I don't expect anybody to answers these TBH. These are just random questions that pop into my head throughout the day. 
25/02/19
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Why is a table called a table?
Why is a chair called a chair?
Why do we have left and right? Who invented this concept?
Why are we called humans? Why cat we be called earthians?
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
What would it be like if bombers/murderers didn't exist?
What would the world be like without religion?
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
Tricuspid... It's a funny word, isn't it?
Coat. Cooooooat. Cout. Huh.
Why is my pen so heavy?
25/02/19
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Why is a table called a table?
Why is a chair called a chair?
Why do we have left and right? Who invented this concept?
Why are we called humans? Why cat we be called earthians?
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
What would it be like if bombers/murderers didn't exist?
What would the world be like without religion?
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
Tricuspid... It's a funny word, isn't it?
Coat. Cooooooat. Cout. Huh.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Why is a table called a table?
Why is a chair called a chair?
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
It would suck. Do I need to call *Clarence? *It's a Wonderful Life reference
I could respond to more, buuuuut I like the last point as a finishing statement~
Why is a chair called a chair?
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
It would suck. Do I need to call *Clarence? *It's a Wonderful Life reference
I could respond to more, buuuuut I like the last point as a finishing statement~
Demilicious wrote:
Why is a table called a table?
Why is a chair called a chair?
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
It would suck. Do I need to call *Clarence? *It's a Wonderful Life reference
I could respond to more, buuuuut I like the last point as a finishing statement~
Why is a chair called a chair?
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
It would suck. Do I need to call *Clarence? *It's a Wonderful Life reference
I could respond to more, buuuuut I like the last point as a finishing statement~
I have been enlightened.
It's actually quite cool to see how words are developed. Mostly because I'm too scared of asking my English teacher and then being mocked by my peers for seeming stupid. Especially since they don't just teach it anyway.
StaticNightmares wrote:
I have been enlightened.
It's actually quite cool to see how words are developed. Mostly because I'm too scared of asking my English teacher and then being mocked by my peers for seeming stupid. Especially since they don't just teach it anyway.
It's actually quite cool to see how words are developed. Mostly because I'm too scared of asking my English teacher and then being mocked by my peers for seeming stupid. Especially since they don't just teach it anyway.
Screw what other people think. If you are curious, ask. If you have a good English teacher, they will be delighted to actually have a student who's interested in language than in the sea of students who don't. Also, Google gives those tables to show the origin of any English word. Just type in the word you want to know about and tack on "etymology" after it. Etymology is a word that literally means "mean" and used for the derivation of words (source and/or origin).
Static, if you wanna learn, learn. Google it, ask. Don't cut yourself short of experience and personal enjoyment just because someone might mock you.
Duplicate, see two meesages down. 
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The blood thing --
Yeah it's red or blueish (deoxygenated blood) as far as I know.
What would the world be like without religion?
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
They are already becoming less and less of a thing, thanks to young people like yourself. Only about 70 years ago, American schools were desegregated by an order from the Supreme Court in Brown v. The Board of Education. My mother remembers it! She was a teacher then! Think how different things are now than they were then, and it's because young people did things. They did boycots, marches, sit-ins. They used their dollars to express their beliefs. You all are doing the same things with gender identity and such. I've even learned some things. It's going to be good. I imagine the world would be more fair if no stereotypes existed.
Tricuspid... It's a funny word, isn't it?
It is. It means three (tri) cusps (.... flaps?), I believe because that heart valve has three flaps. Are you guys learning about the cardiovascular system? Hehe. I have an artificial tricuspid valve, because one of the flaps was fused to the wall of the cardiac muscle around it when I was born. They didn't know it until I was 20, though!
Yeah it's red or blueish (deoxygenated blood) as far as I know.
What would the world be like without religion?
My answer to your religion question, Sarah
I think people would be searching for meaning and it would be worse. I think something would replace religion, like over-the-top devotion to a philosophy or a person or group of people (such as say, communism, or Plato's dream of a Utopia, or some other
higher purpose that people strive to live for that is greater than themselves.
