Oct/092
Congrats to an old friend, the Flames, and a response
3:31am
Sports
Growing up in Canada, I’ve not only been a sports fan, but a hockey fan pretty hardcore, as in NHL. Penguins fan since I was young, but I was born in Calgary so naturally I’ve always been a Flames fan.
An old school friend from my days out there, Shane Gryzko, won a shoot-out at the Flames 2009 NHL home opener last night for $30,000! He had a 1 in 4 chance, and he also nabbed a couple Flames jerseys in the raffle.
Here’s the news from Shane himself on Facebook…
…and the score from the game, as Miika Kiprusoff stopped 39 shots as the Flames dominated the physical game.
On Objectivity and Emotion
This is a response to one of Rida Alvi’s bloggings earlier on Thursday. This is basically an extension of the discussion, while I’d say this is from a slightly different viewing angle, and could get a little philosophical… more perspectives on a topic always broadens the knowledge of the entire readership.
Humans can express their emotions, and yes, this does make us less robotic. But this is simply our animalistic side, our instincts and chemical reactions. What distinguishes us and makes us humans, in fact, is the ability to think and reason objectively, and this is a testament to how complex and advanced our minds are.
Our ability to be objective gives us the edge in nature because we can make logical decisions based on multiple inputs of data… emotions are definitely very human, tho, without them it’d be a pretty boring and disappointing life.
Emotions even jump in on the action, and are tied in well with objectivity. We use these emotional experiences to gain wisdom, empathize with peopl,e and understand their perspectives… then we use that experience to make better-informed, objective decisions thanx to our ability to feel emotions chemically in the brain.
So emotion and objective reasoning go together, they are integrated with each other to achieve the common purpose… to allow the brain to expand its knowledge.. become wiser and more experienced…
Congrats Shane on winning the shoot-out, I bet that was quite the experience. I’m curious as to who you were in the shoot-out against, like what type of people? lol…
peace
-James
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1:01 pm on October 2nd, 2009
This is a good point. I think to be considered a human, you’re hard coded to include emotions and objective thinking, almost as the very definition of being human. I have nothing to add to this, good argument.
4:34 pm on October 10th, 2009
Hey James!
Thanks for the write-up haha! How it worked was 4 people were selected to get tickets to the game, and I was one of them. Then they called us 4 on stage at the tailgate party before the game.
Naturally, I sized up my competition: two 30-something guys who looked like they played hockey, and a 30-something lady who had never played before. Continuing with the crazy luck I’ve had lately, the two people picked to go on the ice for the shoot-out were me and the lady.
The shoot-out was 10 pucks each from centre ice. I was picked to go first and I told myself that I’d be happy with 7/10. I managed to get 8 in, so I was really happy with that. Then the lady went and she wasn’t lying about never playing hockey before haha. She got just one or two in.
It was an incredible experience, and it’s only starting to feel real now, about a week after it happened.