What am I about?

We've heard me talking alot about of bugs none stop in this whole spectrum of logical and scientific pursuits but is that really what I am trying to say...? Bugs are cool, but what is cooler is your abilities to recognize the impact and different outcomes from your actions.

One moment in life someone could ask you what you are doing then ask you why, then why again. If any of your answers were I don't know you should reach down and ask yourselves why? ...Why do I do what I do when I know its not what I should be doing? I've spent alot of my life asking myself why and answering for myself. I feel like I am a better stronger person for it. Alot of this can be very hard to explain in life when you don't even know why you do do something. It's very hard to grip sometimes.

How it ties into the bugs has to do with the first time I was asked why by my father when I was young and frying ants with a magnifying glass. When he asked me what I was doing I instinctively I reacted ashamed and I felt horrible. In the end I decided I did not know. From that moment on I never did anything without making sure to myself that it would be okay to do so. This was a major turning point for me, I started asking my friends why and I think it encouraged us all to become more intelligent and much more independant.

I think everyone can gain something from this factor, I know its not much but it is how I truely do feel in the end of my talk. I thank every last person who learned and listened to me.

Lemon V. Kurtzman

This is a general aside from my usual posts. The past few posts I have been working on have been about my TED talk on people vs animals and environment. As opposed to this we were required to read up on a particular court case. With great unfortunate being I ended up with a subject that I no doubt despise. However, this gives me a free chance of expression.

Now for those who do not know of Alton Lemon, he was basically a man whom sought charge against a particular act that allowed state superintendants to allocate funds to non-public schools. Which is in theory against the First Ammendment of the United States of America's Constitution. This act was definately and rightfully so deemed as an infringment. The Pennsylvania Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act would be felled in this courtcase, along with another challange that also went up with it.

I must say I agree 100,000% if I absolutely could. There is really no place for religion to be taught in public schools. There is a seperation of church and state for a reason and people pay for their kids to go into private schools for other reasons. Frankly, if a private school is going to be private it should keep private, that is to say if a parent wants a student to go to a religious school then that is the choice. That parent will be paying for their childs education totally as well as that of the public community.

I went to private school for a time, it was an awful experience by the time I got out of it I had no idea what evolution was and why their were social status'. In fact, I found it most annoying when i found that the Edwards vs. Aguillard problem happened during my birth year. This is an ongoing thing and people don't seem to understand that you can not teach religion in a public schools science classroom and call it science. If you want to debate about the arguement of religist pursuits of creationism as science go right ahead, but it can not and will never be capable to be science.

Science requires that someone be capable of testing and possibly disproving the theory. Evolution can be tested, I can seclude bugs to make them live better in the dark or the day and have them be considered completely different in nature, color, and activities. Creationism cannot be tested, Science cannot go up to a religious figure that does not exist as a humanbeing and ask, "How did you do this?" It just doesn't work that way. This makes creationilist furious if you ever explain that part of scientific theory, it does allow for a humourious laugh, but its quite odd that people can actually demand to put faith into the catagory of science.

I am by no means opposed to religion and frankly I enjoy keeping my religious pursuits to myself and to the people I feel comfortable with. The fact that this courtcase research project brought up so much that I disliked in education really turned me back to the "that was dumb" part of me. However, backing up to the court case to explain another reason why I deem it a good thing it was turned down. "If I was jewish, if I was scientologist, if I was aetheist, if I was agnostic, If I was catholic, methodist, hindu, budhist, taoist, or anything. I would not want my money going towards teaching something that I honestly could not believe in to be taught to my children or America's future children, unless it was mine." This however is not the case, me personally could not, and would not, -ever- accept teaching religion in a public setting.

I was greatly ammused when I found out about the Lemon Test. It was stated so perfectly to ensure that religion stay no where near government sections and that is the way it should be.

A disastor?

Not many people understand the amount of devistation we as humans can cause, I was entralled to hear peoples responses being so positively towards my cause and ideas. While it is true a bug as far as science teaches us does not usually hold the same family values as a human, but all creatures desire procreation in its form. If it doesn't procreate it was not in a life worth living. However this wasn't the point of my idea here.

Many people have heard of the worst nuclear disastors we as humans accidently caused. This was not quite on the scale of the nuclearbombs dropped on Japan, which is still a controversial topic. Now people are probably reading this and going, hey wait what are you talking about?

I am talking about Chernobyl, why is this matched into my TED talk about animals, I'll show you. Human beings are probably one of the most fragile creatures for one thing. We don't adapt well, we don't take to kindly to change and we often has trouble adapting. This is why body temperature is extremely strange with certain people. Though once again where am I getting at. Chernobyl was a nuclear reactor plant, the fourth reactor one day had a massive calamity when a power excursion, the top of the reactor tore open and caused a massive leakage of nuclear radiation into the area.

Now humans and radiation do not mix well at all, so the people had to evactuate while a process of recovery was taken over on the entire idea. Now, back to animals and bugs, why is this important and if you think I am going to attack the survival partterns of cockroaches that is extremely small compared to the scale. Within about seven years the wildlife in the area became absolutely phenominal compared to when humans were all over there. This is one of the lessons that show one of the most dangerous things for humans can be a blessing for animals because it gets rid of the most dangerous thing to them... us.

Comparison: The animal underlings and the human race.

Some people have formed the misconception that all animals and insects are completely inferior to them, Why is this? Sure we have a working brain that can lay out intensely complicated patterns and think inside and outside the box. However did you ever wonder why a kid might fry ants with a magnifying glass, or the girl who runs from a spider and brings back someone to kill it, or the person that squashes a confused bug traveling up their arm? What exactly is the deal?

I want to put forward that people lack an understanding of insects quite frequently. Especially due to the misconception that all bugs are pests, this is not entirely true but most people would instantaneously upon sight squash a mosquito as fast as they would a mosquito eater. Where is the sense in that? There isn't any, people see a bug that can be squashed in their space and they squash it out of fear or annoyance...or even reflex. There are plenty of bugs we owe some survival to, such as bees, more specifically honey bees. Honey bees are at an increasing state of extinction and not to many people care, but eventually when all the honey is gone and all the many types a food goes with it people will be panicking.

Also, we owe a lot of plant life to worms for turning up soil and being a good fertilizer for smaller plants, and even more so we must thank a variety of ants. Ants can be seen in hunting parties taking on large bugs in primitive fighting styles for food, they can also be seen farming aphids to make an environment more livable for plants and bugs alike. Also there are some plants that the ants protect in the exchange of this the plant drops it's fruit for the ants to take. I want to get everyone else’s take on these small ideas, ask them what makes them better that they get to squash another life, To take a life in fun or in disgust. It would be nice to know why humans do the things they do. I believe I can turn a person’s reactions to some of the biodiversity of insects and other mammal pests.

There are a wide array of animals that all have many different activities they feel the need to preform almost everyday, some animals have rare activities that they absolutely can not stop doing. This is not human like, with the exception of obsessive compulsive disorder. For instance a spider may spin a web and nest for it's babies, and leave half way through the construction to collect food. If part of it was destroyed the spider would acknowledge the damage and do what? It would start where it left off regardless of damage, once it starts it must finish. This brings in another point all creatures have a care or love for their young, it might not show as strongly but it is indeed there.

Note insects even show a chain of command and have a society full of rules. Bees and ants among many other types of small critters like pill bugs also have queens, some workers, some warriors and among that breeders were even needed, as well as nursers. People don't sometimes understand the wide variety of intelligences among these simplistic beings. You can learn alot if you just lower yourself down to their scale, see how they work and function.