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!

People's Stupidity part 1

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that makes people lose more weight than is considered healthy for their age and height.

Persons with this disorder may have an intense fear of weight gain, even when they are underweight. They may diet or exercise too much, or use other methods to lose weight.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors

The exact causes of anorexia nervosa are unknown. Many factors probably are involved. Genes and hormones may play a role. Social attitudes promoting very thin body types may also be involved.

Family conflicts are no longer thought to contribute to this or other eating disorders.

Risk factors for anorexia include:

• Trying to be perfect or overly focused on rules
• Being more worried about, or paying more attention to, weight and shape
• Having eating problems during infancy or early childhood
• Certain social or cultural ideas about health and beauty
• Having a negative self-image
• Having an anxiety disorder as a child

Anorexia usually begins during the teen years or young adulthood. It is more common in females, but may also be seen in males. The disorder is seen mainly in white women who are high academic achievers and who have a goal-oriented family or personality.

Symptoms

To be diagnosed with anorexia, a person must:

• Have an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even when she is underweight
• Refuse to keep weight at what is considered normal for her age and height (15% or more below the normal weight)
• Have a body image that is very distorted, be very focused on body weight or shape, and refuse to admit the seriousness of weight loss
• Have not had a period for three or more cycles (in women)

People with anorexia may severely limit the amount of food they eat, or eat and then make themselves throw up. Other behaviors include:

• Cutting food into small pieces or moving them around the plate instead of eating
• Exercising all the time, even when the weather is bad, they are hurt, or their schedule is busy
• Going to the bathroom right after meals
• Refusing to eat around other people
• Using pills to make themselves urinate (water pills or diuretics), have a bowel movement (enemas and laxatives), or to decrease their appetite (diet pills)

Other symptoms of anorexia may include:

• Blotchy or yellow skin that is dry and covered with fine hair
• Confused or slow thinking, along with poor memory or judgment
• Depresion
• Dry mouth
• Extreme sensitivity to cold (wearing several layers of clothing to stay warm)
• Loss of bone strength
• Wasting away of muscle and loss of body fat

Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia is an illness in which a person binges on food or has regular episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control. The affected person then uses various methods -- such as vomiting or laxative abuse -- to prevent weight gain.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors

Many more women than men have bulimia. The disorder is most common in adolescent girls and young women. The affected person is usually aware that her eating pattern is abnormal and may feel fear or guilt with the binge-purge episodes.

The exact cause of bulimia is unknown. Genetic, psychological, trauma, family, society, or cultural factors may play a role. Bulimia is likely due to more than one factor.

Symptoms

In bulimia, eating binges may occur as often as several times a day for many months.

People with bulimia often eat large amounts of high-calorie foods, usually in secret. People can feel a lack of control over their eating during these episodes.

Binges lead to self-disgust, which causes purging to prevent weight gain. Purging may include:

• Forcing oneself to vomit
• Excessive exercise
• Use of laxatives, enemas, or diuretics (water pills)

Purging often brings a sense of relief.

People with bulimia are often at a normal weight, but they may see themselves as being overweight. Because the person's weight is often normal, other people may not notice this eating disorder.

Symptoms can include:

• Compulsive exercise
• Throwing away packages of laxatives, diet pills, emetics (drugs that cause vomiting), or diuretics
• Regularly going to the bathroom right after meals
• Suddenly eating large amounts of food or buying large amounts of food that disappear right away

Signs and tests

A dental exam may show cavities or gum infections. The enamel of the teeth may be worn away or pitted because of too much exposure to the acid in vomit.

A physical examination may also show:

• Broken blood vessels in the eyes (from the strain of vomiting)
• Dry mouth
• Pouch-like look to the corners of the mouth due to swollen salivary glands
• Rashes and pimples
• Small cuts and calluses across the tops of the finger joints from forcing oneself to vomit

Dissociative identity disorder

a.k.a people who has multiple personalities. I've always find this interesting. It's a common effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse.

It's like daydreaming, or getting lost in the moment while working on a project. But, multiple personality disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental proces, which produces a lack of connectio in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity.

Causes are mostly because of:
1. Life threatening trauma before the age of seven. (Minor trauma is not enough. The child must fear for his or her life.)

