Favorite Quotations (taken from my FaceBook Page)
"Everyone dies, but not everyone lives."
-man
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
-Winston Churchill
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
-Albert Camus
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justin: HOOOOORAH!
Me: HOOOOORAH!
"tell your brother if he is ever going to want a date he needs to learn how to treat girls... which dose NOT mean putting water ALL OVER their backs" directed toward Jeffery.
-Anna Ward
"OOOOOOOOOOO~OH DAVIDDDDD!~!~!~~~~~~"..... :D
-Alfonso Arroyo aka Fonzi or The Fonzster or 1ST PLACE CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER
"Genetic engineering causes glowing blue monkeys to shoot out of your butt, haven't you noticed?"
-Mr. Doyle
"He's like the asian Boris Scharzenbach."
-Michael Campbell Chicken Noodle Soup
"There's gonna be some stuff you gonna see that'll make it hard to smile in the future, but through whatever you see, all the pain and the rain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this."
-Chris Brown
"The Calvary on which Jesus Christ was crucified displays well his sacrifice. Good tiding of great joy are brought upon all through the satisfying, abundant, listless Love that only the Father gives. We are much proved unworthy, yet he forgives..."
-I, David Park
"Barron's SAT books are the best for studying. They're usually harder than the actual test and vocab is a big issue"
-Chaya Chicitatorn
"You can make a child cleverer just by telling their teacher that the child is a genius"
Answer: TRUE
(49.9% of people got this question correct)
In a series of studies, researchers told elementary school teachers that certain students were on the verge of great intellectual growth. These students were actually no smarter than the other students, but were simply randomly selected as the "smart ones".
After several months, the randomly selected students actually experienced a greater increase in IQ compared to the other students. They had been encouraged and treated more favorably by their teachers, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Taken from: Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment was about obedience and authority, and the situation that one is in. Why is it not acceptable to murder someone in private life, but then when the government tells you to murder in a war it is acceptable to murder then? Why do we obey society? Why do we walk on crosswalks? Why do we line up at the bank when a sign tells us to do so? Because humans are programmed now to obey authority. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk&feature=related)
And finally, my introspection about controversial topics of interest at Lunch D, occasionally about dysfuntional matters, social control theory, stereotypes, internalization/externalization of social philosopy and how to solve them and respond to them. Sometimes, a serious situation is presented and we opinionate to correspond to such as these. A scientific basis is discussed with backround info, a hypothesis, data, interpretation of the problem, and try to fix to an unbiased conclusion, when possible.
We get argumentative, but fairly emulated. Intense, fun disputing.
God has also revealed Himself to us through His Word, the Bible. Throughout Scripture, the existence of God is treated as a self-evident fact (Genesis 1:1; Exodus 3:14). When Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, he did not waste time trying to prove his own existence. Likewise, God does not spend much time proving His existence in His book. The life-changing nature of the Bible, its integrity, and the miracles which accompanied its writing should be enough to warrant a closer look. God revealed Himself is through His Son, Jesus Christ (John 14:6-11). “In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1,14; see also Colossians 2:9).
In Jesus’ amazing life, He kept the entire Old Testament law perfectly and fulfilled the prophecies concerning the Messiah (Matthew 5:17). He performed countless acts of compassion and public miracles to authenticate His message and bear witness to His deity (John 21:24-25). Then, three days after His crucifixion, He rose from the dead, a fact affirmed by hundreds of eyewitnesses (1 Corinthians 15:6). The historical record abounds with “proof” of who Jesus is. As the Apostle Paul said, this thing “was not done in a corner” (Acts 26:26).
We realize that there will always be skeptics who have their own ideas concerning God and will read the evidence accordingly. And there will be some whom no amount of proof will convince (Psalm 14:1). It all comes down to faith (Hebrews 11:6).
“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”
–Max Planck, (a Nobel Prize physicist considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and one of the most important physicists of the 20th century).
“I am not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist [emphasis added]. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. ”
–Albert Einstein, as quoted in Antony Flew’s book There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.
05/01/12
"Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll steal your fish."
