Sunday, January 18, 2009
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We are, if anything, creatures of habits, but most of all, creatures of inventions.
Humanity created fire, wheels, cars, planes, playstation (and singstar along with it!!), condoms,… However, the human specie spent a lot of time developing theories about non-biological stuff, like love and hate, souls and sins, heaven and hell..
Where does it come from and where does it leads, this quest? This need to solve life mysteries when the simplest questions can never be answered…What are we? Why are we here?
We’d be better not looking at all. But that’s not human nature, not the human heart, that is not why we are here. (We’re not here to quiz, not here to be quiet either.)
Yet, still we struggle to make a difference, to change the world, never knowing for certain who we’ll meet along the way; who among strangers will hold your hand, touch your heart and/or share your pain of trying..
Being human is really hard!!...That’s why there are a lot of people (lazy and intelligent people) who choose not to bother, not to care..Truth be told, they just refuse to try to save the world which cannot be saved!! Here’s my thought “we’re all going to hell, may as well enjoy the ride”.
But again, do what I tell you to, not what I do..(and do not try it on me)
You must fight for what you believe in…There’s a chance (small one, but a chance) that your hard work will make Earth a better place to live in!!
You must MAKE A DIFFERENCE, so people like John and me can use our IQ in very special things…….
(If we save ourselves, who is going to save everyone else??)
Souls
Sin said, in a comment below "if you are really extraordinary in one or two areas, you suck in almost everything else". That got me thinking about something I heard the other day. Actually I saw it in a movie... :P
It was this idea that, in the past, as you know, a lot of people did a lot of things. They were good at a lot of things. They were matematicians, philosophers, phisicists, biologists and all that stuff at the same time.
The idea was that, if souls exist, then how would we explain the growing number of people in the world. You would think your soul would leave your body to go to another one, but then if we started with 10 people we would end up with 10 people... quite simple really... But the number of people as increased... so, MAYBE, our souls today are little pieces of souls from the past, little fragments they divided into. And that is why we are so specialized nowadays.
Funny theory, I think. Just wanted to share that thought with you.
Later!
It was this idea that, in the past, as you know, a lot of people did a lot of things. They were good at a lot of things. They were matematicians, philosophers, phisicists, biologists and all that stuff at the same time.
The idea was that, if souls exist, then how would we explain the growing number of people in the world. You would think your soul would leave your body to go to another one, but then if we started with 10 people we would end up with 10 people... quite simple really... But the number of people as increased... so, MAYBE, our souls today are little pieces of souls from the past, little fragments they divided into. And that is why we are so specialized nowadays.
Funny theory, I think. Just wanted to share that thought with you.
Later!
Requiem for a Dream
I come with a sugestion this time.
One of the most powerful, efective, inquietating movies I've ever seen. Flawless acting, directing, photography, script, characters! Everything! This is one of those movies that "doesn't challenge your brain, it goes straight for the heart, ripps it out and kicks it around for the hole 90 minutes". You want to look away, but you can't!
Disturbing to say the least. A masterpiece indeed!
Here is the trailer
Later!
One of the most powerful, efective, inquietating movies I've ever seen. Flawless acting, directing, photography, script, characters! Everything! This is one of those movies that "doesn't challenge your brain, it goes straight for the heart, ripps it out and kicks it around for the hole 90 minutes". You want to look away, but you can't!
Disturbing to say the least. A masterpiece indeed!
Here is the trailer
Later!
Friday, January 16, 2009
V for Vendetta
This is a fan made montage of the movie "V for Vendetta"
Great Movie don't miss it.
10/10
Beautiful Minds
As I was surfing through the net, as I do many hours a day (:P) I found this amazing documentary about Kim Peek.Documentary check out parts 2,3,4 and 5!
Who is Kim Peek you may ask. He is a 57 years old savant and one of the most brilliant man alive today. The savant syndrome is a mental illness in wich people with development disorders have one or more areas of expertise. They are mentally retarded individuals who can make incredible things in these areas that they found interesting. This is normally associated with autism, but there cases of non autistic savants too. They can't dress themselves, or some even talk to other people, but they can draw entire cities from memory with unmatched precision, they can tell you what day of the week was your birthday (or any other day for that matter) thay can do amazing math calculations and so on.
This has always interested me a lot, you know, the way the human mind works. Some of them say they don't think about numbers they feel them, see them and smell them. They don't try to do this amazing things, they are compeled to do it by their minds! And that amazes me! I heard a doctor trying to explain the savantism and he said our brain evolved to focus on other capabilities like social awareness or language and diminished other parts like memory or math calculation capabilities. Think about this for a minute. The potencial is there! In all of our minds! Great, right?!