I think the urge to serve something greater than ourselves and what we can see and sense with our 5 senses is natural and part of us and that it exists for a reason that religion provides, however, I believe that the natural expression of this part of our nature can be channeled and used to control people, like Hitler and many others have done by having one's country or race replace God as the object of worship. When people start to have feelings of intense awe like that towards one race, or one country, they can be manipulated into killing and dying for that thing they are worshipping, without any kind of guide for moral behavior built into the system (except what that leader feeds into their heads with propaganda). In this way, I believe that religion, with it's ancient texts, and it's ethical codes of conduct (which people can still distort and misrepresent) is a bulwark against violence, war, government control, nationalist propaganda, and dictatorship. But people can still distort and manipulate the teachings of any religion too, of course. However, I believe that they would be able to manipulate people more if religion did not exist and if the roots of faith traditions did not run deep in many families and societies. Roots provide stability to a tree and I believe faith in religious traditions (when they are not harmful ones, of course) is a stabilizing force in society. I think the urge to devote oneself to a higher unseen force runs deep in all of us and I think that's why every known society has religion, even when not every individual does. So, there are exceptions, but as a general rule, humans are creatures who seek to find what religion seems to offer.
I don't blame war on religion. I believe war would happen with or without religion. In fact, it has.
Racism also has. So the things that religion often gets blamed for are not the fault of religion at all. Religion calls us to reach higher. Religion calls us to live up to our higher natures. I think religion makes people better, not worse (when it's not misused and distorted!).
For example, one popular saying from the bible says "he who lives by the sword will die by the sword." And yet, people use the same bible that says that and say "let's go to war in the name of God!" But the bible doesn't say that. It says if you live by the sword you will die by the sword. It says, "blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God." So that's an example of people misusing and disorting religion for their own purposes.
"Religious wars," are not about religion, they are about people who want power and who will do anything they can to get it. Wars are about greed. Religion is generally about generosity, love, peace. I've heard Muslims say the same thing about the Qur'an (their sacred book). Ramadan is a period to help the poor and fast to remember the plight of those who are starving. Religion is not the problem. Human nature is the problem. But we have a higher nature too, and religion calls us to that.
I think people would be searching for meaning and it would be worse. I think something would replace religion, like over-the-top devotion to a philosophy or a person or group of people (such as say, communism, or Plato's dream of a Utopia, or some other
higher purpose that people strive to live for that is greater than themselves.
I think the urge to serve something greater than ourselves and what we can see and sense with our 5 senses is natural and part of us and that it exists for a reason that religion provides, however, I believe that the natural expression of this part of our nature can be channeled and used to control people, like Hitler and many others have done by having one's country or race replace God as the object of worship. When people start to have feelings of intense awe like that towards one race, or one country, they can be manipulated into killing and dying for that thing they are worshipping, without any kind of guide for moral behavior built into the system (except what that leader feeds into their heads with propaganda). In this way, I believe that religion, with it's ancient texts, and it's ethical codes of conduct (which people can still distort and misrepresent) is a bulwark against violence, war, government control, nationalist propaganda, and dictatorship. But people can still distort and manipulate the teachings of any religion too, of course. However, I believe that they would be able to manipulate people more if religion did not exist and if the roots of faith traditions did not run deep in many families and societies. Roots provide stability to a tree and I believe faith in religious traditions (when they are not harmful ones, of course) is a stabilizing force in society. I think the urge to devote oneself to a higher unseen force runs deep in all of us and I think that's why every known society has religion, even when not every individual does. So, there are exceptions, but as a general rule, humans are creatures who seek to find what religion seems to offer.
I don't blame war on religion. I believe war would happen with or without religion. In fact, it has.
Racism also has. So the things that religion often gets blamed for are not the fault of religion at all. Religion calls us to reach higher. Religion calls us to live up to our higher natures. I think religion makes people better, not worse (when it's not misused and distorted!).
For example, one popular saying from the bible says "he who lives by the sword will die by the sword." And yet, people use the same bible that says that and say "let's go to war in the name of God!" But the bible doesn't say that. It says if you live by the sword you will die by the sword. It says, "blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God." So that's an example of people misusing and disorting religion for their own purposes.
"Religious wars," are not about religion, they are about people who want power and who will do anything they can to get it. Wars are about greed. Religion is generally about generosity, love, peace. I've heard Muslims say the same thing about the Qur'an (their sacred book). Ramadan is a period to help the poor and fast to remember the plight of those who are starving. Religion is not the problem. Human nature is the problem. But we have a higher nature too, and religion calls us to that.
