How many occupations truly need the knowledge which we get through our university education?
Not even doctors, since they can now use online resources to help fill in any gaps in their mental databases.
I believe that we are missing the whole point of getting the damned degree. The original purpose of it must have been to prove that the student has gained enough knowledge to be proficient at the job. This implies that what he has learnt must be useful in that job.
These are no longer so. Other than a small part of my university education, I have come to believe that everything else is useless when I begin to work. Eventually, I believe that the university degree will decrease in value. All it really does prove is that the graduate has more mental stamina, can handle stress better and has a better memory.
Someday, if something catastrophic ever happens to this world, there will be a great purge of all who are really not useful to the rest of their societies. I'm very sure having degree will not make a huge difference.
OMFG!! I've just found out that my philosophy that everyone's ultimate goal in life is happiness and that everything else is just a means to achieve that, IS NOT ORIGINAL. According to the Wikipedia article on Aristotelian ethics, "Aristotle first establishes what was virtuous. He began by determining that everything was done with some goal in mind and that goal is 'good.' The ultimate goal he called the Highest Good: happiness (Gk. eudaimonia - sometimes translated as "living well")."
NOOOOOOO! Aristotle beat me to it more than 2300 years ago! Fuck!
Well, actually many other people should have realized this without the help of Aristotle.
The act of stopping time may be more complex than you think. Of course, the main obstacle to this is the very method of stopping the time. But that is not the only problem I can imagine. The rest of this was created by a very bored mind travelling in a bus.
When you stop time, does it mean that you are stopping the time of all atoms except those that form you? If so, you will suffocate because all air cannot move. You will also eventually cook yourself if you don't suffocate first because heat cannot travel beyond your skin.
So, if you stop time such that all air and you are free to move, what would be the next problem? For one, all things flying in the air at that moment will fall to the ground. Imagine, one moment you're walking happily on the street, in the next moment birds are desperately flapping their wings from the ground around you trying to escape to the safety of the skies.
Also, everything and everyone not balanced in their current position will fall, painlessly of course, but this would make sure everyone knew that something was wrong.
Now, you must have thought of the idea that you'd only stop time in a radius around yourself. That is the most dangerous idea among the 3. Imagine the radius of this region moving with you. There is hemisphere of permeable membrane that allows time to be unfrozen inside it around you. This radius comes into contact with another person. You continue to move, making this radius go up the arm of the stranger. Now the person is frozen in time, but because his arm is in your safety region, the particles become normal again.
These particles are sticking together due to intermolecular forces between each other. Since when time freezes, the forces in the frozen zone cannot act on those on the non-frozen zone, the arm will simply disintegrate. You will be killing whoever you get close to. By the way, this also means that if the Earth is frozen too, you will be in zero gravity.
Wow, think of all the implications of this concept! If forces within the frozen zone cannot interact with those outside, and the line between these 2 zones is infinitely thin, you will not be freeing whole molecules as you move. Instead, you will disintegrate the very quarks themselves! What would happen then?? Will the most basic particle be sliced into tiny pieces as you move? Or will it still be whole until your radius moves past its whole body? I believe in the former.
What will happen then?!?! Nuclear explosions at every movement you make? I've no idea.
The first two is based on the assumption that things frozen in time cannot move into the unfrozen zone. In the last, things frozen in time can become unfrozen as they enter your safe zone.
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