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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Video of the Week #2: It's Showtime!
Today instead of going with another comedy video, I decided to go another direction. I am a huge MMA fan, and if anyone else is, you would most likely know that the UFC has absolved the WEC effective January 1, 2011. With that said, the WEC had it's last event a few weeks ago, with two title fights.
To say the least, the man I was rooting for lost his title and it was due to this kick in the fifth round, as much as it sucks that I won't see Ben Henderson fighting for the UFC lightweight title in the immediate future after this loss I have to admit this was the greatest kick I have ever seen. (not in terms of how devastating though)
Anyways, here it is, the showtime kick! Named after Anthony "Showtime" Pettis.
Uploaded to Youtube by FreitasCombatLab
Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Song of the Week #5: The Hill
Some of the lyrics in the video are a bit off but oh well, just listen to the song!
Anyways it's - The Hill by Marketa Irglova
Enjoy
Uploaded by Chilodonella
Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Video of the Week #1: Dave Allen
December 21 Lunar Eclipse
And a bad quality photo, I just wanted to upload it because of the light beside the almost complete lunar eclipse. I'm pretty sure it is just the part of the moon that was uncovered, same shape as the piece on the moon but I am not sure how that happened when I took the picture, weird illusion. Thought I'd share.
And that is all folks. The next time a Lunar Eclipse will appear on the Winter Solstice is in 2092, the last time before yesterday was 372 years ago. Most of us probably will not be alive to see the next one on the winter solstice (I will be over 100 if I am still kicking!) so if you did see the eclipse, consider yourself lucky to have been able to witness such an event.
Also what makes it more rare, is the height of the moon in the sky for the eclipse, I heard that the last time the a Lunar Eclipse happened when the moon was so high in the sky was somewhere around 450 A.D! So you should consider yourself very lucky if you managed to see it.
Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Song of the Week #4: The Rodeo Song
**I guess I should warn you that there is some profanity in the song.
This is a short little number I would like to share with you, it's called The Rodeo Song by Gary Lee and The Showdown, the video is from youtube as you can tell, uploaded by elffanatic2000. Anyways, without further adieu, the fourth song of the week!
I just had to do it, it's hilarious!
Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler
The Most Wonderful Time of The Year! (Sort Of)
I made it through three of my final exams. Two are left. On monday and tuesday I will be writing the last of them. So that means there will almost certainly be no blog update next monday either.
About this update though, I'll admit the truth. That truth is that my exams are NOT 100% to blame for not updating the blog. There are two other reasons.
First, my brother bought a new puppy, under the pretences that he would take care of him. Funny how that has not happened. I have been the primary caregiver for this little fiend for the past week or two. Now here is a picture of the monster (A miniature Daschund)
It's like looking face-to-face with the devil. |
Second, I bought an acoustic guitar. I have never played a guitar before until the point I bought that one, but have always wanted to learn, so now in the little spare time that I have had over this past week, I have begun to learn to play the guitar.
I guess that is all. The music of the week post was not uploaded yesterday, so I will try to find a worthy song and upload it now. So, to recap, study study study this weekend, then monday and tuesday I write the last of my finals, that gives me a couple of days before my holidays begin so I will be able to update the blog then! I still have the memory post draft written, but since i've now missed it or will be missing it twice, I think that I will be forced to upload two posts to catch up. We will see. Anyways, good luck to anyone still studying and will be writing finals next week and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
Thanks, Dillon Wheeler
Monday, December 13, 2010
Blog update for this week
Friday, December 10, 2010
Song of the Week #3: Faunts - Meno Mony Falls
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Death of the Working Class Hero
Monday, December 6, 2010
Blog Post of the Week #2: Dark Flow
Spiral Galaxy |
Various Dinosaurs |
Evolution of Man |
Credit: NASA/Goddard/A. Kashlinsky, et al. |
Timeline of the Universe (credit NASA WMAP) |
Black Hole |
Friday, December 3, 2010
Song of the Week #2: Linkin Park - Blackout
Dillon Wheeler
This is a song from Linkin Park's new album, A Thousand Suns. I acquired the album about two months ago, around when it was released and I have to say, at first I didn't really like their new music, but then I listened to it again with an open mind, and wow a whole lot has changed. I really like everything from their album now. All of their music from it is experimental and that is what makes it great, but out of all of those, I like this individual song the best.
The first part is good, transition is odd, latter part the greatest.
This video was uploaded to youtube by charts4life
Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Blog Post of the Week #1: The Incident
Dillon Wheeler
***Note*** After multiple attempts at fixing the odd spacing and font sizes later on in this post. I have, effectively. Given up.
Okay well, I had planned for a Monday blog update, but, well you know good ol’ procrastinator me, and look at the bright side, TWOSday is twice as good! I didn’t get around to it Monday, Sorry but, I do have a good one for you today though! Awesome! Even comes with an original picture of my hero I took today! How about that!
