Education & Reference - 7 January 2007

If not, how can the government do standardized nationwide testing?

2007-01-07 14:53:40 · 4 answers · asked by Jim D 1 in Other - Education

I am good at getting the truth/facts out of people. I can sense when people are lying or up to something. People tend to open up to me right away. I analyze things over and over to think of all possibilities and options. I look deeper into things than most people...I put more meaning behind a look or gesture or the way someone says something. I am skeptical but would like to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. Sometimes I still tend to do that with some areas in life. I have a photographic memory for details. I'm very sensitive and aware and self-conscious but also very tuned in to what's going on with people around me. I'm very empathetic and feel what others are feeling and can put myself in their situation and know what they're going through. I sometimes have premonition-type dreams. So...what career would best suit me, knowing these details about myself ? Do you need to know more ?

2007-01-07 14:53:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

Actually I did my grad. 2 yr's back.Presently im doing a job, but now I want to do MBA.
I think that i can score good in g-mat instead of CAT.

2007-01-07 14:51:28 · 3 answers · asked by deep 1 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-01-07 14:51:08 · 20 answers · asked by nena 1 in Trivia

2007-01-07 14:48:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

2007-01-07 14:47:45 · 1 answers · asked by Jayjay 1 in Other - Education

This remarkable book contains over 120 sayings from the founders of modern physics paired with parallel sayings from the seminal works of Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist contemplatives. Einstein and Buddha is a fascinating collection of quotes that challenges us to think deeper about the relationship between modern physics and mystical insight. Although these two ways of understanding and investigating reality have significant differences, the parallels suggest that they share a mysterious and profound connection.
The parallel sayings are organized by theme and touch upon the nature of matter and energy, the relationship between subject and object, the understanding of time and space, the importance of direct experience, the role of paradox and contradiction in our understanding, the limits of language in describing reality, and the interdependence of all created things. Each section is accompanied by a brief introduction to how these concepts relate to the scientific and spiritual ways of knowing. On each page is an insightful quote from an eminent physicist such as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, or David Bohm, together with a surprisingly similar statement from a renown authority of Eastern religion such as the Buddha, Chaung Tzu, the Upanishads, D. T. Suzuki, or the Dalai Lama.




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Sample parallels from the book EINSTEIN BUDDHA
According to general relativity, the concept of space detached from any physical content does not exist.
-Einstein If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
-Buddha
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
-Einstein All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements...are all figments of the imagination and manifestations of the mind.
-Buddha
Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundations—in short, by metaphysics.
-Einstein By becoming attached to names and forms, not realising that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error rises…and the way to emancipation is blocked.
-Buddha
In our thinking...we attribute to this concept of the bodily object a significance, which is to high degree independent of the sense impression which originally gives rise to it. This is what we mean when we attribute to the bodily object "a real existence." ...By means of such concepts and mental relations between them, we are able to orient ourselves in the labyrinth of sense impressions. These notions and relations...appear to us as stronger and more unalterable than the individual sense experience itself, the character of which as anything other than the result of an illusion or hallucination is never completely guaranteed.
-Einstein I teach that the multitudinousness of objects have no reality in themselves but are only seen of the mind and, therefore, are of the nature of maya and a dream. ...It is true that in one sense they are seen and discriminated by the senses as individualized objects; but in another sense, because of the absence of any characteristic marks of self-nature, they are not seen but are only imagined. In one sense they are graspable, but in another sense, they are not graspable.
-Buddha
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions—that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics—in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically.
-Einstein While the Tathagata, in his teaching, constantly makes use of conceptions and ideas about them, disciples should keep in mind the unreality of all such conceptions and ideas. They should recall that the Tathagata, in making use of them in explaining the Dharma always uses them in the semblance of a raft that is of use only to cross a river. As the raft is of no further use after the river is crossed, it should be discarded. So these arbitrary conceptions of things and about things should be wholly given up as one attains enlightenment.
-Buddha



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About the Author
Thomas J. McFarlane is "an independent scholar of no mean stature" in the words of eminent professor of religion and philosophy Huston Smith. A graduate of Stanford University in physics, he also holds advanced degrees in mathematics and in philosophy and religion. In addition to his scholarly work, he has been immersed in the study and practice of the spiritual traditions of the world for over 15 years, and is a registered patent agent. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.



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2007-01-07 14:46:48 · 2 answers · asked by Thomas 6 in Other - Education

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2007-01-07 14:44:45 · 12 answers · asked by anonydipity_09 3 in Words & Wordplay

I need something to read because im very bored. Some of my favorite books are To Kill A Mockingbird,The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, and the Davinci Code. I'm fifteen and i have a fairly high reading level so anything goes

2007-01-07 14:44:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Education

i want to be an chemical engineer.. itzit wise that i go for it..?

