sixfootdwarf

There are two situations in which humans are reduced to their most primal, animalistic state.

One is during orgasm and the other is during defecation.

Think about it. What are the two most embarrassing things you can imagine someone catching you in the middle of? When are you at a more physically vulnerable state? You get so caught up in these actions that there is rarely anything else on your mind while they are taking place. Once you start, you can’t stop, and after that point of no return, it’s all just pure mechanical reflex. It’s not uncommon to experience a loss of muscle control (especially in the face) as well as involuntary verbal emissions. Never does a human being resemble a monkey more than during one of these instants. Nothing is more dehumanizing.

And yet it is completely natural.

Brief sidenote: I suppose childbirth might be another good candidate for the list, but as it stands, I’ve only had first-hand knowledge of the two aforementioned activities.

One method of making decisions is to spend so much time contemplating your options that when you are finally done pondering, you are only left with one choice anyway.

(Typically, the worst one, since all the good ones have already been chosen.)

This method is highly inadvisable due to the fact that it sucks.

So here’s an interesting phenomenon: when something so out of the ordinary happens to you and it doesn’t really feel like it actually happened until you tell someone about it. And the more people you relate the story to, the more it feels like it really did occur. You’re not quite satisfied that you know it took place—you’ve got to spread the word. Somehow it validates its existence, the fact that someone else witnessed it or knows about it. If you died and never told anyone anything, and you didn’t leave anything behind for anyone to remember, for all intents and purposes, you basically didn’t exist.

The only way we can truly be sure that something existed or happened is to directly witness it or indirectly observe its affects on other things. But so much of our reality is composed entirely on what amounts to hearsay. And so many people have a bad habit of stretching the truth. Many of them don’t even know they are doing it. Leave out a few details here, focus on only certain aspects of what actually did happen, interpolate reality with what you think happened or what should have happened or what could have happened…

It makes you wonder how accurate history books are.

At my work, we have this refrigerator in the IT support office, and one day someone brought in a set of magnetic words specially made for constructing Shakespearean insults. I suppose it was really only a matter of time until someone put together the following sentence:

[CODPIECE] [SNAKE] [FIRE] [OFF] [FOUL] [MILK] [SUBSTANCE] [ON] [SAUCY] [VIXEN] [NEIGHBOR]

I don’t think it gets any better than that, folks.

It’s like when you’re sick and you’re wondering how it felt when you weren’t sick, because you didn’t really pay much attention to that feeling, and now that you’re sick you can’t seem to recall how it felt before. Then suddenly one day everything is back to normal, and you don’t really bother to notice that sensation of being okay.

Could it be possible you’ve been happy quite often but never really experienced it?

But then, I had an epiphany—in an RCL circuit with alternating current, the current reaches a maximum value only at the resonance frequency. At the resonance frequency, the inductive reactance is equal to the capacitive reactance, which means that the total impedance of the circuit is just the resistance of the resistor. This also means that the phase angle between the current and the voltage is zero degrees. After all this became clear, the problem was rather simple…

At least maybe I’m actually learning something? Speaking of which, Calculus II test tomorrow…

Newton’s first law of motion states that an object in motion will continue to move in the same direction and speed unless acted upon by an outside force. This tendency to resist a change in motion is called inertia. Mass is a measurement of how much matter an object has, but it can also be thought of as the measurement of an object’s inertia—the more massive an object, the more inertia it has, and therefore a greater force is required to make a change in its motion.

Sometimes, people get stuck moving in the same direction for a period of time. They keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again, even when they don’t want to and would rather things be different. Over time, they have accumulated this rather large mass of baggage, emotional or otherwise, and now they can’t seem to muster up enough force to counteract the resulting inertia. They seem to be careening down a path leading to infinity, stuck with no way to turn back.

Sometimes, all we need is a little shove.