Greatest profession of all:
Jet plane pilot!
Now I realize why most geek kids want to grow up into pilots: you always get to be a hero!
If you crash a commercial plane and everybody dies, they consider you a hero because the plane didn't hit any schools in the ground (even if it is during the night).
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Cliché Post?
The idea of writing a thought driven post here started to reoccur a lot lately. Some of the environmental inputs that levered this idea are things like watching a couple of great, thought inciting, movies, some relationship problems, constant alcohol abuse and a foot massage.
"Nothing is as good as you can imagine"
Lemmas of this kind, common on the book "Choke" (by Chuck Palahniuk), keep bouncing inside my mind like metal balls in a pinball game; "what would Jesus not do".
Maybe it all started with this speech from Douglas Adams. At that time, since I was deep in studies, work and the relationship thing, I left heavy thoughts aside for some time. The day I found the speech I had the proper time to read it. From then, my mind has been laughing out loud for most of the things that happen around me. A simple talk with some catholic freak makes me laugh (inside) for hours. Plenty of my beliefs from before the speech and now are exactly the same. What changed is that, for me, those belief had become common place after some time. After the reading, I just re-realized how different I am.
Last day 12/31, I was drunk (or, at least, not sober) with a friend watching TV (white trash style) and it presented us with "The Bicentennial Man" (inspired by a novel from Isaac Asimov which I had not read till the time of this writing). I agree with all of you who might say that the movie carries heavy emotion appealing scenes. But the thing is, I bet that, if this movie is shown to a thousand ordinary catholics (including or not kids), plenty of them will think, at the end of the movie, that Andrew must be considered human. How could that be?
Douglas Adams' discussed several times, in the previously linked speech, how extremely complex beings or phenomenons can arise from, as extremely, simple organisms, laws or machine code instructions. What I see in the referred movie is a somewhat dumb and simple (maybe not that simple but you get the idea) household item becomes a human, without the help of any "god" or something like that. I recall that the movie points that Andrew "has something special" and things like that, but what I see is a simple malfunction that induces random things/thoughts that, together with good judgment, resembles creativity and human behavior (it is almost a "Montecarlo Method for Artificial Creativity Implementation", I should claim a patent on that!). But, indeed, followers of the "humans have something special" lemma (catholics), are not insulted by the movie at all. Would it simply be that they didn't get the idea of the movie at first place?
I've been spotting ironies like that for a while now. The real truth running on this people's mind is that (exactly as described at the speech), regarding religion, you don't think at all!
fucked up people!
*I'm leaving on a jet plane.
**This post shall be finished later. (Maybe getting to the foot-massage thing.. lol)
***I'm alive and well, I'm sure of that much!
"Nothing is as good as you can imagine"
Lemmas of this kind, common on the book "Choke" (by Chuck Palahniuk), keep bouncing inside my mind like metal balls in a pinball game; "what would Jesus not do".
Maybe it all started with this speech from Douglas Adams. At that time, since I was deep in studies, work and the relationship thing, I left heavy thoughts aside for some time. The day I found the speech I had the proper time to read it. From then, my mind has been laughing out loud for most of the things that happen around me. A simple talk with some catholic freak makes me laugh (inside) for hours. Plenty of my beliefs from before the speech and now are exactly the same. What changed is that, for me, those belief had become common place after some time. After the reading, I just re-realized how different I am.
Last day 12/31, I was drunk (or, at least, not sober) with a friend watching TV (white trash style) and it presented us with "The Bicentennial Man" (inspired by a novel from Isaac Asimov which I had not read till the time of this writing). I agree with all of you who might say that the movie carries heavy emotion appealing scenes. But the thing is, I bet that, if this movie is shown to a thousand ordinary catholics (including or not kids), plenty of them will think, at the end of the movie, that Andrew must be considered human. How could that be?
Douglas Adams' discussed several times, in the previously linked speech, how extremely complex beings or phenomenons can arise from, as extremely, simple organisms, laws or machine code instructions. What I see in the referred movie is a somewhat dumb and simple (maybe not that simple but you get the idea) household item becomes a human, without the help of any "god" or something like that. I recall that the movie points that Andrew "has something special" and things like that, but what I see is a simple malfunction that induces random things/thoughts that, together with good judgment, resembles creativity and human behavior (it is almost a "Montecarlo Method for Artificial Creativity Implementation", I should claim a patent on that!). But, indeed, followers of the "humans have something special" lemma (catholics), are not insulted by the movie at all. Would it simply be that they didn't get the idea of the movie at first place?
I've been spotting ironies like that for a while now. The real truth running on this people's mind is that (exactly as described at the speech), regarding religion, you don't think at all!
fucked up people!
*I'm leaving on a jet plane.
**This post shall be finished later. (Maybe getting to the foot-massage thing.. lol)
***I'm alive and well, I'm sure of that much!
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