Based on those tweets, feeling kind of like peeping others through a window, it seems that our lives are mostly influenced by teleological time. Everybody seems busy with their work, study, family, and other colorful things which are expected from us to have particular satisfactions, usually for a better life in light of individual’s needs and wants. I do not think I have been affected by others’ tweets so far; maybe the time is not long enough, or I’m too stubborn:).

We do everything purposely, more or less, to get an anticipated result. However, if my understanding to the three types of time is correct, the influence of teleological time is often interrupted by the affect of the stellar time when something unexpected comes. Our lives usually takes other path, the forking path, like the scenarios in the movie named “Crash”. Just like in Borges’ The Garden of Forking Paths, the relationship among people sometimes are transforming as they enter to another path. According to Borges, “you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another, my friend”. Life is full of conflicts and temptations pushing us to change our paths as people are greedy and have endless desires. For my example, marrying my wife and moving to the United States are two significant path changes in my life.

Are we changing our life paths by random, are those paths already designed for us when we were born? Atheists and theists have opposite answers. If God is the creator of the earth and all creatures on it, then it is reasonable to believe that everything we do is under control. Educated by a communist government, I used to be an atheist. However, when I see the people in that society having less and less sense of guilt when doing something immoral, I think a theist society is better for human beings, though I’m still not convinced that God created everything. Now I think since law can’t stop all the immoral activities, believing in God, or gods, at least makes people hold something in awe. With this idea in mind, when our lives are facing a forking path, we can probably choose the way of not harming others or at least making the harm minimum if there is no better choice. However, on the other hand, the world is full of significant conflicts because of the various religions people believe in. It is a crucial problem if there are conflicts among Gods themselves. Whom indeed should we believe in?

Though I’m sure that I do not completely understand the underlying meaning of this story(the spy kills the researcher, dedicating himself in researching the spy's ancestor's noval and labyrinth for decades, for just informing Germany, called by himself as "a barbarous country which imposed upon me the abjection of being a spy", the city, which has the same name as the researcher, that German must attack, to just prove to the Chief that "a yellow man could save his armies"? Too crazy for me to understand), it makes me think of the meaning of life in a new way. Yes, I often find myself running in circles, though I cannot describe it clearly and theoretically, that feeling comes back to me again and again. The words which attract me to this story are just “forking path”. What path should we choose on earth?

Going round and round.

Twitter! What in the world is Twitter that what I asked myself when we was just told about the assignment and then I get home turn on ESPN which I do every night so I think its starting to show that I live my life in a teleological time. Sorry back to the story so I turn on ESPN and there it goes Charlie Villanueva of the Milwaukee Bucks is posting a twitt at half time at a game with the Boston Celtics (kind of remind you of stellar time). So this is where I start to get intrigued I rushed onto my computer and sign on to Twitter and add Charlie Villanueva (CV31 is his twitter name) as my first person to follow. For the next three days I followed my classmates and I learned that for most part at this time point in my life I am mostly living Teleological time I wake up in the morning I get dressed I go to work and college get home and start over the next morning. What I was surprised about is that most other people seemed to live out of the loop having events pop up from no where and enjoying there time having some structure to it but for most part. I really enjoyed seen that at some point I would be able to enjoy life the same way. But on day three I saw that time affects everyone differently and that all three different times influence your everyday life. As I signed onto facebook I had to status updates from two different friends a status update is pretty much the same thing as a twit and one said “ having the best day ever” and then I scrolled down a bit and the next one said” RIP we will miss you dearly” the second post was for a friend of mine that was taken away way to early from this world and that moment it showed me that one min you can been living a linear life and out of no where everything can become chaotic where one person can be enjoy the best day of there life and another morning the loss of a friend. At that point the whole assignment meant sense to me and became real and showed me to use my time in the best way possible.

 

The hypertext activity brought to real life what the text was trying to illustrate. A story with no beginning or end with no direct cause and effect where one part of the story effect any other part just as equally. The designer tried to teach us that that for every action there is a reaction and that there could be more then one path you can take which will lead you in one direction or sometime bring you to the same point to lead you in another direction. I found myself going thru the same paragraph over and over again at first I was frustrated by it I wanted to be able to explore other part of the story but then I found myself trying to figure out the pattern that led me to going in same circle. I think that this shows just as twitter showed that right now I end up doing things in a routine not going outside the boundaries of the norm. 

Twitter what? When I initially read this assignment I didn’t understand the point of twitter. I said to myself this website is about statuses? Big whoop! But as I became more acquainted with the site I realized how addicting it could be and now I cant get enough of it! Since setting up this account I have realized how out of the loop I have become. It is so true, you can definitely get wrapped up in the events of your life so much that you forget to ask what is going on with other people and sometimes you even don’t have time to talk anymore period.
The hypertext was quite confusing. I didn’t really get the point of the story. I was really trying to figure out the point of what the man was talking about when I realized the author was trying to make a point about time. The different lanes created by time. The big picture was for us to see our lives by reading the story and realize our lives are multidimensional.
After reading the hypertext the words that caught my attention were infinite, enemy and friend. These words make me think about my life and its infinite possibilities, the ones I love and the ones I don’t care about so much. It makes me realize that all these things allow me to stay motivated and make the most of this life manipulated by time.

