Post by jamesriii on Feb 27, 2015 0:47:54 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”.
To use the metaphors of “Spock”,”Kirk”, and “Scotty” I recalled from one incident in which all three metaphors were used. On a fall night, my friends and I were on our way to a friend’s Halloween party, while on the 10 freeway headed east to Fontana a large SUV had struck my small sedan. The large SUV had struck my sedan so hard on my left side it made me hit another car that was too the right of me. In doing so I was a pinball between two cars bouncing from one car to the other. After I was free from the cars I had spun in a counterclockwise circle three or four times. I was able to straighten out my car successfully without hitting another car in the process, after the accident my friends had said it was miracle but the “Spock “in me logically thought it was not. The accident had logically made sense in such way that due to how I spun and the cars behind me saw the accident and had avoided me. When my Father arrived he was less than enthused. He had blamed me for the accident and said I should have seen it coming; this is when the “Kirk” in me came out with a fire. I defended myself and boastfully preached to my father that I did the best I could to make sure my friends and I did not die that night. In that argument that’s when “Scotty” took over and I told my father it was my skill and trained reflexes that had saved my friends and I.
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?
In my life I have had many coincidences, none such more special to me than my friendships with Andrew and my friend Dominic. Andrew, I had met him while working at retail store a few years ago. At the time we were both managing and during the long hours we had become close friends due to the stuff we have in common. A few years later we had found out that we actually had been baptized at the same church. It was big time coincidence because we were already good friends simply because we had stuff in common. Finding out that we shared the same religion and had shared the same church only strengthened our friendship. Dominic and I had a similar experience as well. I met Dominic in high school, along the road that is our friendship we had later discovered that our families had met before. Apparently our families have had a run in before we were born. My uncle and his aunt had dated in high school and they almost went as far as getting married. When we found out our families have history we laughed at the idea that us knowing each other was destined. It was simply a major coincidence.
To use the metaphors of “Spock”,”Kirk”, and “Scotty” I recalled from one incident in which all three metaphors were used. On a fall night, my friends and I were on our way to a friend’s Halloween party, while on the 10 freeway headed east to Fontana a large SUV had struck my small sedan. The large SUV had struck my sedan so hard on my left side it made me hit another car that was too the right of me. In doing so I was a pinball between two cars bouncing from one car to the other. After I was free from the cars I had spun in a counterclockwise circle three or four times. I was able to straighten out my car successfully without hitting another car in the process, after the accident my friends had said it was miracle but the “Spock “in me logically thought it was not. The accident had logically made sense in such way that due to how I spun and the cars behind me saw the accident and had avoided me. When my Father arrived he was less than enthused. He had blamed me for the accident and said I should have seen it coming; this is when the “Kirk” in me came out with a fire. I defended myself and boastfully preached to my father that I did the best I could to make sure my friends and I did not die that night. In that argument that’s when “Scotty” took over and I told my father it was my skill and trained reflexes that had saved my friends and I.
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?
In my life I have had many coincidences, none such more special to me than my friendships with Andrew and my friend Dominic. Andrew, I had met him while working at retail store a few years ago. At the time we were both managing and during the long hours we had become close friends due to the stuff we have in common. A few years later we had found out that we actually had been baptized at the same church. It was big time coincidence because we were already good friends simply because we had stuff in common. Finding out that we shared the same religion and had shared the same church only strengthened our friendship. Dominic and I had a similar experience as well. I met Dominic in high school, along the road that is our friendship we had later discovered that our families had met before. Apparently our families have had a run in before we were born. My uncle and his aunt had dated in high school and they almost went as far as getting married. When we found out our families have history we laughed at the idea that us knowing each other was destined. It was simply a major coincidence.
