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Post by mhunter on Mar 2, 2015 5:45:50 GMT
Marcellus Hunter
A time in my life when I thought rational is when I tried to think of a way to get out of a situation that my friends involved me in when I was younger and I felt there was no way for me for me to get out of the situation without being in trouble. Also when my friends were smoking and drinking and I decided to say no because it wasn’t meant for my life in any way possible.
A time in my life when I noticed myself start to think emotionally is when my sister passed away and I felt I had no one to lean on or nobody I can really count on. Another time is when I was feeling very emotional is when is the way my sister had died and I felt like I had no one who actually knew what I was going through and how I really felt, it also seemed like no one had answers to none of my questions or why the way I was feeling the way I was. The reason why I felt thinking emotionally is best because there was no one on my side and that’s the only option I had left was to turn to myself and just try to make the situation better for myself as much as possible.
Some times in my life when I start thinking physically is when I am working out and trying to make my body more fit and get in more shape. But when I start to notice the more physical thinking of myself is when I start working myself out and when it gets hard sometimes I want to give up and just go get some rest and rest my body, but my mind is so physical competitive with myself I just make sure I push myself and tell myself to keep going and remind myself just not to give up until my workout is completely over.
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Post by niko on Mar 2, 2015 5:50:00 GMT
Niko Ibarra
Professor David Lane
Philosophy 8
Secret Code: 11632
1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
When is comes to thinking logically, like Spock I find that it is the easiest to do when the action and the result affect only myself. I usually do this by asking myself question when planning out my schedule. What is my plan A? My plan B? What can i do if this happens? How long will it take? Is it necessary, and so forth. A life example of this is when I needed to plan a journey from L.A. to San Diego to visit family. I planned out my train route, where i was going to get off, what to do if i missed my train or it was delayed. What things i need to pack and what sites to see while i was in San Diego before i visited my family.
The emotional part of me and reptilian part of my brain (Kirk and Scotty) were more “free flowing” when i was younger, this is due to the fact that i had anger management issues. As a kid i remember watching a tether-ball match and as the ball went high one of the players jumped up to hit it but instead hit the bottom of my chin with his head. The rage i felt was almost indescribable, the only word that comes to mind is seething, i guess this burst of emotion is Kirk. As the kid said “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” that pushed me over the edge and i pummeled him in the gut and in that moment i felt, nothing. Everything seemed to slow down and everything that was in that moment just was, i guess that was my Scotty. I say this because the reptilian part of my brain saw this as a transgression which needed to be dealt with, regardless of whether it was an accident or not and without thought of the consequences to the kid or his family. Of course as i grew older i regretted what i did, it was an honest accident and i over reacted. So there is my story.
2. Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
During my lifetime so far, coincidences have been plentiful. One of these coincidences revolves around the numerical value of 14. In elementary school the cubicle number where I put my papers was 14. In PE my” assigned number”, where i would sit to wait for the teacher, would be 14. In high-school when i had the number 14 cap in water polo i performed better, scoring more goals and swimming faster. After buying a lotto ticket which had three 14’s in it, i won $50 and that was the first time i bought one. The second time i bought a ticket it had a 14 in it and i won $80 that time. Finally, and the most amazing one so far in college, i registered for a class and was wait-list position 7, in 3 days (i procrastinated) i was down to position 2. At the class the guy in wait list position 1 didn't even show up, which if he did i wouldn't have been able to add the class. What's 7x2? 14. The second coincidence i experience on a regular basis is whenever my sister or I, have a song stuck in our head we sing it aloud. Well on a consistent basis, the other will turn around and say that the same song was also in their head or where thinking about the artist.
Russell would explain it as my mind simply being more aware of the number. The more significance i gave to the number 14 the more i noticed it. As for the cap number it could be explain as a sort of placebo effect, every athlete has at least one superstition where they do or refrain from doing a certain action that may have an effect on a game. As for my sister and I, well statistically it is more likely that herself and I would have the same songs stuck simply because we have had the upbringing and share similar artists that we like to listen to in a genre.
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Post by davidcastro7 on Mar 2, 2015 5:55:37 GMT
David Castro
Professor Lane
Critical Thinking
1 March 2014
Test code: 11623
#1. Drawing upon the Star Trek metaphor, which compares certain functions of the human brain to that of The Enterprise, there have been incidences in my life to which I have reacted as "Spock" (Cerebral Cortex), "Kirk" (Midbrain), and "Scotty" (Reptilian Brain).
In one incident, I had adopted the attributes of Spock's persona-- a logical and reasonable thinker. It was nearing the end of my senior year of high school, and just like any other student, I had to decide which university I would attend the subsequent Fall. The cost of attending university was of my utmost concern. If there was a way to mitigate costs of continuing my education, I would definitely take advantage of it -- and so there was. In choosing to attend Mt. San Antonio College, logically I would be making the most cost-efficient decision. Not having to live on-campus and the fact that general education courses are cheaper at Mt. SAC than what would be offered at any state university, really caught my attention. Most importantly, I would transfer out of this school with two years of college complete and no debt. My family is not in the most financially secure situation, and so this opportunity was relieving news.
