Asolis

Archive for February, 2008

Feb
18

Ever since elementary school, excluding Freshman year of high school, we’ve had the pacer test, and ever since elementary school I’ve noticed it was sexist and ageist. Girls have a lower expectation than boys do, as do people who haven’t had their birthday yet that school year, and therefore are a few months younger than their peers. There are some arguments in favor of this discrimination that I’m going to address.

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Feb
16

I’m not really very opposed to a belief in something or somethings that created the Universe as much as I am opposed to the typical Christian view of God. The argument that the world is too complex or unlikely to have come about without a design is an argument that relies on the fact that we just don’t know enough yet, however, it still seems to make sense at least.

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Feb
12

At my high school the sophomores, which includes myself, recently took a personality test online during what would have been our US History classes as some sort of indicator about colleges/careers we might consider for the future. For the test, I got INTJ as my personality type. I don’t know too much about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, but it seems like a bunch of nonsense.

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