In my art history class, I have learned that most religious paintings and portraits were were purchased from the church from starving artists. These artists uses the bible as a reference and guide themselves of Gods' imagery. The existence of competitiveness amongst these artists, forces them to heighten their creativeness to and produced amplified imageries of Gods' omnipotence. Therefore, it is important for an individual to know all possible background information to whom they choose to worship.
Same for Owen Gingerich, as a religious believer, in his lecture http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/neuraltelevisiontest4.htm;called Astronomy, God, and Jesus, he suggests the religious believers to make sensible choices when selecting an imagery of God for ones to worship. In other words, he felt that many believers in God, has a fixed imagery of God-like figure like in The Sixteenth Chapel; with an old man reaching and creating Adam. In a way, it sounds a bit deceiving, but I am not in a place to offer much in this subject because I wouldn't want to offend anyone.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Truth is, "Whatever Floats Ones Boat" (Wk 4)
Based on a theory of my own, I have made up a theme for the ones that lives in denials of their own, "Whatever floats your boat" (ones boat). Everyone of us are constantly living different realities of truths, because each of us needs different truths, in order to keep us living another day. That is why I totally agree with the creator in film called, Truth is That Truth Lies. He mentions, "Man would have to invent God even if he didn't exist, we cannot live without purpose even if that purpose is that adaptive fiction...etc." Pathetic truths exists a pathetic being and these are the ones that has to have some self denying truths they created for themselves to keep its boat floating. I found a very few; truthful and self loving of their very own existence, these are the ones who doesn't need a boat. There are no reasons in the need of a boat first of all; because the ones who lives in constant reality are well grounded.
The boat floaterers are a dime a dozen: nothing interesting or special to them at all but they think and act like they are. They make themselves believe so , therefore they act that act. Watch them closely. No matter how much a person makes themselves to believe in, the body still will not correlate. Therefore, the reactions, movements will show emptiness and insecurities. But they will free themselves no matter from thinking they are full of nothing now believes they are in self denials. In order to prevent oneself of recognizing whatever flaws they posses, it remain to be blindfold. As time passes by, then it is no longer familiar to know such shape of matter to be. However this blindfold only covers, it doesn't do any fulfillments. So observe their behaviors. It is definite from my own experience, you just have to a good observer- that's all it takes. Yet, I'm still bored. Seeing the replays of same story; women that gets a boob job or a nose job. Because their ideal of truth of actual beauty is to look common to another person. Taking $30,000, in order to spite a spark of the insecurities and low self-esteems; sure because it floats their boat. Because there are so many these floaterers, I am stuck observing these the borest dreamers, dead-end floaterers, the fairy tale wannabes Cinderella, and the worse are the ones that invests all of themselves for a lover (little as these investors know, they will only get dumped sooner or later).
The ones I find most intriguing and enriching are the ones who can speaks and lives in the constantly reality. Those similar to my interests; speaks the same types of human language. Lives in the constant reality, is able to criticize the actual truth, and will laugh at the actual truths. Since there are so few of us; motivated beings as we are, and yet constantly climbing the high of the highest; it forces us to take parts. I admit, we are autistic to some level of degrees. Who can blame us because we are actively bored.
The boat floaterers are a dime a dozen: nothing interesting or special to them at all but they think and act like they are. They make themselves believe so , therefore they act that act. Watch them closely. No matter how much a person makes themselves to believe in, the body still will not correlate. Therefore, the reactions, movements will show emptiness and insecurities. But they will free themselves no matter from thinking they are full of nothing now believes they are in self denials. In order to prevent oneself of recognizing whatever flaws they posses, it remain to be blindfold. As time passes by, then it is no longer familiar to know such shape of matter to be. However this blindfold only covers, it doesn't do any fulfillments. So observe their behaviors. It is definite from my own experience, you just have to a good observer- that's all it takes. Yet, I'm still bored. Seeing the replays of same story; women that gets a boob job or a nose job. Because their ideal of truth of actual beauty is to look common to another person. Taking $30,000, in order to spite a spark of the insecurities and low self-esteems; sure because it floats their boat. Because there are so many these floaterers, I am stuck observing these the borest dreamers, dead-end floaterers, the fairy tale wannabes Cinderella, and the worse are the ones that invests all of themselves for a lover (little as these investors know, they will only get dumped sooner or later).
