滔滔不绝的问题

多余的追问，是因为不了解彼此？

有完没完

我笨得让我烦恼，天真得让我不知所措。

每一次告诉自己要努力、加油、一定做得到，但事实上根本就是觉得不可能。脑海和心里不是填满着自信和勇气，而是浮现了失败、失败与失败的念头和景像。我是不是真的不再那么害怕失败，还是只不过一直以来我无法在跌倒后站起来才所以没有所谓再次的跌倒？那... 这“我长大了”的感觉，是幻觉？总觉得后者较真。一直有种似乎垫地后无法再爬起来，这个愚蠢的感觉。

一心判断自己无能，做什么都一定会失败的人，又怎么能成功？

厌倦了这种想法啊!!!

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I am trying to blog about my MSI Wind netbook, but pictures do not appear in my post when I attempt to add them. Not my fault that I can't blog.

Airing armpits

Derived from an outing with Pearlin and Kim,

101 ways to air your armpits (for girls)

Would you like to contribute?

Do you feel it?

Here's something random.

Have you ever felt this way:

When you sit in a chair, step into a building or sit in a car driving along an expressway, you cringe.

When you put a piece of plastic into the bin, you cringe.

When you eat meat, you cringe.

Sometimes I do.

For the first, it is because I imagine all the foundations of our concrete creations sticking into Earth and that with every step I take, it is like pressing in deeper a pin into one's flesh (sounds ridiculous, I know).

For the second, I imagine all the garbage piling up and up and how some litter in the ocean trap sea creatures so that they bleed, suffocate or starve to death.

For the third, in my mind's eye I see pigs being branded and killed, overharvesting of fish, and of nets going through everything, destroying habitats.

Do you feel it?

Amie

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Amie

by Damien Rice

Nothing unusual nothing strange
Close to nothing at all
The same old scenario the same old rain
and there's no explosions here

Then something unusual something strange
Comes from nothing at all
I saw a spaceship fly by your window
Did you see it disappear?

Amie come sit on my wall

And read me the story of O
Tell it like you still believe

That the end of the century

Brings a change for you and me

Nothing unusual nothing's changed
Just a little older that's all
You know when you've found it there's something I've learned
'cause you feel it when they take it away

hey hey hey

Then something unusual something strange
Comes from nothing at all
But I'm not a miracle and you're not a saint
Just another soldier on a road to nowhere

Amie come sit on my wall

And read me the story of O
Tell it like you still believe

That the end of the century

Brings a change for you and me

Amie come sit on my wall and read me the story of O
Tell it like you still believe

That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me

Are chimpanzees people?

A programme on BBCKnowledge on one of the past nights examined the question "Are chimpanzees people?"

The host put it simply - Do chimpanzees have language? Yes. Do they have culture? Yes. Are they people? No. Then he had a very confused and frustrated look on his face.

Simply put, we can think of chimpanzees and humans as cousins. Perhaps think of it this way - within the human population, we differ from our cousins by parents. We are similar yet also different. In a phylogenetic tree, we are similar to the next species by a certain % of DNA and we are different by that certain % of DNA as well. As such, in the same way that we cannot ask if our cousins are us or whether our cousins come/were born before us, it is equally senseless to ask if chimpanzees are people or whether they come before us in the phylogenetic tree. Somewhere along the line of evolution, they have simply evolved differently from us in a different branch of the tree (which brings us to the point that evolution should not be thought of as only a linear one-path process. Instead it is a bush, with many different branches (or "species", if it'd aid you in understanding) developing at the same time. Through time, many of these species died out while others they evolved further).

Not the best of examples or explanation, but I hope this sheds some light on the perspective of the question of whether chimpanzees are people or whether chimpanzees come before people.

Anyway there are lots of arguments going around as to whether chimpanzees are people, looking at the amount of similar DNA etc. It really seems to me as if it has become a matter of definition.