But I think the Cyber-Doctor was pretty dramatic and likable, if sinister.
Imagine the Cyber-Planner as a companion. Unfeasible but still..
Didn't like the ending or the other plot.
Main plot was Cyber-Doctor, and that was done well. Everything else seemed to have just revolved around it.
Going to make a deck I don't need to update very much (read: budget) and fun, and casual. Cbf spending so much money to play modern/standard/whatever. I'll probably make it, then after uni, pop in for a random game with someone random in the card game shop then head home.
Key card for anyone interested:
It's a pretty junky rare. No-one plays with it. But it's fun.
It cost me $8 to get a set of four. :'C
Apparently it's so much cheaper in America. But healthcare SUCKS there. So... I don't know! T.T
Might be cheaper in London? I hope so.
My nephew X-times-removed and his parents are there. They've got a pretty good job there, but my parents think that he's (the husband) desperate for money.
Anyway, that's my little jaunt.
Tomorrow's 8-3, with a 2 hour break from 11 to 1. Maybe I'll meet someone. Who knows.
Hoping you guys are faring well.
Gotta start my assignments, damnit. Contraceptives and writing a play...
I was going to write something, as usual, so I'll just make a list of things to do:
1) Finish 1Q84. It's so damn good :O
2) Play MTG again. I should be able to fit it in somehow. Maybe I'll get my mymulti and go out myself in the morning, hopping around places to teach and so forth and then go down to the shop to play later? I don't know.
3) Move over all the games I've downloaded. I've downloaded a lot from uni. I suppose I'm paying for it though. The usage of the internet. So it's all pretty fair. Plus, I hardly use any other university facilities.
4) Go over my lecture notes for today.
5) Get into the groove of playing TF2 again, I suppose.
6) Look into whether my computer can do multiple monitors. The graphics card changed so....
7) Probably stick to one hero in dota foreveeeeeeeeer.
8) Look into finding more students I suppose. Wouldn't it be cool if I could host classes, and then I could teach a whole bunch of people, and get a lot of money, and stuff?
"Money is for the living, and grounds us in reality"
Paraphrased, but I've read it twice now, and I figure it'd be nice to put it out there.
Furthermore, I realise why my style of writing is so weird. It's precisely because I have not read widely enough.
And thus, have not really be influenced that heavily by any one author and so on and so forth.
By classes means venue.
Icy, did you still want to go ahead with your idea?
I'm just about to start learning in detail conception to birth, and will probably have a tonne of morality classes along the way.
What do you guys make of the "sanctity of life"?
Looking at you religious folk.
That video pains me on multiple counts.
Firstly it's biased to all hell. I was expecting it to be informative, but I guess I didn't notice the title for some reason.
Especially at the end, which condemns this practice as unequivocally, and irrefutably "inhuman"
When in fact, it probably should be called "inhumane"... But that's more semantics isn't it.
Secondly, it's the apparently unprofessionalism of the doctor and the counsellor.
Moreso that the counselor is flippant and hardly consoling, and the doctor is hazy about the facts. Which would be unacceptable, but is exacerbated by her seeming specialization in women's health and natal development.
However, this could be extremely biased and they could only find these two semi-incompetent workers. Who knows.
Thirdly, it pains me to read the comments, with consequentialists arguing (more declaring) that this is wrong and that those who do this shall be smote by God, or worse, should be tried as murderers.
I respect their passion and opinion, however the sheer force of their speech (rather than the force of their argument, which is infact flimsy) makes me cringe. Why do people like this exist?
I suppose, in a word - biological diversity.
And well, it makes me angry because they could be so much better. So much more tolerant of new ideas.
Thankfully the law isn't too old-fashioned. (I hope.)
I looked up Planned Parenthood, and it was exactly what I thought it would be.
The spokeswoman doesn't have all the answers. That's inevitable. Yet people assume that the professionals will always have all the answers.
So much so, there's a word for symptoms with an unknown cause:
Coming back to people who assume moral dilemmas are cut and dry - take the reverse.
If I were to assume that issue is cut and dry, from my perspective I would legalize assisted suicide, euthanasia, and abortion at any age.
Nevermind the socio-cultuo-ideological ramifications. This is a "simple" concept - why can't you understand it?
In fact, science in isolation, medicine in isolation is so simple. You're applying sciences here and there to understand the world. But in isolation, how can medicine exist? Medicine exists because humans are fragile, humans need to be understood, and we're curious about it.
I suppose what I mean is that anything in isolation is simple. A cog. A spring. A sprocket.
And by that logic, we are all just atoms.
We are all atoms - atoms are inanimate - so are we actually alive?
