Technology

Technology is the advancement of we know and can create. It is how we make things better. The five most important are microchip technology, vaccination technology, nuclear technology, genetically modified foods technology, and the making of new materials technology: plastic, alloys, glass, etc. The five least important are candle technology, epaulet tech., happy meal tech, PEZ dispenser tech, and hair curling technology. I think that the amount of technology we use at AES is just right. We are in the dark ages where everything is hand made and there are no electrical appliances at all and we aren't so advanced that everything we do, we do using computors. It would drive me crazy if computors completly ran my life. However, as I said in my luddite responce, I still think that compuors and electronics are quite important.

Luddites

I would have to agree with Vonnegut, at least in part. However I can't help but love that "damn fool computer". I can definitely imagine what a computer can become. One day, computers and techno machinery are going to run our life. The Euphio for example was able to create artificial happiness. What I find hard to imagine is life with out electronics. No more yahoo answers doing your math. No more spell check. There was a time when you had to do ALL of your homework without a computer or a calculator. A time when you had to walk to a library to get information when now, the internet can do the same thing. But even now, you have to find your own happiness. In the Euphio question, there was a machine to give you happiness. For machine to run your life means that you are then living less of it. Happiness, however, is one thing that should never been done by a machine. Happiness is one thing that you have to be alive to experience. No machine should ever experience happiness for you.

Goals: Fourth Edition

My first goal was to organize my papers a few minutes after class instead of putting them in a pile. Yaaaaaaaaaaah. Still kinda need to work on that goal. I still put my papers into a messy stack.

My second goal was to prepare for twenty minutes on my socratic seminars. However, we never really did any socratic seminars this quarter so again, I might have to keep this goal for next quarter.

My third goal was to finish my AR by February. I met this goal because I got more than the required amount and I finished my reading before February. However I actually took the test in the first week of March.

My first goal this quarter is to organize my papers a few minutes after class instead of putting them in a pile. This was my goal last quarter but I still need to work more on this goal.

My second goal is to prepare for twenty minutes on my socratic seminars. This is because I never had the opportunity to achieve this goal last quarter.

My third goal is to finish my Research Project before the day it is due to minimize the stress. I tend to hold things off until the last minute so finishing early on such a big project will help me for high school.

Oxymorons

Holy wars is an oxymoron because wars, by definition, are unholy. All major religions condemn killing but wars involve killing. Because wars involve killing, and killing is "unholy", wars would also be unholy. So for there to be a holy war kinda contradicts itself making it an oxymoron. So many wars now are fought over religion because all of the religions feel that theirs is best or the real one, or the "correct" one and that they should fight over which one is the best. However, in order to accomplish this, they are breaking the rules of their own religion. The excuse then is that once we fight and our religion wins, then there will be no need to fight and no need to break the rules. However if all religions feel this way, then the wars are never going to end because everyone must keep trying to prove that their religion is the best. This will then keep going around in an endless loop.