http://truth4seekers.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fail-owned-logical-fail.jpg
There are man fallacies given in this image, most plainly to me, Appeal to fear, Appeal to Belief, and Currcumstantial Ad Hominem (against a persons choices, in this case religion or lack there of). It Appeals to Fear by saying all athiests arent believed in by god and by not being believed in by god, you don't exist, or more accuratly you are nothing. The second Appeal to belief makes this more targeted at Christians than athiests making a funny turn saying that if you dont beleieve in god your not believed in by him, which is basically saying that you are just an athiest, which is the point of being and athiest. And then the last one Currcumstantial Ad hominem, the priest who said this is attacking Atheism which is foolish, because they dont believe in what you do so, they dont care if the god they think exists doesn't believe in them.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Brainstorming Ideas
Ideas: List of 8
- Free Running
- How to travel
- Taking better wildlife pictures
- Becoming a better dribbler in soccer
- Being a better soccer player
- Shooting / Passing better in soccer
- Becoming a better poet
- Becoming more in touch with myself
- Free Running
- How am i going to continue staying in shape for it?
- What can i do to maximize my training time?
- How can i get better?
- What needs to be done before I'm ready to continue to more advanced things?
- Taking better wildlife pictures
- Where do I need to go to achieve my goal?
- What equipment do I need?
- How can i get the equipment for a reasonable price?
- How do i get into my dream career choice (Nat. Geo. Wildlife Photographer)?
- Becoming a better dribbler
- What do i need?
- How can i do it through the winter?
- What happens if i cant do it for a while?
- Who do i trust to teach me, and how do i get taught?
- Becoming a better poet
- What do i need?
- Is inspiration the only thing that makes a good poet?
- Where should i find inspiration?
- How can poets of the past help my writing?
- How to travel
- Where to go?
- How to get thier?
- Cost?
- Who/ What to bring?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
In Jon Stewart's skit, he pointed out 2 fallacies that i caught onto, the first of which being, Red Herring, where the Mexicans or what they called "illegal immigrants" were bringing disease back into the country. They blamed 7000 cases on immigrants, which isn't very accurate giving that 60 minutes disputed it. The next fallacy they pick up is comparing the few and labeling the entire race as lepers, which was also disputed to 60 minutes. It is very funny, same thing they did to the Irish and blacks, and anyone else that the United States was concerned with. Its very funny... very sad, and very ignorant.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Letter to The editor Topic: Tea Party
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/26/how_the_world_sees_the_tea_party
World views of the Tea Party, which is mainly negative. From many of our allies.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/26/the_tea_party_exported
More foreign views on the Tea Party, mostly negative again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/al-reynolds-tea-party-can_n_774432.html
This guy needs to never say anything again if he wants to have a chance to be elected.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/96456And, look at that, anti - Muslim jargon, how original.
I chose to write my letter on the tea party, and my views on their "politics, or lack their of. I agree with some of their ideas, such as economy, because i don't believe that socialism works with large area. I think it works from community based ideas, but when you try and introduce it to say a country, it will and has on many accounts fail. But that's not what i will write about, i am here to discuss the tea parties negative media, really the racism that many of their candidates are showing. I've pulled up a few examples of such negative stories. Really what I'm going to be talking about is the Tea Party and how they will bring negative media and relations to the country if we elect any of them because of the choice idiots they seem to cohort with. So, its an anti Tea Party piece... original right?
World views of the Tea Party, which is mainly negative. From many of our allies.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/26/the_tea_party_exported
More foreign views on the Tea Party, mostly negative again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/al-reynolds-tea-party-can_n_774432.html
This guy needs to never say anything again if he wants to have a chance to be elected.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/96456And, look at that, anti - Muslim jargon, how original.
I chose to write my letter on the tea party, and my views on their "politics, or lack their of. I agree with some of their ideas, such as economy, because i don't believe that socialism works with large area. I think it works from community based ideas, but when you try and introduce it to say a country, it will and has on many accounts fail. But that's not what i will write about, i am here to discuss the tea parties negative media, really the racism that many of their candidates are showing. I've pulled up a few examples of such negative stories. Really what I'm going to be talking about is the Tea Party and how they will bring negative media and relations to the country if we elect any of them because of the choice idiots they seem to cohort with. So, its an anti Tea Party piece... original right?
