To anyone who's ever wondered about intelligent life in other galaxies, this post is for you.
This thought originated while playing the popular action role-playing game Fable II, it takes place in the fictional world of Albion which has just arrived to it's early modern period (Similar to our colonial period). This is a world full of adventure and wonder, creatures that we would find very odd in our world. It's filled with swords, guns and magic, but that is far from the point. In this game you play the role of an orphan who loses his sister and is almost killed. You are faced with choices throughout you're characters life, good or bad. The choices you make shapes and molds the world in which you play into what it will become. For example, at the beginning of the game you and you're sister are trying to scrounge up 5 gold pieces to buy a magical song box which may or may not grant the user 1 wish. So you run around the town doing deeds nobly or you can decide that you want to be mischievous and take the bad route. The fifth and final gold piece requires you to hand over 5 warrants for arrest for criminals around the town. The life changing decision that you must make is whether to give the warrants over to the towns guard so he can put away the criminals and save the day, or to give the warrants to the criminal so that he can rip them up and cause more crime around the city.
Depending on the choice you make the future can be bright or it can be bleak. If you hand over the warrants to the guard, the city will be thriving, the town will be wealthy, the guard you gave them to will be the Head Guard of the city, and you will be praised by everyone. However, if you decided to hand the warrants to the criminal, the town will be a slum, the people will be suffering, the people will despise you, but the criminals will love you.
This was just a little introduction and an example into my own thought. The universe is vast, it doesn't end it only expands. We have only set off so little into the everlasting nothingness and we really don't know what's out there when it comes to intelligent life. Other than having planets that populate life which is different then our humanity, think about planets that might be exactly like earth, solar systems that might be exactly like our Milky Way Galaxy.
What if there is another planet like earth, it is populated by humans just like our earth. Let's call this other planet Xearth. It could be possible that Xearth started at the same time that our earth did, and everything was exactly the same. Of course everything starts off the same in the universe, but then things begin to change. Remember everything is unique, nothing is quite like the other, just like two snowflakes. At one point in time, something that happened on earth changed it's course of history, and at the same time something on Xearth happened, but it was completely different than what happened on our earth. And so begins our paradox.
Now here is the tie in to the video game that I mentioned. In the game you only had two roads to pick, the good or the bad, which subsequently led to two more roads along the way. This forms a whole branching of events to unfold in the world. All it takes is one wrong turn. What's to stop us from saying that maybe we made all of the wrong choices, and Xearth made all of the right choices, it's obviously a rhetorical question since this is just a theory, and knowing that is impossible. With all of the war, natural disasters, man made disasters, and anything else which may go wrong in this world, I don't believe it's crazy to say that there might be a world out there which made better choices then we have. If this is true though, Xearth might be more advanced in certain ways of living life, faith, health, technology... and peace.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Philosophy & Mantra
Before I start writing out my philosophy I would like to point out that most of the things I will be discussing have never really left my mind, I've always wanted to share my thoughts but for some reason was scared to. I've had a lot of moments where that's happened and I feel as it's time to finally let everything out, and this is a good way to start.
My Philosophy
I believe that the manner in which you are brought up by your parents is a starting point to a persons own abstract thought of how to present themselves in society. When you are young you're parents mold you into who you are, but they don't complete the mold, they only create about 30% to 50%. (not real statistics). It's your job to finish you're own mold, because if you don't then what kind of person will you be? Certainly not the person you want to be, but the person that society wants you to be. You live by what you're parents taught you but soon enough you branch out and gain new experiences which lead you to think differently about everything.
I try to be kind hearted to everyone I meet in life, everyone deserves compassion. I hear a lot of people say this but I don't see all of them take the very simple action. I believe in trying to have as many friends/know as many people as you can, not for the desire to be popular but for the gratitude to be able to say that you have met numerous amounts of people in your life. And of course when it comes to the friends who are most dear to me in my life, I would do anything for them. Their have been countless times were a friend of mine has taught me something new, helped me to overcome a mental breakdown or have just been there, friends to the end.
One thing that I appreciate in life that i've never really heard anyone talk about are simple emotions. A smile or an emotion of happiness is the greatest gift that you can ever witness. It displays pure joy. I would hope that my cheery almost upbeat attitude can carry over to someone else and hopefully bring the same attitude to that person. I always try to bring smiles to peoples faces, if anyone I know were to be upset I will always be there to attempt to cheer them up, and a smile is all I need to know that I've done something to help achieve that goal.
