Apparently the Mayans prophesied about Iron Man thousands of years ago.
I'm studying art history right now, again at a college level. Likeliness isn't as we commonly perceive it. In such elder pieces , likeliness was commonly associated as a personification of a subject. There are very few photographic paintings from the medieval art period and predating . Facial features, size contrast, positioning. All these things are actually a scholarly language to convey a certain theme or idea, or to create a presence of a individual. It becomes philosophical and artsy fartsy. Some of makes my head spin.
Color is also whacky in elder art, blue can be green and green can be orange...and so on.
Ancient art used symbolism and was more romantic than modern art as it conveyed dictated lives on a grander scale. It was the record, it was the religion, it was everything from ancient times .
In medieval art, there were paintings of the emperor all over. And having a painting of the emperor in your dinning room was considered as good as the emperor actually being present. Due to this philosophical, almost religious artistic iconography , the emperor's painting was everywhere. This was symbolic for his rule .
Ancient art isn't so literal all the time, so relax.
I'm sure some one sees an entire language here of symbols and color that we don't.
I recalled a story from when I was at job corps. There was a a girl in my room who was trash talking another girl from my hall. Very normal. She was from a gangster family and was incredibly uneducated and naive. She, in an attempt to dirty the girl's reputation, said: "did you hear she actually sucks het boyfriend's dick?? what kind of girl actually does that??"
Everyone goes silent with a smile.
She looks at us all and makes the biggest noise of disgust. It was hilarious.
I recalled a story from when I was at job corps. There was a a girl in my room who was trash talking another girl from my hall. Very normal. She was from a gangster family and was incredibly uneducated and naive. She, in an attempt to dirty the girl's reputation, said: "did you hear she actually sucks het boyfriend's dick?? what kind of girl actually does that??"
Everyone goes silent with a smile.
She looks at us all and makes the biggest noise of disgust. It was hilarious.
I've just watched a fantastic tennis match, which also happened to be the US Open final which also happened to be won by Andy Murray, who just happens to be British (and a recent Olympic gold medallist to boot). Yay!
During WWE Raw after Jerry "The King" Lawler's match he went back to commentating when he suddenly collapsed and later found out it was a heart attack. He is still alive as of typing this! According to sources from people who where there he was clinically dead for 20 minuets before being revived.
He is now in hospital stable but not out of the danger zone yet but he is breathing on his own and his eyes have responded to light tests so we just have to hope for the best.
Even though this happened on the show it is in no way a story line. His commentating partner out of respect stopped commentating the rest of the matches that night and only gave us updates on his condition.
During WWE Raw after Jerry "The King" Lawler's match he went back to commentating when he suddenly collapsed and later found out it was a heart attack. He is still alive as of typing this! According to sources from people who where there he was clinically dead for 20 minuets before being revived.
He is now in hospital stable but not out of the danger zone yet but he is breathing on his own and his eyes have responded to light tests so we just have to hope for the best.
Even though this happened on the show it is in no way a story line. His commentating partner out of respect stopped commentating the rest of the matches that night and only gave us updates on his condition.
Wow. Say what you like about professional wrestlers, but they are famously polite.
Sometimes I wish I could just fade into the ether and never return.
Yeah... another bad day I'm going to sit around and mope in.
I really wish I had something good on my mind. But I don't.
No placement.
Have to go through the mess of changing all my details at uni now because I have to transfer to another course.
And I'm just being my pathetic and miserable old self as usual on top.
Well, at least the depression actually made me do some housework for once. Just doing anything physical to try and disable the mind for a bit.
But it still doesn't change the fact that I'm a miserable failure, and probably always will be. Thats the thing. I try, I really try hard guys. I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, I try not to get my hopes up about anything, and I try hard not to get distracted, but I do. I ALWAYS fail or just scrape through. And it hurts me.
I can try to laugh it off, or try not to think too hard on it, or just try to guilt by saying stuff like "it could be worse" or "there are much worse things out there", or "you should be grateful for what you have", but ultimately it just makes me worse.
I still have to look in that mirror and see this pathetic hideous waste of space looking back at me.
I must have sounded rude, or even just plain crazy to the Disney guy on the phone. I just couldn't say "thank you for taking the time to let me know" or "thanks for the feedback", it was just too much for me to hold in. Outcompeted again. Close but no cigar. Lack of experience yet again. The ol' career paradox.
I've heard it so many times I could even sense it coming. Try again next time.
Why? So I can get outcompeted again, and get hurt again? Whats the point!?
What is the point of doing this degree really? It makes me stressed, miserable, and it can't even get me work, so why exactly am I here again? What is the purpose to my existance?
Because I don't fucking know.
And I'm too much of a coward to leave this situation. I have all the capacity to just walk out that door and never return. But I don't. I always come back. I'm not even sure it IS love or loyalty or compassion that brings me back. No. I think its fear.
