This is only a short entry but keeps bugging me every time I hear free range eggs. Free range eggs means the chicken is allowed to be free and have a nice life and whist producing eggs. Caged eggs means the chicken was locked up with loads of other chickens in small areas and might not have even seen day light to give us eggs to eat.
The choice I would pick is the caged eggs over the free range! I know it sounds cruel so let me explain. The chickens are tortured and abused just to give us eggs. Their eggs are the result of a very hard life. The free range chickens have a nicer life. I picked caged eggs as if any eggs should be left to waste I feel it should be the free range ones. The supermarkets and shops have already paid the money to the farms and if the eggs are not used the chicken is being tortured for nothing. I hope you understand by choice even though it is a more controversial choice.
EDIT:
There has been a lot of complains over the above entry. Let me say it again in another example. There are two packs of eggs one free range eggs and one caged eggs. These two packs of eggs have already been brought and are just sitting there waiting to be used. I would pick the caged ones as I feel they should not go to waste. I feel that if something is put through a lot of pain and made to suffer so we can eat. We should at least eat it and not just waste it. The farms should sell them and the farmers should not be doing it. The problem is allowing farmers to do it. I do understand though that farmers need to make money and do not always make enough to live.
Friday, 17 April 2009
Friday, 10 April 2009
If philosophy is talking about random possibilities and these may never happen why do we need to know about them?
This is one of the most asked questions what I hear about philosophy. I know people doing philosophy and ask them what they think of the course and some go “it’s talking about stuff we will never know and could happen but is unlikely”. The answers I get tend to be very narrow minded. So what if it never happens and it is wrong. It does not matter. A good philosophical theory to me is one that does not have many holes but makes you think and entertains you. Does god exist or can time travel happen? These are great questions that can provide the necessary information for a philosopher to come up with a believable entertaining theory.
So all theories are meaningless and are just for our entertainment? No of course not well some are some are not. If you rule something completely out and say it can never happen, and it then does happen, you will have to spend time working out how it happened. Let me explain. If you said it will never rain on Sunday and the weather said it will not rain and all tests done conformed it would not rain. So you say it will not rain. What if it does rain? What if for some reason it rains and because all your tests said it would not. You did not prepare yourself for rain. If it mattered to you, you might then try to find out why it rained and find out how you can prepare yourself in the future. You have just wasted time finding out why when if you just said it could rain and accepted there was a chance of rain, you may have had the umbrella.
Sometimes thinking about what could happen allows mankind to see into the future. Thinking about how something could happen is both entertaining and rewarding. Philosophy may be just agreements that we may never find the answer. We all like theories even completely unbelievable ones. Next time you watch a movie ask yourself “is what I just watched believable? Could it happen?” You are just putting the theory of the movie to your mind. Think not of what is not possible but that of what is possible.
So all theories are meaningless and are just for our entertainment? No of course not well some are some are not. If you rule something completely out and say it can never happen, and it then does happen, you will have to spend time working out how it happened. Let me explain. If you said it will never rain on Sunday and the weather said it will not rain and all tests done conformed it would not rain. So you say it will not rain. What if it does rain? What if for some reason it rains and because all your tests said it would not. You did not prepare yourself for rain. If it mattered to you, you might then try to find out why it rained and find out how you can prepare yourself in the future. You have just wasted time finding out why when if you just said it could rain and accepted there was a chance of rain, you may have had the umbrella.
Sometimes thinking about what could happen allows mankind to see into the future. Thinking about how something could happen is both entertaining and rewarding. Philosophy may be just agreements that we may never find the answer. We all like theories even completely unbelievable ones. Next time you watch a movie ask yourself “is what I just watched believable? Could it happen?” You are just putting the theory of the movie to your mind. Think not of what is not possible but that of what is possible.
Thursday, 9 April 2009
Cuba Censorship
Following up from the China censorship post and continuing in the censorship selection. The highlights of what I liked were:
In my opinion they are only limited their peoples outcome. Not letting them access the resources needed to expand the mind and come up with new possible outcome could prevent new inventions/discoveries.
"While special permits to use Internet are available to selected Cubans, Internet remains illegal for the vast majority of Cubans".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Cuba)
"Cubans who want to move house cannot go to a real estate agent's office - they do not exist."(http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=122&art_id=ct19990629214014346C100819)
"In March of 2003, Fidel Castro arrested and imprisoned over 50 political dissidents along with 26 independent journalists. These independent journalists did not publish in Cuban outlets. They are Cubans writing for newspapers outside of Cuba, mostly in The United States. Their sentences range from 14 years to 28 years. Castro's precious "beloved leader" image was safe with the people of Cuba from these dissidents because they could not legally access any foreign media sources. What was really at stake for Castro was the truth of his brutal, degrading, freedom-hating dictatorship being known to the world. Not that the world doesn't already know about the violations of freedom that occur under Castro, but the daily details, which these journalists reported to the world, must be known. The world should be constantly reminded of the details of the evils of communism under Castro."(http://unix.dfn.org/printer_Extreme_Censorship.shtml)
In my opinion they are only limited their peoples outcome. Not letting them access the resources needed to expand the mind and come up with new possible outcome could prevent new inventions/discoveries.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Hybrid and Mutant Animals
A friend of mine told me about this website that I should have a look at. The website features hybrid animals such as hybrid cats.
A few of the ones that interested me were the hybrid between leopards and Lions as seen here.
The Swine (wild Boar and Pig) here.