The ones I find most intriguing and enriching are the ones who can speaks and lives in the constantly reality. Those similar to my interests; speaks the same types of human language. Lives in the constant reality, is able to criticize the actual truth, and will laugh at the actual truths. Since there are so few of us; motivated beings as we are, and yet constantly climbing the high of the highest; it forces us to take parts. I admit, we are autistic to some level of degrees. Who can blame us because we are actively bored.
Question of the Strange and Queerness That I Cannot Understand (Wk)
In The Strangeness of Science by Richard Dawkins, is found:
When the narrator reads aloud about the recall an experience of ones childhood. Ones able to see, smell, heard, or feel; as if ones were once really there. "The bombshell," then gets dropped into our ears, exclaims "you weren't there, not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that even took place; matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you; whatever you are there for you were not the stuff of which you were made." This concept is "important" for us understand says the reader.
-Question: How does the matter of energy takes turns or be exactly us? And how is it that feel that familiarity? Does this relate to time transporting, if there is really such thing as time transporting? Does this mean it is possible for us to be at two or more places at once and can possibly take different forms all at the same time?
-Questions: Does it mean insects does not have a solid brain? Come on. It can't be implying that insects can pass through solids; if I am missing out, someone can tell me that they actually witness them passing through rocks and the walls?
Regards to Edward O. Wilson, Consilience ((Wk4)
In the regards to Edward O. Wilson, Consiliences lecture. <http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/neuraltv6.htm> For more than thirty years, Wilson was being discriminated, being chastised, and being despised on by almost everyone the world. Yet, he stood independently for his beliefs and his thinkings. It's shameful that it taken this long for us, the human beings, to finally let go of the thought of where "supposedly," we are the most superior form than all other living species. Even until now, there are still others who refuses to believe that humans are animals, and we share more similarities with animals, than differing from them.
To be honest, I personally think animals are better than the human beings in so many ways. For example, in the movie of The March of the Penguins; where a mother penguin realizes her newborn died of a premature death. Impulsively, this mother tries to steal another females' newborn. This mother was aggressive and was determine to find a replacement for that newborn of hers. They fought continuously, and within the area other females are guarding their newborns also. However, these other groups of females couldn't stand such much longer of this unreasonable behavior of the mother penguin,. A group of females penguins steps in and gained up this psychotic mother penguin and made sure she didn't return. You see, these helpful female penguins, despite the fact that they are protecting their own newborns from this psychotic mother. In addition, the group recognizes unreasonable behaviors that should not be tolerated. This animal proves itself to be unselfish and ability to differentiate what's reasonable and what's unreasonable.
In another instance in the film called, The Planet Earth; In China, a mother panda gave birth during the cold snowy winter, and to make matters worse, they were lacked in food. However, the mother made sure her newborn is well feed and while she hasn't eat for 12 days. She also never leaves the newborn out of her sight, especially the first month since it is still blind. This animal sacrifices its own for the sake of its own child's well being. In compare to human beings, it's rare to hear such sacrifice, instead I hear parents abandoning their own child or even leave it in a dumpster. I don't think animals has ever done such thing unless if the parents got killed while searching for food to feed its youngs. If I were ever given, in a situation whether to save a human being or an animal, I will save the animal, because an animal can't speak for itself and is the more helpless being than the human being.