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
They are already becoming less and less of a thing, thanks to young people like yourself. Only about 70 years ago, American schools were desegregated by an order from the Supreme Court in Brown v. The Board of Education. My mother remembers it! She was a teacher then! Think how different things are now than they were then, and it's because young people did things. They did boycots, marches, sit-ins. They used their dollars to express their beliefs. You all are doing the same things with gender identity and such. I've even learned some things. It's going to be good. I imagine the world would be more fair if no stereotypes existed.
Tricuspid... It's a funny word, isn't it?
It is. It means three (tri) cusps (.... flaps?), I believe because that heart valve has three flaps. Are you guys learning about the cardiovascular system? Hehe. I have an artificial tricuspid valve, because one of the flaps was fused to the wall of the cardiac muscle around it when I was born. They didn't know it until I was 20, though!
Abigail_Austin wrote:
It is. It means three (tri) cusps (.... flaps?), I believe because that heart valve has three flaps. Are you guys learning about the cardiovascular system? Hehe. I have an artificial tricuspid valve, because one of the flaps was fused to the wall of the cardiac muscle around it when I was born. They didn't know it until I was 20, though!
Yeah we're learning about the heart in biology currently. She explained what it meant (though with it being the 2nd last period of the day so I was brain dead and not paying attention) and I just thought it sounded funny
Also I've been asked this a few times:
My biology teacher told me blood was yellow.
My biology teacher told me blood was yellow.
Let's see.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
I really don't know why teachers these days try to either fake the fact that they said something waaaay out of the example, or just being plain dumb .
It even made me think of a funny scenario about it, so here it is.
*Me(student) after hearing the bio teacher say blood is yellow*
"Aight, who hired this woman?" With a funny tone. Then the Principal walks into the classroom which appears to be holding a clipboard of some sort.
The Principal looks around the room, then back down at his clipboard. I stand up then walk to the Principal. I say: "Good timing." Then the Principal looks at me and asks what's up? I reply: "So... can I ask as to who thought of hiring this... creature... over there saying that blood in our bodies is... yEllOw." I say the last part slow but smooth. The Principal immediately gives a glare to the teacher, then shakes their head and points at her. "...You're fired." Just like that. Then everyone in the classroom laughs, clearly a joke and all.
.It even made me think of a funny scenario about it, so here it is.
*Me(student) after hearing the bio teacher say blood is yellow*
"Aight, who hired this woman?" With a funny tone. Then the Principal walks into the classroom which appears to be holding a clipboard of some sort.
The Principal looks around the room, then back down at his clipboard. I stand up then walk to the Principal. I say: "Good timing." Then the Principal looks at me and asks what's up? I reply: "So... can I ask as to who thought of hiring this... creature... over there saying that blood in our bodies is... yEllOw." I say the last part slow but smooth. The Principal immediately gives a glare to the teacher, then shakes their head and points at her. "...You're fired." Just like that. Then everyone in the classroom laughs, clearly a joke and all.
JustAPlayer wrote:
Let's see.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
HANG ON A MIN BOI.
not all blood is red~
Oxygenated blood is red (since it carries oxygen) but deoxygenated blood is blue.
...then again maybe I shouldnt trust what my biology teacher is teaching me...
Also you just made my brain explode
StaticNightmares wrote:
JustAPlayer wrote:
Let's see.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
HANG ON A MIN BOI.
not all blood is red~
Oxygenated blood is red (since it carries oxygen) but deoxygenated blood is blue.
...then again maybe I shouldnt trust what my biology teacher is teaching me...
Also you just made my brain explode
Yeh, I get that a lot from peeps
.Other reason why you got a mind blown was cuz ye didn't read it carefully. Oxygenated blood is red. Deoxygenated blood, however, you may think its blue, but its a dark red. Think of it as a dark-colored whine type of red.
JustAPlayer wrote:
StaticNightmares wrote:
JustAPlayer wrote:
Let's see.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
Why is my pen so heavy?
Another reason as to why all of our pens are heavy. We just don't put enough effort into actually holding it while we're literally daydreaming about something, or just what the hell we're going to write first.
Either or, your pen is heavy because you were bored/daydreaming about this question/tired. Oooor someone, somehow, did something to your pen without you realizing it. The casual triple SSS.
If our blood is red because it's oxygenated, then surely our blood is always red and not yellow?
Technically, you're right, yes. But biologically, nope.
Blood inside of us flows around in smol tubes called the Arteries. Following that path, the blood sooner runs into even smaller ones, tiny vessels, called the capillaries or veins. The ones you see on your hands and mainly around your body. Those visible lines are indeed the capillaries. There are questions as to why some look blue, that is due because the light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them. When it happens, the blood inside the vessels turn out to make the veins look blue.
