The Developing Brain

Walk on the Green, Not in between! Part 1 (Maybe)

developingbrain — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:50:44 +0000

Okay, you know how people, especially teens, are “Rebelling against the norm?” We are told to be our selves, not told what that means. I am going to try to explain what I think is going on here. It always makes sense in my head, but when I try to tell someone, I can’t explain it. So please, bear with me.

Can everyone agree that there are different kinds of people, such as, Goth, Emo, or Hipsters. What they try to do, is be different. They try to be different, by piercing their ear to try to be different, by getting a Mohawk and dying it green JUST to be different.

I am not condemning people who do these things. I am saying that I do not think that is ME. Nor do I think it is right for me.

I believe in God. I’m a Christian. I (Personally), think that it is not right for me to pierce my ear, or other things that I am not going to mention. That is my conviction.

Hipsters are a good example. If their is an obscure kind of music, they listen to be different. If that kind of music becomes popular, they stop liking it because everyone likes it. I think that is wrong.

I like Frank Sinatra, hats, and Big Band Music. If everyone started to listen to big band, or Frank Sinatra. Or started wearing Fedoras, I would love it! I like RC cola™. If Pepsi went out of business, (Sorry Pepsi fans. Coke is my second favorite ) and RC Cola™ took it’s place, I would not go searching for another brand.

Most of my friends listen to things I have never heard of, it discourages me sometimes, but it also gives us more to talk about.

So, what I think I am trying to say is this: do not walk when the light is red just because no one else is walking. (plus you could get hit.)

For those who do not understand what that was supposed to mean: Do not be different for the sole purpose of being different. Do it because it is right. (Or do not do it because it is wrong.)

I think I need to work out what I think, before I post. What do you think?

I may write a second post on the subject so keep your eye’s peeled.

Tell me what you think about that, please comment

The Aswer to Einstein’s quiz is in!

developingbrain — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:50:58 +0000

Well, it isn’t October, but I think I shall review.

Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz

Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here’s the question: Who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house
The Swede keeps dogs as pets
The Dane drinks tea
The green house is on the left of the white house
The green house owner drinks coffee
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
The German smokes Prince
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.

Now, if your going to do the quiz I suggest you get a piece of paper, section off five squares across, and four squares down. In the top row of squares, write in the nationality. In the second row, write the beverages. In the third row, write the cigars. In the fourth row, write the pets. Read through the list and cross out the items that do not belong. Now you will have to read through the list several times and it may take a few pieces of paper; but it’s nice to know that you are in the two percent that can do it.

Spoiler alert!!! The Answer is directly below. Don’t you dare click on the ‘Read More’ button! Answer below.

Please comment and tell me your answer and how long it took.

The answer is here!!!

Well, actually it’s here.

Well, there it is, like I said, comment, tell me how long it took, and tell me what your answer was.

Bye!!!

my philosophizing post. Number One

developingbrain — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:19:23 +0000

Well it’s been a while. I’m going to post those pictures of the answers for the quiz sometime soon, but until then I’m going to do something I haven’t done before. I’m going… to philosophize. There, I said it, I am a philosophizer of sorts. I don’t make a philosophy I just think really, really deep, like whether human nature is good or evil. Lets break it down a little more: are you looking at this from an atheistic or christian point of view? Now you may not think that matters, but it does. An atheist believes that mankind is evolving, and part of that evolutionary step is that humans are ‘evolving’ into better creatures which means that we will eventually evolve out of evil and into some sort of ‘better being’.

Christians and other religions believe that man has a sin nature, that we are not going to turn into beams of light and float around the galaxy like a better version of Q from ‘Star Trek’ . Not that his whole entire race was really better. In fact, I would say that the race Q was worse than what we are now. Anyway, we also believe in a life after death, evolutionists do not. We believe that there is a god, they do not. A good book to read about that subject is a book called ‘A Conflict Of Visions’ by Thomas Sowell. It’s hard to keep interested in since it was written to big corporation rich people. (I don’t remember the actual term but that was basically it.) The book goes into the two different types of world views, those being the constrained and the unconstrained visions. The constrained is the christian world view and the unconstrained is atheistic.

You may recall that the American Revolution was based on a constrained vision, they wanted less power for those with power. Like the saying goes, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. When you have a king or emperor or even a president, there’s no way to stop human nature, whether you think that human nature is good or bad is up to you. I leave you with these answers of mine.

