Shoes

I have to say that shoes, as a type of fashion, do seem of little importance. I know that everybody cares about whats on they're feet. Well, nearly everybody. But to me, shoes will always be JUST SHOES. I have a friend, and she is obsessed with shoes. Every day she wears her Doc Martins to school, and gets away with it! And when she sees a pair or converse, especially if it has a union jack on it, she will stop and just goggle at it.
Personally, I like trainers. I could get by with just one pair if I could. But for school trainers are banned (except in another of my friends case where her feet have tendinitus (probably spelt wrong) and she has to wear trainers to support her arches) and my white Filas would stick out like a sore thumb. So I have two pairs. Then my mum wants me wearing boots, so she bought me another (as of now, unworn) pair. Plus my slippers, which I have to wear as my dad wants me to and I am sure try to kill me as I walk up my stairs at home, makes about four pairs. Then if I go hiking I need Walking shoes.
It all seems way to complicated. What should anyone care if I wear trainers. And to wear shoes for fashion and not use seems to complicate it more. So thats why I think shoes should be JUST SHOES. Us worrying over tem just distracts us from other things.
If you would like to comment, please do. Otherwise I'm basically talking to myself.

Time

I question whether time can exist and therefore whether it would be possible to travel in time. I've had this conversation with my mate before now. In a maths lesson. We never really decided.
My main point is that we invented time. Ages and ages ago it was decided that we needed a way to keep track of things and tell when we needed to meet up. We went on to invent things like minutes, hours and days to fill this space.
So I am basically saying that minutes and hours are totally made up as a way of measuring EXISTENCE, the same way metres and centimetres measure Length. In dinosaur times, velociraptors didn't think, I've been hunting all day, but more likely thought, I've been hunting until the blue turned to black. A cow doesn't think, I've been milked for hours, it thinks I've been milked until I'm empty.
I have to say it would be hard to do things without the time. Try and say something without using either present, past or future tense.
Through the assumption that time is a measurement, it goes to show that there can be no time vortex or rips in time or however you believe we can travel through time. The past is gone, the future hasn't arrived yet. I say just don't bother trying.
Of course, this is one of those things that get more confusing as you think about it. But feel free to comment.

Facebook

Ok, I'm going to tell you my view of facebook. In a moderately detailed explanation.
First of all, I'm not on facebook, or twitter or myspace or social networking sites in general. I am on Skype, but I see that as different.
I just see it as a pointless way of keeping in touch that is unnecessary when everybody these days has a mobile phone in their pockets. Most teenagers are constantly checking their "Status Updates". Its ridiculous. Why is it so hard to pick up a phone or to go out and talk to someone face to face?
Then there are these "friends". I'm betting that half the friends on anyones facebook page haven't spoken with them for years, and only add them so they can look popular. And being popular is over rated.
Vanity, Conceit and other various forms of wanting to look good and have everybody like you is too hard to achieve. Its whats on the inside that reflects on the outside. And not everyone will like you.
Please note though that I think that you need to be slightly conscious of making friends and being likable. I have very few people I would call close. About 5 or 6 in total. The rest don't really know me, call me a friend, talk to me but generally don't meet me out of school. But I'm happy with my social life. I like privacy, and quiet, and prefer t leave myself open. there is also the fact I rarely get included in anything, as I either find it boring or "out of my comfort zone", which is how I will descibe going around with people I have nothing in common with.
Do I have no Facebook because I have no Social life? Or no Social life because I have no Facebook? I find it all trivial, worrying over stuff like this. It won't jeopardise the world if so and so won't be my friend on Facebook.
Okay, Okay, so loads of people will disagree and give me countless reasons why Facebook is "so great", like: You can contact people far away, search for long lost friends, play games, chat to mates etc, etc.
Well, I have e-mail, a phone number, few friends outside of school, better things to do than mess around on games and a phone which people can actually use if they want to contact me. Not that anyone does.
Sorry, I've kind of turned this into a rant about why I refuse to join facebook. And just so we're clear, its all the reasons above plus its sheepism. Its our differences that set us a part and all that.
Basically, facebook is a website that I can see gives no personal gain, is a shout for popularity, and is something that I, personally, can live without. I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with the last one.
If you want t try and change my mind, or give your say on the matter, comment below.

Is colour perception?

This is one of my little ideas. I get these sometimes. Like when I thought about whether time exists. But that another post.
Is colour a perception? Its all about how we see the world. Literally. We see things in our head. the objects are before us, and our minds build a picture to describe what is there. Our eyes give us things like distance and movement. But we see things through a series of electrical impulses in our heads.
So this come round to colour. We see things from light rays bouncing off objects and into our eyes. Colour comes from objects absorbing some of the light, or something similar. I think it involves the spectrum somehow. (I apologise to my science teacher if I'm getting this wrong or mixed up. my mind isn't on science right now.) But basicaly, light just paints the image in our heads.
So if colour is the type of light reaching our retinas and travelling through our brains to create the image we call sight, how can we tell there is any colour there at all?

If you have any questions ( I guess you have a few,) post a comment.

Sheepism

Hey! This is my blog, which I made, not really to show my life, but to get across my views. I have named this blog Sheepism as I have made several arguments against it.
Sheepism is the idea of doing what everyone else is doing. Following Fashion, Music, anything like that I see as a form of Sheepism. That is why I have made my self unique in this world by dropping those views and thinking about what is more important in life.
Oh no, I know what your thinking. I'm not into yoga, or finding out the true path to spirituality and enlightenment. I'm not. I am an atheist, not particulary interesting, still in high school and only really writing on this blog at the moment is to distract myself from my homework.
One thing you will notice, (well, maybe not as you can't actually see me), is that I don't do things normally, and try to take the hard path in life. I'd like to think I'm quite nice and friendly, if a bit distant and possibly inconsiderate, and I have a good sense of humour. I hope you can laugh along with me.