In 2010, on a brisk Thanksgiving night, one particular moment would stimulate a rush of emotion and compassion-- the attributes applied to Captain Kirk. On this night, as my family and I were escorting the last of our guests to their cars, out in the hazy distance, I saw what seemed to be a small chihuahua wondering about. This was a peculiar situation, seeing a dog with no owner, especially at night when coyotes are known to linger around my neighborhood. Fearing for her safety, we brought the dog inside, hoping to find its owner in the morning. However, my siblings and I quickly fell in love with the little thing and we became reluctant to part ways with it. After a week of searching for the owner, there was no luck. My mother, who doesn't take a particular interest in animals, wanted the chihuahua out of the home as soon as possible-- and sent to the dog pound. However, we were successful in changing her decision, as my siblings and I promised to carefully take care of the pup. We each share the duties of taking the dog out to walk, bathing it, picking up its feces, and anything else we need to do -- a decision solely driven by love and compassion for the pup.
Lastly, an incident to which I responded with my survival instinct-- and a characteristic attributed to Scotty-- was the first time in which I drove onto the freeway. It had been the second week of my driving lessons administered by my father, and he felt that on a particular Tuesday afternoon it would be the perfect time for me to finally drive on the freeway. As I drove through the on-ramp, I soon found myself having to drive and keep a constant speed of about 60 mph. It was a bit nerve-wrecking, considering I was use to driving throughout my neighborhood at half that speed. Nonetheless, I persevered and felt in control of the car -- at least until my father began to panic a little because I was paying little attention to my mirrors. He was acting a bit frantically, but I stayed focused and kept us alive. Overall, it was a thrilling first experience.
#2. Drawing from life experiences, there are two instances in which I have experienced an unusual coincidence.
The first incident takes place during my senior year of high school. Beginning my sophomore year, my friends and I would play a games in which we would seek out a doppelgänger from the pool of incoming freshmen. It seemed that every year one or more of my friends would find a particular student that looked almost like them, but not quite-- sometimes there would be a difference in hair styles or even in height. For me, however, my first match would come senior year. There was a particular kid, named kevin, who looked exactly identical to me. We had the same hair style, facial features, and height. And so at times, my friends couldn't tell us apart. Despite this similarity, we didn't become friends, for I think he was scared off by my friends' relentless banter and mockery.
The second instance took place on June 18, 2014 -- the day I had witnessed the best baseball game in my life. By last minute planning, my father and I bought tickets to an evening game at Dodger Stadium. We had wanted to see Dodgers ace pitcher Clayton Kershaw play, considering he had pitched really well his last couple of starts. This particular game was played against the Colorado Rockies, a team that may have been suffering with a weak offense at the time. With Kershaw on the pitching mound, we knew the Dodgers would have an easy win. And so while driving to the stadium, we jokingly made remarks that Kershaw was overdue to throw a no-hitter-- accomplished by very few pitchers each year in which no hits are recorded by the opposing team. Little did we know, however, a couple of hours after we left the driveway, that Kershaw's no-hitter would become reality. My father and I felt that a miracle had come true, however, I now realize several factors -- such as on the field and in each player's ability-- led to this favorable outcome. It was an unbelievable night.
Bertrand Russell or any rational skeptic would first explain that critical thinking must be used to explain both situations. The first example, in which I met a student who was my identical, could be explained by genetics and a person's inclination to adopt a particular style of hair or clothing. Genetics has an effect on favorable characteristics-- for this instance both our eyes are brown and we were identical in height. As for our style of hair, trends in fashion may dictate how we choose to alter our looks. In the second example, a skeptic would explain that baseball is a game driven by statistics. If a particular pitcher is playing really well, and at times better than those in his position, than he is more likely to win games for his team. As he goes up against a team that is playing statistically poorly in their season, than the chance for that pitcher to accomplish a no-hitter is elevated even more.
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Post by jflores25637 on Mar 2, 2015 5:56:43 GMT
Jose Flores 11632
1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as "Spock", "Kirk", and "Scotty." Feel free to tell it in story form.
Personally, I have a terrible memory to remember one exact situation, where I acted as "Spock", "Kirk", and "Scotty," so I am going to go share three separate situations where I was each one of these.
I tend to live my life from the “Spock” perspective. Every decision in my life, that I make, I like to ask my self that how will this decision affect me in the long run, or how will it turn out at the end, and I do not think that there is anything wrong with that, but when it comes to my friends, they tend to be the opposite of me. They tend to just deal with the consequences as they come. For example, when I go out with my friends, they like to have a few drinks and get a little buzz on or sometimes a little to drunk, and sometimes they get mad at me, because I chose to not drink or if I do just drink a little. The reason they get mad is because they think that I do not like to have fun, or that being uptight, but it is nothing like that. The reason I do not drink, is because my logic kicks in, and I know that end of the night someone has to get us home. Which is usually me, since my friends can not handle their alcohol, and I do not like to drink and drive, and no one should ever do it, and I also feel responsible to get every one home safe and sound. That is when I see myself as “Spock,” because I think of the consequences at the end of the night, and make a rational decision based on logic.
