A Glorious Piece of Meat (Wk 5)

So I choose the first answer. It makes sense, how come religious believers just has to be so stubborn about it. They are really making me irritated. Because it seems like, they just have to keep using that G word and not having to use any of their brains at all to claim anything. I understand the fact that we all are individuals of our own perceiptions and sensory. But still their labeling and stamping their god's name on anything there is and it's getting unreasonably out of hand. It is out of hand because they are insulting my intelligence of being. The materials and the biblical texts and all the church thing is liek a laugh in the face and second guessing my intelligence, just like our president. He is literally laughing at all of us in the face because he gets to call the shots while we are under him.

For us students, even if we were mention any ideas that's not our own, we will have to state a source from plagiarism. Come on, us scholars here are pulling ends making by through school. It's even worse for scientists. Imagine the science research team discovered scientific evidence for example, life on mars. These scientists got years of education, schooling, and disciplines in order to come up with 300 pages of hard evidence, and here comes stupid, whose a creationist, from the religious beliefs, old tricks as usual, plagiarized this new discovery of their's and filled in the empty signature below the line - and calls this their god's creation. I would think even mindless people like them can't think, but at least sense this shamefulness. But this is just so unfair. Their beliefs are just not FACTS. If I knew this, I would have switched my major and just hold one book for the rest of my life and be balling, and being worshiped....I'm just kidding.

Regards to Ramana Maharsi (Wk 8)

I actually cried while I was watching this film. It was because the words he mentioned coinceided with what I was discussing with my mother the other day, and this was before I watched the film. What happened was, my mother was checking on me about my life and school. She made some recommendations for me, but I refused them, and this is very normal, because I've always made my own choices. So I told her; "mother, you don't have to worry about my being. I'm very happy because I found what I love to do, and it's knowledge. I'm actually enjoying these schoolworks because this is what I enjoyed all along. You have to know mother, there are so many people who has never found out for their own life-time of beings on what they love to do. People go to work everyday and are miserable because they can't find what makes them happy. But for me mom, instead of you worrying for me, you should be happy for me, because I found what makes me happy. Who knows if I would survive the next day or not. So why wouldn't I live my moments while I'm still alive, doing what makes me happy. That's not wrong mom."

Many people are dependent on another's being for their own happiness. I consider myself fortunate of finding this gift. As long as I'm learning something, that's all it matters.

Flame On: The Real Reasons Why Not Homosexuals (Wk 7)

I remembered my first year here at Mt. SAC; one of the first few classes
was human sexuality. The imageries as I can recall, were the first time
that I had ever seen two of the same-sex beings- so happy. Of course,
all good things must come to an end. After all, who is actually left to
carry out their genes to the next generation. However, it seems like
these homosexuals weren't concern at all. They didn't care
about raising the counts in population. Their civilizations doesn't
even have a book that exists homosexuality is despised as sinful. I
think it's extremely stupid to even be brought into written
contexts. This stupid ignorant texts written to have the same people to
follow it are even more ridiculous. Can they make it any more obvious
and making it able to spot for an intelligent being that they are
creating you for their motives. It is literally speaking out; despised
the gays and lesbians because it is immoral... because they don't
reproduce or create life and so on .

Actually I think homosexuals are discriminated, hated, and unaccepted by
the church and some people in our country for a very particular reason.
Of course, it were to never be written for an ignorant to follow by,
because stupid follows as they were told. Homosexuals are unacceptable
by our country, and others due to the fact that they are lesser
vulnerable than those that is married and or divorce that has a full
nest to take care of. Here is some logical explanations to why
homosexuals are lesser vulnerable; they are the happiest because they
are not obligated to split their paychecks with anybody; there's no
stresses for both ends of the couple since both knows there are no
hungry kids that are at home waiting for them to be fed; the lifetime
commitment of raising a child is freed from them. We'd always hear ones
saying, "It is a tough job to be a parent." Gee and I really wonder
why. All these accessories; a spouse, having kids, grandkids, etc...
what the norms considers that we must need in life, is just to distract
ones being, so they can stay on levels of being smarter than all of us.
Think about it, nobody wants to be dumber than another...

