I have never been able to bring myself to write one of those lists. It’s easy to say those lists are for chumps and the established reasons, such as they epitomizes the fast paced world of only interested in the end results of being social rather than the process, they allow you to get to know others without effort, or they are merely used to draw ( Read more... )

There is a negative connotation when the term judgment or judgmental is brought up. But is a judgment truly that bad to have? A better question would be if it is possible at all to avoid it. And if not, where does the negativism comes from?

I suppose the best way to go about this is to dissect what it means to make a judgment. An opinion, to ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything publicly for a while. At some point, I lost my loose comfortableness of posting personal thoughts. I was never and currently am not a person that typically opens up or talk about my problems (don't worry, that will not be explained here). So, like most that post in general blogs, this allowed me a place to post something ( Read more... )

I'd say I have picked up roughly half the cards at this point. The process has been slow as the lack of will that allowed all the cards to fall in the first place remains. What is interesting is in the examination of how that will was grinded down to nothing. The most obvious answer one could come up with is perhaps the lack of will is due to the ( Read more... )

The foundations of moral structures are made through the identification and definitions of ethical claims on human psychology, ideological thoughts, and "practical faculty" [1] in Emmanuel Kant's case. The practical faculties Kant specifies were that of "practical reason" [2], or reasoning that is rooted in the real world, where as "pure faculty ( Read more... )

Things fall apart, similar the book, the world view is crumbling around the protagonist and he is left feeling dazed and confused

Things ( Read more... )

I left, and this time part of me really looked forward to it. Traveling with parents was never something I enjoyed, but this time I had desires that overpowered that displeasure. After going non-stop here at Michigan since summer of 05 ending with such a draining term, getting away and change of scenery, people, and culture was welcomed and ( Read more... )

The Dress Shirt Wearing Zombie in the Basement of EH

I've been working 7 credit hours worth of research assistant for nearly a term now. The work isn't all that hard as it's composed of running subjects, interviewing and screening people, data entry, more running subjects, and clashing with an old nemesis of programming in the form of EPrime. There ( Read more... )

With this shaky plane decreasing both in control and altitude, at what point does the eject button get pushed? And where and what is that button?

If you happened to walk through the Diag today, you would have noticed the many people holding signs and handing out fliers that say "vote no on proposal 2". You probably have heard already that proposal 2 deals with Affirmative Action and how it calls for it's removal from the Michigan Constitution. (For exact wording under proposal 06-2, go to ( Read more... )