User:Dfruzzetti

My big, big opinions

One human organism is not one human life. One human species is one human life. We share one human life and should approach everything in our lives as cooperatively as possible. I came upon this by thinking about abortion. If there's an easy answer to the issue of abortion, it's whenever the organism 'comes alive' or whenever its first neurons start firing. Unfortunately, that's not so easy; an organism is alive from the time the two germ cells combine to create a blastocyst or zygote or whatever the first cell of human embryo is called. It's alive from the very get-go; the first neurons are already firing [b]as they're being formed[/b]. This means the 'life' we all consider so sacred is very special -- it's inherited from our ancestors and we will pass it on to our children. So there is no good answer to the issue of abortion. It is definitely true to anyone who has children that they don't have any sort of personality until about three months of age, which is reasonably (yet facetiously) considered the end of the 'fourth trimester' by many experts. The child is one entity of the organism.

Because of our ability to form and communicate memories, there is no meaningful difference between our instinct and our learned knowledge.

There are so many people here that nobody actually invents anything; moreover, it's always been this way. We hear quotes and see products but in many cases things have been here forever and this guy or that guy only just made them public.

The language we use today is broken and probably also always has been. The defect is centered on the reality that reality (and thus the truth) is different for all people exactly because we each experience the world differently.

An example: I tell you I love you. Do I, though? Or do -you- get to decide whether I love you by my actions? Do I love you by yelling at you when you do something I consider stupid, or by disrespecting your wishes by leaving the toilet seat up when I pee? Or perhaps I love you by assuming the worst of your motives as though I could crawl into your head and read the contents directly? Or am I actually thinking before I lay claim to loving you, by verifying that I am indeed loving you in the way you seek or expect or need to be loved, by putting that toilet seat down, backing down when you make the 25% of your parenting decisions I disagree with and taking an overtime assignment so you can go back to school to pursue your dream?

The point I make is when we communicate about anything inside of us we need to be truthful. I have met highschool students who would say "I love you / I care about him" etc. while absolutely wrecking each other's lives. I've seen adults have arguments that go like "that's a dark red" and then "no that's a burgondy." Well, apparently these people all suck at communicating.

But how do I know how to love someone the way THEY will judge is me loving them? I must always try and bend ME to fit the world around me as much as I try to bend the WORLD to fit me. And I'm a very, very able manipulator. So maybe it's time to point some of that well-honed skill in the mirror, and I urge everyone on Earth who is like me to do so.

If we all got together and agreed that technological productivity was our highest priority, then we'd be able to engage in collaboratively solving all the leftover problems of the past four centuries since the intustrial revolution; I'm saying that even in what's left of my lifetime we'd develop the world and the human race far, far beyond the dreams of even the most unbelievably gifted science fiction writer.

Even better: if we all got together and agreed that absolute happiness, harmony with our planet and appropriation to a more sustainable population were our priorities, then we'd have such a great life. But the problem is that we are too selfish and don't realize that each of us will die and become irrelevant unless we just do something meaningful for ourselves AND FOR OUR PROGENY. Ugh.

My e-mail address is 1d2a3n45@6f7r8u9z0z1e2t3t4i5.6o7r8g9 (simply strip the numbers). If you need to contact me, please begin your subject header with "wikipedia" in all lower-case to avoid being eaten by my spam filters.

VERY brief bio in FORWARD chronological order:

I was born in Oakland in 1980. I was raised in Castro Valley, attending public schools in the Hayward School District of Hayward. I graduated from Hayward High School with a 4.18 GPA on some honors and AP classes (the high school only offered three at the time, of which I took all three), and went on to attend UC Berkeley under a full academic Regents' Scholarship. I did not complete a degree, however, because I felt the school didn't fit me (or perhaps because I wasn't yet mature enough to take on the autonomous learning tasks required); instead I transferred to Cal State Hayward and received a pair of Bachelor of Science degrees (Pure Mathematics and Mathematics: Option in Teaching), then went on to a teacher education pogram, also at CSU Hayward and some Master of Science coursework, though my degree is formally "in contention."
Currently I teach at Hayward High School but I have been interviewing elsewhere in the Bay Area for the past year.

I maintain a website at http://www.fruzzetti.org for personal tidbits and another for my students to use at http://p9.fruzzetti.org and as you can see, the class website is designed to simply disseminate information for student consumption, including homework assignments, class notes, relevant software and class handouts. I hold active copyright on any work on the websites, so please ask if you seek to use one of my worksheets or anything else you may find. I will usually say yes, but the law does require you to ask :P

Useless thing to disqualify a page as an orphan:

A Bus trap. It's something I wish we had in America. In fact, it represents the kind of thinking I wish we had more of in America. People would be more civil.