Showing posts with label Mentality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mentality. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 August 2013
Ashton Kutcher told me to be sexy - Teen Choice Awards 2013 acceptance speech
Screenstar Ashton Kutcher, practical joker host of MTV Punk'D, reveals his real name is actually 'Chris' and Ashton is really his middle name.
He accepted a Teen Choice award but surprised the audience with his unconventional speech.
With the poise of a public orator, Ashton got 'real' and talked about things a teenager really needs to know.
It feels like Ashton is finally done with the cougar hunger games and is moving on strong.
I love the simplicity and arrangement of his points.
1. Opportunity
2. Be Sexy
3. Living Life
Sunday, 2 June 2013
What Does It Mean To Be Different.
What Does It MeaN To Be DiffeRRent?
IT is suggesting Smoeihitng else.
In is giving the Odd One Out~'
And the twilly-toves. and the momeraths,~ Outgrabe.
What lies in the conscious minds
our memories doth it play. with silver spines and golden wines
How pretty a soft display.
I sha|| do this as an ode
to the oddest of arts/
The disconnects,
The monotones.
The chromium sound of google chrome.
In da Gadda Da Vida baby~
IT is suggesting Smoeihitng else.
In is giving the Odd One Out~'
And the twilly-toves. and the momeraths,~ Outgrabe.
What lies in the conscious minds
our memories doth it play. with silver spines and golden wines
How pretty a soft display.
I sha|| do this as an ode
to the oddest of arts/
The disconnects,
The monotones.
The chromium sound of google chrome.
In da Gadda Da Vida baby~
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Saving Fish From Drowning.
I heard of this Chinese saying that Amy Tan (on Ted.com) was explaining: "Saving Fish From Drowning."
She claims this old saying is from the Buddhist fishermen of ancient China. They felt bad for killing living beings for their livelihood, because according to their faith, fishes are just reincarnated human souls with bad karma.
I think it is a very sticky-in-the-mind quote because it's like an oxymoron but sounds like ironic poetry, yet the background story and context changes it from funny to steep deep.
Your opinion of the saying in relation to the story of these fishermen would cause you to reconsider your moral compass, your preconceptions of human vs nature, and then struggle with emotion and logic - "To sympathize with the working class or to defend fishes' rights?"
As with every quote I collect and internalize, I had an existential crisis and started asking questions like:
"Is it ok to kill animals for a living?"
"Is fishing a natural skill we evolved with, like Kingfishers?"
"Are humans a type of evolved fish?"
"If Humans are evolved, then why are we the ones endangering the whole planet."
"Killing seems wrong from human's perspective, yet hunter and prey are aspects of nature. Is killing to eat ok?"
***Mental Tangle***
The best part about the story is that this simple saying was the solution to their guilt. They didn't have to change anything they did, simply the way they saw things.
My problems are problems because I get into a mental tangle of negativity, juggling question after question when a simple mind shift might be the solution.
I see:
"Malaysian roads is a hellish battle of metal and honking. Drivers give you the finger, cuts your lane and then criticizes your mother. There are also occasional pothole minefields, flash floods, chain accidents and sudden motorbike gangs."
I positive paint:
"If I can drive in Malaysia, I can drive anywhere. Drivers think about my mother more than I do. Flash Pothole Minefield Flood is my new favourite driving reality game, like Grand Theft Auto, but real.
I see:
"Poor healthcare and waived human rights."
I paint:
"They know we can't afford Rich healthcare and when there is less human rights, it stands to reason that there should be less human wrongs as well.
I see:
"Racial discrimination and prejudice."
I paint:
"A lot of people are really good at racial profiling and simply giving their feedback on other cultures. People are probably saving a lot of time using prejudice, like court trials, judgement can be a slow process."
The lesson here is that having a positive view needs creative thinking, unconventional ideas and maybe even ironic poetry.
It's not a question of being right or wrong, it's more a question of how to see things different, how to find the silver lining of your own mind-cloud. That silver lining saves fish from drowning, it also saves people from drowning.
She claims this old saying is from the Buddhist fishermen of ancient China. They felt bad for killing living beings for their livelihood, because according to their faith, fishes are just reincarnated human souls with bad karma.
