Phoenix

I have a three year old brother named Phoenix. For a while I've been finding it quite odd that he wants to be bigger than everyone, lies blatantly, and believes that pink (along with other things) is for girls and he's a boy so he has to hate it. Now I have no idea how these things came to him, my family certainly doesn't teach him those kinds of things, so how does he get those ideas? He even one time screamed at me for calling him my baby brother because he's a "big boy me no baby!!" What's wrong with being a baby? I don't know but he sure seems to. I don't know how or why we do these things but it seems like it might have to do with the subconscious. Ill look into it and let you know.

When u pick a random number is it really random?

I was watching an episode of White Collar, it's a really good show one of my favorites, and the main character mentioned some thing about things never really being random and our subconscious minds always being at work. Of course this caught my attention and really interested me so i did some digging. When some one asks you to pick a random number can it really be random? Can a number even be random or can only a sequence be random? Well I'm not sure so we'll look at both. First up just the number, so when you look at it, any number can be random if it is standing on its own, but it isn't because we make connections to every thing. If you hear the number 7 you'll almost always automatically think of something like that being the age of your cousin or your best friend from childhoods favorite number. Our brains make connections and if you're reading this you've been alive enough to some how make a connection with almost any "random" number. Now moving on to the sequence, when you ask most people to pick a random string of numbers it will sound something like 4, 27, 83, 11, 92 not like 6, 75790555567888764349000075322456456291689.35678905421235667888532355677312466789954, -11123344555, 4008, 1 1/5 right? Whether this is because of familiarity or laziness I don't know, but the second sequence was all numbers, we just don't think about fractions and negatives and decimals and the fact that numbers are INFINITE. We would need to use some pretty huge numbers to be completely random. But isn't it random to just use 6, 10, 4, 3, and 18? I mean really what is random? Here dictionary.com's definition
1.
proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern

So it would need to have no aim, reason, or pattern? That would be kinda hard to do considering everything we do has an aim, reason, or pattern! And with numbers there are so many freaking patterns it would take you forever to find a sequence of numbers with no pattern! How "random" could it be if you had to meticulously figure it out? Is nature random? cause there are patterns in it EVERYWHERE. And if nature isn't random then we sure as heck aren't. So yeah our amazing subconscious is always pattern forming and working its little butt off to make sure we can't pick completely random numbers. Good luck next time you pick your "random" PIN number:)

P.S. if you read that huge decimal number their I give major props

Daddy Dilemma

So today my Dad came home from work and asked my brother how he'd done at his cross country meet, my brother proceeded to turn around and show him his shirt that said "Invitational Champions". Of course my dad became very happy and was all "good job son"s and "I'm so proud of you"s etc. etc.   so then he asked my mother to take a picture of him and Preston, my brother, with the shirt on. I couldn't help but notice that he never took a picture of me with my Educational Award of Honor certificate signed by the freakin' president or any of the other awards I've gotten for being smart. I mean honestly its not like Preston actually won it himself he just got it because his TEAM could run fast. And I know my dad was proud of me for all of my stuff too, it just isn't celebrated as publicly as a physical victory. Some people may disagree but I think our society puts a higher honor an physical talents. Not many people I know sit down as a family to watch the national math bowl, but they do watch their local sports teams and the Olympics. Now I'm not saying that my father purposefully decided that my brother was more accomplished then I, in fact the opposite, I know my dad would rather have us both be intelligent than good at sports. However he has grown up in America where he has been effected by society and the media and he SUBCONSCIOUSLY found this moment to be a moment of honor and needing of documentation, which is exactly what is happening all around us all the time. So I'm not yet sure how this part of subconscious works but i'll figure it out soon, and that is also why this is labeled under Random thoughts.

School all year?

School all year long? In class we discussed this after we all finished Outleirs. I believe that have school all year would reap children of many important life skills. For example how will you have a summer job if you dont have a summer? Summer jobs are important they teach about real life, which I believe is more important than the kind of "real life" school teaches us. Don't get me wrong I love school but my grandmother only went to school from 3rd to 6th grade and she is a very personable intelligent lady. You would never know she barely had an education because she learned everything she needed to know though working her whole life and really experiencing the things school is supposed to teach us to avoid. Her life was hard she moved here from another country with a small child and had to support her self. Not only this but it teaches you how to interact with people. So yeah you can see that I LOVE summer vacation! And that they shouldn't get rid of it.