I'm not a very religious person, and what I'm going to type here might stir some opinions from people but I want them to keep in mind that this is only my opinion and I don't dislike religion, I just don't fully understand it. I wasn't really brought up under any specific religion. One side of my family is Lutheran and one side of my family is Jewish. My brother and I were raised learning about both religions and were able to see how each culture is different and yet similar; however, I still don't understand how religion can cause so much happiness and at the same time so much grief. A thought that I have been playing with my mind which has to do with religion is that 'Time & Opportunity is greater than Faith'. You as an individual and free person and allowed to believe in whatever you want, but all that a belief is, is a mystery itself. Of course, it is very late and I cannot fully remember the entire argument I had for this though, so I will leave it at that for now.
There is still much more in my head waiting to get out and to be explained, but sometimes the thoughts escape me and thinking about them will just make it worse. So for now I leave my philosophy at that, and will come back to it when I have more to add
Mantra
I try to always stay conscious and aware of my surroundings, I look out for people behind me when I'm opening a door and I make sure I always look around if I can't hear my surroundings due to headphones. It's just something i'm always doing, almost like a habit. I people watch all the time, not to be creepy but just to see how people react to certain situations they are placed in. You can learn a lot by just watching and observing other people.
My Philosophy
I believe that the manner in which you are brought up by your parents is a starting point to a persons own abstract thought of how to present themselves in society. When you are young you're parents mold you into who you are, but they don't complete the mold, they only create about 30% to 50%. (not real statistics). It's your job to finish you're own mold, because if you don't then what kind of person will you be? Certainly not the person you want to be, but the person that society wants you to be. You live by what you're parents taught you but soon enough you branch out and gain new experiences which lead you to think differently about everything.
I try to be kind hearted to everyone I meet in life, everyone deserves compassion. I hear a lot of people say this but I don't see all of them take the very simple action. I believe in trying to have as many friends/know as many people as you can, not for the desire to be popular but for the gratitude to be able to say that you have met numerous amounts of people in your life. And of course when it comes to the friends who are most dear to me in my life, I would do anything for them. Their have been countless times were a friend of mine has taught me something new, helped me to overcome a mental breakdown or have just been there, friends to the end.
One thing that I appreciate in life that i've never really heard anyone talk about are simple emotions. A smile or an emotion of happiness is the greatest gift that you can ever witness. It displays pure joy. I would hope that my cheery almost upbeat attitude can carry over to someone else and hopefully bring the same attitude to that person. I always try to bring smiles to peoples faces, if anyone I know were to be upset I will always be there to attempt to cheer them up, and a smile is all I need to know that I've done something to help achieve that goal.
I'm not a very religious person, and what I'm going to type here might stir some opinions from people but I want them to keep in mind that this is only my opinion and I don't dislike religion, I just don't fully understand it. I wasn't really brought up under any specific religion. One side of my family is Lutheran and one side of my family is Jewish. My brother and I were raised learning about both religions and were able to see how each culture is different and yet similar; however, I still don't understand how religion can cause so much happiness and at the same time so much grief. A thought that I have been playing with my mind which has to do with religion is that 'Time & Opportunity is greater than Faith'. You as an individual and free person and allowed to believe in whatever you want, but all that a belief is, is a mystery itself. Of course, it is very late and I cannot fully remember the entire argument I had for this though, so I will leave it at that for now.
There is still much more in my head waiting to get out and to be explained, but sometimes the thoughts escape me and thinking about them will just make it worse. So for now I leave my philosophy at that, and will come back to it when I have more to add
Mantra
I try to always stay conscious and aware of my surroundings, I look out for people behind me when I'm opening a door and I make sure I always look around if I can't hear my surroundings due to headphones. It's just something i'm always doing, almost like a habit. I people watch all the time, not to be creepy but just to see how people react to certain situations they are placed in. You can learn a lot by just watching and observing other people.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Art and Technology
Summer semester at Wentworth Institute of Technology has begun! Now I know what you're thinking, going to school during the summer sounds really lame and boring, and quite frankly you are absolutely correct!
It's not all that bad though, I have come to a point in my life where school is a necessity and I am excited to learn new things and to apply my knowledge in different situations as to better my understanding of what I'm being taught and the world itself. I feel mature.
So, students in Gloria Monaghans 'Art and Technology' class were asked to write blogs to express our thoughts and ideas about topics we discuss in class.
It's not all that bad though, I have come to a point in my life where school is a necessity and I am excited to learn new things and to apply my knowledge in different situations as to better my understanding of what I'm being taught and the world itself. I feel mature.
So, students in Gloria Monaghans 'Art and Technology' class were asked to write blogs to express our thoughts and ideas about topics we discuss in class.
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