I normally do not let my emotions take over me, and it is something that I am good at, but I can recall a situation where I acted as a “Kirk,” and I let my emotions take over me. That moment was in high school. Kids in high school can really be cruel sometimes and one day in my senior year, I saw a junior at the time teasing and pushing around one of his classmate, for his sexuality and the way he acted. A little more background to this story is that a couple of months before that day, I had lost one of my best friends to suicide, because he was gay and the way he acted and dressed. But, back to my story I just remember seeing this kid picking on his classmate, and I just started to think of my friend who had past away. I remember getting so angry that I black out, and the next thing I remember is my friends trying to pull me of the this kid, because I just fought him. Personally I do not believe in violence, I think that all problems can be solve rationally, but that day I let emotions take over me and acted upon them.
I believe that our survival skills are used everyday, since we are born. The moment one leaves their bed, it is out survival skills that get us back to it at the end of the day. Somewhere where I have to enter “Scotty” mode a lot, is when I am driving. I have lost count of how many times a van or SUV almost hit me, or how many drivers a trailers have tried to cut me off, and I like to thank my survival instincts, that to this day I have not been in any accidents; but one of the moments I am most thankful for is one day when I was driving and a car accident had just happen on the other side of the road and one of the cars was pushed on to my side, and my “Scotty” mode kicked in. All my senses seem to hyphen with in a second, and I had a lot of ideas of how this situation could have ended, but I came out fine and manage to dodge the car that was pushed on to my side. I do not think that hitting a car, that is coming towards you would end up well, but I am sure glad that my “Scotty” mode got me home safe that day.
2. Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
One incident from my life, where I have experienced an unusual coincidence, is with in my dreams. I do not dream often, but when I do a lot of my dreams seem to come true. I have had dreams, were two of my friends ended up having babies, and with in a month after my dreams happen, they both ended up telling me that they were expecting. Then once, I had a dream where a relative of one of my friends was going to be in a bad car accident, and a couple of months ago he lost his brother in an accident. A lot of my dreams play out this way, and maybe Rusell would explain my dreams by saying that maybe I do dream more often than I remember, but those dreams stand out more because they came to have meanings behind them. Rusell could also say that I remember those dream because they were something big and not common.
Another unusual coincidence in my life is my name. Once, in one of my classes, I had two other guys with the exact name as me, which is "Jose Flores." The only thing that was not the same was our middle names, but we had the same first and last name. Then another time in one of my classes, there were seven Jose in total. Which was a bit weird, in my opinion, but I think that Rusell would explain it by saying that considering the area and state I live in, maybe it is not such a weird thing. Since there is a lot of Hispanics in California and my name and last name are pretty common with in my culture.
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Post by nadiag on Mar 2, 2015 6:06:36 GMT
Nadia Garcia
Test Form: 11632
1) Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
I relate myself to Spock whenever I am stuck on a math question or have difficulty with a question and get the answer wrong after attempting it multiple times. In these situations, I have to use logic, like Spock, to come up with a conclusion on how I’m approaching the problem and figure out what I am doing wrong to get the right answer. By doing that and focusing on that certain question and going through each step carefully, I will most likely find out what I have done wrong instead of just giving up on the problem. In another example, I compare myself to Kirk when I use emotional thinking. In this case it would be whenever I am in traffic. When I am stuck in traffic, I find myself in a state of frustration because I might be going late to wherever I am headed and I do not have enough time to waste. For instance, I remember one day I had woken up late and had just enough time to get to class, but just as I entered the freeway, I found myself stuck in traffic in which I thought I would never get out of, Yet, when the traffic began to clear up and I arrived on campus, I was already half an hour late to class. In addition to feeling frustrated, I might also find myself being angry at not thinking ahead and not checking my phone to see if there would be traffic or not leaving earlier to have enough time to get to my destination, which also applies to emotional thinking. This ties into my next incident in which I reacted, as Scotty by thinking about survival and that would be when I am driving. Whenever I am behind the wheel I am careful enough to pay attention at all times because I know that my life is at risk so I have to be extremely aware of others and myself since I have been hit by a car before.
2) Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
An incidence in my own life that I have experienced as an unusual coincidence would be when I thought of certain friends or family members that I had not talked to for a while and I would receive a call from them later that day or the next day. I found this to be a strange occurrence because I would notice that if I mentioned what had happened to me to another friend, who I had also not seen for a while, they would say that they experienced the same thing when they were thinking of me. Now, if I were to exclude phones or any media site in which I could contact those friends instantly, it would be hard to know about these unusual occurrences like we can now with the ability to text each other or message our friends through social media. So without that I would have not considered this an unusual coincidence. Another recent coincidence happened while I was starting to answer the first question on this test relating to the characters on Star Trek. During this time, I had the television on and I found out that the character Spock had just passed away. After hearing that, I was surprised and I found the news to be interesting because we had just watched a video in which he was mentioned in and talked about his character in class. It seemed like a weird coincidence to me because we were just talking about him. Bertrand Russell would have said that my experiences were not coincidences but rather random occurrences that happened because of chance. In addition to that a skeptic would say that coincidences happen all the time but we just tend to focus on the ones that seem to stand out more than the rest.
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Post by siubenjamin on Mar 2, 2015 6:23:48 GMT
Benjamin Siu
11632
1.) Knowing full well that love and relationships cannot be explained away with logic and reasoning (at least not comprehensively), I remember trying to act like Spock while discussing with a friend her current love life. Here was a guy with an average mug, a DUI, a history of jumping between girls, and already having mentally seduced my friend once already before ignoring her after a few months. He was talking her up again just a year later and here she was falling for all of it. I put my Spock cap on and explained to her his history and the implications of getting into anything serious with him, with my reasoning being essentially “just look at his history”. Needless to say, she allowed history to repeat itself.
I was at work one day running food to tables. I made my way back to the production area and was casually conversing with the expeditor when I suddenly saw my coworker seize and drop to the floor in a pool of his own blood formed after he wounded himself on the way down. Fortunately, one of the cashiers had first aid experience and tended to him while someone else called an emergency operator. A situation as sudden and severe as this caused one of my other coworkers to become very distressed, and this is where my inner Kirk came in handy. I figured a logical answer explaining what had just happened and why she should not panic would never work, so instead I embraced her and told her to take deep breaths and then asked her how she felt a few minutes later. The next shift we had together she thanked me for the gesture and explained how helpful it was in keeping her calm.
The last I remember reacting like Scotty was last summer when my family and I were rafting along the Colorado River. When we happened upon a particularly rough patch of water--jagged rocks and turbulent currents abound. My brother, who like me was floating along in a solo raft, flipped as soon as we entered this section of water. My inner Scotty kicked in and without thinking, I turned my raft around and fought the current as I looked around for any sight of his orange lifejacket. I spotted him struggling to breathe amidst the rushing water and almost ejected myself from my own raft grabbing him.
2.) In one instance I discovered that a neighbor that I have been living next to for the past 7 years was the location where she received horseback riding lessons at a very young age. What made it so shocking was that we were discussing something completely different when she suddenly dropped the address that immediately clued me in.
In another instance I ran into a childhood friend that I had lost contact with while travelling in New York. Even more crazy is the fact that this run-in wasn’t at some tourist trap, but at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant just north of Chinatown.
Of course I would love to believe that the stars had aligned for these events to happen, but a more rational explanation would be that it was simply probability--a game of numbers wherein, at least in my case, the values added up to bizarre coincidences.
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Post by loring1004 on Mar 2, 2015 6:27:02 GMT
Lori Ng
PHIL 8/Critical Thinking
MW 1:15-2:40
Test Code: 11632
1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
I feel as if every day, I have experienced "Spock." Logic from my point of view is used on a daily basis. I think that a lot of logic that applies to me is when I cook. For example, whenever I cook something, the pan cannot be too hot or the food will burn, that is logic, well more common sense than anything but it's pretty close. There is one particular incident where I was both "Kirk" and "Scotty." When I was going into the 2nd grade, I had cut myself with a big, sharp filleting knife. The knife had a protective cover on it but I was young and didn't know any better. With that being said, I had pulled off the cover right at the handle of the knife so I had slit my thumb open almost all the way to the bone. My "Kirk" reflexes kicked in by screaming and crying from pain, as anyone would do in the situation. Then, my "Scotty" kicked in with me taking control of the situation to stop the bleeding. To do this, I grabbed napkins and held my thumb as tight as possible while my parents were panicking and grabbing keys to go to the E.R.
2. Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using your own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
My two unusual coincidences that I have experienced are similar to each other, rather recent as well. A few months ago I received a friend request on Facebook from an old friend that I went to elementary school with when I lived in Chinatown. I was going through his profile when I noticed that we had a mutual friend that I did not expect, it was a girl that I went to high school with, at Nogales. So when I ran into this girl, Wendy, I asked her how she knew him and it turns out they're cousins. Another coincidence is a friend of mine and my brothers turns out to be like a 3rd cousin of ours through my dads side of the family. We ran into his parents(my dads cousin) and they said that we knew Robert, and had no idea that we were related since we aren't close to that side of the family. It's a small world.
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Post by jordanb on Mar 2, 2015 6:38:53 GMT
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1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as "Spock", "Kirk", and "Scotty." Feel free to tell it in story form.
