What blows your mind? - Page 3

GateandGarden · #31 08-01-2005, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

[COLOR=Blue][SIZE=2][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]I'm another one of those who had an extremely difficult time with math in school. My dad would help me with my math homework, and I ended up crying every freakin' time!

I was such a good student otherwise, loved Science and English, History, eh, whatever and HATED math with the fire of a million suns.

Oh, I know! Whenever my dad or my brother helped me with math, I always wound up in tears.

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Teachers can make a difference in the way you understand things, but dayum, math just sucks.

As an undergraduate, I've had two really great math teachers and I actually pulled off a B in my last math class. Sometimes good teachers make all the difference.

wondergirl9847 · #32 08-01-2005, 10:22 AM

In the fourth grade, I had a teacher from h*ll and was failing in some subjects. Of course, at the time, I needed braces for my jacked up teeth and glasses for my jacked up eyes, so I had issues anyways. LOL The teacher I had was horrible and my mom asked them to move me to another teacher, and when they did, my grades improved. It was a variety of things, but still, teachers make the difference a lot of the time.

Also, I had a terrific Algebra teacher in college. He was soooo nice and cool, and I didn't hate it as much.

Serendipity · #33 08-01-2005, 11:14 AM

Death definately blows my mind. Just the idea of the person I know as me and the world I live in suddenly not existing...too much for me to handle. I used to lie awake at night trying to get my head around it, but it upsets me too much and I have to go on pretending it just isnt ever going to happpen. For the most part I believe theres something after this life, but when I think too hard about it...scares the crap outta me!

Flying also: how can a mechanical cylinder just be suspended in mid-air? And move? I know its all about mechanics and stuff, but since I dont understand all that, it blows my mind.

Racism and alll prejudice - how can people be so ignorant as to judge someone who is just another human being based on something they cant control like race, gender or sexual orientation?

Mess - No matter how much I tidy up, everything is a mess again almost straight away. How? Why? Argh!

~Nicki

skcin · #34 08-01-2005, 02:42 PM

Oooh, yeah, death freaks me out too. I mean, what happens after you die? I don't think about it too much, I just can't.

The whole life cycle is mindblowing - we're here for such a short time. For what?

jadegypsy · #35 08-01-2005, 04:34 PM

That i am from the last generation that will ever write out school reports by hand, and know what life was like before the internet, cell phone, DVD and CD...

And yet at the same time future genrations will still be loving the same music and movies that i once loved...

In a word how much stuff changes and yet how much is still timeless. I saw Yellow Submarine in the Park a few weeks ago and the kids who were seeing it for the first time were just as enthralled as i was twenty years ago

And then again it disappoints me soooo much that with all the progress we have made I will possibly be showing my children animals in a Natural History Musame that went extinct b/c we could not save their environment due to increasing demands for more and cheapers stuff...

Ans as someone mentioned earlier it does amaze me how much ppl have in common and yet how they let such little things turn into such issues of strif, be it religion, race, sexuality, or stance on certain issues, why, why do we care so much about what others think or do that we are willing ot kill for it?

GateandGarden · #36 08-01-2005, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Serendipity

Death definately blows my mind. Just the idea of the person I know as me and the world I live in suddenly not existing...too much for me to handle. I used to lie awake at night trying to get my head around it, but it upsets me too much and I have to go on pretending it just isnt ever going to happpen. For the most part I believe theres something after this life, but when I think too hard about it...scares the crap outta me!

~Nicki

Yes, I feel the same way! It's one of those things I can't sit around and think about too much because it winds up being really stressful. It's one of those gigantic unknowns.

irishgrl · #37 08-02-2005, 07:08 AM

I am constantly amazed at the intricate interconnectedness of nature. Life forms are connected/dependent upon each other in ways we havent even yet begun to understand.

Space and time amaze me.

life/death cycle amazes me. I dont believe death is the end, I believe in reincarnation. I also believe in Karma.

oh yeah: Jason's cah ray zee posts blow my mind too!

(Diss, I almost fell out of my chair after reading your bit about the lump on Bush's back--too funny!

Mari · #38 08-02-2005, 07:47 AM

Sometimes it just blows my mind how incredibly big the universe is and how small we are in comparison.

eclipse · #39 08-02-2005, 08:08 AM

I have read all the post up to now and everyone has covered all the mavels/mysteries that seem to capture our imaginantion....The vastness of space, how many people exist on this planet, the questions of death's meaning, the ocean's magnitude, the moon's magic....

All more or less add up to the main question of:
WHY??
I think philosophers have been thinking about that since they could think

How can we even be sitting here and discussing this topic, all of us in different places/spaces all over the world?
The technology blows my mind-
Intolerence to race/religion/sex/gender-blows my mind
and I can't forget---
The look in my dog's eyes when he gives me a kiss, and wags his tail-blows my mind

Just a few thoughts-
~~eclipse~

DrummerDeanna · #40 08-02-2005, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by eclipse

and I can't forget---
The look in my dog's eyes when he gives me a kiss, and wags his tail-blows my mind

Just a few thoughts-
~~eclipse~

awww...cute - and I agree - when I am sitting petting my dog it blows my mind - thinking about this other living being who is dependent on me for care - and I wonder what she's thinking etc. Then she'll put her little head on my lap or something and smile....it's just really cool.

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Now onto math - I HATE math - I am STILL having nightmares about damn math. It's not a recurring dream - but a recurring theme - like in all these dreams I have there is always this math class that I haven't gone to in like months and I am going to fail and not graduate (I've been out of school for more than year - and I'm STILL having this damn math dream).

I remember the day in fourth grade we had to take a math placement test - I sometimes got really lazy and would purposely NOT do things -and that was what I did. I knew how to do the multiplication and division - I chose not to because I was lazy. Therefore I was put in idiot math. lol - I always wonder what would have happened had I actually did the test and wound up in a more advanced math class...

Anyway - the lowest grades I got throughout school were always in math.