So many thoughts can relate to our Humanities blog, so post any ideas and questions you have or theories and philosophies you come across, including contradictions, explanations, ironic moments, insights, and in general, anything that might help us to navigate our way on the journey through Grade 8 - and maybe life itself!
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I was sitting and thinking if i forgot to do any work last week. While thinking whether there's work that we need to hand over in science class last week or not, all of a sudden I remembered that Haakon said in science class, "there's basically nothing left for us to discover now" (we were talking about the people who came up with the CONTINENTAL DRIFT theory). Then Mr. Huttner turned around and said ,"there's always something new to be discovered every seven years!" What is there to be discovered? (except for stem cells, outerspace, etc.)
I went to my house relaxed thinking I had no Humanities homework(by the way, I lost my agenda). Then I remembered, "I have to write comments in the blog!!!"
SO I came to my computer and sat thinking. I didn't have idea what to write about. . .After some time I thought of so much things that now I don't really know which ideas to write!!!
Uhm... ISB seriously gives out too much homework. When you look at one classes homework load, it seems reasonable but multiply it by four and it's really hard to pioratize. Ugg... time to get back to the *evil* homework!
Its Tough Being a Nerd
uhmm.... ok. I found an intresting little piece of info that is mildly entertaining to read:
NERDS
A person who gains pleasure from amassing large quantities of knowledge about subjects often too detailed or complicated for most other people to be bothered with.
Often mistaken for Geeks, who aspire to become nerds, yet lack the intelligence, and end up giving nerds a bad name due to their poor social skills.
Non-nerds are often scared of nerds, due to their detailed knowledge, and therefore seemingly high levels of intelligence - and subsequently denegrate them as much as possible as often as possible
Another definition is:
An 'individual', i.e. a person who does not conform to society's beliefs that all people should follow trends and do what their peers do. Often highly intelligent but socially rejected because of their obesssion with a given subject, usually computers. Unfortunately, nerds seem to have problems breeding, to the detriment of mankind as a whole.
*notice Mr. Kenny, this last definition included the word conform...ooooooooh!*
Ok, these are just stereotypes but in some cases are some-what true. Look at http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerd for more definitions on subculture titles and slang words, be aware that this site (http://www.urbandictionary.com) may contain innapropriate definitions and words, so if you want to surf this site and come across something that startles *another vocab word!* you, don't blame me! Go at your own risk!!!
I'm Failing as a Nerd.
Sometimes i sit and ponder if this life was real. I mean really real. Ok, there's all those scietific proofs and all that stuff to say that there's an Earth and then a universe, moon, planet..etc.
What if somebody or something fed us information that doesn't exist?
What if we're being watched all the time by some strange kind of aliens from outer space?
Here i said it again. Outerspace. Does it really exist? or is it just that the outerspace is really a home to them, like a lab?
so the aliens make us, put something into us to produce and when its time to die, they just press a button and make us dead.
or..maybe the aliens got bored so they just shook the whole "Earth" and started an earthquake.
There's another one. Probably they accidently dropped a large stone in the ocean which happened to be in the Pacific Ocean causing it to make tsunamis?
Its really complicated but once you think of all these stuff, you can't stop!
Today I was wondering what new comments there would be. I came and saw all teh comments as I always do. I read some comments and then saw Lisa's.
It is very funny!:)
I don't know if it may seem a dumb question, but its strange for me how babies learn to talk. Why?
Well, because how can a baby learn the meaning of a word(which includes other words) without knowing the meaning of ANY of the words??
It is really strange and I would really like my question to be answered.
uhmmm... I guess you learn the meaning of words like anyone does. Your mom or dad points at themself and says "mommy/ daddy" and they point at the dog and say "doggie". You start of learning single words and after a while, you can say phrases like "no want sleep" or "i go potty". Then you learn complete sentences.