Influences on Time

A new website or home page called Twitter was very good and very networking site for our friends and family in the daily activities. Being on Twitter it is a good experience and even though it was a little confusing to work with, I think it’s all worth it. Here in NY all of us are very busy with work and school and we never seem to make time for friends and family. All we think is run to work make the money and then you start forgetting about your loved ones because you are so into your work and career and don’t seem to make time for anything. Now knowing the Twitter is here and it was assigned by our professor I think it’s great because we somehow can try to stay in contact with all the class mates, professors and who ever we know; even though we are away and doing our things, we are still everywhere together with the Twitter. This means that we can make the five minutes during the day and try to stay connected with others.

I think that the hypertext was confusing, yet as I was trying to figure it out I exposed that there was a meaning behind it. Different times and paths are designed by point in time; it is how you managed to be. Who ever invented this internet, blog, Twitter or in other words social networking was genius. It’s something that will keep us going and share the good and the bad, yet being away from your presence.
This shows our mood, personality, and many other personalities that a human being might have, but you never knew it before. Twitter will explore it all.

Influences of Time

Being on Twitter was a new and very interesting experience for me. I discovered something new about myself. I had thought that I existed in a purely theological time where my life was basically a series of cause and effect of events. My main purpose was to go to school to get a great paying job, so that I can get a beautiful house then have some kids and retire. While like many of my classmate, my life is still driven by teleological time, I find myself also being influences by stellar time- intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. For instance, the professor’s posted her reaction to her discovery of plagiarism that was done the blog posts. This information affected me in a very adverse manner. I was actually looking forward to a great weekend. I was in a great mood. I had just finished a midterm that I felt good about, but after reading that post my spirit felt – stellar time came into play. If she had not discovered and posted her finding about the plagiarism and had I not read it I probably would have had a fantastic weekend. My weekend was ruined. After reading her post, I was depressed.

At first, I found the hypertext to be very confusing. However, as I click on I discovered a theme the – different paths of life created by time. I believe the designer intent us to view our lives as multi-dimensional, coordinated by only the space of time. The phase, “Time Forks into, perpetually, into countless futures. In one of them, I am your enemy” is pointing toward this conclusion. Like the actual fork that starts with one main structure and then divides into different ends our lives are similar where we end depends on the path that we choose to follow.

The words that most attracted my attention were enemy and friend. What does this says about me? I am not sure? Looking at the words they are complete opposite of each other. If one were to put them on a scale, they would suggest balance, order, control, which could possibly describe my personality.

Twitter! A wonderful site..

“Alone, alone, all, all alone,Alone on a wide wide sea !” this line is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his book call “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner”. I love this line since I read the book in my eleventh grade. I’m living in US by myself and today when I start to write my twitter assignment this line came up my mind first. I believe in stellar time because we are affected by everyone around us. My friends, family and all the people around me affect me; likewise I myself affect them with my actions as well. For example, yesterday after a long day with classes and work, I called my friend to refresh my mind while only to find out that my friend has complain for me that I don’t give enough time to her, which made me feel even worse. On the other hand, one day I was feeling down and a friend comes in after a long time and makes my day. The twitter is a very good website that influences me last couple days. On twitter I saw a friend posing a comment stating, “I have found an old friend on face book and is extremely happy after I talked with her.” Reading that, made me recall the time when recently I spoke to my childhood friend after 3 years. It was really a pleasant recalling moment and I was so happy. So, this is how stellar time influenced me when I used twitter last week.

To me, the hypertext is an interesting activity. It shows how we are confused about our life. I like it because it’s never end. I spend two days to understand the hypertext reading, but I lost the track. After ward my feelings like I lost in an ocean and just the water everywhere as the Samuel Taylor Coleridge says in his book. After reading the hypertext I love the words my friend, infinite, books, read, you are my enemy. These words recall me to my childhood when my dad helps me to prepare for exams, or playing whole evening with my neighborhood friends. Brave, friendly, emotions reflect on my personality very much.

Twitter and Hypertext

1. Twitter was one of the best activity i came across relations with other socializing sites because it was more to the point and we all can relate to one another. we all are busy in our daily life and as every human being who work hard we all believe we are doing so much more than other people. However, twitter made me see some of our classmates working as hard as myself more than ten hours. it made me feel good and less frustrated because they are also full time student and work full time. Twitter is the good place to know your classmate more than maybe we can know each other in college, class, etc. i was so impressed by it and i will stay make sure i wont loose contact with my classmates even after the semester.
2. The text made my mind spin because it was really confusing. It was a nice piece of literature but the author really confused the points he was trying to make. what i understood from the text is that time goes on and we achieve our goal or not. It does not stop for anyone whether the choices are right or wrong. we have to live our life no matter the decisions we take affect it or not. There should be no regrets because even we do make wrong choices we still have to accept it and move on. It would not make any sense if a person would keep digging the past and screw the future as a result. These were some of the points i was able learn from the hypertext. I was fascinating with a word called "lantern" in the text which made me think of the times when i was in my country. I used to study in the lantern light at night when there would be a shortage of electricity.