Some thoughts.

SirFryanator

SirFryanator

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Routine: a noun generally used to describe a pattern of action. The word itself can be thought of as the downfall of creativity and natural beauty in our society today. However I think of it as a definition of intricacy. A standard desk job can be routine, but a colony of ants in the Amazon rainforest is also a synchronized group of beings working and living amongst each other. These two mindsets have negative and positive stigmas, respectively. I choose to believe that everything is unique in its own way, whether the property is the time it was made or the design that is woven in; the value of something is little more than what someone is willing to give up for it.

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People debate about war. People argue about fashion. People even dispute the many different ways to eat a pepperoni pizza. Pizza is rarely viewed as a stunning figure, however. For one, a pizza is lumpy and fatty as opposed to a blonde beauty with shapely curves. Even without the style of Heidi Klum, that the gnashing of teeth and meaty pieces is a sight to behold. To take a large chunk with the front teeth or to grind with the molars - that is the question. Curiously enough, it truly is the question, if one will stop and think long enough to break off from the Italian cuisine. The combination of mozzarella, tomato sauce, and protein is not just a meal, but also a work of human hands and thought. It is that hidden beauty, the way that people can create deliciousness.

I already posted this in the 420 forum but I figured it would get more views in here.
 


you can eat all the pizza you want and break from the routine -- BBQ chicken pizza, white pizza, pesto pizza, olive oil base not pasta sauce. Do a calzone! Do an english muffin pizza! Deep dish, brick oven, ny style, french bread, or stuffed crust, anyway you want, except upsideown.

all you got to do is

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kowabunga dude!
 
No disrespect because you took the time to type that all out and think of it, but I didnt really get anything out of it, nor really understand it
 
I'm sorry you feel that way. It's not that hard to understand, in the first paragraph I talk about routine and uniqueness, in the 2nd one I talk about how there is hidden beauty.

I wrote these for the colgate supplementary essay, but they didn't really flow so I just took them out.
 
What reaction are you looking for?

If it's a critique of your writing, here goes: It's overly wordy and clunky. It comes across like you're attempting to impress the reader with your vocabulary. Frankly, I see it as the pseudo-intellectual meanderings of a teenager.

If it's the thoughts themselves, here goes: Stop taking mushrooms.
 
that's why I took it out of my essays! hooray

I dunno I was stoned last night, thought they were interesting, so I posted them.
 
yea... I don't get your point.

As far as your paragraph about routine... go read my blog entry about routine then lets talk about routine.

as for the second paragraph where you talk about hidden beauty - I fail to see what you are getting at. are you saying pizza is ugly? or beautiful? does it have anything to do with routine, or are they completely separate thoughts? And I think that if anything, we learned about hidden beauty from the great documentary "The Beauty and The Beast".

So again - what's your point?
 
Sorry bro, I didn't mean to come across like a total asshole, I just didn't really understand the point of your post. Atleast you knew to take those portions out of your essay :)
 
thanks for the honesty. a bit brutal but whatever.

The point was that even the most mundane things can be beautiful if seen from the right perspective. And how routine is good most of the time, for the first one. two different thoughts.
 
I will have to disagree with you about routine being good. Routine is what is holding our species back, it is what is destroying our resources, it is what keeps our political system stagnant. routine kills.
 
Depends. Breaking from routine is also what killed the resources. There is a time for routine and a time to break from routine. There is no end-all solution.
 
I see the point you are tying to make, but I'm going to test you on it. You say "breaking from routine is also what killed the resources". I don't think that's entirely true. I am assuming that you are referring to the industrial revolution... blah blah blah... Well, using non-renewable resources back when they first started wasn't really destroying anything. You know the saying "everything in moderation". well, it's when our technology got so advanced that we were able to extract the resources faster than we ever imagined possible when we first started. What we did 100 years ago was, in my mind, necessary for the evolution of our species. Without the industrial revolution, we would not have the knowledge we have today about the sciences and ways of doing things more efficiently.