Kim Peek, for example, he can read a page from a book, that would take us about 3 minutes, in 8 to 10 seconds, he reads the left page with his left eye and the right page with the right one. And then, he remembers about 98.7% of that book. That's just part of what he can do. He is, easilly, one of the most astonishing human beings that ever existed!
Anyway, what really made me write this post was a quote I heard Kim say at that documentary that made me think:
"You don't have to be handicap to be different. Everyone is different".
I just liked it...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Suicide 2- Hope gone, ask "Is it worth it?"
Thanks my friends You were Right, I was asking the wrong question, to the wrong people.
There's a story behind all this, that at least one of you hasn't heard.
I live in a big family, for some it is enormous, in those kinds of families there is a pyramid of of influence. At the top, we have the granny's, next your parents, and your uncles and ants. Then the gran sons have two different pyramids one for the boys and one for the girls.
The oldest grandson leads both pyramids, and has great influence in his younger cousins.
That been explained:
My Older cousin turns to me one day and says "If I had your life, I would commit suicide no questions asked"
It seem Just like a joke, just how I thought it was, but then it started to appear every single year that very sentence, and that leaves a mark no doubt about it.
The thing is: when ever You Feel that you disappointed someone, you keep reminiscing to that very sentence, and every time it seems more and more sweet..
There's a story behind all this, that at least one of you hasn't heard.
I live in a big family, for some it is enormous, in those kinds of families there is a pyramid of of influence. At the top, we have the granny's, next your parents, and your uncles and ants. Then the gran sons have two different pyramids one for the boys and one for the girls.
The oldest grandson leads both pyramids, and has great influence in his younger cousins.
That been explained:
My Older cousin turns to me one day and says "If I had your life, I would commit suicide no questions asked"
It seem Just like a joke, just how I thought it was, but then it started to appear every single year that very sentence, and that leaves a mark no doubt about it.
The thing is: when ever You Feel that you disappointed someone, you keep reminiscing to that very sentence, and every time it seems more and more sweet..
Think... there must be more to it... there is but lets leave it to some other time
Remember "Don't be sad the show must go on"
Suicide
Thinking about suicide is not normal, but I only just realised that this month.After watching an interview with Stephen Fry
(Here is part one:
)
How is it possible?! How can anyone live his or her life without questioning why continue his or her life? Isn't life painful? Why not end it?
Would you give my an answer
Sunday, January 11, 2009
SUNs - Stand-Up Nights
I came up with this idea, maybe it's a little crazy but it would be fun to try.
So it's like this: we gather around, maybe six, seven friends, we pick a place (we will end up at john's, there's no doubt, but it's nice to say we'll try to think of somewhere else first... who knows maybe we can do it at C.B.) and we do a stand-up comedy show, ourselves. All of us! I know it sounds crazy, maybe it is, but think about it.
We give it 5 or 10 minutes, try to come up with something funny to say (it's ok to bring written stuff from home) and then we have a vote and award who we choose was the best.
How about it? Gimme your thoughts on that.
Oh and I dare our beloved commenter, Sin, to guess what is C.B. =)
Later!
So it's like this: we gather around, maybe six, seven friends, we pick a place (we will end up at john's, there's no doubt, but it's nice to say we'll try to think of somewhere else first... who knows maybe we can do it at C.B.) and we do a stand-up comedy show, ourselves. All of us! I know it sounds crazy, maybe it is, but think about it.
We give it 5 or 10 minutes, try to come up with something funny to say (it's ok to bring written stuff from home) and then we have a vote and award who we choose was the best.
How about it? Gimme your thoughts on that.
Oh and I dare our beloved commenter, Sin, to guess what is C.B. =)
Later!
THE Experience
Pink Floyd.
The best rock band you will ever lay ears on.
It's not just music.
Pink Floyd don't simply perform pieces, they weave rich tapestries of sound, story and emotion.
It is an experience... for wich there is no comparison.
See them live is something I can only dream.
But there's another dream I have, a little more personal. Listening to their music, laying down on the bed with someone I love, and feel, in silence, all the power that comes out of those notes and those words... I would like that.
Enjoy
The best rock band you will ever lay ears on.
It's not just music.
Pink Floyd don't simply perform pieces, they weave rich tapestries of sound, story and emotion.