There are also mutant animals like the blue tiger found here.
The rest can be found at http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-cats.htm
The whole site is worth a look with it featuring other thing such as extinct animals found at http://messybeast.com
A few of the ones that interested me were the hybrid between leopards and Lions as seen here.
The Swine (wild Boar and Pig) here.
There are also mutant animals like the blue tiger found here.
The rest can be found at http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-cats.htm
The whole site is worth a look with it featuring other thing such as extinct animals found at http://messybeast.com
The Butterfly Effect and the Butterfly Effect 2
Having just watched the first two Butterfly effect movies, I can see that they are both with their holes and forgot all about the black outs from the first one.
The story of the first one is a man who suffers blackouts and memory loss as a child is told to write a journal. He has some very dramatic events in his live and manages to blackout during these events. During a date his date asks for him to read from his journal and he realises he has the ability to go back although believes it was only a dream. He tries again and burns himself only to have the scar when he awakes. The movie is good till about half way where he goes back and stabs his hands to prove to someone he has a connection to Jesus. This is forgetting the whole butterfly effect. If a young boy would have cut his hands like that his life would have been different.
The way I believe the above could be possible though is because they already were planning to see a doctor over the picture he drew, they may have managed to live the life the same way. But even going to the hospital and calling his mother up would probably have changed something.
The second movie was a lot better the second time around but still lacks something that the first had. The start of the second movie reminds me some how of a Final Destination movie. The blood to make the 2 in The Butter Fly Effect 2 logo was very comedy horror. The second movie is about a guy who gets to use the ability to see how his life would be if he would have had his girlfriend or made deals at work. The movies it makes everyone life have something very wrong. I would recommend the movies as I enjoyed them.
The story of the first one is a man who suffers blackouts and memory loss as a child is told to write a journal. He has some very dramatic events in his live and manages to blackout during these events. During a date his date asks for him to read from his journal and he realises he has the ability to go back although believes it was only a dream. He tries again and burns himself only to have the scar when he awakes. The movie is good till about half way where he goes back and stabs his hands to prove to someone he has a connection to Jesus. This is forgetting the whole butterfly effect. If a young boy would have cut his hands like that his life would have been different.
The way I believe the above could be possible though is because they already were planning to see a doctor over the picture he drew, they may have managed to live the life the same way. But even going to the hospital and calling his mother up would probably have changed something.
The second movie was a lot better the second time around but still lacks something that the first had. The start of the second movie reminds me some how of a Final Destination movie. The blood to make the 2 in The Butter Fly Effect 2 logo was very comedy horror. The second movie is about a guy who gets to use the ability to see how his life would be if he would have had his girlfriend or made deals at work. The movies it makes everyone life have something very wrong. I would recommend the movies as I enjoyed them.
Monday, 6 April 2009
Are gods living among us?
My idea of a god is a creator of a reality that allows life forms to interact with one another. Having watched Eastenders and seen this reality of people acting out another life for us to admire and be entertained. Movies, TV shows and plays and even books are wrote by people creating a world and a reality the people in that world interact with each other and have life.
The writer/directors/creators could be classed as gods with the actors acting out the life. This is a preset reality in which has been created. The gods have created a world and even universe on a smaller scale just for our enjoyment.
I do understand people may not get what I am trying to say or will just completely rule it out as utter rubbish but what I am saying is that if someone creates something they could be classed as a god over that object they had power to create it. Think about worlds in video games with artificial intelligence, they are full worlds but just scaled down. The people who made those worlds are creators of that world and the creator of our world and what we call reality could be called god. So are gods living among us?
The writer/directors/creators could be classed as gods with the actors acting out the life. This is a preset reality in which has been created. The gods have created a world and even universe on a smaller scale just for our enjoyment.
I do understand people may not get what I am trying to say or will just completely rule it out as utter rubbish but what I am saying is that if someone creates something they could be classed as a god over that object they had power to create it. Think about worlds in video games with artificial intelligence, they are full worlds but just scaled down. The people who made those worlds are creators of that world and the creator of our world and what we call reality could be called god. So are gods living among us?
Always looking forward till it is too late.
I have always looked towards something such as the weekend or a holiday etc. If one is always looking forward and making plans for stuff to do then they are not really enjoying what life is. Life is very limited and the older you get the more you realise that this world is going to pass faster and faster. I am nearly 21 and it seems like just a few weeks ago I was 20.
John Lennon once said "life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans" (John Lennon, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), 1980). I first heard it aged around 10 or 11 and did not understand it. The quote becomes more meaningful the older you get.
I recently had a girlfriend who showed me that time matters we were given almost a time limit before she had to go back to her country. This meant that although we could plan to meet each other we were wishing days away yet at the same time hoping the days would go as slowly as possible.
This can applied to everyone most people long forward to the weekends and hope the work days go faster. We could be losing days, weeks and even years. I am not saying that I do not look forward to events I am just saying it is important to truly look around and admire this world.
John Lennon once said "life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans" (John Lennon, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), 1980). I first heard it aged around 10 or 11 and did not understand it. The quote becomes more meaningful the older you get.
I recently had a girlfriend who showed me that time matters we were given almost a time limit before she had to go back to her country. This meant that although we could plan to meet each other we were wishing days away yet at the same time hoping the days would go as slowly as possible.
This can applied to everyone most people long forward to the weekends and hope the work days go faster. We could be losing days, weeks and even years. I am not saying that I do not look forward to events I am just saying it is important to truly look around and admire this world.
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