Fear of the Unknown, fear of failure, fear of the strangers out there. Fear. Fear. Fear. That is what controls my life.
I always wonder if I ever entered the Twilight Zone whether my story would be a tragedy, a horror, or redemption/hope. Maybe it would be all three and not necessarily in that order either.
Well. The time is ticking, I'd best finish this housework off before my older brother comes in and screams his head off. Better cook his dinner this time too. He's a "workin man" at the moment. That means he doesn't have to do anything at all and call the shots.
(Man what a fucking evil person. I might be pathetic but he is totally pitiable)
"South" is now really just a state of mind. You could pluck people out of all 50 states that would fit well in a trailer together. Same could be said about a conference hall for that matter.
I really don't know why I have a need to differentiate the people from the geography. I don't live there, I don't have relatives there, it just seems wrong to me to finger point "those people over there".
I don't know. I'm just sure there's some awesome people in the heart of Georgia lol.
I'm going to venture a guess that anyone in this board who has lived in the Deep Sotuh versus another state or country, was far happier in that other state or country. It's not just the individuals, but the institutions that are regressive. For instance, Texas denying millions access to affordable health care.
(note that Utah's religiosity comes largely from its Mormon population, leaving it culturally distinct from the form of religiosity found in the South)
(note, after the announcement, the company made record profits)
New York's low graduation rate is probably because of their Regents requirements. When I was in high school, Regents classes were not required. If you weren't an exceptional student, you could take regular classes which were called "Local" classes. Now they require all students to take the harder regents classes and take the regents midterms and finals. Now they have Regents with honors diplomas rather than the Regents diplomas being the higher of the two.
They're just making it harder for the people who have a harder time learning to actually graduate, which is really counter-intuitive.
That's a good thing. It stops schools from dumbing down the classes to increase grad rates. Canada has a similar system. I had a real tough time with my problems, but I pulled through and did it. No, it wasn't easy and it shouldn't be.
That's a good thing. It stops schools from dumbing down the classes to increase grad rates. Canada has a similar system. I had a real tough time with my problems, but I pulled through and did it. No, it wasn't easy and it shouldn't be.
The problem is that many states don't have practical alternatives, so you have students that are unskilled, condemned to a entry level job. It would be different if they were getting trained in a craft.
The problem is that many states don't have practical alternatives, so you have students that are unskilled, condemned to a entry level job. It would be different if they were getting trained in a craft.
Don't you have trades classes in college?
If you fail high school here, yes, you pretty much are guaranteed a crappy entry level job. Don't fail high school. That's what summer school is for. Plus classes are generally all semestered. That's 3 shots at any given grade 12 course.
I'll be honest, I had problems. I had to take summer school 2/3 years of high school and I had to repeat 1 class and take it both semesters of grade 12. I'm not an idiot, I'm just not an auditory learner which is death in high school if you don't have it figured out by then and find alternate avenues of educating yourself.
In the end, I had like double the required amount of credits because of all the classe(I didn't fail fail, but I didn't have a firm grasp of the material the first time)...Plus I only took one spare block in 3 years. That'll do it
I don't understand what's so wrong with both believing in science and having religious faith at the same time.
At the risk of being trolled, I believe in God. I believe that He is perfect and I am not, and that He required a perfect sacrifice to be made in my stead (in the person of Jesus Christ.) I also believe He gave me imagination, curiosity, creativity and intelligence. I believe that he gave me the ability and the desire to understand the world... the universe around me. And I believe that scientific research is a valid (and valuable) tool with which to better understand His creation.
Why is it so hard for the scientific community to accept that a truth which answers "why" is as valid as a fact which answers "how"? And why is it so hard for communities of faith to seek and accept scientific understanding of our world/universe/continuum?
I don't understand what's so wrong with both believing in science and having religious faith at the same time.
At the risk of being trolled, I believe in God. I believe that He is perfect and I am not, and that He required a perfect sacrifice to be made in my stead (in the person of Jesus Christ.) I also believe He gave me imagination, curiosity, creativity and intelligence. I believe that he gave me the ability and the desire to understand the world... the universe around me. And I believe that scientific research is a valid (and valuable) tool with which to better understand His creation.
Why is it so hard for the scientific community to accept that a truth which answers "why" is as valid as a fact which answers "how"? And why is it so hard for communities of faith to seek and accept scientific understanding of our world/universe/continuum?
I think it's more of a type of mindset, really. Scientific thought tends to create a rather rational and logical mindset, which makes it difficult to accept ideas without adequate proof. A large part of the basis of science rests on being able to recreate experiments to verify previous results. One of the things scientists treasure is when someone is able to find a way to disprove a previously held constant. I'm afraid that religion just doesn't work that way. You can't measure all of the variables of a miracle and then try to recreate it.