Going back to the color of our blood, its actually always red. Not because its oxygenated. Inside the blood is always a dark red, almost a black-ish looking red. But after its taken out from your body let's say from a bruise or a cut, when the oxygen hits, it turn into a bright red.
HANG ON A MIN BOI.
not all blood is red~
Oxygenated blood is red (since it carries oxygen) but deoxygenated blood is blue.
...then again maybe I shouldnt trust what my biology teacher is teaching me...
Also you just made my brain explode
Yeh, I get that a lot from peeps
.Other reason why you got a mind blown was cuz ye didn't read it carefully. Oxygenated blood is red. Deoxygenated blood, however, you may think its blue, but its a dark red. Think of it as a dark-colored red.
I can't handle this.
*Flips table*
I'm out
Abigail_Austin wrote:
Static wrote:
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
While I do think that the world might be fairer if stereotypes didn't exist, I disagree with what Abigail said about them slowly disappearing. I think certain stereotypes are dying out, and that is because times are a-changin'. But stereotypes are just sort of a human thing we've created to group people, and I have a feeling we'll always do it. I mean, clearly, we didn't have the same stereotypes as we did back in the day. Look at Shakespeare's works, it's not hard to identify what they were in his time. (Women, Jews, etc.,...) Folks will do it whether they really want to our not because stereotypes, in some senses, are based on a truth. Yes, that truth is often convoluted and false, but it was someone's truth and they passed that truth on. I don't really think I cohesively explained my opinion, but I just think that stereotypes being gone is impossible, even if it might create a fairer world. I mean, we wouldn't really be human if they were.
tisonlychaos wrote:
Abigail_Austin wrote:
Static wrote:
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
While I do think that the world might be fairer if stereotypes didn't exist, I disagree with what Abigail said about them slowly disappearing. I think certain stereotypes are dying out, and that is because times are a-changin'. But stereotypes are just sort of a human thing we've created to group people, and I have a feeling we'll always do it. I mean, clearly, we didn't have the same stereotypes as we did back in the day. Look at Shakespeare's works, it's not hard to identify what they were in his time. (Women, Jews, etc.,...) Folks will do it whether they really want to our not because stereotypes, in some senses, are based on a truth. Yes, that truth is often convoluted and false, but it was someone's truth and they passed that truth on. I don't really think I cohesively explained my opinion, but I just think that stereotypes being gone is impossible, even if it might create a fairer world. I mean, we wouldn't really be human if they were.
Very true. I also think that they won't leave because I see it as a sort of... Defense mechanism? That probably isn't the best way to put it.
I believe we do it simply because it's a lot easier to group a bunch of people together into one category instead of dealing with each individual. And in a way I guess it can make some people feel better, and possibly safer? By grouping a lump of people together, it gives someone a slight sense of control over their thoughts on a culture or group of people instead of having to deal with the individuals thoughts and ideas of each person.
tisonlychaos wrote:
Abigail_Austin wrote:
Static wrote:
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
While I do think that the world might be fairer if stereotypes didn't exist, I disagree with what Abigail said about them slowly disappearing. I think certain stereotypes are dying out, and that is because times are a-changin'. But stereotypes are just sort of a human thing we've created to group people, and I have a feeling we'll always do it. I mean, clearly, we didn't have the same stereotypes as we did back in the day. Look at Shakespeare's works, it's not hard to identify what they were in his time. (Women, Jews, etc.,...) Folks will do it whether they really want to our not because stereotypes, in some senses, are based on a truth. Yes, that truth is often convoluted and false, but it was someone's truth and they passed that truth on. I don't really think I cohesively explained my opinion, but I just think that stereotypes being gone is impossible, even if it might create a fairer world. I mean, we wouldn't really be human if they were.
I'm gonna pop in and kind of "thicken" what Mel (tisonlychaos) is saying here. While stereotypes unfortunately tend to have a negative connotation, what I learned from Interpersonal communication psych courses is that stereotypes are, at their core, used for relaying packets of information. At the risk of sounding offensive, (because any stereotype I pick is gonna get me some flack, but please try and take this from an education point of view), let's look at the "gay man" stereotype.