So I believe that humans:

Have a sin nature.
Are not getting better.
Did not, are not, and will never evolve.
Are not related to monkeys.

Leave a comment, or not. It’s your choice, but please do something.

Lazy day log * Picture Heavy* (I always wanted to say that)

developingbrain — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:27:41 +0000

7:00: Got out of my loft bed, couldn’t sleep, (My allergies were bad this morning) stubbed my toe on a book shelf. (I am going to do this allot) Ate biscuit’s and gravy for Breakfast, let Kahn out back. (By this time it was 7:30ish) I heard Kahn barking at something. Normally, I wouldn’t do anything but his barking sounded different than usual. I stepped out back to see what he had found. As I approached, I saw he was very exited about something. It was a ground-hog. It was a full-sized adult and it didn’t want to play with Kahn. Once I got the dog inside I came back out to watch this spectacle. Have you ever watched a groundhog try to climb a fence? It’s funny. Very funny. (so is the movie below, funny, as in the snapshot from the movie, Groundhog day.) Needless to say it wasn’t going well for the groundhog. So I chased it around the yard a bit and eventually it climbed under our fence into the neighbor’s yard. (which is also fenced in) It started running, or waddling, through our neighbors yard strait for their wooden fence, and then. It squeezed under their fence like it was nothing! It didn’t even slow down, just kept right on going! by now it was 8:00

this is a snapshot from the movie Groundhog day. The groundhog is the one driving by the way

12:00: ate lunch, and went out front to sit and watch the butterflies on our butterfly bush. You should see them. It’s amazing being able to just sit

and watch them fly around, I’ll try putting some pictures up here so bear with me. The butterfly bushes are great for attracting butterflies, it is important what color you get because the white kind attract just monarchs while the purple ones attract all kinds.

Here goes the pictures

Wow, that turned out very nice, this particular butterfly is what you call a swallowtail butterfly; It’s called that because the color’s, stripes, and the swallow like tail. let’s try another.

That is a black swallowtail butterfly, it’s been though quite a bit as you can see.

Two Eastern Tiger Swallowtails right next to each other.

This weird thing is a Hummingbird moth, I suppose it looks like a hummingbird, I would have called it a lobster moth but apparently that name already taken. Why would you call it a lobster moth? I hear you ask, and the reason is,

it looks like a lobster. If you right-click on the picture and open it in a new tab you can really see it better. Well , that’s my day, nothing happened and yet it was interesting.

Until next time, Bye!

News Flash

developingbrain — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:42:22 +0000

News flash! Two people have gotten Einsteins quiz correct already! try it, it’s fun, challenging, and one of the winners won in 30 minuets!

Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz

developingbrain — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:19:20 +0000

Sorry bout the wait, it’s hard to come up with a post that will keep you thinking about it all day, so here is something that will keep you busy for a long time; it’s Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz, very hard but I probably wouldn’t have put it up here if I couldn’t solve it, but I did, so I am. let’s see how many of you can get it right.

Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz

Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here’s the question: Who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house
The Swede keeps dogs as pets
The Dane drinks tea
The green house is on the left of the white house
The green house owner drinks coffee
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
The German smokes Prince
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.

So go ahead and get your paper, I’d get a pencil to, you’ll do allot of erasing. So till next month when I post the answer, Bye!

Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

developingbrain — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:50:29 +0000

I don’t know why, but today feels like a good day. I woke up this way and intend to stay this way through the whole day. I just hope that I won’t be able to be put in a bad mood by those who aren’t as fortunate as I to wake up in a good mood. It’s kinda funny actually; I don’t no why I’m writing this post anyway. It’s not like I’m posting about anything in particular, but to post about how good I feel. About this point my sister, Birdwhisperer ,would post some sorta video that has something to do with being happy. It’s harder to find a song about how happy in the way that I feel, but I found one, so here it is…

So as I listen to this song, my dad is eating all of the green Apple Jacks™ out of the container; I know, it’s weird, but hey, thats my dad.

Goodbye

developingbrain — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:15:51 +0000

Hurray! Summer is almost over! I don’t like Summer; Fall is okay but I like Winter, and I don’t like hot weather. I like cold, snow, rain, and I don’t like Allergies. Let me clarify: I have seasonal Allergies. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter are the seasons I have trouble with. Here is a list of allergies of mine.