O'Brien
Tim O'Brien's speech was amazing. He his upon the things that I tried to hit upon during my earlier writings in the class, about truth and how to truthfully tell your version of truth. That whole concept is actually pretty amazing to me. I remember when i first thought about it when i was reading. It was really exposed though after i read The Things They Carried and how it effected his writing. The way he writes using meta-fiction is amazing, it seems true yet it never really happened. O'Brien will always be one of my favorite writers just because of his exploration of truth, which he and i have in common. I believe this will be a trend, for many authors to recount their lives's tragic or mentally harmful experiences.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Persuasive?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/19/military-recruiters-told-accept-gay-applicants/
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/19/pentagon.gays.recruiting/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Well, one is from a liberal source of median and the other is from a republican source, by reading both you get a general idea of whats going on, the Federal court is changing the gay in the military clause. Now other than it being a "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy its open towards gays. The recruiters are only required to tell their "gay" applicants that it may change in the future and that they were not certain that they would be able to stay in active service for long. These and the human element that they both used are about the only similarities. The authors then start showing subtle differences in their writing styles, Fox showed a more republican approach, which was more resistant to the idea than its more liberal counterpart CNN. Fox, was much less professional in thier writing than CNN, and it almost seemed like they were waiting for the Pentagon to change the order back, while CNN seemed to deem the whole thing as a good thing with its more professional and more extensive cover of the story.CNN also showed the people they interviewed in a more positive light, with comments that promoted their chosen branches, while Fox left these things out.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/19/pentagon.gays.recruiting/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Well, one is from a liberal source of median and the other is from a republican source, by reading both you get a general idea of whats going on, the Federal court is changing the gay in the military clause. Now other than it being a "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy its open towards gays. The recruiters are only required to tell their "gay" applicants that it may change in the future and that they were not certain that they would be able to stay in active service for long. These and the human element that they both used are about the only similarities. The authors then start showing subtle differences in their writing styles, Fox showed a more republican approach, which was more resistant to the idea than its more liberal counterpart CNN. Fox, was much less professional in thier writing than CNN, and it almost seemed like they were waiting for the Pentagon to change the order back, while CNN seemed to deem the whole thing as a good thing with its more professional and more extensive cover of the story.CNN also showed the people they interviewed in a more positive light, with comments that promoted their chosen branches, while Fox left these things out.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Show don't tell
Shes the schools best athlete...
My heart raced as I viewed her body effortlessly glide across the surface of the field. Like an Olympic ice-skater she shifted her wait and brought the black and white checkered ball down to the ground. In the next moment she had left her two defenders in the dust. We all knew that that fabled orb of ebony and ivory was about to cross the line into the back of the net. Head up and a huge smile on her face she reels her foot back knocks the ball dead center, such power. Imitating La Torre De Jalisco up our team goes and the sound of a long held out "GOAL" rings in the air. Game over, championship won.
My heart raced as I viewed her body effortlessly glide across the surface of the field. Like an Olympic ice-skater she shifted her wait and brought the black and white checkered ball down to the ground. In the next moment she had left her two defenders in the dust. We all knew that that fabled orb of ebony and ivory was about to cross the line into the back of the net. Head up and a huge smile on her face she reels her foot back knocks the ball dead center, such power. Imitating La Torre De Jalisco up our team goes and the sound of a long held out "GOAL" rings in the air. Game over, championship won.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Google Response
Google docs is a great tool for modern buisness, I can see how the program makes use of the cooperative qualities that it takes to thrive in a buisness setting, so yes Google docs is the future of online document sharing I believe.
Dialogue Practice
Jostled awake, my eyes shoot open as I grab the hands that have found thier way to my shoulder. Peering through the darkness I see his bald head with those deep set eyes staring at me. " Dude that's creepy..." looking up at the clock, " I... man let me go back to sleep.”
“Hey remember that one time when you came to me for...”
“OK, it's gonna be like that, this better be damn important!"
"Lets go get breakfast. I’m starving, how much money do you have?"
“Did you really just wake me up for that?”
“How much money do you have man?”
“Damn-it man, fine I'll look.”
Clumsily I reach for my pants I through on the ground the night before. “Let me look. I have about thirty-five cents, heh, that's all.”
“Thirty-five cents? Seriously dude? Thats pathetic..."
“Hey remember that one time when you came to me for...”
“OK, it's gonna be like that, this better be damn important!"
"Lets go get breakfast. I’m starving, how much money do you have?"
“Did you really just wake me up for that?”
“How much money do you have man?”
“Damn-it man, fine I'll look.”
Clumsily I reach for my pants I through on the ground the night before. “Let me look. I have about thirty-five cents, heh, that's all.”
“Thirty-five cents? Seriously dude? Thats pathetic..."
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Anto's Free Write HYE
Have you ever experienced truth?
Truth, what is truth to most people? What does it mean to be truthful? Well values I guess, now how do we get values? Religion, family, experiences, and the people you choose to be around are all sources of the everyday values we create for ourselves. Where I'm going with this is that my truth will not necessarily be yours just like yours wont necessarily be mine. The "truth" I experienced is the truth of what my life means to me, I found it through the philosophical lens that is called Buddhism, and now I apply it everyday to everything I do, ranging from interactions from me to another person to the very key life choices I make every once in a while. I'm a person who believe wholeheartedly in himself and that the man next to him will do the same for himself, and that's how I've handled all that life can throw at me so far.