2. Grade V hypnotizable Emotional Self.

3. Polarized parents - one good and one bad.

4. Polarization of siblings. Only this one is abused. The others are treated decently.

Symptoms:
-Inability to recall important personal information, for everyday events or taumatic events(Amnesia)
-Feels that the body is unreal and constantly changing or dissolving. Feels like she/he is out of the body and is watching a move of him/herself.(Depersonalization/out of body expirences)
-Believes that the walls, buildings, etc are changing in shape, size, or color. Fail to recon closerelatives or friends. (Derealization)
-headaches, body pains,
-phobias, panic attacks
-suicidal tendencies, compulsions, addictive behaviors
-mood swings, depression

Schizophrenia

 What’s the Issue?

There seems to be a lot of misinformation about Schizophrenia out there. I recently had someone describe it to me as “split personality disorder”, where a person has one normal personality, and then another “completely messed up one”.
This is Not what Schizophrenia is. Scizophrenia is a psychological disorder caused by disruptions in perception, thought, and expression.
Why Is Knowing What Schizophrenia is Important?
Confusing Schizophrenia with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is damaging to those who need to seek treatments for their disorders, or may unfairly assign stigma to them.
Who is Effected in this Confusion?
Approxamatly 24 million people world wide have schizophrenia, and only half of them recieve treatment. Treatment is usually not effective in the later stages of the disorder.
Approxamatly .1% of the world population fits the criteria for DID, or 6.9 million people worldwide. Treatment varies in effectiveness, due to previous and current life circumstances.
So What’s NOT Schizophrenia?

• Schizophrenia is NOT randomly attacking and killing people. Schizophrenics are far more likely to injure themselves than others.
• Schizophrenia is NOT a person with multiple personalities. While they may hear voices, or feel that someone is controlling their mind, thoughts, or actions, no other person, or personality, ever controls their body.

So What IS Schizophrenia?

• Schizophrenia is not the same for every Schizophrenic.
• Schizophrenics often hallucinate (hearing voices or seeing things), but not all do.
• Schizophrenics may be paranoid. They could think that they are being watched, or controlled.
• Schizophrenics may be delusionsals. They may think they are God, or a messenger of God. They may think they are a famous person reincarnated, or that they are secretly dead.
• Schizophrenics may withdraw from society, and may even become catatonic.

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a condition where people feel go back and forth between a very good or irritable mood and depression. Yes, normal people get mood swings too, but bipolar people get mood swings between mania and depression very quick.

Types:
1. They had at least one major depression in the past.   often reffered to manic depression.
2. They experience high energy levels and impulsiveness that is not as extreme as mania (hypomania), and they alternate to depression.
3. Less severe mood swings, they alternate between hypomania and mild depression, they often wrongly diagnosed as having depression. Called cyclothymia.

Symptoms:

-Easily Distracted
-Little need for sleep or sleeping too much
-Poor judgment & temper control
-Lack of self control and behavior
-Very elevated mood, daily low mood or sadness
-Eating problems
-Feeling worthless, hopeless, or guilty, loss of self-esteem
-Thoughts of death and suicide

-etc.

Henna Hands

A temporary form of skin decoration, mostly used before the Indian wedding. It is usually drawn on the hands and feet, where the color will be darkest because the skin contains higher levels of keratin, and stuffs you and me, wouldn't understand..
It is usually applied by a paint brush with the specific henna paste, then wrapped with tissue/plastic overnight. The final color is reddish brown and can last for around for months, depending of the quality of the paste.

Topic

Through different countries varies different lifestyle and culture.
It fascinates me how people could be different in such a beautiful way.
I personally appreciate Indonesia's culture and lifestyle, I think it's appropriate in a way and it's also creative. I love how they make batik with different patterns and all of that.
India's and Thai's are nice as well, since they are kind of similar to Indo's
And the fact that Thai includes a lot of elephants, makes their culture a whole lot more interesting.
You get what I'm saying..
Overall my topic is about people.

My name is Maria Tiffany, I was born on 30th May 1997, Surabaya, Indonesia.
So I'm currently 14 years old. I love eating, pizza mostly.
I'm not a big fan of sports, the only sports I do is probably running, which is required when I'm "walking" my dog.
I haven't discovered myself any further yet so I have nothing else to tell you.
K. Thanks.