On the other side, it seems to be difficult for religiously minded people to fully grasp science for the reason that science isn't constant. There is no set of ordered rules about how the world works. There's theories, which are constantly revised and altered with new data. And I understand that this makes people uncomfortable, as if the world they left yesterday has disappeared with the new information, whereas religion is more rigid and formulated and never really changes that much. God doesn't come down and rewrite the Bible to include evolution or say that it's now alright to eat shellfish and pork, you know?
Now, this isn't to say that these mindset's can't be merged, but you can probably see why it would be difficult to do so. And it doesn't help that a lot of religious people feel threatened by science, by the way it constantly overturns long-held beliefs... and conversely, the way scientists feel threatened by religion, which dictates much of the law governing science without really understanding it.
I think I might have given too long of an answer for this.
I don't understand what's so wrong with both believing in science and having religious faith at the same time.
At the risk of being trolled, I believe in God. I believe that He is perfect and I am not, and that He required a perfect sacrifice to be made in my stead (in the person of Jesus Christ.) I also believe He gave me imagination, curiosity, creativity and intelligence. I believe that he gave me the ability and the desire to understand the world... the universe around me. And I believe that scientific research is a valid (and valuable) tool with which to better understand His creation.
Why is it so hard for the scientific community to accept that a truth which answers "why" is as valid as a fact which answers "how"? And why is it so hard for communities of faith to seek and accept scientific understanding of our world/universe/continuum?
Nobody says it is. I'm a man of faith. But I would never teach Creationism in a class room, first of all because it's nonsense, second of all because why not then just teach the creation story of every religion? These stories have no predictive value and no point of revision. Evolution is useful because it provides a framework, predictive values and the ability to be revised. Its strange to me that the majority of Christian religious individuals can't accept the truth that Genesis is allegorical.
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I'm studying art history right now, again at a college level. Likeliness isn't as we commonly perceive it. In such elder pieces , likeliness was commonly associated as a personification of a subject. There are very few photographic paintings from the medieval art period and predating . Facial features, size contrast, positioning. All these things are actually a scholarly language to convey a certain theme or idea, or to create a presence of a individual. It becomes philosophical and artsy fartsy. Some of makes my head spin.
Color is also whacky in elder art, blue can be green and green can be orange...and so on.
Ancient art used symbolism and was more romantic than modern art as it conveyed dictated lives on a grander scale. It was the record, it was the religion, it was everything from ancient times .
In medieval art, there were paintings of the emperor all over. And having a painting of the emperor in your dinning room was considered as good as the emperor actually being present. Due to this philosophical, almost religious artistic iconography , the emperor's painting was everywhere. This was symbolic for his rule .
Ancient art isn't so literal all the time, so relax.
I'm sure some one sees an entire language here of symbols and color that we don't.
Everyone goes silent with a smile.
She looks at us all and makes the biggest noise of disgust. It was hilarious.
X'D
Now thats what I call fail right there!
SPIES IN MY HOUSE
OH NOOOOOOO
Ed was quoted saying he wants it to be on a next gen system.
OH NOOOOOOO
Wow those look amazing!
Oh man the fatalities will look awesome.
I did. Thanks. I proposed in the summer, as soon as I could afford a ring.
Oh God...
I'm pretty chuffed for him and my country.
Welp. There's no unseeing that.
He is now in hospital stable but not out of the danger zone yet but he is breathing on his own and his eyes have responded to light tests so we just have to hope for the best.
Even though this happened on the show it is in no way a story line. His commentating partner out of respect stopped commentating the rest of the matches that night and only gave us updates on his condition.
Wow. Say what you like about professional wrestlers, but they are famously polite.
Yeah... another bad day I'm going to sit around and mope in.
I really wish I had something good on my mind. But I don't.
No placement.
Have to go through the mess of changing all my details at uni now because I have to transfer to another course.
And I'm just being my pathetic and miserable old self as usual on top.
Well, at least the depression actually made me do some housework for once. Just doing anything physical to try and disable the mind for a bit.
But it still doesn't change the fact that I'm a miserable failure, and probably always will be. Thats the thing. I try, I really try hard guys. I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, I try not to get my hopes up about anything, and I try hard not to get distracted, but I do. I ALWAYS fail or just scrape through. And it hurts me.
I can try to laugh it off, or try not to think too hard on it, or just try to guilt by saying stuff like "it could be worse" or "there are much worse things out there", or "you should be grateful for what you have", but ultimately it just makes me worse.
I still have to look in that mirror and see this pathetic hideous waste of space looking back at me.
I must have sounded rude, or even just plain crazy to the Disney guy on the phone. I just couldn't say "thank you for taking the time to let me know" or "thanks for the feedback", it was just too much for me to hold in. Outcompeted again. Close but no cigar. Lack of experience yet again. The ol' career paradox.
I've heard it so many times I could even sense it coming. Try again next time.
