Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Totem Soup Science - A Thought Experiment

 Sitting here pondering the future of human existence, matters of faith, and science I am made aware all too much of the terrible fate this planet is heading towards. Tonight, while thinking, I happened to have "Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion" playing in the background. With the storm of thought going on in my head and the information of pure truth and science pouring into my ears, I had a thought. For this thought experiment to work imagine no language barriers or government. Picture the entire world, every country, participating in a people swap. The percentage of the swap would be based on land mass, population density, and what random country those people are getting swapped to. So say the USA has to swap a percentage of people with Japan. A group of Japanese folks come to live in the United States, and a group of Americans go live in Japan. Keep in mind we are talking percentages here. Now what if this swap happened worldwide every 5, 10, or 20 years. What would happen to religion? What would happen to the human genome? What would happen to science? Education?

Would religion dissolve? Think about it. The major religions definitely have an epicenter, if you will. If you start dispersing people en mass, they will be exposed to different culture. They will be exposed and expose belief systems they are familiar with and not familiar with. Ideas will be traded. An almost forced enlightenment will happen. Same with education. It would be an explosion of enlightenment. Groups of people talking, sharing, communing that would have never met under normal circumstance, even in this great age of the internet. Now lets move to the human genome, yes "interbreeding" between different races happens in today’s society. I absolutely hate the fact that I wrote interbreeding for lack of a better word, makes it sound like dogs and cats are screwing. Sorry about that sidebar...and mental image... Would this mandatory migration mix our genetics better than our current statistically stagnant gene puddles? Lets be honest, statistically speaking, the majority of the genetics of the US have been in our shallow end of the pool for quite some time. And the shallow pool of the United States had shallow beginnings not very long ago in comparison with the rest of the world.


I really have no idea where this came from, where it would go, or even if it would make sense to anyone more familiar with genetics and evolution like Richard Dawkins. I wouldn't mind someone in the field chiming in on the comments area. Anyway, just an interesting thought.





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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Totem Soup Update - Cutting the ties that bind

The reason I gave for closing my account:
"I have been using the pen name "Holytotemic" for almost 15 years. My closest freinds call me "Holy" for short. I want my name back. I am the ONLY Holytotemic on the internet. Google it. I challenge you to find another thats not linked to me or totem soup. I have personal reasons to not use my real name as well that involve being stalked by *******removed for personal reasons*******. I will be closing my account until the point I can use my pen name, or at least give you my real name but hide the real name from public view."

Good bye Facebook you were the annoying friend I didn't know how to get rid. You were like the hiv, but more time consuming. You were the cause of the loss of so much valuable time. I am 3 times more productive without you. I will remain on Twitter, Google + and here providing content for those who care to follow along.




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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Totem Soup Update - The lazy weekend, and the week it bled into

I have been taking it easy the last few days. I have a skin condition that comes and goes, and well it's here right now. When it's here I get lazy because, among the places it effects, the bottom of my feet get it pretty badly. This makes walking a bit painful. I bite through it at work, but when I am home it's lazy time. I decided to pick up a game that allows me some interaction online and fulfills my love of MMO's. I didn't want to get back into World of Warcraft, the latest expansion was fun...but it got boring quick with the pandas. I may pop back on for the next expansion just to see if they somehow managed to break the monotony. I actually got "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn". Gotta say, I am loving it. It's fun on the PS3, except for the chat stuff. The ps3 can totally handle large scale MMO's, if it weren't for the necessity of chat. Plugging in a keyboard is a pain in the ass, but game play with a controller was adapted very well. Leads me to think a console version of World Of Warcraft would not be that hard. The way they use the ps3 controller for spell casting, hotbars, and fast switching the hotbars is really well done. I paid the $24 for the game and a free 30 days of play, which I thought was worth it considering how much WOW is for just a month. So far I am enjoying the gameplay, the quest and leveling system, and pretty much everything. As I said, my only beef with this, and basically all console MMO's is the chat system. It's just clumsy. 


I really recommend the game, head here for details:http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/. I have looked at the rankings on review sites, and the game is getting 4.5/5 and 8/10 on average. I concur. 




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Post Edit: Easy link for playtime cards - http://store.na.square-enix.com/store/sqenixus/en_US/pd/ThemeID.29853700/productID.307536100#.VBdC-GdOWM

Wowhead for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - http://xivdb.com/

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Totem Soup Update - Time To Catch Up And Reconnect

I admit over the last year and a half I have been slacking, I apologize. I will be using the next week or two to catch up, give props where they were due, and post up a ton of fun stuff (some on back order, but still fun).

To everyone I have lost time for I am trying to get it all back on track now.




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