Humanity controls so much and because of this I believe we loose some of our humility. We take nature for granted and believe we as a species can do whatever we want with little repercussions. Science has virtually eliminated population control (disease, high infant mortality) and now our planet is reaching epic population levels of which it may ( Read more... )

...and it is. We have progressed tremendously in many areas (no so much in others) but just think about this fact. Science is uncovering new discoveries everyday, constantly putting our prior amount of knowledge to shame. Sometimes this restructures our whole concept of reality or previous knowledge and information paradigm. We humans think we are ( Read more... )

You know what puzzles me? Who are these people who answer you within 5 minutes on Yahoo Answers?  The ones who answer your LJ community requests? Who friend 638 people on Myspace for the hell of it? Who read a random person's Myspace comments for fun (that is why bands comment on other's profiles right? For publicity) ? Who have 39 blogs on their ' ( Read more... )

Could you be a Focusing effect ?- prediction bias occurring when people place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome

How about a Illusion of control? - the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot.

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Gosh, to think in the past how mundane life really was. Life really was slow and monotonous and not very mentally stimulating. Churn butter, tend to the fields ect. It's amazing that the human mind is even capable of such abstract and higher level thinking when most of humanity has been hunting, sit around the fire and (for a very short time) ( Read more... )

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It's the action, not the fruit
of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may
not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any
fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may
never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing,
there will be no result.

Mahatma Gandhi

I was reading this article and I was reminded for some reason about 7th grade at my middle school. We were outside reading a story in English class, I don't remember what, but it was a nice day (I think fall). It reminded me of reallly how stupid stuff gets in the way of real life. This day will remain perpetually beautiful in my mind. I wish I ( Read more... )

This is one of my most fundamental beliefs. Life is all about growth, and when I do not grow, I feel stagnated and as if I am missing out. Even a dead time can bring growth if at the end of that you actively learn from the experience ( Read more... )