2. Me, Myself, and I
3. The train and/or being underground
4. Aliens
5. Brain Signals
6. Drugs
7. Reality itself
Friday, November 26, 2010
Song of the Week #1: Gust Of... by The Album Leaf
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
The First Ten
The reason I am making this post today though, is that we have broken through the first ten!
The first ten countries.
Getting close to two months now, and there has been at least five people from ten countries reading the blog, I found that to be just awesome!
To think, the articles posted here have been viewed all over the world, from Canada to the United States to Russia to China to Australia and so on is amazing.
I would just like to thank everyone who has viewed the blog, and (hopefully) enjoyed my writing.
Thank you, you readers provide the inspiration for my writing.
- Dillon Wheeler
Monday, November 22, 2010
The Blog
Instead of just posting everything as soon as I write it, which, more often than not, is in a cluster of three or so posts. So, I have decided that the blog will be updated weekly, unless I have multiple posts/responses in which I just can not wait to post and need to get them up earlier.
Weekly updates will be useful because I can and will provide a constant flow of goods, instead of the usual three or four posts in a very short period, and then a long period before the next couple of posts. (Like now)
So I guess the next post will either be up today, or by tomorrow and then new posts will appear either every monday, wednesday or every friday, not exactly sure yet.
Keep on reading!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Response to: Shaping Our Identity
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
A Goal Of Mine
I will be doing my best to update the blog as much as possible, the goal I have in mind is for an update every one to three days, this will be on a wide range of topics as they have always been, (although most fall under the scientific philosophy tab) and so if you have any requests for discussions or would like to see me produce more of a certain topic, leave a comment or two. Thanks
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Shaping Our Identity
Dillon Wheeler
In this post, I mention identity a lot, and I just wanted to say, by identity I mean our conscious, way we act, think, our intelligence, memory, every brain process that is unique to each Human Being after a certain point. With that said, lets begin, shall we?
This is how we are physically identified,
but how do we identify our minds?
Over the past week, I have begun to wonder something. Something about reality. Something about Us. I began to wonder if we all start off exactly the same, and our identities are shaped by internal and external environments.
I mean, as soon as we are conceived, are we all equal? Equal in the sense that we have no identity? Again, I don't mean like eight months in the womb, I mean as soon as we are conceived, at the very moment when life has begun.
This is conception.
And if we are all the same, do we exist individually or are we everyone and everyone is us? Like a singular collective mind?
A collection of videos, like the higher collective
mind, if all humans were one.
But the question is, how would we know? If everyone was identical, what would we be?
As I sat on the daily train ride home, I looked to the man sitting across from me. I watched him for a brief time (I'm not a creeper…. I think) and I imagined myself being that man, and in truth, it was not that hard to imagine. There exist the distinct possibility that I could have been him and he could have been me, us being each other, "mentally" of course, and under the right circumstances.
Circumstances.
Let me give you an example, say twins are born at the exact same moment. By some occurrence, their parents gave them up for adoption, so both children are given up for adoption at the exact same time, and are both adopted by different people.
So here we are, with two infant human beings. Could we say that these babies have identities? Maybe, but most likely the answer would be No (refer to what I mean by identity at the top). So now lets believe these babies have grown up, one became a good man and the other an evil man. What is there that leads us to believe that these men were destined to become good and evil?
The Fictional Good Man - His parent treated him with care, gave him attention, encouraged and loved him.
The Fictional Evil Man - His parent mistreated him, gave him no attention, showed no love towards him.
There is a fine line between
good and evil.
So the environment that these twins grew up in, influenced their identity, it shaped them to become what they are now. So then we reverse their environments, the good twin is placed in the abusive home, and the evil twin is placed in the loving home. When they grew up, would the good twin still become the good twin, and the evil twin become evil? Or would their roles be reversed? It is likely that their roles would indeed become reversed, and so we could say that the two twins started off with "blank slates".
So if everyone starts off with blank slates, does that mean we can choose our identity? Does that mean that I chose who I am?
What if there is a singular identity and that everyone is a representation of that single identity? Would that identity be God's identity? Or does that mean something else, like the existence of reality all together?
Contemplate this, perhaps we were all created by God's vision (Im not very religious by the way) and subtle variations in the "formula" for identity made us all what we are now. Subtle variations meaning the environment I illustrated in the example above.
God's vision.
If this "formula" made us all what we are now, can we say that therefore we are all God himself? To make it clear, what I mean is that perhaps we all started off as God had intended (A vision of himself, or Adam if you will) but then, along the way, we morphed and mutated into what and who we are through the internal and external environments.
I am not a firm believer in God, though I do believe in a higher power, although not what you would think (maybe i will get into it in a future blog post?) and to conclude, sorry, but I do not know the answer to the questions I posed.
Oh, and if you like the blog and enjoy reading my writing, follow the blog, or drop a few comments telling me what you think, the feedback, good or bad would be much appreciated,
Thank You,
Dillon Wheeler