Remember. the Industrial Revolution is one of the most important moments in human history. Back then, they didn't know it would turn out like this... Now - we do know, and we know it won't last. Yet - we keep living our destructive lives, blaming everyone but ourselves for the problems we face. Say we switch over to cleaner energy today. that would be breaking the routine. To us, right now - it will seam like the best thing we, as a species, could possibly do. We could be right, we could be wrong... in the end, it doesn't really matter. All that matters is that the change we make will progress society, and with that our species, allowing us to further progress in the future off of our mistakes.

The argument of right or wrong is irrelevant when talking about progressing into the unknown. All we know is that what we are doing is not the best way to do it, and we have to change. I'm going to bring it into skiing terms here. You are a skier who has never seen park skiing before. In your head you think "skiing is boring, I'm going to try something cool". You start trying a misty 720. Until you get it right, you are doing it wrong... but every time you do it wrong, you learn how to change and adapt so that eventually you will land it. Falling is a necessary step towards success.
 
The Industrial Revolution and assembly lines were the beginning of this era, I agree. I don't agree that it was a good thing. That is why I said that it DEPENDS on whether we need to stick to a routine. Without those first 30 or so years of basic assembly line construction before the clean air agreement, we would not be where we are now. Stability is necessary for change.

I'll also make a skiing example. When you're landing a new trick you have to try it several more times after you land it, maybe learn some new grabs and tweaks to make it look good. But when you're in the air you still have all that room to fail. Especially on the landing, where you need to ride out and be ready for the next hit. It's impossible to get set up in time unless you have your process of the trick DOWN.

Nations as large as the USA or Canada don't respond well to fast change. It's necessary at times, like now, but I am an advocate for stability. The dinosaurs lived for millions of years, while we humans are set to progress fast enough to die out within the next 1000 years. Doesn't seem very nice to have constant change, eh?

We do need to change our fuels, we do need to establish social policies, and we need to do these NOW. However, after all of these problems are fixed (hopefully), there will be a long list of new problems unless we settle into a routine for a while.

My paragraph at the top wasn't really arguing anything, actually. Just an observation that there is routine in everything that is around us.
 
Well yes, there is routine in nature, but I think your comparison between dinosaurs and humans is a bit out of place. Dinosaurs didn't have the self awareness (along with many other things) that we humans do. If humans were like every other animal on this planet (hunter/gatherers), not only would we not be having this discussion... we wouldn't be doing anything other than surviving. As soon as we became the beings that we are, all natural logic went out the window. (This is a completely different topic, but something I always like to think about is the term "human nature". What is human nature? Personally, I think that question is more loaded than the question of "good vs evil".)

I am not proposing that we go back to hunter/gatherer ways, that is just silly. What my point is, is that because we have the ability to do more than just survive, change and knowledge are unavoidable. You're comment "stability is necessary for change" doesn't really sit well in my brain. If things were stable, than change wouldn't be necessary. It was the instabilities in history that created us as the beings that we are (unless you get into the whole "god" thing). I believe one of the latest theories about how humans came to be went something like "flooding forced us into the trees, where we ate fruit (think of us being apes at the time), then, lack of fruit in the trees forced us to go to the ground and out into the open plains. This is around the time we became omnivores. After that, climate, population, and following herds is what drove us to expand around the planet. Being able to adapt to instabilities is what made us who we are today. If things were stable, there would be no need to change routine and we could have kept sitting in trees eating fruit and never reach self awareness (I realize that what I just said is impossible to back with any facts, but I said it, and I believe it).

Look at major turning points of human society in history. Civil wars to world wars, caused by anything from land/water shortage & over population to corrupt governments & political/corporate agendas. If things were all fine and dandy in your neck of the woods, and routine was healthy, there would be no need to go to war, for any reason. If there is war in the world, it is a clear sign that routine can not be sustainable, because things aren't stable.
 
Look, I'm tired and burnt out this morning, so I won't come up with a multi-paragraph rebuttal to this.

There is a routine that goes into making every decision. I'm not necessarily talking about routine on a global scale, I'm thinking on a small micro scale. Daily life, perhaps? Globally speaking, of course there will be constant change. There's no way anyone can argue against that. Humans evolved to adapt and consume. But it doesn't happen constantly on a small level, people need to settle down and keep in a rhythm to be efficient.

You have some very good points though and it's obvious you've thought about this more than I have.
 
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