Sam Harris and the End of Faith Is Critical for Being Right (Wk 7)

While doing my postings, I took some quick glances of other students in their regards to Sam Harris’s lecture called, Sam Harris and the End of Faith. Can be found: <http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/neuraltv10.htm> Some found Harris to be very criticizing. Not me, he’s so blunt that he’s awesome. I think he’s on the dot. There’s too much shadiness and dark secrets of the religions that most people do not know of because many people gets fooled by their descriptions of holiness; sunlight has its darkness too. We all know that idiocracy and ignorance- kills and will forget. To other responses regards to his apology at the introduction; he apologizes to the secularists. He did so just to exemplify it. There is a possibility of non-traditional secularists. Due to the misuse of philosophical terms, the traditional representation of the secularism has a different philosophy claim to it, or it can play new roles in the society for ones motives. Sometimes a person can sound so critically harsh and yet so right. That is what it sounds like when a blunt person presents their truths to another. It may sound uneasy at first; there are no shiny wrappings or sugar-coatings, that can be any better ever presented, than to taking it straight raw and unwrapped, just pure form.

I think he’s awesome maybe because it seems to affect me more since I am a science major. I have finally arrive myself in a clear picture of the controversies on science and the religious. It is true when he mentions about creationism being taught in schools. I remembered my bio professor brought up this issue. He told our class that creationism wants to start a teaching of their own beliefs in the science department. The whole class thought it was the most unreasonable and foolish idea ever and some laughed. The class came to an agreement with our professor, that it doesn’t qualify to fit itself to be in the science department, and if anything, they can fill the empty slot in th general education section. Harris made me realized how possibly easy it was that we can let this so called innocuous taboo earned it’s free ride to the gate of public education (more views siding with him in political issues but it is saved for the final.) So was Edward O. Wilson when he mentions that both of the institutions- does not go hand in hand. My bio class shouldn’t even acknowledge or welcome this teaching at all and including myself at that time. Harris was right about the fundamental taboo of our country. The taboo lets the religious entering from the back doors to take political opinions with the sciences. We can’t shed a bit of pity or sympathy to open the front doors to this flooded-gate to drown the sciences. However, I still won’t be bias or narrow-minded, but I must keep my awareness from them especially in the political public alliances. The struggles against the religious stance will be part of my future. I am confident to say that I have realized made a mistake when I thought science and the religious can go hand in hand- they don’t.

References:

Author and Scholar, Sam Harris: http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/neuraltv10.htm

Of Course Fundamentalism is a Mental Disease (Wk 4)

I too, agrees with the narrator that fundamentalism, is indeed, a mental disease. Based on one of the film called, Fundamentalism is a Mental Disease; the narrator states, “Fundamentalism is a mental disease; to which I would add, creationism is taught only by those who cannot think.” These creationists are religious believers of the church and are infallible of their biblical doctrines, even when their context contains erroneous errors. There were indefeasible evidences proving literal context of the bible does contain falsifying fundamentals, and adjustments should be made or to create a new. However, these fundamentalists ignores and refuses making corrections and taught wrongful moralities and fake creations in their literature. This is reasonable to assume; that the thinking and the behaviors of fundamentalism is to be considered as a mental disease.

It occurs to me, that the fundamentalists could not have possibly done this intentionally. It would be considered as if they created lies and guilty for deceiving all the innocents and the faithful child of Gods. They also committed sinful moralities by plagiarizing Gods’ work. After all, they are reputable of their literature in moralities and therefore left me with no other choice than the worst case that can possibly exist. It may seem liable this chastisement of fundamentalists to exist; failing to present God’s work the believers of His, unless they are in a challenged state in mental illnesses. A mental disease sounds reasonable to explain this behavior the best. The functionality of the fundamentalists seems almost as if a virus or a brain-suckling slug has found themselves a common ground to reservoir itself in the frontal lobes of theirs. Pathogens infests itself in ones brain could possibly prevent anyone from progressing their thoughts and even retardation. In fact, this actually help explain why they wrote inaccurate literals in their bible from the very beginning. These fundamentalisms didn’t intentionally deliver Gods’ will in such an erroneous form. Therefore, its mental retardation of caused of that brain-slug.

Another factor that may be the possible interference with fundamentalism members of these men from church leads me to another type of mental illnesses. It may be possible to draw an assumption; the fundamentalist’s complex system in the level of complexity must not have extent to their fullest developments. This limits ones degrees in the level of complexity and therefore can really discourage how much ones able to perform in reasoning, critical thinking, or multi-tasking. In this case, it remains a challenging and unachievable tasks of fundamentalists to make able of carrying out the performances of the transferring written materials from the old and blend with some new literal materials. The existence of a bacteria or virus can be the problem or either it can be blamed due to the undergrowth of permanents of never maturing any further than the premature development in their complex system.

References: http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/mentaldisease.htm

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.