An incident when I reacted like Spock was during my senior year of high school, when I decided I would go away for college. As I thought about it more and more I realized I didn't know what I wanted to major in or even what I was interested in. I eventually decided that it would be best for me to attend a community college and save money until I decide what I want to do.
A time I act like Kirk is when I decide to procrastinate on all my work. When I procrastinate I put it of until the last minute for no reason other than not wanting to? It's not really an emotional response but it is definitely an illogical one. An incident when I reacted as Scotty was when my friends and I were playing soccer and we spotted a fire in a building near us. My first instinct was to call the police and report it.
2. Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
An incident that comes to mind is when a friend and I were at work about a month ago. We work at a gas station mini mart, it was the afternoon, and we had this very rude woman who was mad about something I can't remember. When she left another customer came in and said she dropped a 20 dollar bill and he returned it to us. I'm not allowed to keep the money given back to us and I had to notify my manager but that night I was out with my friends and I found 20 dollars on the sidewalk? I thought was an unusual coincidence. Especially because it was the same amount and the same day. I think a skeptic would say that events like this are just chance and they happen everyday.
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Post by tessvillegas on Mar 2, 2015 6:40:30 GMT
1. One example of me being like "Spock" is when I am giving advice, I decide not to let feelings get in the way of what I am trying to tell someome. I tell it straight like it is, logically and tell them to put there emotions aside and make a decisions for themselves that will benifit them in the future.
An example where I reacted like "Kirt" was a time I played a soccer tourniment in Las Vagas. My team and I were trying to stay focused to win the game, but when we ended up losing we let our emotions get the best of us and got really sad it ended up ruining the rest of the trip.
An example when I reacted like "Scotty" was a time when I went camping with a group of friends in the summer. I remember it being brutally hot with a huge lake in front of us but we weren't allowed to go in, one day I got so hot and fed up that I convinced everyone to go into the lake anyway.
2. One time during a dance competition I forgot my dance costume at home, and we were about thirty minutes away. My parents had to race all the way back to the house to get my costume while I stood there anxiously waiting to see if they were going to make it back on time before it was my then to dance. Thankfully all the other dancers were running behind, and on top of that they had placed two dancers ahead of me at the last minute, my parents had made it just on time. If those two dances hadn't been placed before me they would not have made it.
This next thing thatbhapoened to me there was nothing that really "saved" me but time. I had gone to Seattle with my mom on vacation we stood for 4 days and on the last day we recited to go shopping in a part of Seattle that actually had a lot of cars driving unlike the part we were staying in where everyone walked. So we were going to cross the street but before I did I saw a woman cross quickly even though a car was coming very fast, so I thought I could make it across the street as well. I left my mom and crossed and right when my mom yelled my name I turned around and the car had zoomed past right before my eyes. If I had walked a little slower the car would have probably hit me.
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Post by yarua on Mar 2, 2015 7:19:10 GMT
Yarua Quintanilla 11632
1) An example of being "Kirk" was when I had a friend and we were the best of friends. He would always help me and I would always help him. At the end of our friendship, I thought we had become a couple. Most of my friends said that it would be a bad idea, but I did not listen because of my strong feelings for him. I thought we had something real, but while I was thinking that, he played me like a card. It was not a relationship but hookups to him. For me being "Spock", I cut off all communications from him because it was not worth going through all the pain. We have not spoken since then. and I am glad. Of being "Scotty", I was with my friend at the end of finals week, and we were hanging out at her place. We went outside and we were riding bikes until I had got myself into a bicycle incident. I had a tough time breathing and I could not get up for a while. My shoulder was in pain and my back and legs were bruised. When we were going back to her house, I was more focused on my breaths since it was tough for a while.
2) I was with my friend before class had started a couple weeks ago and she was confused on what to do between with herself and an old flame. They were going to patch things up, but he wanted her to do something uncomfortable so she refused. As we were talking about it, she was on Facebook and the first post we see said something like do not give up on your love because everything happens for a reason. I told her that this was just a coincidence. The next one was I went out with my friends from church and we were having a good time. The service was great and it was okay since I have never been to my friends church before. When the service was over, I met an old classmate that I have not seen in a couple of months. We talked for a while and asked how we were doing and if everything was well. It was pretty interesting I shall say.
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Post by asia wade on Mar 2, 2015 7:32:30 GMT
1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
feeling of being spock was when I was about 10 years old and I was outside playing with my friend and sister and my sister got "lost" the kirk in me expressed my emotions by me crying and the scotty in me was to go home and tell my grandmother. with the spock in me I used my logical thinking and realized that my mother had left and that my sister was possibly with her and I was right.
2. Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
I always wanted a job ever since my senior year in high school but I never got one. then I started college and stressed getting a job and my mother always said you get things when you have patience or you'll get at the right time. when we moved into our new apartment 15 mins from mt sac, I got a call to do an interview with walmart about 3days after living in our new apartment and the got the job the same day as my interview and my job is also 15-20 mins away from my home which is a coincidence because everything was finally so conveint for me.
