Getting shot-work in progress 2

So... My first "work in progress" was shit.  so I just reworked the entire thing.

looking back:

      I waited for the next bus back home, when some old, banged-up SUV stopped right in front of me.  The person at shot gun stuck his head out of the car and looked around to see if anyone else was around.  And nobody was, so he pulled his pistol out from his oversized gray jacket, and surreptitiously aimed it at me.  My heart jump 50 beats.  The world in my head disappeared to focus on my hyper-activated senses.  

      He said something I couldn't hear too well.  But his hand motioned for me to come closer.  So I did by 2 steps until I realized that he wanted me to get into the car.  Instead of continuing forward, I stepped back with my eyes still fixed on the gun.  I half-rasped/asked, "why?" 

"Your not in a position to ask why. Come here."  

I remembered the broken record method in a conversation workshop I was forced to take which dictates to only say:

"no."  

"If you don't come I might have to shoot you."

and to continue to say only:

"no."

"I'll give you 10 seconds."

"1"

"no"

"2"

"no"

"3" His voice got harsher.

"no"

4..5..6...7...8..9... Each time I took a step back, and each time my voice grew shakier.   

"10"

"no... no... please no...!"
A miniature shockwave reverberated through the air around the bullet.   

I was unfortunate to discover that his threats weren't empty.  Because the next thing I knew, I fell to the ground feeling only physical pain, and fainting shortly afterwards before I could grasp what resulted.

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"...if anyone else was around.  And nobody was..."  I wanted the reader to get the sense that the nobody was the person narrating the story at the same time I wanted the reader to know that "I" was alone.

Also, the "I" was intended to be some male so that it didn't look like the guy holding the gun was looking to rape.  

  

HUNTER X HUNTER and YUYU HAKUSHO: similarities I

I knew almost immediately after watching the first episode of Hunter x Hunter (2011) that this was とがし -先生's  (togashi-sensei's) work.  Why?  Because of these similarities...

Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke

Killua, Leorio, Kurapika, and Gon (in the middle)

         Here are the obvious points, Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter have repeated names.
幽☆遊☆白書 means "ghost files" at least according to Wikipedia.  ハンターXハンター　is in katakana so it has to be obvious to the English speaker.  Hunter is someone who hunts for something.

        Another obvious thing to point out is that the main protagonists of the two shows are 4 male protagonists.  Both sets of characters have their recognizable equal in the other manga.  In fact a lot of the Yu Yu Hakusho characters are repeated in Hunter x Hunter.  Kurama is a lot like Kurapika.  Killua would be Yu Yu Hakusho's Hiei.  Leorio would be Kuwabara, and Gon is like Yusuke.

Of course- all art credit goes to Togashi せんせい

  


art style

Gon-Hunter x Hunter

Motherless in the manga

He's like the cutest younger brother of Yusuke Urameshi and youngest son of Ging.

Yusuke Urameshi- Yu Yu Hakusho

Fatherless in the manga

Looks related to the Freecss family.  Like Ging's delinquent older son. 

Ging Freecss

Father to the main characters of Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter

Togashi, after running out of ideas probably, just made the main characters look the same.  If you didn't know that Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter were made by the same person, an analysis of the art style could hint towards a similar authorship.  All have slightly rounded eyes.  Urameshi's age is in the middle of Ging and Gon.  Putting his picture in the middle, it is possible to see that the eyes grow slanter as the character ages.  Smaller eyes are sort of like adult markers in manga.  Gon's eyes are big and naive looking that suits his character and the story of a kid who learns about the world as he searches for his father, Ging Freecss.


ART CREDIT： とがし先生　と MADHOUSE と 日本 ANIMATION と STUDIO ぴえろ

There are so many more similarities between the two anime /manga, however I will leave that for a later date.  This is only part I that mention some obviously similar aspects.

Dear parents and future parents ; Major vs Cumulative

Dear parents/ future parents,

            I beg you not hinder your child's interests.  Success comes at the price of lack of skill in something unimportant unless of course: you want your child to be a goody-goody student/future politician.  

           Case in point: I had Cs in my English class up until 6th grade when I got intensely tutored for it to get into other schools and eventually college (sat tutoring).  FUCK THAT!!! Speaking especially if you want to be a PhD (non-medical), it is more important to be good at one thing than to be a jack of all trades.  The thing that counts most for your undergraduate GPA is your major.  Your major , especially if it is math-based, depends on skill and interest developed in your past.  By the time a kid is in college, if that kid majors in math, he will barely take English classes and grad school won't care so much about his English grades.  Heck, you can go into a fancy colleges with amazing MAJOR RELATED GPA and a lowered cumulative GPA.  And a good undergrad college might accept you for your talent in one subject anyways.  

