Of traditions, rituals & efficiency

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4/25/2008 11:38 AM

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Locus Coeruleus (4/24/2008) In our (the one I belong to) culture, three meals a day is tradition and we do it. I don't! (and I am pretty sure I belong to that same culture, as it was how I was raised, but it just doesn't work so well for me! For me breakfast is almost always split into before work and then mid- to late- morning, lunch will sometimes be split into early and late afternoon, or sometimes just a bigger lunch in the middle of the afternoon around 2 or 3, and dinner will typically be one meal around 7 or 8. As I count 'em that's 4 to 5 meals throughout the day. I am very unconventional in that regard! Not really unconventional. A lot of people are that way, myself included. I usually wake at 8am and go to bed around 12. I find that I need to munch on small meals, usually fruit, every 3-4 hours to keep up my energy. Otherwise I fall asleep in my afternoon classes! =P
-- "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." -William Allen White

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4/25/2008 12:12 PM

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Advantaged? Well, in the sense that I have Acid Reflux (GERD) I find myself advantaged because smaller meals are better for my stomach! It does work for me in that regard!
-- Reaching out now and I touch your face, Please believe I'm only traveling. Like seeking wonder from a foreign place, It matters not from where I'm coming. -Ween, "Back to Basom".

4/25/2008 12:56 PM

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I had GERD also, although I radically changed my diet and certain behaviors so rarely have the problem anymore.
-- "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." -William Allen White

4/25/2008 7:48 PM

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Hmph!! I just have work to get in the way of all them there nasty calories, fats, carbs, you know all those things that kill you besides work. I'm lucky to eat one full meal a day. Simply because I forget to. I'm 5'9", and weigh 160lbs. (Lean). Guess it ain't hurt'n me. But back to the subject. What was it? Oh...,yeah. Learned behaviour VS created behaviour. Seems to me jerm has the idea. It would be difficult at best, to effect change to a behaviour, or tradition, without having prior exp. with that behaviour. So the young imitate and the ones with more "hands on" create. SO..., there you have it!! The egg came first!!!!
-- "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."---JFK

4/30/2008 12:49 PM

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Alexander asked a philiosopher the egg or the chicken question. The philosopher replied that it was the egg. Alexander was displeased w/a simple answer & was about to execute the philosopher, but philosopher came back: "Your highness should not be displease to get an unsatifactory answer to an unsatisfactory question". Of course Plutarch described this event much more vividly than I just did... but ye some questions arent meant to have an answer.
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

4/30/2008 1:01 PM

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So is the beauty of the human brain that we are (generally) open to hearing new ideas at a young age and trying them out? Then as we get older, we find what we are comfortable with and stick with it and get to work? Jerm Everyone is an inventor in their own right... me thinks. The bueaty I think is that we can percieve others as wanting the same things. Sociology says there are 3 stages of development, I forget the stages but it is the last one that lets you delve into others & understand their intentions. So once you delve into someone you can extrapolate as to their intentions. So when it comes to a process, you see that a set of actions are meant to get you candy. So you repeat those sets of actions (could be risk aversion as in if you dont repeat exactly you might not get the candy), since this other guy seemed to get his candy in this way. Take muslim prayer for example. Why they all bend and kneel? I have no idea, but it was set so by the prophet. Since prophet was the closed to God then it must be done so. Thats the logic behind it.
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

5/17/2008 1:02 PM

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One manifestation of how efficiently we copy each other is in the existance of tongs. Geographical bariers created the tongs. As communities progressed w/in the confines of their geographical location, new progress was introduced to them through trade or genuine innovation. As a need to communicate in the context of these innovations developed, so emerged the various languages. On the trajectory that we are now, we can observe that efficiency is the driving force behind English turning truly into the global language. Since for the past 200 years or so most of the innovation has taken place w/in english speaking communities, more & more ppl are finding it easier & easier to learn english (innovation is introduced into various societies as borrow-words). Internet is only speeding up the process & we will all live in USE (united states of earth) w/in 75 years.
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

5/18/2008 11:56 AM

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...and Hollywood is a huge influence on the spread of English as probably the most common language. You can watch American cable channels and even the big 3 networks (NBC, ABC, CBS) air in much of the world. This has to have been a huge influence in English becoming so wide-spread internationally. And since this is the P&R forum, that is also scary to think that Desperate Housewives, the Sopranos, Sex and the City, etc is how US culture might be defined in many places on the planet.
-- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow-lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain "Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Harold Thurman Whitman Edited: 5/18/2008 11:57 AM by Nuclearcow

5/18/2008 12:33 PM

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Well... new movies are a form of innovation. And so wut if it is defined that way? If sucha wide audience is dedicating their resources to watching those sitcomes, it can be safely argued that they aspire to it in some form or another. So in a sense, we can state the popular statement that Holywood is reshaping the world in American image, or shall we say in the image of California surf boy
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields Edited: 5/18/2008 12:38 PM by -M-