Friendship
In my opinion friendship doesn`t mean that the individuals have to share the same interests, meanings, etc. I can fully agree with the first sentence of my Wikipedia quote. Friendship is the cooperative and supportive relationship between people. But in my opinion there exist different levels of friendship too. It doesn`t mean that when I have lets say two friends, that my friendship to both of them is the same. It is very likely that the friendship to one is more intense than to the other one for various reasons. However for me friendship is something enduring. And especially in dark times, it is good to have friends you can talk with and which care about you. If someone just wants to be friend for a dedicated period of time, because a certain situation requires it, I would not call this friendship. For me thats a partnership of convenience.
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| Friendship is the cooperative and supportive relationship between people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as the exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for some, the practical execution of friendship is little more than the trust that someone will not harm them. |
In my opinion friendship doesn`t mean that the individuals have to share the same interests, meanings, etc. I can fully agree with the first sentence of my Wikipedia quote. Friendship is the cooperative and supportive relationship between people. But in my opinion there exist different levels of friendship too. It doesn`t mean that when I have lets say two friends, that my friendship to both of them is the same. It is very likely that the friendship to one is more intense than to the other one for various reasons. However for me friendship is something enduring. And especially in dark times, it is good to have friends you can talk with and which care about you. If someone just wants to be friend for a dedicated period of time, because a certain situation requires it, I would not call this friendship. For me thats a partnership of convenience.
ABC NEWS
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seeking to preserve the site where humans first set foot on the moon, a California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 objects left by the Apollo 11 mission as an historical resource. The move by the state Historical Resources Commission marks the first such designation for cultural artifacts located other than on Earth, said Lisa Westwood, part of a team of scholars and museum professionals who applied for the listing. |
Maybe we just have to look at time and space from a different dimension
and then we could see the solution. For example if you draw a circle
and start on one point and move your eyes across the line, you won't
come to an end and suppose that the line is infinite. But if you look
at the circle at whole you recognize that it is just a circle and can
easy calculate how long it is. Maybe our brain is just to limited to
recognize this in regard of time and space.
話のポイント：違った視点で物事をみると、まるで別のように感じることがある。例えば円を描いてみてその円の上を目でなぞってみると、ぐるぐるとまるで永遠に円が終わらないかのように感じる。でも、それを目から遠ざけてみると、実は単なる円であり永遠というものでないということがわかる。このように見方次第でまったく違った感じになる。
物事の見方次第で、感じることや思うことというものも、変わってくるのだと思いました。（ちなみに、これとは関係ないけれども文化の影響力の違いについても、驚きました。）
（適当訳：時間や空間というものに対しては違った側面からみる必要があり、それにより解決をみることができるかもしれない。例えば、円を描きある一点から出 発して目を円にそって動かしてみる。そうすると終わりがこないから線が永遠に続いていると思うだろう。だけれども、円を全体としてみるならば単なる円であ るということに気がつきどのくらいの長さかを簡単に計算できるだろう。おそらく、われわれの頭脳というものは時間や空間に対して制限された認識しかもつこ とができないだろう。）
話のポイント：違った視点で物事をみると、まるで別のように感じることがある。例えば円を描いてみてその円の上を目でなぞってみると、ぐるぐるとまるで永遠に円が終わらないかのように感じる。でも、それを目から遠ざけてみると、実は単なる円であり永遠というものでないということがわかる。このように見方次第でまったく違った感じになる。
物事の見方次第で、感じることや思うことというものも、変わってくるのだと思いました。（ちなみに、これとは関係ないけれども文化の影響力の違いについても、驚きました。）
（適当訳：時間や空間というものに対しては違った側面からみる必要があり、それにより解決をみることができるかもしれない。例えば、円を描きある一点から出 発して目を円にそって動かしてみる。そうすると終わりがこないから線が永遠に続いていると思うだろう。だけれども、円を全体としてみるならば単なる円であ るということに気がつきどのくらいの長さかを簡単に計算できるだろう。おそらく、われわれの頭脳というものは時間や空間に対して制限された認識しかもつこ とができないだろう。）