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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