Is technology ruining our children?
an emphatic NO.... back in your granddad's day, they thought the telephone would ruin the world.... Radio.... godless ..... and we all know now that TV is ruinous. Technology is a tool nothing more nothing less.... it can be good and bad depending on how you use it. I think that increases in communication will always help out. Technology has taken us to the moon and to be able to look deep inside the earth. Taken us to the heights of dicovery in our universe and in ourselves...... Go to Learner.org and see what we now know.... check out the Hubble images or ask a mom about her ultrasound of her baby..... Technology has made the bomb and cured polio.... My son (7years old) asks me today if the computer is better than our brain? Oh look i show him how it can add a big series of numbers together. Wow, but it can't get across the room, it can't know love like I love you....
This is a two part answer. I have never truly destroyed anyone… that being said I would like to iterate that it depends on the situation. As for anyone, I would imagine with NT’s as well, that if you find it was justifiable then you wouldn’t feel very prone to sympathy for that person you “destroyed” now would you? With that in mind I can give you a couple details to help you understand exactly what I mean.I have verbally lashed out at my mother and daughter which whom directly after the fact I realized I reacted horribly and without real cause (and the cause doesn’t matter when it comes to my child) and immediately tried to smooth things over the best I could.I also have a few instances with other people who I wouldn’t say were NT’s. I get accused a lot about being distant and cold most of the time. I’m very aloof and typically I’m not easily provoked either. There have been instances however where a severely emotionally unstable person has come at me trying to get a rise. When push comes to shove I will eventually snap and I will come at you with all I’ve got. This is the intentional part of me, the version with my mother and daughter isn’t. I do not feel any remorse when I verbally assault a person who has assaulted me in any way. If I snapped due to something I had no right to snap about I know I was in the wrong and I will apologize and berate myself for days after.I can’t speak for all people with BPD. I know how I feel and why, that’s about it. I have been getting upset with people lumping every person with BPD in the same generalization. I get it, people have been hurt with people with our disorder, or they assume that person had a disorder and wasn’t just a shitty person. I however do not believe myself to be awful in general. I have my moments where I lose control and when that happens I am VERY sorry and I truly do feel HORRIBLE for that did to that person. I know I need help and I’m trying to get it.
Can someone please help me to understand this quote?
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished" - this is Francis saying that a mans true nature can be hidden, forced, but remains the same underneath. "But let not a man trust his victory too far, for nature will lie buried a grey time and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation." - This to say that a dishonest man or alcoholic may return to his old ways if he forgets about the problems in the past. "A man's nature runs either to herbs or to weeds" - Productive or destructive - it's in his nature. "Therefore, let him seasonally water the one and destroy the other"- Therefore you should promote the good in people, and seek to remedy the bad. Link to info on Francis Bacon and the type of person he was -
No; but we have certainly evolved into one nasty, dangerous, ravenous horde, gobbling up everything in our path and converting it to, well, what everything we consume gets turned into.However, we are still very little in an immense universe, and there’s a good chance that there are lots of other species ahead of us in all sorts of ways on all sorts of worlds who will not sit on their tentacles — um — paws? while we go rampaging around smashing things up to see if there’s any gold in them, or some really really BIG beers and hamburgers (not to mention animals to kill so we can sell their powdered parts to the Chinese for penis-enlargement treatments. Yeah, seriously: a huge amount of big game poaching is about *exactly* this, and similar ruthless profiteering by other people’s mass delusions).We’re “big” enough to make a pretty bad wreck of our own planet, at least for a while (not permanently, assuming the biosphere isn’t just cooked out of existence as a life-support system for anything much). But I have a feeling that venturing beyond our own little system with our grabby, dirty, little hands and puffed up over-estimation of ourselves will get us smacked down right from the get-go.Who but humans would go around thinking they must be the biggest, baddest, most destructive critturs to be found anywhere, so look out, universe, here we come!Not bloody likely. It’s really big out there. Really, really, big. I can’t even do the math that suggests how big, but it’s hard not to know it in your bones (well, unless you think an old man in the sky made everything in 7 days 6,000 yrs ago, in which case never mind).Love Carlin, by the way. What a guy.
There’s actually a psychological theory behind this. That you can learn about a person based on how they reply. Here’s how it works:You ask the question you asked and give them some ideas.Robots take over and wipe us out.A natural disaster of Epic proportionsHostile Alien Take overA Zombie ApocalypseNow here’s where things get interesting.RobotsDeep down they take responsibility for how bad the world is. Because they believe we’ve all gotten lazy and relied on technology too much. So the robots are a judgement of sorts.Natural DisasterSimilar to the robot guilt feeling only this time it’s mother earth. We all know we need to be better job protecting the earth, yet don’t. We don’t protest for her enough and allowed her to be injured beyond repair. So if the earth “lashes out” we understand why.AliensThis person wants to know that they had absolutely NO control over the outcome. The other options provide a guilt trip because we had some level responsibility, but with Aliens, we had no chance. It’s not our faults, and there is nothing we could have done better.ZombiesThis person wants to be on top during the end of days. They are typically a socially downtrodden person and don’t fit in with others. The Zombies provide a chance for them to finally find equality in a new world. They will finally be free of economic and social restraints.Now these are just some examples of generalizations, but I believe there is some truth this game. I think we can glean some interesting insight based on how people answer this questions. So try asking the people around you and see what you learn. I was really surprised my partner said they wanted Aliens to take over. I was more of a Robo apocalypse kinda guy.