Meaning of Life

Many wondered about the meaning of life. This is probably not something new, but when I was watching the hundreds of people passing me by on a todays lunch snack with the view at the city square I thought this.

Maybe the whole meaning of life is the life itself. That our purpose is merely continuity of the species. I know it is slightly influenced by the Jewish-Christian idea of "be fruitful and increase in number", but maybe this is just it. Live, have kids and then die. All that is around it is just a bonus of how you make this happen.

Who knows.

Update. Well, maybe one should also try to behave like a human being. This is influenced by one story which was said by Malcolm X and that a white guy approached him, whether he would shake hands with him and Malcolm X replied in a way that he will shake hands with anyone who tries to be a human being.

Update 2. Well, maybe you end up like in Monty Pythons / Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. /.

"No signal" when using HP desktop computer with GT230 installed

Having bought recently the great HP Elite 7000 MT desktop solution, I found out very soon that there is something wrong with it.

If you played PC games or used any other content heavy on graphic card resources... your screen would just turn black and say "No Signal".

Well looks like I was not the only one, because here on this HP forum, you can see that there are several other ppl with the same problem.

Looks like there is problem with the Pegatron GT230 (Nvidia based) graphic card and replacement of the card is the only solution. Even if your serviceman tries to make an ass of you by helping you with: "Update the drivers" recommendation... you should really insist on repleacement if you have the GT230 on your HP Solution. First you can of course  try to update the drivers, but there is a high chance that you have the faulty line of the graphic card.

Thoughts on Sex before marriage

I read kinda interesting article, which can be summarized as follows:

a) sex before marriage as a religious problem (Catholics) emerged hundreds of years ago, when people were adolescent (puberty) around 15 years of age and then they become married around 17 years of age. Two years without sex.

b) nowadays people are adolescent (puberty) around 13 years of age and are getting married around 30 (at least in Europe). Seventeen years without sex.

That concludes that living by Catholic beliefs means in nowadays society 17 years of renunciation, sexual frustration and lots of other stuff which will damage your psyché for the rest of your life. Because people should not get sexually active around 30.

Either you get married at 18 years of age, which is nowadays kinda sick - with the growth of university education in Western society (you end University now around 25 or 26 yrs) or you just have to brake the rules which are not coined for society we live in now. Your call.

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Gender Studies

Hmm, so I read a brochure written by Gender Studies organization and I have a slight logical problem with it.

a) it says, that gender stereotypes are social constructions, which we could say that this is kopernikos logic (how Winfried Schulz has put it) or constructionist theory of representation (Berger and Luckmann)

but

b) then it says, that the biggest culprit are media, which destruct the reality, because they falsely representate the reality, which we could say that this is ptolemaios logic (how Winfreid Schulz has put it) or reflexive theory of representation.

These two are total opposite and either you "believe" in one logic on in the other. Because in the reflexive logic you "believe" in that journalism can be objective and unbiased and that it is the media or journalists who destruct the reality. Or, you "believe" that objectivity is impossible and it should work only such as ideal which you can never succeed in, but you should at least try.

I have a slight feeling, that this construct of critisism is slightly illogical and it uses everything what it can just to support its ideas. Well I do not have any problem with gender studies or feminism - go for it! - but I have feeling that if someone from Gender Studies organization tries to write about media, maybe it should be bullet-proof logic. Both their claims a) and b) are correct, but I have feeling that they are not correct both together, because it says the opposite.

P.S. Well there is also the third theory of representation and it is called "intentional". It says, that the objective "truth" is framed by the intention of the communicator, i.e. if I say A is right, then A is right, even if it is not right, because it is my intention. This theory is in between the reflexive and contructionist point of view, because it says that neither of it is right. Usually it concerns propaganda, manipulation and persuasive techniques.