Post by jaredhamilton on Feb 27, 2015 0:24:37 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”.
I work at a restaurant and many times as a waiter I must take control of the line that usually stretches out the door on weekends when the restaurant is the busiest. Many times I must think logically about seating arrangements because the only seating at my place of work is all outdoor patio seating and the amount of seats is very limited. Thinking logically I must place groups of people at proper tables in order to optimize seating and in return seat more people. Many times in this same scenario I will find cases where I think like Kirk or think with my heart and these cases tend to happen when someone is eldely and has a problem standing up or a family has a hungry infant. When situations like the ones I listed occur then I have a tendency to seat the groups that need assistance over the groups who showed up first and at my place of work the rules are first come first serve. A moment in my life that I acted like Scotty would have to be when I was ten and I went to the beach with my family. I have always loved to body surf or boogie board but on this occasion I was boogie boarding and a huge wave washed over me and when I went under the wave to dodge, the wave took my boogie board and pulled me with it. Natural instincts kicked in and my only thoughts were to swim to the top and find air. Luckily a surfer was near me who also got pulled under the wave and he assisted to pull me to the surface.
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?
Recently I discovered that a coworker of mine used to live down the street from where I lived for the first three years of my life. This does not seem to be a huge coincidence but I work in Temecula where my coworker lives and Temecula is an hour away from my home town of Upland. Bertrand Russell may look at the facts that my coworker had grew up near my home town and judging by her main line of work which is medical billing and having a job with me as a waitress only on weekends, Bertrand Russell would show that medical billers near Temecula would have more options at higher rates of pay closer to Temecula due to hospitals and side medical practices being in expensive wine country territory. Another coincidence in my life is when I received my learners permit for driving and I happen to run into my best friend at the DMV doing the same thing I was. Bertrand Russell might say it was rational because my friend’s birthday and my birthday or only eight days away from each other, we both took driving school together in the same class and the closeness of that DMV we met in happens to be the closest DMV to the high school we went to and both of us were picked up early from school to acquire driving permits.
I work at a restaurant and many times as a waiter I must take control of the line that usually stretches out the door on weekends when the restaurant is the busiest. Many times I must think logically about seating arrangements because the only seating at my place of work is all outdoor patio seating and the amount of seats is very limited. Thinking logically I must place groups of people at proper tables in order to optimize seating and in return seat more people. Many times in this same scenario I will find cases where I think like Kirk or think with my heart and these cases tend to happen when someone is eldely and has a problem standing up or a family has a hungry infant. When situations like the ones I listed occur then I have a tendency to seat the groups that need assistance over the groups who showed up first and at my place of work the rules are first come first serve. A moment in my life that I acted like Scotty would have to be when I was ten and I went to the beach with my family. I have always loved to body surf or boogie board but on this occasion I was boogie boarding and a huge wave washed over me and when I went under the wave to dodge, the wave took my boogie board and pulled me with it. Natural instincts kicked in and my only thoughts were to swim to the top and find air. Luckily a surfer was near me who also got pulled under the wave and he assisted to pull me to the surface.
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?
Recently I discovered that a coworker of mine used to live down the street from where I lived for the first three years of my life. This does not seem to be a huge coincidence but I work in Temecula where my coworker lives and Temecula is an hour away from my home town of Upland. Bertrand Russell may look at the facts that my coworker had grew up near my home town and judging by her main line of work which is medical billing and having a job with me as a waitress only on weekends, Bertrand Russell would show that medical billers near Temecula would have more options at higher rates of pay closer to Temecula due to hospitals and side medical practices being in expensive wine country territory. Another coincidence in my life is when I received my learners permit for driving and I happen to run into my best friend at the DMV doing the same thing I was. Bertrand Russell might say it was rational because my friend’s birthday and my birthday or only eight days away from each other, we both took driving school together in the same class and the closeness of that DMV we met in happens to be the closest DMV to the high school we went to and both of us were picked up early from school to acquire driving permits.