Have you ever read your way into oblivion?
Now by oblivion I mean into a place where books became your life? This has happened to me, I'm not very proud of the fact that I became a shut in for a brief part of my life but you know everyone has done something that they semi regret. Yet even though I regret doing this some good came from it. Unlike just watching the television i was actively learning about our world. The way of exploring the thoughts of others became a very interesting part of my life, I mean in forth grade I was reading and understanding Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis just because I liked the spin he put on life, what if I became a giant insect? how long would it take for my parents to become fed up with me? I grew up with books that made me think of things while my "friends" were reading Captain Underpants I was thinking about Raskolnikov from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Of course this lead to further separation from my peers. On top of my name, the way I looked, and the way I spoke, what I read made sort of a social outcast, and here is where I learned, better yet, obtained the patience I hold today.
Have you ever lived in a hood?
By hood I mean a large urban area controlled by gangs. Back in the day when I was in about second grade I moved from over seas back into the states and my dad was sent to an Army base in downtown Denver, Colorado, so we followed him, we ended up in a place called Aurora, Denver or at least Aurora Denver is infamous for its Crip / Blood gang activity. And of course we lived right on the edge of the territory or turf of each, so our cul-de-sac saw quite a bit of action. Action being drug trafficking, violence, prostitution. So obviously my parents were not that enthused about living there. We didn't quite have the money to move away right then so we rented and apartment and I went to school at Whiteman Elementary for a year. This was tough to say the least living here I saw a friend shot and killed, was asked to peddle drugs for each gang, and sat by unable to react when two others who were also good friends of mine killed themselves at the age of thirteen because they had "nothing to live for". This was an eyeopener to say the least but, I survived through sheer will and belief in myself and I feel that I'm a better person for it.
Truth, what is truth to most people? What does it mean to be truthful? Well values I guess, now how do we get values? Religion, family, experiences, and the people you choose to be around are all sources of the everyday values we create for ourselves. Where I'm going with this is that my truth will not necessarily be yours just like yours wont necessarily be mine. The "truth" I experienced is the truth of what my life means to me, I found it through the philosophical lens that is called Buddhism, and now I apply it everyday to everything I do, ranging from interactions from me to another person to the very key life choices I make every once in a while. I'm a person who believe wholeheartedly in himself and that the man next to him will do the same for himself, and that's how I've handled all that life can throw at me so far.
Have you ever read your way into oblivion?
Now by oblivion I mean into a place where books became your life? This has happened to me, I'm not very proud of the fact that I became a shut in for a brief part of my life but you know everyone has done something that they semi regret. Yet even though I regret doing this some good came from it. Unlike just watching the television i was actively learning about our world. The way of exploring the thoughts of others became a very interesting part of my life, I mean in forth grade I was reading and understanding Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis just because I liked the spin he put on life, what if I became a giant insect? how long would it take for my parents to become fed up with me? I grew up with books that made me think of things while my "friends" were reading Captain Underpants I was thinking about Raskolnikov from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Of course this lead to further separation from my peers. On top of my name, the way I looked, and the way I spoke, what I read made sort of a social outcast, and here is where I learned, better yet, obtained the patience I hold today.
Have you ever lived in a hood?
By hood I mean a large urban area controlled by gangs. Back in the day when I was in about second grade I moved from over seas back into the states and my dad was sent to an Army base in downtown Denver, Colorado, so we followed him, we ended up in a place called Aurora, Denver or at least Aurora Denver is infamous for its Crip / Blood gang activity. And of course we lived right on the edge of the territory or turf of each, so our cul-de-sac saw quite a bit of action. Action being drug trafficking, violence, prostitution. So obviously my parents were not that enthused about living there. We didn't quite have the money to move away right then so we rented and apartment and I went to school at Whiteman Elementary for a year. This was tough to say the least living here I saw a friend shot and killed, was asked to peddle drugs for each gang, and sat by unable to react when two others who were also good friends of mine killed themselves at the age of thirteen because they had "nothing to live for". This was an eyeopener to say the least but, I survived through sheer will and belief in myself and I feel that I'm a better person for it.
Anto's HYE...
- Have you ever...
- Lived in a hood?
- Watched a friend get shot?
- Been asked to peddle drugs?
- Done Parkour?
- Lived in Germany?
- Moved around for most of your young life?
- Fallen in love?
- Truly expressed your feelings through poetry?
- Read your way into oblivion?
- Experienced truth?
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