-Chinese proverb (mastered)
-man
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
-Winston Churchill
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
-Albert Camus
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justin: HOOOOORAH!
Me: HOOOOORAH!
"tell your brother if he is ever going to want a date he needs to learn how to treat girls... which dose NOT mean putting water ALL OVER their backs" directed toward Jeffery.
-Anna Ward
"OOOOOOOOOOO~OH DAVIDDDDD!~!~!~~~~~~"..... :D
-Alfonso Arroyo aka Fonzi or The Fonzster or 1ST PLACE CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER
"Genetic engineering causes glowing blue monkeys to shoot out of your butt, haven't you noticed?"
-Mr. Doyle
"He's like the asian Boris Scharzenbach."
-Michael Campbell Chicken Noodle Soup
"There's gonna be some stuff you gonna see that'll make it hard to smile in the future, but through whatever you see, all the pain and the rain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this."
-Chris Brown
"The Calvary on which Jesus Christ was crucified displays well his sacrifice. Good tiding of great joy are brought upon all through the satisfying, abundant, listless Love that only the Father gives. We are much proved unworthy, yet he forgives..."
-I, David Park
"Barron's SAT books are the best for studying. They're usually harder than the actual test and vocab is a big issue"
-Chaya Chicitatorn
"You can make a child cleverer just by telling their teacher that the child is a genius"
Answer: TRUE
(49.9% of people got this question correct)
In a series of studies, researchers told elementary school teachers that certain students were on the verge of great intellectual growth. These students were actually no smarter than the other students, but were simply randomly selected as the "smart ones".
After several months, the randomly selected students actually experienced a greater increase in IQ compared to the other students. They had been encouraged and treated more favorably by their teachers, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Taken from: Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment was about obedience and authority, and the situation that one is in. Why is it not acceptable to murder someone in private life, but then when the government tells you to murder in a war it is acceptable to murder then? Why do we obey society? Why do we walk on crosswalks? Why do we line up at the bank when a sign tells us to do so? Because humans are programmed now to obey authority. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk&feature=related)
And finally, my introspection about controversial topics of interest at Lunch D, occasionally about dysfuntional matters, social control theory, stereotypes, internalization/externalization of social philosopy and how to solve them and respond to them. Sometimes, a serious situation is presented and we opinionate to correspond to such as these. A scientific basis is discussed with backround info, a hypothesis, data, interpretation of the problem, and try to fix to an unbiased conclusion, when possible.
We get argumentative, but fairly emulated. Intense, fun disputing.
God has also revealed Himself to us through His Word, the Bible. Throughout Scripture, the existence of God is treated as a self-evident fact (Genesis 1:1; Exodus 3:14). When Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, he did not waste time trying to prove his own existence. Likewise, God does not spend much time proving His existence in His book. The life-changing nature of the Bible, its integrity, and the miracles which accompanied its writing should be enough to warrant a closer look. God revealed Himself is through His Son, Jesus Christ (John 14:6-11). “In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1,14; see also Colossians 2:9).
In Jesus’ amazing life, He kept the entire Old Testament law perfectly and fulfilled the prophecies concerning the Messiah (Matthew 5:17). He performed countless acts of compassion and public miracles to authenticate His message and bear witness to His deity (John 21:24-25). Then, three days after His crucifixion, He rose from the dead, a fact affirmed by hundreds of eyewitnesses (1 Corinthians 15:6). The historical record abounds with “proof” of who Jesus is. As the Apostle Paul said, this thing “was not done in a corner” (Acts 26:26).
We realize that there will always be skeptics who have their own ideas concerning God and will read the evidence accordingly. And there will be some whom no amount of proof will convince (Psalm 14:1). It all comes down to faith (Hebrews 11:6).
“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”
–Max Planck, (a Nobel Prize physicist considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and one of the most important physicists of the 20th century).
“I am not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist [emphasis added]. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. ”
–Albert Einstein, as quoted in Antony Flew’s book There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.
05/01/12
"Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll steal your fish."
-Chinese proverb (mastered)
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