Getting Sleepy

Thoughts on Assorted Things

In any given circumstance, there is only so much you can do to make what you want to happen, happen. Especially if it involves the free will of another human being. Pursuing what you want is often stomping on another person's opportunity. I would say I'm far too practical to be any sort of communist, but there are things to be said about considering a world of cooperation rather than competition. What you want is often not the socially optimal situation. Then there's the relativity thing- is it impossible for everybody to be rich, because one must be rich relative to another person?

Friendship is a wonderful thing. Though it does exist to some extent, the issues of jealousy, animosity, etc. often accompanying boy/girl relationships and/or the pursuit of them are not nearly as prevalent. From a Christian standpoint, one of the beautiful things about a relationship with Jesus is that there are (for those who manage to attain it) all the things of a perfect harmonious intimate relationship available to anyone. No jealousy. No envy. Only love.
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Okay so there is some App on facebook called "FriendQ&A" which will present questions like :
"

Here are some other questions you can answer about Alan Wong.

1:Do you think Alan Wong is hot?

2:Would you travel around the world with Alan Wong?

3:Do you think Alan Wong is a good friend?

4:Do you think Alan Wong looks good in a bathing suit?

5:Do you think Alan Wong is attractive?

"
But of course it will ask about random people or whatever. These are all "yes" or "no" questions. I actually added this app very briefly out of curiosity, but deleted it with a few minutes. I personally feel that this application promotes very negative feelings.

Okay, for starters, three of these questions are about physical attraction. This will produce one of the following effects (obviously simplified argument because I'm getting sleepy haha):
1. Ego Boost (The person answers "yes")
2. Self Image Wound (The person answers "no")
In most cases I don't think either of these are particularly beneficial if so artificially created in such a superficial context.

I suppose some things can give people a "heads up", but other times it is just a drama-generator. Personally, I didn't care that much for the physical attraction questions since that is pretty arbitrary, but I was particularly self image wounded by questions such as "Do you think ___ is virgin?" (someone answered "no"), "Do you think ___ is a flirt?" (someone answered "yes"). This application forces people to give either a "yes" or a "no" answer; such a dichotomy elicits black and white, answers questionable validity but with nevertheless equal if not greater emotional impact, positive or negative.

I won't deny that I enjoy getting formspring questions. I like formspring because it gives room for honest answers, discretion (you can delete, ignore, etc.), explanation, etc. Applying "yes" and "no" answers, whether honest or not, to superficially superficial questions, however, I feel, is a disservice to society.



Daily Events, etc.

I woke up easily this morning (I suppose that is usual). I don't know why I even care to write this, but I ate a banana for breakfast. School was pretty interesting and fun. In statistics I agreed to play Shogi with Bryant, and we didn't even finish our game. And because I was playing Shogi, I didn't get to study as well as I hoped. Double fail. Nevertheless, quite interesting and entertaining. We had an interesting substitute in statistics as well that had a great deal of insight into "senior mentality". In biology we are listening to student presentations for the anatomy unit. After helping various people with Computer science, doing statistics, reviewing (or trying to start) some calculus, etc., I'm becoming more and more disposed towards math and chem rather than the memorization and wide breadth of specific things we learn in bio (do I really need to know what a cnidarian is?). At a high school level it doesn't take that much to memorize the extra word list or whatever, but just a though for future consideration. I think I have to especially start studying Government soon. Today in class we talked about lawyers a bit. I used to be quite opposed to pursuing that career path, but I wouldn't rule it out entirely now. Many options make a decision difficult. Spanish is hard! I still have to do some multiple choice passages before I sleep.
After school I went to get free waffle fries at Chik-fil-A with Shelley (and a number of other Beckman people, since so many people were headed to the same destination). Afterward I went to Jesse's house to go work out a bit and play some Tatsunoko vs Capcom.
Then I went home and took a three hour or some other large number really long nap.
AP tests are drawing nearer and nearer, and I can feel it in my homework load. I had homework from all of my classes today, which is rather rare. I didn't get around to making some scary AP schedule yet, but the sooner I get to that the better.
During tutorial Danny Fields embodied the stereotypes of a rich white male. It was amusing.
I had finished reading Genesis recently (I'll check on the actual date) and am currently reading through Exodus now. I'll probably give some commentary on this later.
For English I had to make a presentation on Modernism. I enjoyed myself far too much making math and science allusions. This particular one I related to the Modernist's rejection of the principles of certainty associated with the Enlightenment.