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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Simply learning. Thats all I want to ever do.

An idea worth spreading

The act of calming down society in order to create a less stressful enviroment and help productivity. With the help of less stress, we can focus on changing the world.

Talk to me about

any science, im always interested.

People don't know that I'm good at

listening. Listening, and willing to be wrong in a debate.

My TED Story

I have none... but I want to start.

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• A comment on Conversation: Could ectomycorrhizal be the organism we have to biomimic in order to have a better government?

  May 2 2012: Well, as much as this is a good idea, i doubt that it will ever be successful. First off, you gotta think about which country your in, how the people are, their laws, rules and regulations thath ave been active for years etc. These actually help create what the Goverment is generally known for. If say America for example, went from its democratic-republic like ideals to a military dictatorship... well... clearly the change is so vast that people wouldn't be a ble to handle the huge switch. Ideologies are locked into social place and its pretty hard to untangle. Currently I cant think of a single place other than bangladesh that switched its goverment on a dime... But that was through huge war... Anywho...
  A non-profit goverment... If there was a society that would happily donate to the goverment in order to keep its resources going... well wouldn't that be nice. But as humans, helping each other isn't really first on the list. Its generally being the best at what you do, even if its being the best second in command. And with competition, comes the issue of donation. Some people might... but not everyone would... hence where taxes and stuff came in. But yeah... your idea sounds good, but only in theory. In realistic society, its just impossable to implement. If the country wasn't started bassed on that ideology... its very difficult to switch it up.

• A comment on Conversation: What is the most painful lesson you experienced and you wish other people to avoid your experience

  May 2 2012: The most painful lesson I would learn? hmm... I guess its "Do what you gotta do and shrug off the headache". Growing up I was always the child that got bullied because my english wasn't well (foreign child, foreign country), because I was semi fat, etc... From say... kindergarden till the fifth grade (thats right, all of grade school). I always got tortured, picked on, lunch being stolen... toys taken away etc. It got to the point where the bullies collaboratively ganged up on me via telling the teacher that I was the problem and not them! (they followed me through the classes no matter what I did, telling the principal etc... just wasnt happening... always got in trouble). Then when I finally graduated... 9/11 happened and me being muslim... well lets just say that didn't make me feel any better. Being completely socially inept, pretty much no friends, not even a home to talk to all I could do to get me out of the rediculous missery was study. Study hard, and get A's. I wasn't looking for applause, or some form of pat on the back, but I needed some sort of outlet. And to be honest it paid off, I went to an amazing high school, had the time of my life, in college right now studying interpersonal psychology... Having a blast. Over all, if you get what you need to get done, there eventually is a finish line and a celebration. Sure life sucks... But life can also be amazing, you just gotta deal with what you gotta deal with, and keep on trucking.
  P.S. : all those bullies are now in jail for serious crimes. That made me laugh so much when I started talking to some old friends about them... On top of the freaking world.