Some opinions

Happy Indoor Cats

2010-08-15T14:57:00.002+03:00

There is no doubt that indoor cats have a safer life and live longer than outdoor cats. Outside cats are exposed to more hazards and more stress.

Therefore, I am supporting the idea that cats should live indoors. Indoors, cats can live a peaceful life and can develop good personality. Having an owner who takes care of them, who play with them and offer them everything they need indoor cats will live a long and happy life.

The first thing you should do when you decide to have a cat is to neuter it. This is very important if you want your cat to have a long and healthy life. The second thing you need to do is give your cat as much freedom as you can. In this way, the cat will develop good personality and you will see that bad habits will diminish as your cat becomes an adult.

Participate in your cat's life, play with it. Give it your full attention and its life will be happy. Offer your cat a varied life and buy it a wide range of toys. Buy interactive toys, but also buy toys with which your cat can play alone when you do not have too much spare time.

Pamper you cat as much as you can and occasionally give it a beautiful gift. Toys, treats, everything that can make its life happy.

Try to offer it a varied life because otherwise your cat will be bored. A new toy or a new game banishes monotony from your cat’s life.

What cats like most is to play and to sleep. Try to make room for both. Try to arrange your house for both of your cat’s favorite activities. Always offer it a space where your cat can play and another where it can sleep happily.

Having a loving owner, indoor cats will live a better life than outdoor cats. Away from the dangers outside, indoor cats will have more chances to assert their personality.

Some ideas for gifts for cats lovers

Transcendental Aesthetic

2009-12-29T18:49:00.010+02:00

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   Kant called his philosophy a transcendental philosophy. The transcendental knowledge means the a priori knowledge of things.
   The first part of Kant’s work is called the “Transcendental Aesthetic” and deals with the forms a priori of the sensibility: the space and the time. The first source of knowledge is the sensibility through which the objects are given to us.
   As we said already, we cannot know the things in themselves; we can know only the phenomena. The objects are given to the subject in its specific forms: the time and the space. These are two forms a priori which are common to all the people. Kant names them pure intuitions. They are pure because they are not derived from experience, but they are prior to experience and make it possible. The space is the a priori form of all the external objects. The time is the a priori form in which we perceive our internal state.
   So, we know all the phenomena in these two forms, which are common to all the people. The space and the time have empirical reality, where there are people, the reality is the same. Because they are anterior to experience, they make our knowledge necessary and universal. But beyond experience the space and the time doesn’t represent anything. They have a transcendental ideality. The thing in itself is not in time and space, because we can’t affirm anything about it.
   Kant brings some arguments to prove that the space and the time are a priori intuitions, pure forms. Space is not a concept derived from experience. Because, in order to represent something outside of me, I must have first the representation of space. Alike space, the time is not derived from experience. In order to represent myself the simultaneity and the succession, I must have first the representation of time.
   We can imagine all the things disappearing, but we cannot imagine the space disappearing. We can imagine all the phenomena being crossed out, but we cannot imagine the time being crossed out. Therefore, the time and the space are a priori.
   The space and the time are not concepts, but intuitions. Because when we talk about different spaces we talk about parts of the same space. Therefore the space is given before we have any concept of the space; therefore the space is an intuition. The different parts of the time are actually parts of the same time, which is given a priori.
   The space and the time are a priori intuitions, not concepts. Because the representation of space is more rich than the particular concepts that we have about different spaces. These particular concepts are all finite, since the representation of the space has one more note: the infinity. The particular concepts of different times don’t contain the note of infinity, they are all finite.
   Thanks to these two a priori intuitions the synthetic a priori judgments are possible. The knowledge is possible because by using these intuitions we surpass the concepts about we affirm something. In this way we affirm something new about the world.

To be continued.

Bibliography: Immanuel, Kant-Critique of Pure Reason

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How to make e-cards with sound in PowerPoint

2009-12-26T15:50:00.007+02:00

  Christmas has come. We receive and give presents, and of course, cards. The electronic cards we send to those who are far away are in fashion. There are some sites which have free e-cards. There are many variants to choose from. You pick one, you personalize it and send it.
   But you can be less lazy and you can make such an e-card by yourself. I prefer to do this; I prefer to send something original. I can take photos of Christmas tree, of ornaments, of presents; there are so many beautiful things at this time of year. Then we add the greeting text and we have the card.
   We can make a personalized e-card with PowerPoint and we can add sound too. In this article I will explain how to do such an e-card which sings. I will use PowerPoint 2007.
   Let us begin. We start PowerPoint. First we choose the layout. Go to Home, click on Layout and select blank.
   Then we choose the image. Go to the Insert menu and click Picture. Choose your picture.
   Next, the sound. On the Insert menu click Sound>sound from file. And you choose your favorite song, which match with the event and with the message you want to transmit. A window will open. You will see the following message: How do you want the sound to start in the show? Choose automatically, as the song will start when the card will be opened. I prefer to select “hide during show”, to prevent the sound icon to appear.
   Now we must set the card to open in full screen mode. Go to Slide show>Set up slide show, and select ”browsed at a kiosk”.
   The e-card is ready. You only have to save it: press Ctrl-S, and save as powerpoint show or, if you prefer, powerpoint 97-2003 show.