2007-01-07 14:43:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

2007-01-07 14:43:35 · 3 answers · asked by rockingorangejuice 2 in Homework Help

I really want to move out of my parents house because I'm having trouble dealing with my step-father's temper. See he is very dominating and doesn't allow me to be an independent thinker. I understand it is his house but I he doesn't treat me like an adult and I'm 23! If I move out, I'll be 50,000 in debt but if I stay for one more yr I'll only be 10,000 because I'll be working and paying off my loans as I go to school. What should I do? I'll be a nurse when I graduate. My mom compares me w/ my brother because he is in very little debt (12,500) but he managed to move out but it was very tough for him financially since our parents could not help him at all. Same will go for me if I move. I just feel like I cannot really be myself here at home. Should I tough it out for one more year?

2007-01-07 14:43:22 · 8 answers · asked by bettyboop 2 in Financial Aid

I need to find a nice, prestigious University that not only is good but has a very nice campus and is in a very nice city or nice part of a city. Thanks :)

2007-01-07 14:42:22 · 8 answers · asked by argentina1989 3 in Higher Education (University +)

from what Ive read on here people dont really dress up there its a small enviormentally focused school what should i wear? Im too scared to ask them

2007-01-07 14:41:00 · 2 answers · asked by angell378 1 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-01-07 14:39:38 · 6 answers · asked by John D 1 in Words & Wordplay

i live in south korea and the reason i am writing here is to ask about some complicated things which i guess you guys might have had once . here is the tip.
i am attending the university in pusan which is located near the east sea( most people know it as "THE SEA OF JAPAN") . and you know, it is not famous or great school like HAVARD and it is in the local area , not capital city SEOUL .
when i after graduate i will have to find my job to live and want it to be better than other ones . i am interested in the accounting so i am going to take a test which is held by country and it is so hard .
but that 's not the thing i am most worried about .
i am so afraid of the fact that company prefer applicants who graduated schools in SEOUL and they even throw away the appications of people who graduate local school in the worst case.
i don't know if it is true or not.. but if it is true , what i am gonna do?? .. and you guys who are going to the local school would have same problem me.

2007-01-07 14:38:58 · 3 answers · asked by cool guy 11111 1 in Higher Education (University +)

I'm going to start tutoring, if I think I can help the kid. If I do, are there any good websites that can help me out a little bit? I think he is in Advanced Algebra or something like that.

2007-01-07 14:36:32 · 3 answers · asked by Kate 3 in Primary & Secondary Education

2007-01-07 14:34:46 · 3 answers · asked by rockingorangejuice 2 in Homework Help

Ok im now 24 Years old and my English Spelling is very Poor !

How can i Improve my English Spelling ? Whats the Best way . Thx

Some points to take on , I dont have any issues with Reading but my Spelling is poor.

2007-01-07 14:33:48 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Education

My major in college is Biochemistry, and I plan to either be a doctor or an optometrist....but everyone needs a backup plan... what should my other carreer options be as a biochem major?? What else could I do with that degree?

2007-01-07 14:32:06 · 3 answers · asked by Mj 4 in Higher Education (University +)

I'm doing an essay on the similarities between The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall Of The House Of Usher. Any ideas???

2007-01-07 14:30:51 · 3 answers · asked by ceci_*220* 2 in Homework Help

2007-01-07 14:30:50 · 1 answers · asked by jpvh316 1 in Teaching

i need to find the meaning of it for Biology Class

2007-01-07 14:27:19 · 8 answers · asked by rockingorangejuice 2 in Homework Help

2007-01-07 14:26:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

wut if u woke up and found out ur god? wut would u do? what plans would u have?

2007-01-07 14:25:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trivia

where i could find a example of a driving test
in texas

2007-01-07 14:24:40 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Standards & Testing

I expect to retire in the next three years from a career in computing. I originally wanted to be a teacher when I went to college 40 years ago. For financial reasons I found a different profession. I now would like to teach but the idea of going back to school to get a masters degree is daunting. I believe I would like to be a classroom aid in a local elementary school. I live in Seattle Washington.

2007-01-07 14:23:04 · 1 answers · asked by anonimous 6 in Teaching

One day i had my friends over for lunch and since they dont go to the same scool as me they asked me what my teachers name was and i told them it was: Mr.Nipples. What the Hell!!!!!!!!

2007-01-07 14:22:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Primary & Secondary Education

I'm doing a Kaplun Essay, (for school, grr), and we HAVE to do it for my English class, it counts as a grade. The topic of the essay is, "What Person of Importance to the Jewish People, Past or Present, Would You Like to Meet and Why?"- bunch of bolonia.
Anyways I got Harry Houdini, any help?

2007-01-07 14:21:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

2007-01-07 14:18:47 · 3 answers · asked by j0shfr33 1 in Words & Wordplay