduced grip strength. 

How does this work? Your joints, the places in your body where you can bend, are where your bones intersect and are held together by ligaments. These joints are surrounded by a liquid called synovial fluid. When you stretch your ligaments by pulling the bones apart to crack your knuckles a gas in the synovial fluid escapes and turns into a bubble. This process is called cavitation. Cavitation ends when the bubble eventually bursts, producing that popping sound we know and love. After that, your joints won't be able to crack for another 25-30 minutes while the gas gets reabsorbed into the synovial fluid.

Psychopathy Test

Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or development. 
They are simply morally depraved individuals who represent the "monsters" in our society. 
They are unstoppable and untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and emotionless. The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so, then tapers off.

Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless, and possibly dissociated state, revealing a low-state autonomic nervous system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them - control and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no long-standing bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the planning of violence).

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Questions

Is it better to be okay at a lot of things, or really good at one thing?

Is it better to make things happen, or let things happen?

People's Stupidity part 2

A tree found in a man's lungs

In 2009, Russian doctors operated on Artyom Sidorkin to remove what they thought was a tumor in his lung. When they opened him up, they were surprised to find a fir tree growing instead! Doctors speculate that the man must have inhaled a seed that eventually sprouted and grew inside him. The growing branches were even started to cause him to cough up blood because they were puncturing his lungs!