Tag: experience

I feel for those isolated from tribes in the Amazon jungle

Warren Tang2 Comments

I went to a Catholic school. Although I wasn’t a Catholic the school accepted non-Christians as students.

While I was there I had gone to church once in a while, had read the Bible and had tried to fathom God.

But what I found problematic was the idea that non-believers went to hell. Having travelled from Young I saw different people from different cultures, non-Christian cultures included. So it seemed strange to me that these people who may have never encountered Christianity will, without a choice, go to hell. This being a decision by someone or something else.

If I had wanted all others to go to hell (so to speak) all I had to do was keep them away from Christianity. I could not believe a benevolent being would do that.

For that reason alone I had began to question the validity of Christianity and other religions.

So I feel not for those in the jungle but for those exposed to a religion that condemns them to the concept of heaven and God.

I am lucky because I saw other possibilities, not tied to one way of thinking. I wish others to be able to see the illogical discourses of such thinking.

All track pads are equal. Some track pads are more equal than others.

Warren Tang2 Comments

A track pad is a track pad is a track pad. Not.

Take the Apple MacBook Pro 2015 and the Microsoft Surface Pro 2018 – they both have touch or track pads. But on the MacBook pad is fixed. This might sound ridiculous and unusable but really it means that there are less moving parts and less likely to break. The workaround for this is an incredible haptic feedback system which taps back against your finger making it feel like some kind of movement. The illusion is simply quite amazing. The Surface Pro still uses a traditional traditional track pad. While it has become multitouch like most of today’s devices it still means it feels old. The verdict – MacBook‘s track pad is simply an experience. Unless one uses tries similar but different things one does not know the subtle differences between them. Direct experience is important, in every sense.