Mind And Body

Cartesian dualism, the metaphysical theory that there are two different kinds of substances; mind or "mental substance," and body or "physical substance." That sounds really scientific but basically Cartesian dualism is the theory that mind and body are separate. Think about it this way, you can touch your body, but can you touch your thoughts? Nope. If you believe in God and you follow His wishes, you expect to go to Heaven, but your body itself can't go to Heaven. It's been buried six feet under ground in a coffin! It's just your soul that goes to Heaven. It's your soul that moves on, and in some religions, it gets reincarnated. See you in the after life!

-Scotty

Minimum Wage

Living on minimum wage is hard. You can barely get by paying you necessities. Let's say you work minimum wage at a McDonalds and you live in an apartment with two other roommates. Your parents kicked you out of their house because they can't support you forever. You make $777.20 a month after taxes and this is what you have to pay for:

Payments (per month)
Rent = $333
Gas = $100
Car Insurance = $30
Food = $50
Water = $10
Electricity = $30
Cell Phone Bill = $50
Health Care = $75
Internet = $13
Monthly Payment Total = $691

Money Left Over = $86

It's hard to live like that, and there will probably be other problems like car accidents, girlfriends, family gifts, kids, etc. There's thousands of people that live like that in the U.S. alone. Just be thankful if you don't have to live like this. It's brutal, but it's part of life.

Opportunity Cost

Nothing is ever free. Let's say I take you out to lunch and I'm paying. Free lunch for you, right? Nope, your sacrificing your time and the polite thing to do is take me out to lunch so then you'll end up paying too. Or you could just be a jerk and leave me hanging, but none-the-less, you could have done something else in that time. Something may be title free but you'll somehow end up paying for it. Let's say you got a "free" pie from someone, but it's poisoned! In order to survive you have to get your stomach pumped and you end up paying for the pumping of your stomach. You got a "free" pie, but you ended up paying for it. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Comment what you think.

-Scotty

GRAVITY IN ACTION!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-F7aZ3CBTs

This video shows a few examples of gravity in work. To me gravity is pretty awesome. It's what keeps us on the ground and keeps us from floating around like a bunch of idiots! THANKS GRAVITY! Gravity was first put in scientific terms by Isaac Newton. It is where two objects are pulled together, for instance, in one part a the video some kid tried jump off this huge wall and go over a river. Though, he failed because gravity pulled him down before he made it to the other side. The boy was pulled down to Earth (Literally and mentally).Well done gravity! Comment what you think below!


-Scotty

HUMAN RIGHTS

The Charter of the United Nations was established in 1945 after the end of WWII  acknowledging the devastation of humanity during that time. The Charter states, under CHAPTER I: PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES, number 3; To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.

My definition of human rights is that everyone (race, sex, religion) should have equal opportunity. Though, sometimes your family can effect your rights too. 

Let's say you are 16 years old and live in a mobile home in a small town in Louisiana. Your mom is a single parent to five kids and you are the oldest of all your siblings. She works two jobs to try and make ends meet so she is hardly ever home. You have to help take care of your brothers and sisters. In order to help your mom, you have dropped out of school and have the equivalent of a 9th grade education. You have a criminal record for stealing food for your family.

Your mom in that situation just screwed your life up because she was gone all day and left you to look after the other kids. All because she screwed up sometime in her life, some of her problems got dumped on you and screwed your life up too. I'm going to be honest and say that I'm very fortunate to be born into the family I'm in. The support me and my dreams. They feed me, give me advice, teach me, and all of the above! But what I fear is being segregated and lose all me rights. Though, if I do what I'm supposed to, not break "DA RULES," everything should be all right! Currently, everyone in the United Nations has equal rights by law. So as long as you stay on the right path, you should be alright too. Comment what you think.

-Scotty.

 

Source

http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml

Pi

Okay, first of all, I want to be clear. I hate pie. But right now we're going to be talking about a different pi. We're talking about the life of pi! The world's longest decimal number! In 2000 B.C. the Babylonians observed that pi is roughly 3. Later Archimedes gives the close approximation to pi of 22/7 and in 1706 A.D. the pi symbol,π, is created. The number pi has intrigued mathematicians for centuries and if we were able to find the answer to it not only would we find one of the greatest questions of all time but we would also find the exact number of how times a diameter goes into a circle. In 2002, pi had been converted to 1,241,100,000,000 digits. That's MENTAL! That would take you 62 laps around the world, and everyday it keeps growing! Comment what you think about this.

-Scotty

LONDON

For the past two weeks I have been in London, England with my family. We had a couple of meetings that we had to go to, but after that we became... TOURISTS!! We went to the Tower of London and saw the Crown Jewels. MAN! The Royal family is LOADED! After we finished awing at someone else's wealth, we went to the gift shop. It is there where we got a bunch of overly priced items and fake jewelry! I don't really remember too much after that so let's move on to the next place, The Science Museum! I highly recommend the epic museum! It's not really a museum though, it's more like a play ground of awesomeness! In the museum there is a flight simulator that you control, and if you decide to flip over in the simulator, you flip over in real life. In was mental! We also went to the London Eye which went so high in the sky I almost cried! We also went to the London Dungeon! 10 out of 10! It scared to life, made me laugh my organs out, and fear for my life! That's basically our trip in London in a BIG summary. Sorry to my follower for not posting :)

-Scotty