EKen132
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Mon-Thurs: School, a few hours of cross or track and study study study then any free time I cherish so much that it's practically over by the time I'm done salivating.
Fri: school, track, check in at the TLA meeting then, see if anyone said anything that may concern me, then go out.
Sat and Sun: homework, and w/e project I may be doing at the time.
And there's lots of eating in there two... mmm I love eating so much
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I'm sure the only reason I see colors is because of my life experiences. For example, things that have happened to me that remind me of the song, maybe even remembering a visualization I saw years ago. Maybe it's broader socially-induced color associations. For instance, blue is normally a serene, depressed, quiet, or subdued color.
You take the words right out of my mouth. Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" AKA the demon scene in Fantasia, I see always in black and red. And of course, wouldn't you know it, the beginning in a half chromatic, half strong minor theme with strong unisons (I'd better just leave it at that- I'm not sure how familiar everyone is with music terminology
). Anyhow, Hell is definately a reasonable thing to come to mind when you hear that piece 
(not to say listening to it is hell- I actually quite enjoy the song).AFAIK you can't force yourself to be a synaesthesiate.He speaks the truth.
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You know, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't be too hard to find out.
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OK Thanks for specifying your opinions more like that. I still disagree with you, but I have a much clearer idea of where you're coming from. Unfortunately, I have to go.
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Mithrandil, I'm going to have to disagree with just about every point you just made.
How can you say an embryo or fetus can't think therefore it's not human? Even if they can't think, they're still obviously human. Would you support the mercy killings of those who are so mentally retarded, they can't support themselves? After all, they can hardly think, they make no contributions to society, and they just take up your hard earned tax money. I know someone will be like "well, that's a whole different story", but just answer it.
And capital punishment was even more barbaric in the middle ages than it is now. It's hard to even compare the two. You could be hanged and quartered, stretched on racks, strangled, guillotined, burned alive, buried alive, drowned, skinned, have your intestines ripped out, have your arms and legs cut off, and at the very best, you could escape with just some time in the pillory. This was all public too. That's a much worse death than lethal injection. And believe me, if you were being executed in the middle ages, you were more or less supposed to think you were going straight to hell. Not many criminals would think "eternal paradise here I come" while being guillotined.
And Mithrandil, I'm not sure what your feelings are about death, but I think the non-religious approach is that you simply cease to exist. All remnants of you are gone, and your mind and w/e was in it is lost forever. It's not like you go to some pitch black eternal room and be bored b/c there's nothing to think about. And if Hell is being roasted alive (er...dead?) for eternity, I'd say it's much worse simply being bored for eternity.
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I'll be interested to know what you find. Tell me specifically what you see for the first minute of Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" (it's the one in Fantasia if you don't have it).
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Well, I suppose you may have a strong inter-sensory connection of one type, but from what I've researched about it (and I have researched it quite a bit) it is extremely rare. I guess I'm a bit of a skeptic about people claiming to be synesthesiates.
Associating colors with music is something I've done too. Although I can't say I've had any sort of reoccuring visual pattern in my head, I do occasionally look at the "screensaver" sort of pattern that WMP gives, and sometimes I'll think "wow, this song really is red". However, I think even that is open to the suggestion of what color the screen is at the time.
Now what's really cool is for people who have perfect pitch. Many of them claim that C minor is "mesto" (the mournful key). They have a whole world open to them that most people can't imagine.
Strangely enough, I also have done a report on perfect pitch. I'm really into these super sensory conditions.
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Yup he was quite the man. Even called the presidency the "bully's pulpit". And he rode a moose! He was one of those guys that was hard to hate just because he brought so much energy to the office.
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Well, first of all, it's synesthesia, and not just everyone has it. Instead of just thinking of a color that suits a number well, or other such things, synesthesiates actually see distinct patterns of color when they hear different types of music.
Synesthesia is not something you can happen upon in yourself. I know of one synesthesiate who complained, as a child, that the coloring on his letter blocks was all wrong (ie each letter was in a different color than he saw them), and no one knew what he was talking about, except for his mom, because she was a synesthesiate herself.
As for seeing your name with colors, I would guess you're unconsciously seeing your avatar that you see almost every time you look at "Black knight". I must go, but I will post more later.
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Yup, I'm just practicing some SAT stuff right now, and I've come across passages that further knowledge has helped me with, from Roman columns to the symphonies of Mahler. There was also a passage on Native American religion, which I read a book on over the summer, but unfortunately it didn't help
.Back to studying
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That sly fox...
I heard it's good to listen to NPR in the weeks before taking the SAT. I just may do so
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First, let me add that I wasn't trying to say that CP (as it's now being called) is the same issue, or similar to, euthanasia or abortion.
Yeah, you didn't say that at all. I was referring to Curufinwe.
There are also cases where a legally insane person is given capital punishment, which I find wrong.The condition of "legally insane" is not exactly known for it's stringent requirements. But if someone indeed was mentally impaired, then capital punishment would certainly require another look.
And Yiuel, the gov't must've read 1984, because they sure don't make martyrs. No one is executed in public, they're executed in rooms with just a few people (orrrrr maybe the govt wants us to think that and they really make them go to gulags (sp) where they perform back-breaking labor for the rest of their miserable days).
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Ha! We'll see what you think about raising the limit when you're a 60 year old billionaire!
I hear my conservative side chiding the government for playing economic babysitter. I also hear it congradulating Andy for thinking about his future.
