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In Awe

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Well, the Odegaard computer lab was open...and i am wishing that i had come here to do my video editing and making...

I am sitting in front of an apple now...
that last post was in front of a PC...

yesterday, i was talking to zach and james on a MAC and i hated it because it sucked...pure and simple...

but now...

this machine that i am sitting at...

its just...well, i think bradbury would definatly like this here computer...

and across the table there are Apple Cubes...or whatever they are...little cubs for harddrives...

so i guess in the end, apples are good, if you get the really good good types...otherwise they suck...
but then again, that is my opinion

they even have one of those light driven mouses...quite interesting...

in the end, its all flashy though.

{that just said, i realize that i am not really showing that i know nothing about computers...but i really don't...
its amazing what you can convince people you know of...as long as they know a slight bit less then you do...and that is why jimmy is such a good BSer...actually there are other reasons too, i'm sure}

anyway, about what i was saying earlier, before i got booted...

I enjoy, really enjoy playing devil's advocate.

don't get me wrong, there are things that I believe in...
but in a sense, one can get a better understanding of what they believe in, but looking at the other side of the argument...
and what better way to consider the other side of an argument, then to argue in favor of it.

jimmy made me realize this because we had been arguing about just how much social influences affect people, and whether or not we have any control over our actions. He was saying that it is all social...that it is all environment.

and i was saying that despite the influences, there is a measure of actions that people undertake that are of personal decision, not influenced by environment.

Now the interesting thing is that i do believe that social influences, and environmental influences are very important...and that they do have a great influence over our decisions...
and if someone i was talking to professed to being completely of free will, and that his environment had nothing on him...
i would argue vehemently against him, stating many of the same arguments that jimmy brought up...and that i am actually quite well versed in.

i think i get something out of taking the other side of an issue.

besides, always arguing for your stance on something, as far as opinions on philosophies and stuff, can sometimes be the naive way of arguing.

not to say that it is always so.

sometimes, it takes a truly daring person, and someone who truly has faith in their belief in something, to come up with arguments against it.

of course...cognitive dissonance theory would state that if you do that, you may end up changing your mind altogether.
but that's for another post.
{that, and i don't want to bore you all.}

I think i'll agree with bonnie. emotions do play a part in life...especially in the realm of philosophy.
even if one hates emotions, and is trying to philosophically do away with them, or ride themselves of emotion, it has already played a part in their philosophizing...hatred.

emotions are like a catalyst...
perhaps the strongest catalyst ever created.

i'm gonna go for now...i think i need to go back to my dorm to get some video cables...cause this lab doesn't have them already...

but a nice walk would also be fun.
i would suggest to all of you to take a walk.

Right now.

Just go do it...

Walk around, in a circle if you have to...though outside is preferable.

Go on a walk-about.

{i have no idea what i'm ranting about just now...}

MOnDO⁴¹