I Believe - That We Don't Have to Change Friends If We Understand That Friends Change

I believe - That we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I believe - That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I believe - That true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
I believe - That you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I believe - That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I believe - That you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last
time you see them.
I believe - That you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I
believe - That we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I believe - That either you control your attitude or it controlsyou.
I believe - That regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and
there had better be something else to take its place.
I believe - That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I believe - That money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I believe - That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
I believe - That sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
I believe - That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I believe - That just because
someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
I believe - That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I believe - That it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I believe - That no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I believe - That our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
I believe - That just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
I believe - That you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life
forever.
I believe - That two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I believe - That your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
I believe - That even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you - you will find the strength to help.
I believe - That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I believe - That the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

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As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried so young among the aeons. Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million sunsets with flame and contrails, paying no heed to the hard lessons the universe has tried to teach you. Are you a breath of life to invigorate a complacent world, you earthhumans, or an insidious cancer which must be excised?

I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
When I die, they will put my body in a box and
dispose of it in the cold ground.
And in all the million ages to come, I will never
breathe or laugh or twitch again.
So won't you run and play with me here among the
teeming mass of humanity?
The universe has spared us this moment.

You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants. Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the trace elements required for life. Often, one destroys the other. Here, they are tended with care and kept well nourished. They thrive together, and the native fungus does not unleash its terrible defenses. As you can see, competition is unnecessary when resources are plentiful and population growth is controlled.

Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's, on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino acids, the inevitable chemical and structural differences from a billion years of evolution in an alien environment render the native plant life highly poisonous to humans. Juicy, ripe grenade fruits may look appealing, but a mouthful of organonitrates will certainly change your mind in a hurry.

Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us.

God does not play dice.

Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.

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<Cindy> fuck you too
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DragonSiege: you people have acronyms for everything
siwelwerd: i can't think of anything that E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. stands for

computersislove: im annoyed.
AbnormalMembrane: Wrong suffix.
AbnormalMembrane: You mean "-ing"
AbnormalMembrane: Sorry. I'm kinda a grammar Nazi about these things.

<Lacan7>Oh. My bad. I'm so used to speaking english here that I've become a tad rusty on my stupid.

Just a few funnies from If you’re ever bored, check it out. There’ll be some computer jokes you won’t get (that I don’t get) but it’s still totally worth it!

Anselm

Definition of God: That than which no greater can be conceived. [TTWNGCBC]
Avoids arrogant view that we know God’s character
Based in humility
Either God exists in the mind alone or he exists both in the mind and in reality. This argument proves previous sentence wrong because if he only exists in the mind than he can be conceived and therefore by definition, cannot merely exist in the mind, but must exist in the mind and reality.
The argument TTWNGCBC is too powerful and can be used for anything, not just God.
Fool for not having Jesus in your heart.
Believes that there are two ways to conceive the statement TTWNGCBC. The fool can rationalize and conceive the idea of God, the symbol that God is and not to actually grasp God himself. And the rational, intelligent man can actually grasp the concept and God himself.

Arguments to the ontological argument:

1. Too powerful and can apply to anything
2. The Kant argument S|P God+ Exists (эx|(sx))
3. Inappropriate to make conclusions based on theoretical reasoning

Readings Page 65-69

1033-1109
Archbishop of Canterbury
Anselm will forever be associated with the ontological argument for God’s existence, which hold that the idea of God in one’s mind is evidence of a genuinely existing being.
Anselm used the ontological argument first
Claimed God was “That than which no greater can be conceived”
Used the argument that God was/is perfect and to not exist would be imperfect, and since God is perfect, he must exist.
Believes that is a “fool” that does not believe in God and he can’t understand how the fool can grasp the concept that nothing greater could be conceived and yet not believe that there would be a being that was greater than what one could conceive
Believes that there is more than one way to grasp/conceive an idea 1) with the heart and mind and 2) understand the concept, but not the actual entity. I.e. 1) believing and loving God with a head and heart faith and 2) understand the concept in which God is greater that anything we can conceive and not quite believe it whole-heartedly
Ways to overcome the objections: 1) universal, applies to all God’s, since there is only one, then there is no issue. 2) God creates/allowed to be the exception and 3) you can reject both
Rationalism-> relies upon reason alone not on experience.
Empiricism-> Relies upon experience not just rationalization.

Thursday September 19

Psychology – studying behavior scientifically

-Check the research pool

Science?

-an approach to answering question about the world around us

-case of kitty Genovese, killed outside her New York apartment, 38 witnesses; nobody helped

The scientific method

observe an event
hypothesis
test
analyze results
revising theory/more research
new hypothesis

Steps in the scientific method

-observation/question

-Ex.1 wonder why nobody helped kitty Genovese

-Form hypothesis= a tentative explanation or prediction about some phenomena

-Ex. IF more people around, THEN people should be less likely to help (diffusion of responsibility)

-Test hypothesis

-Conduct research

-Ex. Students “participating in a discussion about student issues” via intercom, heard another student choking and calling for help. Group size varied.

-Analyze data

-Look at results and made a conclusion

-Ex. Students responded much more slowly if believed other students were also present

-More research and theory building

-Theory= set of formal statements that explain how or why events are related to one another

-Ex. Further research showed number, immediacy, and strength are factors that influence helping behavior (social impact theory)

-New hypothesis derived from theory

-New research to test

-Ex. Do people tip more when in a bigger group?