Ok. Just a reminder: the 2nd annual Celebration of Lights is taking place next week (Friday, Dec 1st) at 5:30 - 9:30 pm at ISB. Its like a carnival/ fair. Theres going to be food, games, rides, and performances. Be sure to come and bring your friends!!!
In response to "Curious Human": there are many things that we do not know, so sometimes you just have to believe. Science is always being discovered, and sometimes is even wrong. There are plenty of theories that we once believed to be true and then another piece of information was found, and then the theory is marked false. Space: space is something that we are discovering everyday, we as humans are explorers exploring the universe. Who knows, maybe there living life on other planets such as Mars, or maybe there are even millions of planets that we have not discovered. In a couple dozen billion years, we might not even exist. No one knows... *DUm DUm DUM!!!* *doooda dooodaaaa!!!!* *creepy music plays*
I support curious human's way of thinking because I have thought of the same. I think, what if we are just some kind of toy or puppet, being controlled by some other people, and everything is decided by them.
And whatever we do is not actually real. Oh my God, so strange. There are so much ideas still to be answered. . .
Oh and Lisa, thanks for answering my question, I just didn't know, haha.
hey, in suggestions, i just read a suggestion that says that we should do a secret santa kind of thing.
i think it would be a lot of fun, so please, if you have any ideas about this, answer here in random thoughts, :)
I just read about the American thanksgiving that we saw in the vdo clip and found out that the celebration with the Indians didn't even have turkey - it's just a myth! They actually ate goose and duck.
For secret santa, we should have a money limit, that way no one would feel sad if someone got a better present than them. And, about Thanksgiving comment. Why would they eat Turkey instead? i hear that turkey tastes really bad. Actually, i wouldn't know if it tasted bad or not, because i never tasted Turkey.
Beauty and the Beast was very good! i hope every one went to watch it!
haha
really strange myth. But i don't get it. . . then where did we get the idea that the indians actually had turkey. How do we know when its a myth and when it isn't?
I just saw this little video clip on http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/. It shows how our perception of beauty is so disorted because of the way advertisments and the media portray their ideas of beauty. Watch the video!
Here's what i read at wikipedia about the turkey myth of thanksgiving. (But i still like turkey - in health class we found out it has less fat than pork and even chicken.)
Thanksgiving dinner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States and Canada is a large meal, starring a large roasted turkey. All of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving dinner are made from foods native to North America. According to tradition, the Pilgrims received these foods from the American Indians. However, many of the classic traditions attributed to the first Thanksgiving are actually myths introduced later.
We can know if stuff/things are myths or truth by recorded history, both phsyical and oral. Turkey does taste good, better then chicken in my opinion, but if messed up, I rather skip it.....
Over and Out
HZ
this world is so messed up. you look at those in poverty and the way we live, its such a wide gap! in "waiting for the rain" the blacks want to be equal to the whites. yet, if the equality gets so extreme then south africa would become communists... think about it. the blacks could have been so insistent on equality that they would make all the wealthy and educated people to work on the farm to be "fair" and everyone have the same income, color of food, etc, like in 1949 in China when the Communist Party took over. it just seems so wierd how these things could happen if people were so determined on the idea of "equality". when you hear about the world equal you think "well thats great, that means everythings fair and everyones happy now". but it just dosnt work that way, life dosnt work that way. when i think of equality during out class discussions of "waiting for the rain" i think that yeah, blacks and whites should be equal.but then another side of me fears that i'll get so caught up with the ideas of equality that i'll turn to communist ideas.
mr. kenney. my mom and i tried to do the online survey for parents but when we typed in the link you gave us, it only took us to the main page of survey monkey. IS there an alterrnate link that was not put on the paper? or could you just post the direct link to the survey on here because my mom really wants to fill it out because i AM going on Chaing Mai.
Vanity,
Have your mom copy/paste this url address to get to the survey for the parent permission information: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=659471551410
Or your mom can click on the survey link on Mr. Romary's webpage at the ISB website - the Chiang Mai trip link is on the left side, click and then the survey link shows up at the top center. The password is prem.
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