Now, if I am telling my friend a story, and I want to quickly relay to them that I saw a "stereotypical gay guy" (because we all vary but some people out there just fit the bill of this stereotype), my friend is probably immediately going to get flooded with a bunch of information. What does stereotypical gay guy say to you?
Did you instantly hear a lisp? Tight pants? Loud clothes? High pitched voice? Sassy attitude? Maybe a hip sway in there? Using a stereotype passes along all those features without me having to explain it or describe it to my friend, permitting my communication to be faster, the story more concise, and move on to the point. This is actually why stereotypes became a thing. To deliver these pockets of information quickly. It's us finding a way to alter our communication in a way that also appeals to how our memory functions. We tend to remember better when grouping memories, or attaching a memory to something. Kind of how a smell can bring back childhood memories of Grandmother's house.
So, while stereotypes are getting a worse and worse rep today, they actually have a really useful function. It's important to remember that as Shakespeare says " for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - we attach all those nasty negative connotations as our society changes, and the way our language changes with it. But in the end, stereotypes are a useful tool that I don't think we should just shove into a "good" box or a "bad" box.
I only skimmed a few of the posts, so pardon if I'm repeating anything here.
Regarding blood:
Regarding blood:
- It does not always appear red. Only when it is, indeed, oxygenated.
- Blood is made of multiple things. It mostly gets its apparent color from red blood cells, and the color is a reaction between iron and oxygen. They, specifically, are what is carrying oxygen. The liquid part is plasma - which is transparent yellow!
- Things frequently are not the color they appear to be. When we say something is a color, that technically means it has pigment. But a lot of things are colored in different ways, such as structural color, where it's microstructures that are messing with light waves to give the appearance of color (and it's usually shimmery!). On this note, did you know that the sky isn't blue? It appears that way only because of how light interacts with air particles and whatnot, and that's also why it changes color depending on the time of day!
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They are already becoming less and less of a thing, thanks to young people like yourself. Only about 70 years ago, American schools were desegregated by an order from the Supreme Court in Brown v. The Board of Education. My mother remembers it! She was a teacher then! Think how different things are now than they were then, and it's because young people did things. They did boycots, marches, sit-ins. They used their dollars to express their beliefs. You all are doing the same things with gender identity and such. I've even learned some things. It's going to be good. I imagine the world would be more fair if no stereotypes existed.
While I do think that the world might be fairer if stereotypes didn't exist, I disagree with what Abigail said about them slowly disappearing. I think certain stereotypes are dying out, and that is because times are a-changin'. But stereotypes are just sort of a human thing we've created to group people, and I have a feeling we'll always do it. I mean, clearly, we didn't have the same stereotypes as we did back in the day. Look at Shakespeare's works, it's not hard to identify what they were in his time. (Women, Jews, etc.,...) Folks will do it whether they really want to our not because stereotypes, in some senses, are based on a truth. Yes, that truth is often convoluted and false, but it was someone's truth and they passed that truth on. I don't really think I cohesively explained my opinion, but I just think that stereotypes being gone is impossible, even if it might create a fairer world. I mean, we wouldn't really be human if they were.
I'm gonna pop in and kind of "thicken" what Mel (tisonlychaos) is saying here. While stereotypes unfortunately tend to have a negative connotation, what I learned from Interpersonal communication psych courses is that stereotypes are, at their core, used for relaying packets of information. At the risk of sounding offensive, (because any stereotype I pick is gonna get me some flack, but please try and take this from an education point of view), let's look at the "gay man" stereotype.
Now, if I am telling my friend a story, and I want to quickly relay to them that I saw a "stereotypical gay guy" (because we all vary but some people out there just fit the bill of this stereotype), my friend is probably immediately going to get flooded with a bunch of information. What does stereotypical gay guy say to you?
Did you instantly hear a lisp? Tight pants? Loud clothes? High pitched voice? Sassy attitude? Maybe a hip sway in there? Using a stereotype passes along all those features without me having to explain it or describe it to my friend, permitting my communication to be faster, the story more concise, and move on to the point. This is actually why stereotypes became a thing. To deliver these pockets of information quickly. It's us finding a way to alter our communication in a way that also appeals to how our memory functions. We tend to remember better when grouping memories, or attaching a memory to something. Kind of how a smell can bring back childhood memories of Grandmother's house.
So, while stereotypes are getting a worse and worse rep today, they actually have a really useful function. It's important to remember that as Shakespeare says " for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - we attach all those nasty negative connotations as our society changes, and the way our language changes with it. But in the end, stereotypes are a useful tool that I don't think we should just shove into a "good" box or a "bad" box.