Spring and Summer Allergies

Pollen from every kind of grass, especially Timothy Grass.
Pollen from every kind of trees, especially Oak tree’s. That’s all we have in our backyard, other than the three Dogwood Trees.
Pollen from every kind of flower, which is really bad because I like flowers.

Fall and winter Allergies

Water mold, flood mold. Those are actually year round but I had to put them somewhere.

Year Round Allergies.

The inside of a Chicken.
The outside of a Cat. That means I can have a Chicken as a pet and eat the Cat. Yum.
Dust.
I suppose most of them are year round.

I’m sure that some of you are wondering why I bother going on, continuing to live with this. Some of you may be saying to yourself, “Deal with it!” Others may be saying it can’t be that bad. The truth is, I’ve asked myself all of those questions at some point in time and I came up with an answer that is so amazing that it deserves to be quoted. Here it goes.

“I am more blessed than others in the way that I can’t stop and smell the roses without having my nose start running. I will go through life with allergies, and will probably die with them, but when I get to heaven I won’t have anything to stop me from smelling them all day. I’ll sit there in my mansion’s giant back yard and walk through my garden just watching the butterflies, smelling my flowers, and praising the Lord at how beautiful everything is. So, if you go to Heaven and see a man running around asking everyone if they have smelled these flowers you will know it’s me.”

So, whether you have Allergies or are one of those poor people who are able to smell everything already, I hope you can see that I am blessed by my Allergies.

Bye!… Achoo!

Now That’s good Music.

developingbrain — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:42:54 +0000

I noticed awhile ago that I have a different taste in music than most others, sure I like a couple songs that are more modern than most of the ones I like. I do have slightly odd taste of music, well, maybe not as odd as I thought, but still a little odd for my age. I suppose rather than just saying how odd I am I could just tell you what kind, huh? Well here are my favorite songs and singers.

Frank Sinatra: New York, My way, Chicago, Something Stupid, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Mack the Knife, I get a kick Out of you, Moon River, What Now My Love, For Once in my Life, Summer Wind, They can’t take that Away From Me, My kind of Town, Fly Me to the Moon, The best is yet to Come, Come Fly with Me, (One of My favorites of all) That’s Life, Ring-a-Ding-Ding, Coffee Song, and For Once in My Life.

Glenn Miller: Chattanooga Choo Choo, In the Mood, American Patrol, and Pennsylvania 65000

And now for the more modern songs

I like A-ha’s version of Crying in the rain, I don’t watch the video, it’s just weird.

The proclaimers: 500 miles, I’m on my way, and whole wide world.

Michael Bublè: Summer Wind, Haven’t Met You Yet, Feeling Good, Come fly With Me, Sway, For Once In Life, Fever, Crazy Little Thing, Call Me Responsible, Everything.

Pretty much anything Celtic thunder Does.

Bill Withers is pretty good.

I suggest looking up the songs if you don’t know them, anyway, I think that’s it. If you like any of them just tell me, leave a comment. Bye y’all!

The, “I can’t think of a name that describes this post” post name

developingbrain — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:59:22 +0000

My Mom went to the Rescue squad to cook Breakfast for a group of people who actually were there after the funeral of there father, I ended up coming along just to help, actually, my French toast was a hit and only a few remain, anyway. When we finished cooking and the group was eating, I was siting at a table in the kitchen with my sister and brother.We somehow ended up on the conversation of what songs to be played at my sisters wedding, on then it just got a little weirder and ended up on the topic of what songs would be played at our funerals. The list is kind of funny, maybe a little odd, I mean they are after all songs that were talking about playing a our funeral so here is a list of what I can remember. I suggest that if you don’t now the song to look it up rather than just say, ‘I wonder what that is?’ here it is, the list…

the Bucket song list

My way by Frank Sinatra

Green Fields of France by Celtic Thunder

Blue Skies by Willie Nelson

We all go together when we go by Tom Lehrer (Optional)

The wedding list

This is the way it would work out. At Colleen’s wedding I am told I will get up and start by saying something like “I dedicate this song to the groom” And then start singing Willie Nelsons song “To all the girls Ive loved before” And Then say that I was joking and start singing ‘Blue Skies’

Anyway, I think thats it for now, Bye!