Wicked....
Quick update.
Saw wicked for $25! It was definitely a good day. Everything fell in place on Tuesday. All my bills from my pancreatitis have been payed by my insurance then (i cleared it up : ) , then i found the deal on wicked on craigslit (those tickets go for $100). Went by myself, but it was cool. THEN...
Went to the field museum...saw pompeii (the town from ad something something, ad 79?) that was destroyed by a volcano (or well preserved, depends on how you look at it). Kind of disturbing though...
SO, the disaster occured what...about 2 thousand years ago.
Well, they basically found a bunch of bodies in caves...and everyone clutched or held onto their valuables (e.g., jewelry, coins, family).
I found this incredibly interesting in that after two thousand years, and someone was running out of their house, those would be pretty much what they would escape with (money/valuables/family). Have we humans really evolved, or really progressed as much as we like to think...?
Anyways, the ticket person gave me an extra ticket to see this insect exhibit, plus i got in to the museum for free : )
Then went to the art institute, pretty much ran through to see the impressionist works, and the giant rainy day in france portrait. Those are pretty much my favorite paintings there.
THEN, that evening saw the play. It was definitely a good day, and i finally feel i understand what ice-cube was talking about : ) OH, i also received an e-mail from a friend i haven't heard from in a long long long while :)
I then visited silent fart/ dandruffy with sickening_A. It was a good visit. Honestly, i think when silent fart gets drunk, he can get kind of mean, had excellent footage of such display, but i accidentally deleted it from my camera!!!! :( Also played connect four, which was quite fun. I still think the person who goes first definitely wins (or should at least). : ) Katy was the connect four champion though. She did suffer one loss...which was to....yours truly : ) It was kind of like beating michael jordan one on one. We also discovered that a genius down there is spatially challenged : )
ANYWAYS, this past week was good. Came back up though and presently have a slight...cold : (
OH, i might actually fail my second city class! Quite an acheivement considering all one has to do is show up. Can you guess what RD hasn't been doing......? :(
NOW, i start work...on saturday at 10pm :(
RD : )
posted by Maximusdodo-ness at 1:33 PM
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dandruffy and i were just talking after looking at this post and he said that putting that video over a discussion about wicked does nothing to contradict his theory that you have the worst case of ADD in the history of the universe. i had to agree with him.
and i am not mean you stupid son of a bitch. up yours.
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i have to disagree with your question about humans evolving since the eruption of pompei. your basis for questioning human evolution over the last 2000 years is based on the fact that people then grabbed their valuables and that people now would do the same thing.
first of all evolution takes far longer than 2000 years to occur. and second in an emergency like that when everything you know and own is going to be destroyed it is a simple survival instinct to grab two different types of things. one would be valuables because if you do end up surviving the catastrophe then you want to have something of value so that you can build a life again and that would be easier to do with money than without money. i don't think they had homeowners insurance back then so it would be even more imperative for them to take valuables with them when they are fleeing. the other thing people would grab doesn't really have anything to do with survival instinct but is more emotional. people would also take thing which they feel strongly about and couldn't bear to see destroyed. things like photographs or almost anything else.
there are lots of arguments that can be made regarding the mental evolution of human beings and how we are just as selfish now as we ever were but in this particular case i don't think you argument holds water.
and if you think about it is an instinct to be selfish. that would help to ensure survival. imagine the beginning of time when humans first arrived and there are really nice people who share everything and then there are people like team b who don't share anything and can be selfish and lack any sense of empathy. in a world where there is not enough food to go around and life is very difficult which of the two groups would survive? of course team b would survive. and that is why those instincts are still with all of us today. some people are better at controlling their instincts than others but implicitly we are all selfish beings and that is not going to change any time soon or ever.
in fact, that is what i see as one of the main purposes of religion. it is a way to get human beings to control their base instincts. because it is by controlling those instincts that are hardwired in us that we can become "better" people.
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