Demilicious wrote:
tisonlychaos wrote:
Abigail_Austin wrote:
Static wrote:
What if stereotypes weren't a thing?
While I do think that the world might be fairer if stereotypes didn't exist, I disagree with what Abigail said about them slowly disappearing. I think certain stereotypes are dying out, and that is because times are a-changin'. But stereotypes are just sort of a human thing we've created to group people, and I have a feeling we'll always do it. I mean, clearly, we didn't have the same stereotypes as we did back in the day. Look at Shakespeare's works, it's not hard to identify what they were in his time. (Women, Jews, etc.,...) Folks will do it whether they really want to our not because stereotypes, in some senses, are based on a truth. Yes, that truth is often convoluted and false, but it was someone's truth and they passed that truth on. I don't really think I cohesively explained my opinion, but I just think that stereotypes being gone is impossible, even if it might create a fairer world. I mean, we wouldn't really be human if they were.
I'm gonna pop in and kind of "thicken" what Mel (tisonlychaos) is saying here. While stereotypes unfortunately tend to have a negative connotation, what I learned from Interpersonal communication psych courses is that stereotypes are, at their core, used for relaying packets of information. At the risk of sounding offensive, (because any stereotype I pick is gonna get me some flack, but please try and take this from an education point of view), let's look at the "gay man" stereotype.
Now, if I am telling my friend a story, and I want to quickly relay to them that I saw a "stereotypical gay guy" (because we all vary but some people out there just fit the bill of this stereotype), my friend is probably immediately going to get flooded with a bunch of information. What does stereotypical gay guy say to you?
Did you instantly hear a lisp? Tight pants? Loud clothes? High pitched voice? Sassy attitude? Maybe a hip sway in there? Using a stereotype passes along all those features without me having to explain it or describe it to my friend, permitting my communication to be faster, the story more concise, and move on to the point. This is actually why stereotypes became a thing. To deliver these pockets of information quickly. It's us finding a way to alter our communication in a way that also appeals to how our memory functions. We tend to remember better when grouping memories, or attaching a memory to something. Kind of how a smell can bring back childhood memories of Grandmother's house.
So, while stereotypes are getting a worse and worse rep today, they actually have a really useful function. It's important to remember that as Shakespeare says " for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - we attach all those nasty negative connotations as our society changes, and the way our language changes with it. But in the end, stereotypes are a useful tool that I don't think we should just shove into a "good" box or a "bad" box.
I love the way you explained this. I agree, while there are, and can be harmful stereotypes, not all of them are.
And your question about religion...
I rarely discuss this, mostly because I'm afraid of judgement, but it seems this is a safe place to share my thoughts.
I personally think "religion" has become something dangerous and/or bad. It seems to be something people use as an excuse for damaging kinds of behavior and thoughts, or a way to brainwash or control others. Like as an example...
Extreme Muslims who abuse, attack and kill those who don't believe or want to believe in their religion.
Or Christians who go into another country to spread the gospel and then force entirely different cultures to conform to ours, because if they believe in God, they have to be "civilized" or live to certain "standards".(Not all Missionaries or Christians are like this, don't misunderstand.)
Religion is something that shouldn't exist, I don't think, so life would probably be a lot better without it.
Although! I think, personal faith, or spiritual beliefs, are not.
A personal faith, or spiritual belief, is a decision someone makes for themselves after exploring the world and discovering themself, not just because they've been drafted into an indoctrination. This is were I think this is a good thing, I feel like as humans, we need something a bit more to live for.
There are many faiths and beliefs that are safe, healthy and promote a good lifestyle, morals and emotional support.
Although this is my own personal opinion, everyone has the right to agree or disagree with me
I personally think "religion" has become something dangerous and/or bad. It seems to be something people use as an excuse for damaging kinds of behavior and thoughts, or a way to brainwash or control others. Like as an example...
Extreme Muslims who abuse, attack and kill those who don't believe or want to believe in their religion.
Or Christians who go into another country to spread the gospel and then force entirely different cultures to conform to ours, because if they believe in God, they have to be "civilized" or live to certain "standards".(Not all Missionaries or Christians are like this, don't misunderstand.)
Religion is something that shouldn't exist, I don't think, so life would probably be a lot better without it.