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Post by cherellerenee on Mar 2, 2015 7:50:57 GMT
Film Test #1- 11632
Drawing from the film the Matrix, and using your own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Betrand Russel or a skeptic it rationally?
1. Earlier this week my best friend and I were discussing one of our favorite television series on Fox11 New Girl. We spoke of last weeks episode and how it would be fun if we decided to reenact the show through our lives. Just by taking a small portion of the show that we found hummers and choosing our adventure of the week around certain events. It wasn't until our week had progressed and we ourselves had experienced a normal week so to speak. I decided to sit down and catch up on the latest episode by streaming on Hulu of course. To my surprise i found out that we had in fact lived a week just as the characters of the tv show. That week on New Girl the friends all gathered around on a “spider hunt”. Schmidt who is terribly afraid of spider much like myself found a spider in his home. Being so concerned about the spiders where about cause him anxiety and made it impossible to move on with his day. I also found a spider in my home and caused me some discomfort through out my day until it was of course killed. Then there was another event in the episode where Coach decided to let Schmidt sit on his shoulders in order to imitate one of his favorite characters from a movie. Just like Schmidt once again my best friend let me sit on his shoulder to reenact a scene from The little Rascals. It was all done for fun but coincidentally it all happened the week of this episodes airing.
2. One morning my mom decided to wake me up to share the details of her dream. Since my mom stays up late watching ridiculous shows on Lifetime I never pay much attention to her crazy nightmares. We can usually dismiss all these dreams based on what she watched the night before. We’ll something about this dream seemed a little different from the rest. In my mothers dream there was a man, which I know isn't really a big deal. However this man in her dream appeared to be in the nude and causing trouble in our household. My mother couldn't figure out how he got into our home and also how to get rid of him. Since he appeared to be ill in the head she had troubles decided the best way to handle the problem. She began to seek help from other such as the neighbors to help resolve the issue of the unknown and unwanted naked man in our home. Minutes after she shared with me what I thought to be a ridiculous story I received a phone call from my friend Ingrid. Ingrid then began to tell me about her crazy dream and it just so happened to be about a man. In Ingrid's dream she was frightened to find an unknown man in her bedroom and he just so happened to be in the nude as well. Not having many options she sought out the help of a neighbor to solve her problem. Of course I shared this news with my mother and she choked it up to be sign and how everything happens for a reason and how somehow it was a sign and to this day I'm not exactly sure.
3. A few years back I was the proud owner of a snuggly little bunny. This rabbit meant the world to me and I to her hopefully. I named her Story and she was my best friend. I carried her everywhere with me, together all we had was a bike and yet the world seemed to be ours. I assume one of my dear friends at the time was jealous of our relationship. Of course she wasn't as cool as I was it was evident in the lack of pets she owned herself. One day while hanging out she jokingly posed a question which was “what if Story where to die the day before your 11th birthday”. Being upset I of course told her to immediately knock on wood, however there was no wood around at the time. She then promised me that as soon as she got home she would knock on wood to take back her hurtful words. Assuming that she kept her words I went about my life. Weeks had passed and my birthday was soon approaching. Before I knew it the day before my birthday had arrived. I woke up as usual and headed down stars to enjoy a nice bowl of cereal and thats when I received the bad news. My brother came to me and asked if I had seen my rabbit yet. Confused and still half a sleep he began to tell me how he just found her dead and he hoped that he got to her before i got a chance to. Devastated and sad I of course had one person to blame for this crime, her name was Raevyn and she was now the enemy.
Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as Spock, Kirk and Scotty.
1. Spock is a logical character of a popular movie known as Star Trek. He relies on logical reasoning more so than a normal person world. In all situations he will find a rational way out, not feeling so to speak. In my life I have encountered a few situation where I myself had stem away from emotions and base my decision solely on my logical reasoning. One example of such would be my decision to join the military. In order to make the best choice and to get the best outcome I had to put aside my emotional connect and the fact that I had to say goodbye to a lot of important people in my life. It made it a lot easier to simply they to forget and think ahead. How would i be bettering my life? I had to think of my future and map accordingly. I told myself that I must not feel in order to survive and I knew that it world only hinder my process if i didn't stick to logic.
2. Captain Kirk another character from the movie Star Trek. He unlike Spock relies on his emotions. At times of a crisis he tends to be more heartfelt. I can remember a time where my niece was just a baby and she and my sister stayed in West Hollywood. The stress of a new baby and life in general seemed to cause some stress in a my sisters relationship. Being connected to my sister the way I was that it appeared to be a shock when I found out things had taken a turn for the worse. One day I received a phone call from no one other than the newly mother. It didn't take much convincing by her tone that something terrible had happened and that my help was needed. Being yet but sixteen years old all I could think of was the wellbeing of my niece. I jumped through all sort of hoops that day trying to get from Fontana to Hollywood. I eventually convinced my mother that our help was needed and something terrible could have happened to the two people we cared for the most. My feelings for my sister and her newborn child is all I could think of. I don't think I could have loved anyone more than them and the day of this significant event i would have given anything and every ounce of me to protect them.