It is an experience... for wich there is no comparison.
See them live is something I can only dream.
But there's another dream I have, a little more personal. Listening to their music, laying down on the bed with someone I love, and feel, in silence, all the power that comes out of those notes and those words... I would like that.
Enjoy
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Anarchy
Jack said in his last post and I quot: "This law has many flaws. Two more to add: it comes too late and should have been solved morally, and not legally."
In the overall of his post there is nothing to pussy about, except this last part about morality.
There is a theory somewhere in the library, the perfect world would be one without any rules, and that MORALITY would be enough, that theory is called Anarchy.
Well has I expect you all to know, Anarchy only works in theory not in practice. Because people don't behave the same way, in fact it is impossible to act the same way as another person, there is even an economy theory about that, the cost of opportunity. (in the event of a choice you'll always have to sacrifice something)
Having this been said, this makes impossible to all people in a community to respond according to morality, be cause we can't think alike.
Laws are there to protect us, their flaws must then be filled by morality, if it still doesn't work, more laws will be created.
For my ending here is Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, with their example of how stupid anarchy really is:
In the overall of his post there is nothing to pussy about, except this last part about morality.
There is a theory somewhere in the library, the perfect world would be one without any rules, and that MORALITY would be enough, that theory is called Anarchy.
Well has I expect you all to know, Anarchy only works in theory not in practice. Because people don't behave the same way, in fact it is impossible to act the same way as another person, there is even an economy theory about that, the cost of opportunity. (in the event of a choice you'll always have to sacrifice something)
Having this been said, this makes impossible to all people in a community to respond according to morality, be cause we can't think alike.
Laws are there to protect us, their flaws must then be filled by morality, if it still doesn't work, more laws will be created.
For my ending here is Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, with their example of how stupid anarchy really is:
Friday, January 9, 2009
Don't kill me too
Remember that law? "If you must smoke, take your butt outside." Not quite said like that, but meaning exactly that.
Good lord, how they must all be freezing, standing outside the door of almost every public building in town. Well... I can't say I'm sorry...
Yeah, yeah, it's a public space... but that public space belongs to everyone, thereby everyone is supposed to take care of it, keep it clean and safe.
For some people it is still not proved that smoking is bad, for others it's not proved that passive smoking is bad... so many reasons that so many people tried to came up with when the law was approved... It's quite simple really. It's a matter of freedom. Individual freedom. Period!
There's nothing else to argue about, your freedom ends when another one's begins. That's it. Smoking not only invades other people's freedom but also hurts them. So it has to be forbidden in public places. That's why you don't allow drivers to drink alcohol when they're going to drive, that's why you don't allow people to walk around with knifes or guns. "Oh but I like to fire my gun after I've had lunch, I have the right to do it!!". Yes, you do have that right, you do what you want with your own life, but it can't be legal to put other's at risk!
Go on, now, criticise the way that the government implemented the law. Go on, say it's not perfect, say the people in charge subverted to lobbies. Say this law is just showing off and it's only trying to fake some education that we don't have, in this little piece of the third world. Will I disagree? Of course not! Does that make the law less needed? Of course not!
This law has many flaws. Two more to add: it comes too late and should have been solved morally, and not legally.
Good lord, how they must all be freezing, standing outside the door of almost every public building in town. Well... I can't say I'm sorry...
Yeah, yeah, it's a public space... but that public space belongs to everyone, thereby everyone is supposed to take care of it, keep it clean and safe.
For some people it is still not proved that smoking is bad, for others it's not proved that passive smoking is bad... so many reasons that so many people tried to came up with when the law was approved... It's quite simple really. It's a matter of freedom. Individual freedom. Period!
There's nothing else to argue about, your freedom ends when another one's begins. That's it. Smoking not only invades other people's freedom but also hurts them. So it has to be forbidden in public places. That's why you don't allow drivers to drink alcohol when they're going to drive, that's why you don't allow people to walk around with knifes or guns. "Oh but I like to fire my gun after I've had lunch, I have the right to do it!!". Yes, you do have that right, you do what you want with your own life, but it can't be legal to put other's at risk!
Go on, now, criticise the way that the government implemented the law. Go on, say it's not perfect, say the people in charge subverted to lobbies. Say this law is just showing off and it's only trying to fake some education that we don't have, in this little piece of the third world. Will I disagree? Of course not! Does that make the law less needed? Of course not!
This law has many flaws. Two more to add: it comes too late and should have been solved morally, and not legally.
"The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker."
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