-Explanation of general principles of certain phenomena with considerable facts to support it

-Remains valid only if every new piece of information supports it

-Ex. People do tip less when in a larger group If yes, then modify, if no, then strengthens

Approaches to understand cause

-hindsight understanding

-understanding by prediction

-after the fact explanations of why an event/behavior occurred

-Ex. Darley and Latane

-Drawback- past events can be explained in many ways

-Understanding through prediction, control theory building

-Uses scientific methods

-Tests cause f behavior directly

-Advantages: satisfies curiosity, builds knowledge, generates principles that can be applied to new situations

-Ex. Applying social impact theory to tipping behavior

Good theories

-Development of theories is the strongest way to test scientific understanding of cause because good theories create an integrated set of predictions

-Organize information in a meaningful way

-Are testable- make clear predictions

-Predictions are supported by research

-Conforms to law of parsimony- explains behavior or events in the simplest manner

Defining and measuring variables

-variable- any characteristic that can vary Ex. Stress, weight, reaction time

-terms can have many meanings so in science experimenter operationally defines the concepts he/she is studying

-operational defining- defining variable in terms of specific procedures used to produce or measure it

-if you want to study stress how would you operationally define it?

-Ex. Muscle tension, fidgeting

-If you wanted to study driving ability how would you operationally define it?

-How many driving tickets over a period of time

Methods of measurement

self-report

-ask people to report on their own knowledge, beliefs, feelings, experiences, behaviors

-via questionnaires, interviews etc.

-depends on whether people respond honestly

-limitations- social desirable bias (desire to make good impression), interviewers behavior can influence results

-Ex. False allegations of abuse

reports by others

-learn about behaviors by reports from others who know the individual

-Ex. Parents, spouses, teacher, students (course evaluation)

-Limitations- accuracy- answers situational specificity, behavior description in this situation by a specific person, would it still occur in another situation?

physiological measures

-E.g. blood pressure, hormonal secretions, biochemical process in brain

-Limitation- difficult to know what changes mean in terms of mental events, Ex. Increase heart rate linked to thoughts? emotions?

recording overt behaviors

-often need ‘coding’ system to categorize specific behaviors

-people trained so there is consistency in identifying behaviors among researchers

-limitation- unreliability of observers

-unobtrusive measures often needed

-records behaviors in a way that keeps participants unaware they are being observed

-archival measures often can be used

-already existing documents used to gather information about people’ behavior

-Ex. Birth, death, prison records

Methods of research ‘our tools’

Descriptive research

-describe behavior of an organism in a natural setting

-case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys

correlational studies

-is there a relationship among variables?

Experimental methods

-is there a ‘cause and effect’ relationship?

Case studies

-In depth analysis of individual, group or event

-Advantages- useful for rare phenomenon, may challenge validity of theories

-Disadvantages- poor method of determining cause-effect relations, generalizations questionable, researcher bias

Naturalistic observations

-observation of behavior in a natural setting

-advantage- provides a rich description of behavior

-disadvantage- does not permit clear causal conclusions

-researcher bias

surveys

-information is gathered through the use of questionnaires or surveys

-efficient way of collecting large amounts of information about a topic

-two important concepts 1)population- all of the individuals about whom we are interested in drawing a conclusion 2) sample- subset of individuals drawn from the larger population of interest

-cannot study entire population- need sample

-need ‘representative’ sample- must reflect important characteristics of the population

-must use random sampling

-each member of the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample

-must use random sampling

-each member of the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample

-major drawbacks to surveys- unrepresentative samples can lead to faulty generalizations, surveys rely on participants’ self-reports, data cannot be used to draw conclusions about cause-and-effect

correlational research

-elegant in it’s design

-researches measure one variable called (x)

-researcher measures second variable called (y)

-researcher statistically determines if (x) and (y) are related

correlation limitation

-correlation does not men causation

-correlation can show an association NOT a cause

correlation coefficient

-correlations are mathematically described by a correlation coefficient

-correlation coefficients indicate 2 things about a relationship- strength and direction

-coefficient is a # designated by r

-ranges from -1.0 to +10

-Sign indicates direction

Strength of correlation

-absolute size shows strength of relationship

-higher the absolute number- stronger the relationship- a correlation of -80 reflects as powerful a relationship as one of +80

-a correlation of 0.00 means no relationship – E.g., GPA and student ID #

-all correlations range from – 1.0 to +1.0

Advantages or correlational studies

-show the strength of relationship present

-can be used to make predictions

-identifies ‘real’ world associations

-can be useful where experiments are unethical E.g. effects of alcohol on fetus among pregnant women

disadvantages of correlational studies

-can’t determine cause and effect relationships

-little or no control(experimental manipulation) of variables is possible

-relationship may be accidental or due to a third, unmeasured factor common to 2 variables that are measured

September 21

Experiments: examining cause and effect

-experiments are a powerful tool in determining cause and effect relations

The logic of experimentation

-Ex. Test whether noise influences students’ ability to learn new information. Each student is placed alone in a room, has 30 minutes to study five pages of text book material and then takes a ten minute multiple choice test

-An experiment has three essential characteristics:

1)the researcher manipulates one variable

-Ex. the researcher has control of the level of noise in each room

2)the researcher measures whether this manipulation produces changes in the second variable

-Ex. The researcher uses the multiple choice test to see whether the first variable had diverse effects

3)The researcher tries to control for extraneous factors that might influence the outcome of the experiment

-Ex. We would not want one group to do better because they had easier text book material to learn or an easier multiple choice test

Independent and dependant variables

-independent Variable refers to the factor that it is manipulated by the researcher Ex. The noise in each students’ room