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An explanation of "The Critique of Pure Reason"

2009-12-20T15:16:00.014+02:00

   In the next few pages I try to explain the essential concepts in Kant's philosophy and his system, especially for those who just began studying the kantian philosophy. I hope to answer all the questions posed by those who just began reading “The Critique of pure reason”.
   The main goal of Kant’s work is to establish the limits of the reason, which tend to extend beyond experience and which want to know things out of the sensible knowledge. The question is: how much the intellect and the reason can know beyond experience?
   Let’s begin with the explanation of some essential concepts in Kant’s philosophy.
   An a priori judgment is prior to experience, not derived from it. An a posteriori judgment is derived from experience. What are the criterions for distinguish between the a priori judgment and the a posteriori judgment? The necessity and the universality. A necessary judgment cannot be taken from the experience, because the experience is contingent, can only tell how the things are, but cannot tell that the things cannot be otherwise. The universality cannot be derived from experience either. The experience can only provide inductive judgments, which only can say that the things occurred in the most cases in a way or another, but not that they will always occur in a certain way.
   Another important distinction is between analytic judgments and synthetic judgments. The analytic judgments are explanatory. They affirm about a subject a property that was already thought in that subject. Like the judgment: “All bodies are extended”. The synthetic judgments affirm about a thing a property that is not thought in the concept of that thing. For example: My grandmother’s cat is white.
   A posteriori judgments are all synthetics. They add something new to the concept they talk about, and that something is derived from the experience. I didn’t know from the beginning, only the experience teaches me that the grandmother’s cat is white. But the most important judgments in our knowledge are the synthetic a priori judgments. They affirm something new, they affirm something that is not derived from experience. The arithmetic propositions are synthetic a priori. “7+5=12” is a synthetic a priori judgment. This is Kant’s example. The proposition affirms something new, which is not derived from the concept I have about the sum of numbers 7 and 5. I must refer to the intuition, for example I count on my fingers, and only after that I can say that the sum of the two numbers is 12.
   Kant distinguishes between the phenomenon and the thing in itself. The thing in itself is unknowable, because we can only know it through the agency of the space and the time that are a priori forms of our sensibility. In this way, we know only the phenomenon, which is the thing in itself as it is perceived by our sensibility.
   I will specify that there are two ways in which we achieve knowledge: by sensibility , and by intellect. Next, “The Critique of Pure Reason” analyses the forms a priori of our sensibility: the space and the time.
   “The Critique” will show how the synthetic a priori judgments, which extend our knowledge and in the same time make it necessary and universal, are possible.

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Bibliography: Kant, Immanuel-Critique of Pure Reason

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The virus H1N1 and the conspiracy theory

2009-12-06T21:40:00.024+02:00

   Since two weeks I am searching the internet for informations about the new influenza H1N1. I want to know how do I prevent this viral infection. A possibility is the vaccination, possibility that I am seriously considering. Even if in Romania the adult population will be vaccinated later on.
   But...On the internet I find a lot of articles to prevent: "Don't get vaccinated! This is the elite conspiracy against the large amount of population. The vaccine was created not to prevent the influenza, because anyway it can't prevent it, but to reduce the population. Because the vaccine contains some substances that kill".
   So, the vaccine kills. How, in what way? I can't find answers to such questions. Those solemn guys, who write articles, take themselves too seriously. Even if we are not well-informed let's talk, because it
catches some public. Indeed, it works. I know some guys who really believe this pseudo-truth. But the exaggerations and the strong affirmations keep our mind busy.
   "In reality, I am omnipotent and immortal. I need no vaccines, no doctors, nor governments." I quote from a pamphlet called ,,Vaccination 101", by Ghislaine Lanctôt, who lost her medical licence in 1997, after publishing the book ,,Medical Mafia" against the vaccination.
   I am a strong person. I do not need any cure. The fear causes the death, not the ilness in itself.
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   These theories are dangerous. Let's try to keep the equitable measure, let's examine the pros and cons. This is a petitio principii, let's not get stuck on it. Because we get stuck in ignorance. There are arguments against the vaccination, but for sure the theory of conspiracy is not one of these.
   They say it is a slight flu. But who argues like that: the ones that didn't get it yet. I know some guys that felt very sick, and who never felt like this. Of course, there are easy cases too.
   They also said that the virus didn't not cause a lot of deaths, and the most of people who died because of it suffered from associated diseases such as: obesity, diabetes, asthma, chronical bronchitis. It is possible, but the number of cases increases and the pandemy is real, even if they say it is not true. The winter just began, and the experts say that the number of cases will increase in the next months.
   Do you only think of yourself? Do you say: I am healthy, I will not get very sick. But what about the people around you? If they are not as strong as you? Or the people like me, the people who don't want to stay in bed for a week, to have fever, chills and body aches? If they do not stop this virus, it will propagate more, and there will be other deads.
   The vaccine can stop the virus. I would say the vaccination is a possibility, Let's think about it.

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