To be honest, I personally think animals are better than the human beings in so many ways. For example, in the movie of The March of the Penguins; where a mother penguin realizes her newborn died of a premature death. Impulsively, this mother tries to steal another females' newborn. This mother was aggressive and was determine to find a replacement for that newborn of hers. They fought continuously, and within the area other females are guarding their newborns also. However, these other groups of females couldn't stand such much longer of this unreasonable behavior of the mother penguin,. A group of females penguins steps in and gained up this psychotic mother penguin and made sure she didn't return. You see, these helpful female penguins, despite the fact that they are protecting their own newborns from this psychotic mother. In addition, the group recognizes unreasonable behaviors that should not be tolerated. This animal proves itself to be unselfish and ability to differentiate what's reasonable and what's unreasonable.
In another instance in the film called, The Planet Earth; In China, a mother panda gave birth during the cold snowy winter, and to make matters worse, they were lacked in food. However, the mother made sure her newborn is well feed and while she hasn't eat for 12 days. She also never leaves the newborn out of her sight, especially the first month since it is still blind. This animal sacrifices its own for the sake of its own child's well being. In compare to human beings, it's rare to hear such sacrifice, instead I hear parents abandoning their own child or even leave it in a dumpster. I don't think animals has ever done such thing unless if the parents got killed while searching for food to feed its youngs. If I were ever given, in a situation whether to save a human being or an animal, I will save the animal, because an animal can't speak for itself and is the more helpless being than the human being.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Does Stupid People Really Exist? Agree or Disagree With Me? (Nicholas of Cusa Wk. 1)
I’m not sure if you there are anyone out there who agrees with me on this, but regardless if you agree or disagree, I’m open to others opinions. I personally do not believe that there is really anyone whose is actually stupid in this world. I believe all people; each and every individual person is capable of acquiring new knowledge. Furthermore, I believe that every individual is capable of making choices for themselves. For these reasons being, it is reasonable to suggest that every person has its very own abilities to make decisions for one and think for itself. In the film of Nicholas of Cusa which I had provided the link in this blog, it stated, “Therefore, if the foregoing points are true, then since the desire in us is not in vain, assuredly we desire to know what we do not know.” In order words; people chooses to be naïve and live in a their la-la land, people chooses to lie to themselves, blindfolding themselves and pretending of not knowing any better of their own actions in order to be forgiven easier by other people, they will chose to look lazy and unproductive because they do not favor the idea of being mentally or physically challenged. Therefore, I conclude that there is no such human being that is stupid.
These individuals who appears to be; lazy, mentally or physically challenged, naïve, ignorant (egotistical is a whole new subject), simple minded, or with low self esteems are the people who deceived others as being “that stupid person.” In actuality, these “supposedly stupid individuals” are conscious of their own deceptions and are aware of their own pathetic behaviors. In the end, I can only suggest by quoting after myself, “Whatever floats their boat.” In other words, as long as each individual person seems to be happy and has no complaints, then it is a win win situation.
References: Professor David Lane, Neural Surfer Homepage: <http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/numinousphilosophy.htm>
Friday, March 28, 2008
Impermanently Permanent by Maynard G. Krebs (Wk#1)
In Java Philosophy; "Who Are You" in http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/eitheror.htm, "Impermanently Permanent" quoted by Maynard G. Krebs describes the best of who I am. I am always learning and being inspired by all my surroundings. I feel that the more I've learned, the more it has made become as a whole. But in order to learn new things, and to put our new knowledge into great use, we need to update ourselves constantly to new ideas. To move forward from our old grounds to new grounds. This is be impermanent.
It is important to make yourself be conscious enough about what you are learning in order to remind yourself; of your own self values and importance. If we are able to recognize our own importances, we only remain to be inspired and not be lost within the materials. But instead, we evolve even more and build ourselves to be more updated to the new materials and at the same time keeping our old values. This is being not the same permanently.