Why? So I can get outcompeted again, and get hurt again? Whats the point!?
What is the point of doing this degree really? It makes me stressed, miserable, and it can't even get me work, so why exactly am I here again? What is the purpose to my existance?
Because I don't fucking know.
And I'm too much of a coward to leave this situation. I have all the capacity to just walk out that door and never return. But I don't. I always come back. I'm not even sure it IS love or loyalty or compassion that brings me back. No. I think its fear.
Fear of the Unknown, fear of failure, fear of the strangers out there. Fear. Fear. Fear. That is what controls my life.
I always wonder if I ever entered the Twilight Zone whether my story would be a tragedy, a horror, or redemption/hope. Maybe it would be all three and not necessarily in that order either.
Well. The time is ticking, I'd best finish this housework off before my older brother comes in and screams his head off. Better cook his dinner this time too. He's a "workin man" at the moment. That means he doesn't have to do anything at all and call the shots.
(Man what a fucking evil person. I might be pathetic but he is totally pitiable)
...but bigotry and stereotyping is okay?
Oh posh. I'm joking.
White supremacy groups have risen in numbers since his election.
I forgot they have to keep the racism subtle now.
I really don't know why I have a need to differentiate the people from the geography. I don't live there, I don't have relatives there, it just seems wrong to me to finger point "those people over there".
I don't know. I'm just sure there's some awesome people in the heart of Georgia lol.
(note that Utah's religiosity comes largely from its Mormon population, leaving it culturally distinct from the form of religiosity found in the South)
(note, after the announcement, the company made record profits)
High School Graduation Rates:
They're just making it harder for the people who have a harder time learning to actually graduate, which is really counter-intuitive.
The problem is that many states don't have practical alternatives, so you have students that are unskilled, condemned to a entry level job. It would be different if they were getting trained in a craft.
Don't you have trades classes in college?
If you fail high school here, yes, you pretty much are guaranteed a crappy entry level job. Don't fail high school. That's what summer school is for. Plus classes are generally all semestered. That's 3 shots at any given grade 12 course.
I'll be honest, I had problems. I had to take summer school 2/3 years of high school and I had to repeat 1 class and take it both semesters of grade 12. I'm not an idiot, I'm just not an auditory learner which is death in high school if you don't have it figured out by then and find alternate avenues of educating yourself.
In the end, I had like double the required amount of credits because of all the classe(I didn't fail fail, but I didn't have a firm grasp of the material the first time)...Plus I only took one spare block in 3 years. That'll do it
At the risk of being trolled, I believe in God. I believe that He is perfect and I am not, and that He required a perfect sacrifice to be made in my stead (in the person of Jesus Christ.) I also believe He gave me imagination, curiosity, creativity and intelligence. I believe that he gave me the ability and the desire to understand the world... the universe around me. And I believe that scientific research is a valid (and valuable) tool with which to better understand His creation.
Why is it so hard for the scientific community to accept that a truth which answers "why" is as valid as a fact which answers "how"? And why is it so hard for communities of faith to seek and accept scientific understanding of our world/universe/continuum?
I'm giving mine away!
Also, I still eat at Chick-Fil-A. Because I don't care.
..you know I have always loved you.
Not to you, bad Dragonball music lover. It was spoken for even before I entered the line to meet Kojima.
I think it's more of a type of mindset, really. Scientific thought tends to create a rather rational and logical mindset, which makes it difficult to accept ideas without adequate proof. A large part of the basis of science rests on being able to recreate experiments to verify previous results. One of the things scientists treasure is when someone is able to find a way to disprove a previously held constant. I'm afraid that religion just doesn't work that way. You can't measure all of the variables of a miracle and then try to recreate it.
On the other side, it seems to be difficult for religiously minded people to fully grasp science for the reason that science isn't constant. There is no set of ordered rules about how the world works. There's theories, which are constantly revised and altered with new data. And I understand that this makes people uncomfortable, as if the world they left yesterday has disappeared with the new information, whereas religion is more rigid and formulated and never really changes that much. God doesn't come down and rewrite the Bible to include evolution or say that it's now alright to eat shellfish and pork, you know?
Now, this isn't to say that these mindset's can't be merged, but you can probably see why it would be difficult to do so. And it doesn't help that a lot of religious people feel threatened by science, by the way it constantly overturns long-held beliefs... and conversely, the way scientists feel threatened by religion, which dictates much of the law governing science without really understanding it.
I think I might have given too long of an answer for this.
Nobody says it is. I'm a man of faith. But I would never teach Creationism in a class room, first of all because it's nonsense, second of all because why not then just teach the creation story of every religion? These stories have no predictive value and no point of revision. Evolution is useful because it provides a framework, predictive values and the ability to be revised. Its strange to me that the majority of Christian religious individuals can't accept the truth that Genesis is allegorical.