3. Scotty is the character who shows reptilian which is more of a survival technique. He channels this by doing whatever needs be done in order to essentially be able to breath. It is his only means of survival and he does a heck of a job at it. Channeling Scotty in to my life I can recall a time where I myself had to by any means necessarily survive. It was back in 2009 when I was a freshman in High School trying to prove that I was no longer a baby. I cant remember exactly who I was with or how I had persuaded my mother to let me go in the first place. But nevertheless this baby had attended one of the few parties I was invited to. The party took place at a friend of a friends house, a big crazy house party. It appeared to be a normal party thrown by a teen who's parents seemed to be away for the evening. The party if I must say was “popping”, well thats how the other kids were describing it of course. A few hours in to this crazy gathering of way to many reckless teens I heard gun shots. Frightened just like many others we all ran, breaking down fences or whatever seemed to get into our way. I got separated from my group of friends in all the chaos. After a few minutes we were all reunited down the street from the party, before either of us got a chance to speak about our recent events we could here cop cars approaching. Being young and scared we all ran. The cops were everywhere and we could not risk being questioned by an officer or even the chance that they would contact our parents. So innocent but so frightened we decided to hide until all the troubles seemed to die down. I had never been so terrified in my life but I knew I had a choice and it was to stay in the night and hide around friends ore face my mother after she received a devastating phone call.
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Post by saltysoda on Mar 2, 2015 8:04:34 GMT
JIE LIN
Test Form: 11632
1) Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
Just like Spock, I think things in a logic way. For example, I always argue some social questions with my friend because my friend always deceived by the rumors and I try different ways to let her understand the real scene behind the rumors. In another example, I found myself is like Kirk is that I always easily get angry with my sister but I am not a emotional person. I don’t like to yell people, but except my sister. My little sister always use different actions to pest me off. I am the older sister, so I think that I should control her a bit, no let her be too free and help her on different kinds things. However, even she is in the middle school but she still cannot understand the way I treat her. I always yell at her because of I hope that she could be better than others, and she can anythings perfectly. For example, I give her my “homework” every week; in my side, I want her to learn more but every time when I check the work it’s not complete. I am so disappointed at her, so I couldn’t control my anger and start my insults to her. I found myself is a Scotty because I always pay my attentions on the sides when I was driving. I must be careful in order to keep me and my passengers save. In another example, I always teach my mom when she’s driving, sometimes she may have some dangerous actions while she’s driving on the freeway and I usually get mad because of her actions. After, I will start my speech of the safety on road, and make tons of relationship with different things.
2)Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
From the Surfing Matrix, I could easily related to my life because I always have this kind of things going on all the time. For example, I like too play games on my cell phone; during the games I always cheer for my reactions but after one second I lost the game. I feel that is so similar compare the Surfing Matrix to games, anybody don’t know what happen next. Also, I think of my life; just like life, you don’t know what to expect. People use their ability to challenge the world, and make it change. In another side, people without the ability; they won’t think of their futures, just seat tight and never move. I always thinking of the logical theories, I think that things always has its logic and all things are relative, but nothing is absolute; meanwhile, “Nothing is absolute ” is a paradox, so that means anything is relative is wrong. I also think that the logic is non- logical analysis to deal with , even if the end result is non- logical, but the process still need to think about the logic. Because only non- logical result , there is no non-logical process.
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Post by kpeters997 on Mar 2, 2015 8:16:58 GMT
Kelsey Peters
Code 11632
Critical Thinking
1. Drawing from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as "Spock", "Kirk", and "Scotty."
Monitoring my life in events in my past where cases that I acted as Spock, Kirk, and Scotty.
There is a scenario in my life where, I acted as Captain Kirk from Star Trek. I bought a 2014 Toyota Corolla where I have to pay Three hundred thirty ones a month for. My brother got me a job at a popular Korean barbeque joint in Chino Hills. It is the worst job ever. A few months ago I let go of a job that hated so much dearly. The way they ran their establishment was very questionable indeed. I always felt scared going to work because I did not look forward to getting yelled at. But this job did help me financially. I was able to provide for my car, and my girlfriend. I was willing to my happiness and pride aside for my girlfriend and my car's sake. I just feel like Kirk would also sacrifice his well being for his crew or his ship. A situation I acted like Spock was getting a new job, after The Korean Barbeque joint. After being there so long transitioning to a new job felt like a new world to me. I wasn't used to there every day procedures and rituals like I grown adjusted to a the restaurant. In a situation as Scotty, at my Ice cream job, I worked myself off to get to the position I was eager to obtain. But I had to go against everyone to obtain it. I had to rise against all the other workers to get a shift lead position.
