The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Wk 4)

http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html

I think Dawkins has brought up a really good idea about the characteristics about the "meme." I mean, we all know that there people who are a slave the fashion, but we can't let this idea be undersold. Just because we are not splurging on a Gucci purse or Louis Vuitton because it is seen almost everywhere in LA, doesn't make anyone a lesser victim of a meme replicator when you see a baby, couples or watching a couple getting married. All this is also it! I seriously think there's something wrong when I almost all my friends and even my own family members, especially women are looking forward to only replicate! It's annoying to me, because I think it's too over-rated.

Maybe it is just me, but the womens that I know around me replicates for the wrongest reasons! Others may say I may be critical, but for a fact I know they are wrong; because I can tell that these womens are not happy with themselves, so they think having a kid will make their situations better. None of these women wants to fix their depressive states of being, but they think having a kid of their own will solve that problem. To me, it is like an empty being producing another empty being. Just like Dawkins describes, it's the meme pool...

Wk 7 Post: If Only You’d Knew About the Faces in US

I had always loved the taste of the green leaves and veggies and definitely prefers them over meats. Recently, I have been avoiding to eat meat overall, and finds it kind of disgusted. I don’t know what it is, maybe because my picky tastebuds detected the quality of meat has reach mediocre to me- it could be true. Lucky for me for now to stick with the greens and veggies. However, I know that it won’t be much further down that for the US to containment the agricultural crops. Afterall, if they really did cared there shouldn’t be mad cow disease in the first place. They would stop injecting all the cows with the hormones and further find more details about this viruse. In fact, the US can care less of its overall quality being produced- the real money is quantity. Actually, to the US, producing meat faces to faces that eats meats, there is no difference. We are the faces of meat ourselves so let’s be serious, why would you think they care?

The article that I was reading shows gave me more reasons to not eat meat. However, it seems to me that when I speak to other outside from science, they are clueless about any types of production for human heath and for animals. They think all is made for them is all safe and eat meats for granted. Who would actually log onto site whose usually outside of science that’s conscious for all this. But only if they knew… especially the current issues about our meats produce.

From an online wesite called: Organic Consumers Association; article written by Martha Rosenberg: Says It's None of the Public's Business Who Ate Recalled Meat on March 8, 2008 <http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_10796.cfm>

On March 8, 2008; Rosenberg wrote, “This week a 120 page list of over 400 restaurants and food services that bought Hallmark/Westland meat including Costco, Jack in the Box and Taco Bell appears on the California Department of Public Health web site. Officials say the list is growing.” Well I guess if it is too late now.

Regards to Edward O Wilson, “The Creation” (Wk 3)

Let me ask you. What is more important than money? Important than kinship? How about that Mercedes car you’ve always dreamed of? Lastly, can you think of anything else that can be more important than of that new home you and your spouse have just purchased, and can’t wait to start a family in? So, let’s compare and evaluate by breaking it down. In order for a person to be able to purchase any sorts of material goods, one must need to pay with cash. To get cash, a person has to either obtain it through labor or from their kins. In order for you and your kins to survive and to perform labor, we need food and resources. In order for resources to be available in an environment, it first has to exist in this universe. This is reasonable to suggest that the environment is what makes this universe a whole. To protect the environment is like protecting existence in this universe.

Regardless of how much we hate our neighbors or despise another ones beliefs, you don’t even have to agree with anybody. But for the sake of your own beings. I mean after all, you do want to live in that fairy tale story of yours right; drive the car of your dreams, living most comfortably, and enjoying your existence, therefore, we must protect the environment first in order to guarantee that there is a place for us in the future. Where similar to Edward O. Wilson in his lecture: he suggested, “ To call on the religious faithful and Evangelicals, and parts because it represented so plainly in basic fuse to join scientists, secularists, environmentalists’ and such one opposes other. Keep in mind that saving the earth is the only way to save the existence of your kinship members. Because without earth, here is no road for you to drive your Mercedes, no land exist for you to residence that dream home, there wouldn’t be any matter at all. We must protect earth.

Comment Regarding the Lecture of Owen Gingerich on Astronomy, God, and Jesus (Wk3)

In my art history class, I have learned that most religious paintings and portraits were were purchased from the church from starving artists. These artists uses the bible as a reference and guide themselves of Gods' imagery. The existence of competitiveness amongst these artists, forces them to heighten their creativeness to and produced amplified imageries of Gods' omnipotence. Therefore, it is important for an individual to know all possible background information to whom they choose to worship.

Same for Owen Gingerich, as a religious believer, in his lecture http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/neuraltelevisiontest4.htm;called Astronomy, God, and Jesus, he suggests the religious believers to make sensible choices when selecting an imagery of God for ones to worship. In other words, he felt that many believers in God, has a fixed imagery of God-like figure like in The Sixteenth Chapel; with an old man reaching and creating Adam. In a way, it sounds a bit deceiving, but I am not in a place to offer much in this subject because I wouldn't want to offend anyone.

