My Best Friend......

"The mirror is my best Friend because when i cry it never laughs"

By; Charlie Chaplin

People's Simple living Questions........

                       

                   What is Time?

          We are all caught in the unflinching grip of time. It's everywhere, associated with us, our lives, moment by moment, every moment. Some people define it as something that distinguishes beginning from end. Others call it the direction of increase in entropy of the Universe. Yet others define it as just what the clock shows us.

          Time eludes explanation and understanding, ever since one gets aware of it. It is like someone coming in one day to live with you permanently, someone who stays with you, follows you where you go, accompanies you in whatever you do. Even when you don't notice him, he's there standing by you, like a ghost. Yet you have no clue as to who he is, what he does and where he came from.

        A common view of time in science is of it's being a dimension of the Universe, something that is an essential part of the Universe, like space. Scientists tell us that the Big Bang was the beginning of time. It is senseless to ask what happened before the Big Bang because there was no time before Big Bang, thus there was no before and there was no after. They say that space and time are the essential attributes of the Universe. Others disagree.

        Another view is that time and space are of our making, not part of the Universe. There is no time in itself. They are merely our impositions on the Universe to make sense of it. They are the necessary glasses through which we view the Universe.

      Yet others believe that it is possible to take off these glasses. Stories are told about the Mystics' escape of time and space.

      I wonder how would the mystic respond to a timestamped recording of his meditation in a tamper resistant camera.

      "Time continues to baffle imagination and reason".

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                          What happens after death?

       In a sense, it is a wrong question to ask. Death, by definition, stands for cessation of being. Thus after death, life stops, and you no longer exist.

            However, this is not how this question is put to most of us, for a general person on the street is a Cartesian Duelist, which is to say most of us believe that there is more to our material bodies. That there is a mind, apart from our bodies. And the mind (or as some would call it, soul) is not governed by the rules and laws that govern physical material. So, when a person dies, his heartbeat stops, and organs stop functioning, there is still a reason to believe that the mind persists, because it is beyond the purview of the rules that material objects must follow, hence the mind doesn't need nutrition from the blood, it doesn't need to be maintained in the homeostasis of the body.

            The question then is, what happens to our minds when the body stops functioning? Here again, much explanation is provided by religious dogma. The entire concept of an afterlife, heaven and hell, and how one's deeds in this world would help in another.

             There are many problems with such thinking. The concept of a 'mind' plays a big role in philosophy, especially in characterization of subjective phenomena, consciousness & distinguishing humans from machines. But the very proposal that minds could persist the death of body seems more a result of the psychological fear of death, an escape mechanism humans adopt to handle the dark truth of the ultimate destruction of their selves, in the face of an innate desire to live. Secondly, the ways to know about the mind are debilitatingly limited. Minds, by definition are not subject to material laws, and hence escape any examination under the scientific method (which restricts itself to observable, experimentally demonstrable & repeatable phenomena), leaving reasoning and introspection as the only means to know anything about the mind. While existence & persistence of soul is acceptable as a philosophical possibility, the utter uselessness of construing a mind which continues an afterlife seems a fantastic construction of thought rooted more in psychological fear than in a need to solve a philosophical problem.

         Its not an uncontested thesis, but probably, we are nothing more than our bodies, may be our minds are just a result of our enormously complex brains. And may be upon our death, we just cease to exist.

           A study of what death is, and what happens after death requires an understanding of what it means to have a self, and it requires the investigator to possess some clear means to know about issues concerning death. In the absence of such clarity, the issue of death (if its an issue at all) remains shrouded in smog.

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           Are human beings just machines?

            The question whether humans are just advanced machines has been around since long, and whether human being is just a computer is a topic of intense research in contemporary philosophy. Perhaps to the primitive man, anything that moved was alive. The image of the first machines with moving parts must have given rise to the speculation if human body was just another machine.

                   Today, with increased scientific understanding, few would question that much of the body the movements and mechanistic in nature, following and exploiting some basic physical laws.  But when it comes to the special ability of human beings, the ability to think, that the debate begins. There are at at least two very clear positions. One position states that human brains are just sufficiently complex computing machines. The other position shrugs in disagreement, maintaining that there's more to the thinking phenomenon of humans, the mind, which is definitely more than just a computer (or any other machine that we know of).  One side contends that 'mind' is just a result of a sufficiently complex brain (or another view that 'mind' is just an illusion played by our biology) and the other school maintains that a computing machine, however complex it may be, would forever subjective phenomena like our perception of colours, feelings, emotions, our understanding of semantics (the meaning we attach to our experiences), our ability to direct our attention to anything that we want to direct it to (intentionality) etc. (see: Hard problem of consciousness

 

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Mwl. Nicetius Nicholaus .

Standard seven Results, With the Big Results!

As the results are out, surely we teachers have appreciated the still in race slogan "BIG RESULTS NOW" with the Ministry of Education of Tanzania.
In my school life mate I never had have seen the earliest of the release on the results as it has been done in effect with this year. 

It is real a big result now!

But the only question knocks me, 

how long will this slogan function more?
We had UPE, but i can't know its end up and burial.

Ujamaa, Nationalization of schools and Diversification of schools in done, the only question to ask other stakeholders is, where did all these end to?

The poor with our Ministry's planners is, they over look and compare the policies in a furious context.

 A struggling Tanzanian that lives under a $ can only enjoy the richest life if is helped in Shelter, Education and Food.

The only thing to be done by the Ministry was to Improve infrastructures and nourish the working conditions to teachers by rehabilitating the available resources including libraries, residences and  classes.

 Also to increase the ratio of books and learning/teaching resources in schools.

I bet, the loose way to UPE and her colleague may be among the step down to "BIG RESULTS NOW"

   The Government promised 40 millions of Tanzanians to enjoy a prey in a ladder as the amount was directed in buying books for schooling Tanzanians, the only thing I wonder is, does the private schools in Tanzania not part of 40 millions Tanzanians? 

The issue here comes, the books were bought and supplied in schools, but the private schools were not listed in the fate. 

This is what makes me to declare that,
the persistence of "BIG RESULTS NOW" is in the mind of few mindless planners.

Ok, You can't criticize the passing way, before reaching the directed house" all we need is to reason twice about this slogan, "THE BIG RESULTS NOW!" it sounds beautifully! 

The big results Now!  another name in crusade.

What Is Life?

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette, Simply from Scratc

h, 2010

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago, 1958

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.

Cherie Ve Ard, Technomadia, 04-04-2013.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

Life is full of surprises  and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea; 

And love is a thing that can never go wrong; 

And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy"

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006

Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.

Laura Moncur (1969 - ), 

The Beauty with dreams.

         When doing nothing in life, you never have break. Much of your time is expended furiously without any time income. When doing nothing, you can only harvest tiredness and hang over all over your body and still starving with poverty plus hunger. 

         The beauty with doing nothing is that, you often enjoy other people's leassure in dances, folks and more forth while thinking unproductively.  

         It's all true that doing nothing is extremely harmful than doing something. When doing something unproductive sometimes improves cognitive and thinking skills than doing nothing.         

         Have a good stay of mind, think twice, leave all stay tuned doing something. 

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