It is important to make yourself be conscious enough about what you are learning in order to remind yourself; of your own self values and importance. If we are able to recognize our own importances, we only remain to be inspired and not be lost within the materials. But instead, we evolve even more and build ourselves to be more updated to the new materials and at the same time keeping our old values. This is being not the same permanently.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
No Wonder You Ain't Got Any Genuine Friends (Wk #5)
In the lecture of Steven Pinker, he mentions why people have interactions with others. The relations among one with another such as; that if we keep a calculator and constantly recording down to the very last digits of who owes how much and the other gave how much... Yes, it sounds annoying, selfish, and even could be untrustworthy right? Now, let me ask, how many of you actually have genuine friends? Do you think of yourself as genuine person? What are your definitions of a genuine friend? Do you guys match up to this definition of your own? Do you think they are such good hearted people out there that has a great heart and you can be friends with? In Pinker's lecture, the interviewer seems to be skeptical that good people; where you can just have your guards down- actually exist anymore.
Well I want to say, they do exist, genuine people do exist only if you do exist as a genuine person yourself. I have this friend asked me so often, "Why are you friends with Janet anyways, she's so dumb and slow?" Then another friend of mine asked of me the same thing about my good friend Janet of this similar question. But first of all let me say, my good friend Janet is not dumb, but maybe slow, but she knows who are the fakes and the phonies. Janet knew she's slow and I would always make fun of her, but she always is willing to learn and read self improvement books.
So my response back to all those other friends of mine that raises this question was, "I accept her, because Janet has a good heart. It's as simple as that. I know people usually pick the ones to be friends with based on your expectations or what kinds of goodies one can offer to the other." So I asked them back, "Would you like someone to consider you as their friend because you can offer your goodies to them?" They said, "No." I replied," Exactly, because after all, we just want to be accepted right?" I could see the look of their faces because they all looked like they were going to cry because I made them realize they've been so judgmental all along.
I feel so bad for these people who are so judgmental when it comes to picking and choosing a person as a friend based on what one can offer and benefit from them in the future. You know why? I look at their life. It only made sense to me of why their own friends slowly, one by one betrays them at the end. At the end I'm the one who they cry to when they really want to express their vulnerabilities. Maybe if we all would recognize ones good heartiness only than what the other person can offer to the table. Then, you will have; someone who you can count on if your car breaks down at 3am , someone to cry to about your miseries, someone to confess to when you felt guilty about something you've down and still won't judge you, will accept you for all your contradictions and really and accept you for who you are not. Remember, any relationship is not a one way street, it goes two ways.
Well I want to say, they do exist, genuine people do exist only if you do exist as a genuine person yourself. I have this friend asked me so often, "Why are you friends with Janet anyways, she's so dumb and slow?" Then another friend of mine asked of me the same thing about my good friend Janet of this similar question. But first of all let me say, my good friend Janet is not dumb, but maybe slow, but she knows who are the fakes and the phonies. Janet knew she's slow and I would always make fun of her, but she always is willing to learn and read self improvement books.
So my response back to all those other friends of mine that raises this question was, "I accept her, because Janet has a good heart. It's as simple as that. I know people usually pick the ones to be friends with based on your expectations or what kinds of goodies one can offer to the other." So I asked them back, "Would you like someone to consider you as their friend because you can offer your goodies to them?" They said, "No." I replied," Exactly, because after all, we just want to be accepted right?" I could see the look of their faces because they all looked like they were going to cry because I made them realize they've been so judgmental all along.
I feel so bad for these people who are so judgmental when it comes to picking and choosing a person as a friend based on what one can offer and benefit from them in the future. You know why? I look at their life. It only made sense to me of why their own friends slowly, one by one betrays them at the end. At the end I'm the one who they cry to when they really want to express their vulnerabilities. Maybe if we all would recognize ones good heartiness only than what the other person can offer to the table. Then, you will have; someone who you can count on if your car breaks down at 3am , someone to cry to about your miseries, someone to confess to when you felt guilty about something you've down and still won't judge you, will accept you for all your contradictions and really and accept you for who you are not. Remember, any relationship is not a one way street, it goes two ways.
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