Thursday, September 2, 2010

My Mother's Nylon Feet

I can well understand

I can well understand

A sentence that is all too quickly and too often expressed understanding and empathy. But, he does it? Probably only in extremely rare cases it is, at least in the approach, tentatively serious.
There he sits for example on the table and reads the newspaper, his wife comes in ". My God I do today hurts all the bones, I feel like by the wolf turned" And he answered from the depths of his paper: "The I can well understand! Is this for real? No. He feigns compassion and understanding really just to have peace. How often complains his wife about her back pain and he repeatedly asserts that he could understand that. He has never had back pain, but to reassure his wife he shot down this phrase and it is usually quite satisfied that he belongs ever has.
And as we come to the gist of the matter. Can he even understand what it means to have back pain. No, but why he says this then he could understand it well? He wants to be left alone. And so it often goes in life. We fall in internal embarrassment when we meet people we voice their distress over their destiny, throw out their pain and discomfort and her heart. And react in our helplessness then with platitudes.
The old Chinese proverb contains a profound truth: You can understand your fellow man until you've gone a few miles in his shoes. But what should we do in such cases at all? Would not it be more honest if he would say: "I'm sorry I've never had back pain and I can not imagine how it feels."
I think we show more understanding if we fail to do such meaningless statements and where we are in a position without being asked to help with waking eyes. Would not it be comforting and loving in my example, if he would fold up his newspaper, would, and take his wife in the arm would?
If we are honest, it's almost always impossible to feel the situation of another human being to and understand. We may be able to consult a similar structure draw in which we have felt this or that or felt or experienced, yet still it was then our feelings and our experiences and it is difficult for us to see if we have just seen and felt, like our fellow human being. Unfortunately or fortunately, there are no instruments that can measure with absolute objectivity pain and suffering.
My suggestion: If we are not out of deep, inner conviction can say: "The I can well understand, "should we refrain ..... And I can understand it really well!

Sunday, August 22, 2010

How Long Does Listerine

science fiction, the story of our time?

What has changed really essential?
Previously, we have our stories and today we are a development, the Science fiction ideas. was constantly in the story unusual. There were wizards, good and evil. There was powder, bring recipes that unusual.
very different if it is not in the science-fiction.
Space, what fascinates us actually so much because we are not even able to solve the problems of the world and already we aspire to more. It is difficult for this phenomenon a to find explanation. Basically, the man is by nature curious and interested in him is all that unusual, very rare and are not feasible, is desirable, however.
We are encouraged by the nature of the diverse actions. We watch the fish and already we have the desire to arm ourselves with appropriate devices and equipment in order to advance in their field. Just as we were
inspired by the birds.
It has found no rest to let the people an opportunity to raise themselves from the earth, just as independent and free to float in the air like a bird.
But that's still not enough for us, we are still too small, we do out in the vastness of the Universe and the vehicles and equipment which we do not have to reinvent ourselves in our imagination. In the field we are very far. In our imagination, in the science fiction, there is nothing that we can not reach.
We have spaceships that every situation grew that travel even faster than light in space. It will be beamed that the only way crashes. We have a Stargate, which we penetrate within thousandths of a second in any galaxy. Since we do not even need a spaceship.
Every time something impossible, and seems to be unsolvable, let us think of a solution based on the one hand, a certain probability and can include in their implementation, we are light years away in reality. It is interesting that even scientists approach these unusual ideas, and consider it worth considering.
And here starts the interesting question.
Why put so much energy into trying to find a viable solution for our fantastic ideas.
We have already managed to penetrate into space, but this first step also shows us how very far we are from a solution, the approach comes even close to the ideas of the imagination.
The idea of science fiction, rests first on the imagination of some in of science as a fantasist taner be writers, but have also many scientists to be inspired by this theme. One of the early scientific romantic authors was Jules Verne, to name just a name. He worked with a lot of scientific and technical intuition. we deal with these utopian ideas in a long while, or is there something deep inside that drives us, that we do not rest. And, it is perhaps in a few centuries or even millennia in retrospect to realize that it was not a human instinct for play, but one in us, we are not aware of expectant energy drive?
we doing something sometime in the future, once a major Makes sense to preserve the human race or life of the human species? Will we find one day that it was good to play these unusual ideas by or for carrying in part because they provide humanity with opportunity given to cure a serious crisis that threatens life on this earth, and thus a solution for the survival of the species to find people?
It appears at first glance a little foolhardy to think that far.
It looks at the moment is not so that one day we can move in space, as we do today with our cars or airplanes. Still see our efforts in space relatively as if they wanted with a paddle boat the ocean crossing.
The interesting thing about the idea of science fiction, however, that to us, as for the space program, set a target.
Although we know how far out of reach this target, we spare no efforts and risks and then strive relentlessly to achieve them.
still seems to be a solution in sight, but it is not the first time in the history of engineering and physics, that suddenly, unexpectedly and offer surprising new possibilities.