2.) Drawing from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
The surfing Matrix demonstrated situations where unusual events of mere coindence. One event that happened to me today actually, where I was running late due to traffic and a variety of cars cut me off on the way to campus. I knew there was going to be a full house on the parking lot with several roamers. On the way to the Mt. Sac campus I was stopped by at least 3 fire trucks passing by, I hit every red light possible, and staying at every red light caused me to get sleepy. I was worried about the a full parking lot and it would be impossible to find parking. One case that happened it took me at least a hour to find one. But surprisingly I stumbled upon a parking spot that someone just left from and I easily swooped on it. I felt like it was fate with all those cases happening I wouldn't have been able to get a spot. Another event that has to due with parking as well. I will be walking away from class towards my car and a random student would always offer me to drive me to my car as a trade for my parking spot. I feel like fate has hit me as much it would hit the other person.
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Post by Ingrid Z on Mar 2, 2015 9:22:58 GMT
1. There was a time when I was in a situation where I reacted like “Spock” from Star Trek. I had gotten into an argument with my oldest sister about not judging people when they open up to her. My point of view was that if somebody trusted enough to vent to her, it was because they needed her to listen and not solve the problem. I explained how people sometimes need support instead of giving opinions or relating to the issue. However, my sister did not understand. She said that if anyone ever came to her with a problem, she needed to fix it. She did not understand that it was not her position to find solutions and that it was not her problem. That is when I realized that she was driven by emotion such as, “Captain Kirk.” The difference between the two “Star Trek” characters is that “Spock” is technically heartless in a sense where he is driven by reason and “Captain Kirk” is driven by the heart not putting importance to what is right but what feels right. Another time, one of my friends was having an issue with a guy named Tom. The issue was that my friend liked Tom but Tom did not like her back. Out of spite, my friend began to speak to somebody that Tom did not get along with. Tom and my friend were friends, but the position my friend was putting Tom in was not a pleasant one. My friend knew about the history between Tom and the guy he hated. Immediately, Tom stopped talking to my friend due to the feeling of betrayal. When my friend felt alone, she had realized what she had done. She let feelings over power her reasoning. She reacted like “Captain Kirk” instead of “Spock.” I have had many instances where I, myself, have stopped and had to look at the situation from a different view point to find a reasonable and appropriate way to handle certain situations. I have different relationships with different people. Everybody’s personality is different and almost everybody within our society has gone through rough times. Whether it is one situation or another, we must take life one breath at a time. Very many people are selfish and only care about themselves because they are driven by emotion such as “Captain Kirk.” When I notice that people are like “Captain Kirk”, I have to take myself to a stand point and guide them to realize the logical point of the situation by putting my “Spock” pants on because too much of either character can be harmful as well. It must be 50/50 for things to work out properly. There are also other times that the situation is vice versa when I am acting caddy and whiny like a fool. When that happens to me, I purposely go to my friends that keep it real with me and will slap me into reality. Life can be defined through any great movie with a great story line such as “Star Trek” and “The Star Trek Metaphor”. 2. According to www.merriam-webster.com, the definition of ‘coincidence’ is “a situation in which events happen at the same time in a way that is not planned or expected”. I am a firm believer in coincidence and I believe in signs whether it may be from a higher power, extraterrestrial beings or just mother earth and its creatures. Whatever it may be, I believe that everything we do has an effect and how we do it may be completely up to us. However, our actions just might speed up the process of coincidence or it may slow it down. Everything that happens now has a purpose in our future. But whether it happens now or later, it will happen like it is supposed to. Such as times when I am sitting somewhere with my best friend just observing others around us and hours later she mentions something that she noticed and I shockingly just stare at her because I thought the exact same thing. Could it be that “great minds think alike”? Or could it be that that other person was living their life, minding their own business not even knowing we exist yet that person was at the same exact place as us making a difference in our life. If that person would have taken 5 minutes longer in their morning, we may have never even seen that person and never had that twin moment to share with each other. Six years ago, when my nephew was about a year old and I still lived in Texas, my mother sent me out one afternoon to set up his car seat in her car. He was very close to me so he would follow me everywhere. For some reason, this day I did not take him outside with me. Texas is very humid and almost every neighborhood is surrounded by bayous and where there is water, there are snakes. So outside I went with the car seat and set it up fast enough with the intention to go back inside to get my nephew. As I turned to go into my walkway back into my front door, out of the corner of my eye I saw something small on the floor placed right next to a bush. It quickly caught my eye and when I looked it was a small poisonous snake rolled like a hose with its head up ready to bite me as soon as I would have walked right by it. If I would have had my nephew outside with me, I never would have seen the snake and it would have bit one of us. A skeptic might say that everything is predictable but at the same time how I see it the odds of that one random event happening to me might not be luck but coincidence. There is greater meaning in something as small as a butterfly flying past a window and you looking out to notice it where at that same time and window your soul mate may be walking past. |
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