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Wow! That's incredible. I'd deny the first two, and probably the third, but I haven't heard much about statistics of whole other nations' opinions on the war.
The Fox doesn't surprise me, but the NPR does. But that poll was based on 3000 adults, which isn't tons if you realize that each bar really only shows 33 or less percent of a group. So the part that believed FOX the most, say it was 1/7 of the population surveyed (there are seven categories, we'll split them equal for right now). So the group that watched fox and thought we found WMD would have been 141 people in the country. Now, of course, we don't know how that chart breaks down, but those visuals need to be taken with a grain of salt.
Also it's from June 2003... It's Feburary 2005 now, so what's up with this?
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Then, it is morally paradoxical ... if death penalty is allowed, why not allowing euthanasia and abortion?
What?! Are you joking?! I have the feeling not..
You do know, that people who are executed by the law are supposed to be found guilty by a judge without a reasonable doubt that they committed the crime- the criminals are guilty of such heinous crimes such as premeditated murders and that sort of stuff. Needless to say, these kind of people do not even COMPARE with abortion.
People who are executed by abortion are found guilty by a parent or parents without a reasonable doubt that they have no desire for the child- the child has committed such heinous crimes as being unwanted, being an economic burden, or being the outcome of a rape.
Those who are aborted commit no crime. They are no threat to society (unless, I suppose, they grow up to be murderers, which is an outcome all the more likely when your parents don't love you, let alone tried to kill you before you were born). Those who are on death row have commited crimes. They are a threat to society, and they've proven it.
^^that's all assuming that the legal system was functioning perfectly
Frankly, as Quacker says, it's hard to know how good the system is.
I may be pretty conservative, but this is one issue where I could take a stance either way. Sure the trials and all for the death penalty cost tons, but that's a bunch of crap when compared to either having the option of killing a man who is probably guilty, or risking letting him remain in society without any sort of punishment at all.
This reminds of 12 Angry Men... what a good movie. One of the things I liked about that movie is that it made me think, although the legal system isn't perfect, it's good enough if it functions the way it should and it's just. I think the best possible ending to that movie (SPOILER ALERT- SKIP TO NEXT PARAGRAPH) would be if the man is somehow revealed guilty but he was still found innocent. That's what I'd have done.
OK one more point about morality and all. Quacker is right in many ways. There was a thread in GC a while ago about how much you respected your parents, and Adam observed that you might as well ask if one was liberal or conservative. The real answer though, is that you might as well ask if one believed in God or not. Those who do not believe that some sort of afterlife where they are judged by their actions have comparably little reason to try to do good, or try not to do bad. That combined with hitting people where it hurts (the pocketbooks) are the real keys to having order in society.
So anyhow, those on death row have done wrong, those who are aborted have not. I don't believe any person can take away another's life for their own personal gain, but if anything should be able to take away a life at all, it's the government, which, after all, was set up for the welfare and benefit of the people. But usually I can go either way on this issue.
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Well, I doubt socialism is really an option in the US. Of course, idealistically it is, but our nation is soooo far entrenched in a capitalistic tradition that it's literally impossible to imagine anything else. There's still that hope for others though.
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Wow, I didn't even get 100
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He said he was going to cut the deficit in half. So would that mean the budget? I'm not sure actually. Well, the part of the budget that we don't pay off is what he means I guess.
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Well for once I made the state of the union topic. Of course, it only started half an hour ago, so I guess I wasn't surprised to not see one yet.
So post your thoughts here, provided you watched it or read the transcript.
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Hey if they have a greater percentage voting in Iraq than America, it's a sucess
.And now that this has happened, I hope too that we shall start seeing things get wrapped up in Iraq.
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By standards of any other era or even some other nations, America is terrible in it's school spending. Although I don't neccessarily agree with Titus, his point brings up the fact that America and other public school systems put anyone through school- it's mandatory through, what, 16 years of age?! He aspires to a professional job, yet doesn't want to take courses that (seemingly) have no relevance to his vocation. Think of how the future car-washers, meter-readers, and garbage men of America feel! Almost no course has relevance to their occupation! Does America waste money by adapting a public school system? Frankly, if you look at America through your big history glasses, it's surprising we even have a public school system.
Me, myself- I would take most any oppurtunity for learning I could get right now. I hope to attend a university that still bears a bit of the old mystique- a place where the learning and knowledge is practically tangible... Well I suppose we should probably start an education topic.
And how 'bout getting a Best President or Most Unique Pres thread?
I personally thought Teddy Roosevelt was pretty cool.
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Andy, as you and I both know, no real calc student would even think of using that uncouth quotient rule- negative exponents or bust!
I managed to pull off an A on my final; it's much better news than that awful "dirty dozen" test.
On the the physics teachers at my school taught finding the derivatives of polynomials to his second grade daughter: "just make this exponent fly down here, subtract one and voila!"
Also worth noting is the fact that I have 3 math quizzes or tests in the period of 2 days- sadly, none of this is even makeup work.
Today we had some math exam- I'm sure some of you high schoolers will or have taken it- 25 questions worth 6 points each. And less than one percent of everyone who takes it gets 120 points or more! AMSE or some acronym like that..
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Well a lot of words have vowels in a row, especially french. Yiuel, do you know Voltaire's riddle "cinq voyelles, une consonne..."?
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Hm I just saw a unique trailer but a few minutes ago!
What names do you like?
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Girls names I like: Evelyn and Anastasia.
Guys names... we'll I'm kinda partial to my own. And uhhh.... that's about it off the top of my head.