Although! I think, personal faith, or spiritual beliefs, are not.
A personal faith, or spiritual belief, is a decision someone makes for themselves after exploring the world and discovering themself, not just because they've been drafted into an indoctrination. This is were I think this is a good thing, I feel like as humans, we need something a bit more to live for.
There are many faiths and beliefs that are safe, healthy and promote a good lifestyle, morals and emotional support.
Although this is my own personal opinion, everyone has the right to agree or disagree with me
And I just had to add... Life without YOU dear, would suck. Because you're an absolute delight, and many people would have missed out on such a sweet friend.
None has yet to tackle these, so I shall tilt at these windmills
Why do we have left and right? Who invented this concept?
It goes back to the idea of "handedness." Left, right, clockwise, counter-clockwise, are parts of a how we interact and orient ourselves as 3rd dimensional beings, in a 3rd dimensional world. To communicate or even establish a notion of left and right, you have to appeal to some common experience, some tangible object or phenomenon. Its so ingrained in us, its really hard to explain it other than this. If you have a minute, this article is a great way to look at the subject.
Why are we called humans? Why cat we be called earthians?
Ah, but we are. The root in human comes from the Latin humus, meaning EARTH & GROUND and the Latin humanus which means MAN. It is interesting to follow the changes of idea here. It begins with HUMus, earth, then becomes HUMble, lowly; finally to HUMAN, Man. So the literal root meaning is Earth Being.
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
An interesting paradox. In a sense, everyone whose every met you would be missing out on experiencing your presence, without realizing what was being missed. Anything good you've ever done (or would ever do) would never come to pass. Of course, neither would anything bad. A good subject for a book, or a certain Christmas movie
What would it be like if bombers/murderers didn't exist?
I'm going to answer this from using the term "villian". So if villians never existed, of course, humanity wouldn't exactly be itself. The term peace would become synonymous with human existance, since there is never anything to upset. Of course, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be death. We may very well have different, or no definitions, for emotions that cause acts of villiany, like human vices of anger, lust, greed, zealotry. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and the odd Ice Age still happen, and everyone grows old.
I think that something would be lost in this world though. Because without evil acts, there can never be those who are challenged to do outstanding good. No Batman, without the Joker. No Superman, without Lex Luthor. Often we are quite driven to the greatest good because we so despise wicked acts and the short comings of man.
In short, I think looking at a world like this from my perspective now, it would be quaint, relaxing, eternal, boring, and without aspiration to improve, and be better. A place great, and horrid to live in, in its own way.
Why do we have left and right? Who invented this concept?
It goes back to the idea of "handedness." Left, right, clockwise, counter-clockwise, are parts of a how we interact and orient ourselves as 3rd dimensional beings, in a 3rd dimensional world. To communicate or even establish a notion of left and right, you have to appeal to some common experience, some tangible object or phenomenon. Its so ingrained in us, its really hard to explain it other than this. If you have a minute, this article is a great way to look at the subject.
Why are we called humans? Why cat we be called earthians?
Ah, but we are. The root in human comes from the Latin humus, meaning EARTH & GROUND and the Latin humanus which means MAN. It is interesting to follow the changes of idea here. It begins with HUMus, earth, then becomes HUMble, lowly; finally to HUMAN, Man. So the literal root meaning is Earth Being.
What would it be like for others if I was never born?
An interesting paradox. In a sense, everyone whose every met you would be missing out on experiencing your presence, without realizing what was being missed. Anything good you've ever done (or would ever do) would never come to pass. Of course, neither would anything bad. A good subject for a book, or a certain Christmas movie
What would it be like if bombers/murderers didn't exist?
I'm going to answer this from using the term "villian". So if villians never existed, of course, humanity wouldn't exactly be itself. The term peace would become synonymous with human existance, since there is never anything to upset. Of course, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be death. We may very well have different, or no definitions, for emotions that cause acts of villiany, like human vices of anger, lust, greed, zealotry. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and the odd Ice Age still happen, and everyone grows old.
I think that something would be lost in this world though. Because without evil acts, there can never be those who are challenged to do outstanding good. No Batman, without the Joker. No Superman, without Lex Luthor. Often we are quite driven to the greatest good because we so despise wicked acts and the short comings of man.
In short, I think looking at a world like this from my perspective now, it would be quaint, relaxing, eternal, boring, and without aspiration to improve, and be better. A place great, and horrid to live in, in its own way.
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