Truth is, "Whatever Floats Ones Boat" (Wk 4)

Based on a theory of my own, I have made up a theme for the ones that lives in denials of their own, "Whatever floats your boat" (ones boat). Everyone of us are constantly living different realities of truths, because each of us needs different truths, in order to keep us living another day. That is why I totally agree with the creator in film called, Truth is That Truth Lies. He mentions, "Man would have to invent God even if he didn't exist, we cannot live without purpose even if that purpose is that adaptive fiction...etc." Pathetic truths exists a pathetic being and these are the ones that has to have some self denying truths they created for themselves to keep its boat floating. I found a very few; truthful and self loving of their very own existence, these are the ones who doesn't need a boat. There are no reasons in the need of a boat first of all; because the ones who lives in constant reality are well grounded.

The boat floaterers are a dime a dozen: nothing interesting or special to them at all but they think and act like they are. They make themselves believe so , therefore they act that act. Watch them closely. No matter how much a person makes themselves to believe in, the body still will not correlate. Therefore, the reactions, movements will show emptiness and insecurities. But they will free themselves no matter from thinking they are full of nothing now believes they are in self denials. In order to prevent oneself of recognizing whatever flaws they posses, it remain to be blindfold. As time passes by, then it is no longer familiar to know such shape of matter to be. However this blindfold only covers, it doesn't do any fulfillments. So observe their behaviors. It is definite from my own experience, you just have to a good observer- that's all it takes. Yet, I'm still bored. Seeing the replays of same story; women that gets a boob job or a nose job. Because their ideal of truth of actual beauty is to look common to another person. Taking $30,000, in order to spite a spark of the insecurities and low self-esteems; sure because it floats their boat. Because there are so many these floaterers, I am stuck observing these the borest dreamers, dead-end floaterers, the fairy tale wannabes Cinderella, and the worse are the ones that invests all of themselves for a lover (little as these investors know, they will only get dumped sooner or later).

The ones I find most intriguing and enriching are the ones who can speaks and lives in the constantly reality. Those similar to my interests; speaks the same types of human language. Lives in the constant reality, is able to criticize the actual truth, and will laugh at the actual truths. Since there are so few of us; motivated beings as we are, and yet constantly climbing the high of the highest; it forces us to take parts. I admit, we are autistic to some level of degrees. Who can blame us because we are actively bored.

Question of the Strange and Queerness That I Cannot Understand (Wk)

In The Strangeness of Science by Richard Dawkins, is found: .

When the narrator reads aloud about the recall an experience of ones childhood. Ones able to see, smell, heard, or feel; as if ones were once really there. "The bombshell," then gets dropped into our ears, exclaims "you weren't there, not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that even took place; matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you; whatever you are there for you were not the stuff of which you were made." This concept is "important" for us understand says the reader.
-Question: How does the matter of energy takes turns or be exactly us? And how is it that feel that familiarity? Does this relate to time transporting, if there is really such thing as time transporting? Does this mean it is possible for us to be at two or more places at once and can possibly take different forms all at the same time?

In the lecture it also mentions that the middle world; us, that resides in this world has a solid brain so we can define solids and not walk through walls. Yet, next line, he mentions, "insects are reverse."
-Questions: Does it mean insects does not have a solid brain? Come on. It can't be implying that insects can pass through solids; if I am missing out, someone can tell me that they actually witness them passing through rocks and the walls?

Regards to Edward O. Wilson, Consilience ((Wk4)

In the regards to Edward O. Wilson, Consiliences lecture. <http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/neuraltv6.htm> For more than thirty years, Wilson was being discriminated, being chastised, and being despised on by almost everyone the world. Yet, he stood independently for his beliefs and his thinkings. It's shameful that it taken this long for us, the human beings, to finally let go of the thought of where "supposedly," we are the most superior form than all other living species. Even until now, there are still others who refuses to believe that humans are animals, and we share more similarities with animals, than differing from them.

To be honest, I personally think animals are better than the human beings in so many ways. For example, in the movie of The March of the Penguins; where a mother penguin realizes her newborn died of a premature death. Impulsively, this mother tries to steal another females' newborn. This mother was aggressive and was determine to find a replacement for that newborn of hers. They fought continuously, and within the area other females are guarding their newborns also. However, these other groups of females couldn't stand such much longer of this unreasonable behavior of the mother penguin,. A group of females penguins steps in and gained up this psychotic mother penguin and made sure she didn't return. You see, these helpful female penguins, despite the fact that they are protecting their own newborns from this psychotic mother. In addition, the group recognizes unreasonable behaviors that should not be tolerated. This animal proves itself to be unselfish and ability to differentiate what's reasonable and what's unreasonable.

In another instance in the film called, The Planet Earth; In China, a mother panda gave birth during the cold snowy winter, and to make matters worse, they were lacked in food. However, the mother made sure her newborn is well feed and while she hasn't eat for 12 days. She also never leaves the newborn out of her sight, especially the first month since it is still blind. This animal sacrifices its own for the sake of its own child's well being. In compare to human beings, it's rare to hear such sacrifice, instead I hear parents abandoning their own child or even leave it in a dumpster. I don't think animals has ever done such thing unless if the parents got killed while searching for food to feed its youngs. If I were ever given, in a situation whether to save a human being or an animal, I will save the animal, because an animal can't speak for itself and is the more helpless being than the human being.