What makes us 'alive'?
Is that question relevant? I don't think so.
From Murakami:
"I move, therefore I am."
Hoping I get more answers to these lonely problems.
St. Vincent's hospital was interesting. It almost didn't feel like a hospital.
Except there was Aquim hand sanitiser everywhere.
Like actually everywhere.
Nothing particularly exciting going on but, with all the Christian thingummies all over the hospital (including an office for "pastoral services") I couldn't help wonder if religion is there just to make people feel better.
Does it cheapen the value of an institution if it only has a sole purpose?
It seems that way.
I wonder if sometimes tradition also cheapens the value of something. Words, physical objects, or in this case, forcing anachronism on institutions.
I wonder how many patients end up in the private or public hospital, and are atheist?
It's the middle of the city, so possibly a whole lot.
Either way, it should be irrelevant to who I am and what I do.
Also, I just thought of something the other day - I don't see Christians as Christians unless they are incredibly obnoxious, or stubborn or intolerant, etc. etc.
Sorry to those who want to be seen foremost as Christians, but I see you has a human being, first and foremost. With wants and needs, just like everyone else.
To me, it doesn't make sense the cheapen who you are as an individual by insisting you belong to a group that encompasses millions.
That's like saying:
"Hi, I'm a first year medical student, a gamer and a writer. My name is Neku."
The slight difference is that most of the time, you would introduce yourself by your name first.
Names are important. Names mean individual people.
Anyway, that's my hospital journey.
Oh and I semi-broke a pair of business shoes. Sigh. So much walking.
Learned a little bit more about viruses and catabolism and anabolism.
Sorta...ok stuff?
Virus lecture was like...zoooooooooooom. The biochem one was "hey... I've seen this in year 11 bio."
Which means, that I've survived med without having to do more than year 11 bio!
SUCK ON THAT.
Now... I read Icy Foliage's blog post, and it was funny.
Mostly because well.
I like this quip:
"And at the other end you have blogs like Neku, which can be termed as
"confessional autobiography" (a term I picked up from life writing), or
more blandly put "I don't give a !@#$ about people judging me". I guess
there are some other blogs that do this as well, like Kael/goodness
(lately)/oliver, but the blenderman blogging style has a transcendental
level of ."
I'm actually feel quite chuffed because of that comment.
It really did make my day, heh.
Though, confessional poetry is and was, pretty icky. But I don't like poetry and such. Prose is better :o
And well. I know no-one's going to read this stuff anyway, right?
Right? Haha.
Oh. Apparently it's pretty hard to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. Even when I make the most outrageous claims.
Which is pretty odd, I think. Maybe it's my lying habits creeping in again.
Love this song, ahaha.
The manga it's based on is pretty good too.
Looking forward to the next doctor who ep. Though, Hide was good because of two words (and other things).
"I'm the Doctor."
"Doctor What?"
"Close enough."
@Icy,
Being a doc is silly sometimes, but I'm bound by the law as much as anyone else. I'm just more conscious of it because I know what conflicts with my selfish wishes and what doesn't.
It's like. We're all consuming the capitalist paradigm, yet we don't realise it until someone points...it.... out................................
......................
"That's
fairly cynical. I guess that could be one of the motivations for
science, but I rather think that it's for knowledge, for curiosity. I
mean, who's going to be scared of photovoltaics and the energy-electron
interactions?"
For a start, that's more basic sciences. The applied sciences is where things get scary and when we start to run (heh) and when we really want to know what's going to kill us, etc. etc.
I mean, it's really bad if people don't know what bacteria is infecting person X. Cause then people get scared and it could make it all the worse.
"On
that note, people who complain about language and semantics are
retarded, because I'm going to assert that language at its base is a
form of communication and therefore what's important when you say words
it not the words themselves, but the meaning you put behind them."
I was actually lecturing on something similar yesterday. I assert that you're right and that people who study semantics are probably missing the point. Having said that, I dislike degradation of meaning because meaning depends primarily on context, but then also on the word used.
Words have the power to create reality.
"I also dislike people who dislike religion. Which doesn't really make sense because then I would dislike my own dislikes?"
Aaaah. No wonder you're so mean to me. XD
But, I guess it makes sense. I think you're thinking of the very radical ones, perhaps. Or perhaps those who are so full of hate that it's ugly?
"Interesting! It's always cool to learn about doctors and how they think,
and how they should think, and how they should approach their patients
despite their own beliefs.
"
It's a pretty fine line again. If you wanna talk about it, feel free to ask me.
I think I'm done.
Hoping you guys are studying (?) but you had your tests already....