                                                     Peace,

                                                     Enraged college student.  

a VERY informal proof on living mentally finitely

"axioms & disclaimers"

a person's memory and lives are finite.  Proven through biology, chemistry, other sciences.  I guess it depends on a person's belief as to whether you'll take this truth.  Some people may believe memories are intangibly separate from the brain and human consciousness like ideas just exist but may or may not be forever.  Also, some people may believe in eternal souls and maybe eternal memories attached to that idea.   Also assume that complete knowledge, "the truth", is only achieved by reading all books ever published no matter how stupid.


1) It takes 72 hours to read the bible straight through.
2) There are 774,746 words in the bible.
3) That is about 10760 words per hour.  (774746/72)
4) There is an average of 80,000 words in a book.
5)There are 129,864,880 books that have been published in all of modern history according to Google's algorithms. but there will always be more books published as we are still conscious- this future fact alone discounts ever knowing "the truth."
6)Let's say knowledge consists of the complete knowledge of all books (even though web opinion is very important, books are easier / sufficient to make a point).
7) That makes 120864880*80000 words to know "the truth" as of August 10, 2010 when this article: http://mashable.com/2010/08/05/number-of-books-in-the-world/ was published.

2. # 0f words:             1.038919e+13

   Rad

   Deg

   x!

   Inv

   sin

   ln

   π

   cos

   log

   e

   tan

   √

   Ans

   EXP

   x^y

   (

   )

   %

   AC

   7

   8

   9

   ÷

   4

   5

   6

   ×

   1

   2

   3

   -

   0

   .

   =

   +

8)  divide this number by 10760 words per hour, and you will obtain how many hours you have to live.
                                     965538141.264 hours
9)  To make this number more digestible convert it to years.

*Also note, that these approximations/numbers are not taken as absolute.  There will always be an error approximation.     

Doing these set of calculations, the conclusion is that you'll have to live 110221.249 years. Even if you memory was limitless, your lifespan will cut you off from knowing "the truth" unless you were continually cryogenically regenerated every so often, so that you live for 110221.249 years.  But after that, and after reading the books published during the time you were asleep, you will still find something you don't know when you move to the internet pages.  

Oh yeah I forgot to take into account, the existence of other intelligent beings and the existence of their texts.

Semi-Philosophically proven:

I want to casually call our finiteness as our problem with infinite regression.
If we wanted to know everything about a given situation, we would have to know the depths and details of everything in that situation.  This is the problem about a detective's job: truth is impossible to achieve.  Because if it was achieved, every point in this system known as "the universe" would have to be known in all dimensions, and all these points must count for significant fluctuations that brought us here to this point (which makes me question truth in computer modeling).  In a sense the true goal of science is to know "the truth," but those of us in science take this "playfully" and "lightly" thinking realistically, that this will never happen (at least not within the lifetime of this author).  Most of us in science, are in it for the fun of grappling with the unknown.  (I digress, damn it).  A detective must know why the killer killed his victim, the psychology behind it, the probably of the killer's condition, the means that he took to kill the victim, illness that the victim might've had, the statistics of the victim's death being a freak accident, and the details behind it in order to know for sure who did it.  But in a sense, a detective job is to make inferences based on not knowing everything.  A detective's role comes with an error statistic because he doesn't have the universe in his head.

Skill vs Knowledge #1

For a while now, I've been at odds with some of my friends because of the fundamental difference in the way they think vs the way I think, and I have come to the conclusion that 1) they value different things as academics and 2) they are just interested in different things.  Due to my frustration at the way they think, I have lied about my feelings towards certain subjects (because everything is uninteresting when you are in a bad mood, then you act upon your feelings and say you hate it when you really don't).  In this sense, I am a little outspoken, I over think things, and I seriously need to chill.

For now, I see my only solution to be to meditate to chill, and to ignore them for sometime to focus on my own studies and talk to the people in my own major.


So What's brilliance?  I've always been called "smart,"  and I am (arrogantly) taking that as a defining quality of myself, but carefully! It is like a professor who is knows he is smarter than the rest of them, but who knows he is ignorant to the accumulation of his field of study.  Unfortunately, being called smart creates a hierarchy in a competitive college like mine.  So no one here calls each other smart. but I digress and I don't want to finish this paragraph.  Just think of brilliance as being as empty as thin air.

CONCLUSION:
This first part is my own meanderings and epiphany on what I just learned about myself that should've been so obvious to myself long ago.  It is what prompted the subject of the next post which will be my main points.  I put this separate because this part might not at all be relatable to the reader, yet I bothered to post it because this blog is in part a personal reflection.