Filed under: Australia, Environment, Humanity, blogging, elvis, science
Two birds on a electric wire, fluttering up from a bank of bushes below on the edge of a manmade park. In just Australia alone humanity is in the millipons. We have cities packed tighter then compact pressed tins of sardines all over the world. Still we have many thousands of hungry starving people homeless of the streets. We still try and grow in population. We, on the news broadcast not the humans dieing on the street of our oh so wealthy first world countries,but how we are poisioning ourselves with Ice and Killing one another with Semi Automatics. Not only this but our two most popular problems to discuss, how we are killing our planet, and how we are massivley killing one another in terrorist rampages of war, are often shown on TV as we eat our overly fattening mcnameitburgers!
Next time you are ouside look at your surroudings, especially those of you who live in the city. Think of what that place was like before the city. Before even a town or little settlement lay there. Now thta yo have imagined that, look at it again and what it is now. Look at the result of humanitys ingenuity. At first you may feel pride or even shock shock at mans acomplishment, But what happened to everything that was there before?
It has been 300 years since Elvis Died, and still we celbrate his life. W play his music and call him the King still. Elvis was no king. He was pretty much an overindugent ass who died of being tooo fat. I suppose he is a shinign example of how people just follow famous people and celebrities fashions. I mean look how many overindulgent asses there are now!What the Fuck does that say about humanity, we celebrate stupid Musicians 30 years on who are more commonly associated witha pelvis then theior music. And to be honest, his music wasn’t all that good either!
Don’t get me wrong; there area bunch of great musicians out there and in fact some worth liking or as you guys seem to do it Worshipping. Some who have paid a great contribution to the music industry or just make great music. Fredddie Mercury and Tchaikovsky are among two of them who are not thought about as much as they should.
But I am not raving on about music, I am raving on about humanity and how seriously fucked up it is when you think about it! We celebrate elvis who made the pelvis famous, but we dotn celebrate Pavlov, Freud, Erikson, Madame Curie or any of ther true greats of our century. In Fact Darwin is often criticised for his religious defying theory still so many years after he created. Hundred of years in fact. These people made the some of the greatest advancments in Science and Psychology fields humanity has seen. Also on another note, did you know that here kids dont even know the second verse to our national anthem yet they know the words to ACDC’s TNT (my little sisters year 6 class)
And I didn’t even kow it until I took the initaiative to try and learn it. So World, I think you better get you act together, I mean the birds and animals shouldnt have to be the ones adapting to our world, this is their world too.
-SMILEY
Filed under: Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Humanity, Religion, science
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070808/ap_on_sc/human_evolution
A topic being regularly discussed here today is that of evolution and creationism. Apparently in Africa two sculls of the forms of what humanity once was before becoming homosapiens, were found and graded to be living together at the same time. This gave the creationists a glimpse of hope of being able to say, “TAKE THAT EVOLUTIONISTS!” but as in the many discussions, it has become quite evident that these people truly are idiots and might win the Darwin awards.
“The discovery by Meave Leakey, a member of a famous family of paleontologists, shows that two species of early human ancestors lived at the same time in Kenya. That pokes holes in the chief theory of man’s early evolution — that one of those species evolved from the other.”
Please refer to the title I have put for this blog. I am quite sure, some people belived that one day all of humanity evolved at once, or that the theory was as such. In our development as children, we grow at different stages. Most people, even creationists agree with this.
Before I saw this article, probably weeks/months ago, I pondered. ‘Did mankind just evolve at once, I mean there were a few oddities out there right…and we evolved in slow patches…’ Personally I highly doubt that all of mankinds DNA suddenly decided to change all at the same time. Even now there are differences in humanity and what i am talking about it Disabled people, they are formed differntly to us lucky enough to not be born with mental or physical ‘retardation.’
Well thats about all for now about that
-Smiley
Well, while reading up on my studies I took note of a certain study undertaken. Well I am reading up on conditional responses, in my book on counselling (and yes Smiley is becoming a counsellor.) I found something in here under the title. ‘Learning to fear!’ And here is one of the key sentences in it.
“A person can learn to fear just about anything if it is paired with something that elicits pain, surprise or embarrasment”
Well if you are wondering about what this has to do with Little Albert, then I will tell you. Little Albert was a child born and raised in ahospital for nine months since his birth. He was selected for being a quiet and placid child who didn’t scare easily. Keep in mind, this experiment took place in 1920 by John Watson and Rosalie Rayner so no such experiment would be done these days. Well none the government will let anyone know about anyway.
So little Albert was given a white rat, and it was soon established that Little Albert liked the rat and enjoyed playing with it. Having established that Albert liked the Rat, Watson and Rayner started the conditioning. They offered the rat again, and Albert reached for the rat having enjoyed playing with it, Then the researchers struck a steel pole making a loud scary noise for an infant. The researchers repeated this several times and Albert started to whimper tremble. The researchers after this then showed Albert the rat without the noise and Albert basically cried and crawled the way out of there as fast as he possibly could. They had generated a fear of rats in the child.
The child was returned to the laboratory five days later to conduct further tests, these tests were proven to show that Little Alberts fear had extended pastmerely white rats onto a generalised grouuuup of many other things. Of which included, white rabbits, cotton wool, Santa Clause masks and Ever Watsons own Hair.
Watson and Rayner, however were unable to reverse the Conditioning, because well. The mother of the child hadn’t really exactly quite been told and it was removed from his care. However years later a child afraid was afraid of Rabbits and they Managed to reverse his fear.
To be honest, if they reverse the fear, I see no problem with the ethics of creating fear in children. Heck they could make a hit reality TV show about it. I mean who doesn’t like to see people scared shitless.