To comfort themselves, these fishermen found the 'silver lining' to their 'dark cloud' with the saying: "We are simply 'Saving Fish From Drowning'...unfortunately, the fish dies in the process. "
I think it is a very sticky-in-the-mind quote because it's like an oxymoron but sounds like ironic poetry, yet the background story and context changes it from funny to steep deep.
Your opinion of the saying in relation to the story of these fishermen would cause you to reconsider your moral compass, your preconceptions of human vs nature, and then struggle with emotion and logic - "To sympathize with the working class or to defend fishes' rights?"
As with every quote I collect and internalize, I had an existential crisis and started asking questions like:
"Is it ok to kill animals for a living?"
"Is fishing a natural skill we evolved with, like Kingfishers?"
"Are humans a type of evolved fish?"
"If Humans are evolved, then why are we the ones endangering the whole planet."
"Killing seems wrong from human's perspective, yet hunter and prey are aspects of nature. Is killing to eat ok?"
***Mental Tangle***
The best part about the story is that this simple saying was the solution to their guilt. They didn't have to change anything they did, simply the way they saw things.
My problems are problems because I get into a mental tangle of negativity, juggling question after question when a simple mind shift might be the solution.
I see:
"Malaysian roads is a hellish battle of metal and honking. Drivers give you the finger, cuts your lane and then criticizes your mother. There are also occasional pothole minefields, flash floods, chain accidents and sudden motorbike gangs."
I positive paint:
"If I can drive in Malaysia, I can drive anywhere. Drivers think about my mother more than I do. Flash Pothole Minefield Flood is my new favourite driving reality game, like Grand Theft Auto, but real.
I see:
"Poor healthcare and waived human rights."
I paint:
"They know we can't afford Rich healthcare and when there is less human rights, it stands to reason that there should be less human wrongs as well.
I see:
"Racial discrimination and prejudice."
I paint:
"A lot of people are really good at racial profiling and simply giving their feedback on other cultures. People are probably saving a lot of time using prejudice, like court trials, judgement can be a slow process."
The lesson here is that having a positive view needs creative thinking, unconventional ideas and maybe even ironic poetry.
It's not a question of being right or wrong, it's more a question of how to see things different, how to find the silver lining of your own mind-cloud. That silver lining saves fish from drowning, it also saves people from drowning.
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
Of Gods And Characters
The Iliad and Homer's Odyssey was written around the 8th century B.C. 800 years later they still built great temples to these gods. Today the Parthenon still stands as a monument to this writer's characters. When you think about it, all gods are personified in ways that help us identify with them. The stronger the resonance of a characters personality with your own, the more you develop this idealistic person in your head.
When you worship and make someone your idol, you would also want to be like them. It is the same thing with a persona that we hold dear, we begin to emulate their traits for ourselves. We model ourselves after well-loved personas, are these characters not more influential than the gods of religion? For we become godlike by mentally channeling them.
The issue with an All-powerful god is that we crave power ourselves. I think the main lesson in the bible is that humans are prideful power-hungry sinners and we will always seek to embody higher powers. Every religious setting shows this manifestation of believed power via prayer,chanting, spell casting, rites and so on. Somehow channelling god's powers by their will alone.
Perhaps we need to begin thinking of God as ourselves. The one that could change everything is our own minds, everything that has ever been created by man began in the imagination.
I surmise that creativity itself is God, because it is the one limitless, all-powerful resource that we have, we are in direct contact with it and it is within us as well as all around us. Most importantly, it is a part of us that will go on long after we are physically gone.
Every book, idea and lesson are the gifts of gods past. The house you live in, the comforts we have, the relative peace this world experiences all came from creative desires that just wanted to help people. Every idea demonstrates how powerful that god is.
One such past god is Einstein, his imagination and creative thinking gave us space travel, and vast amounts of interchangeable energy. However that same idea created the Atom bomb that destroyed Nations.
The world needs to stop waiting on an imaginary god and use your own god of imagination. If each of us would come up with even just one idea to solve global issues. We'd truly be able to make the gods that have gone before us proud.
We are creations and so is god.
When you worship and make someone your idol, you would also want to be like them. It is the same thing with a persona that we hold dear, we begin to emulate their traits for ourselves. We model ourselves after well-loved personas, are these characters not more influential than the gods of religion? For we become godlike by mentally channeling them.
The issue with an All-powerful god is that we crave power ourselves. I think the main lesson in the bible is that humans are prideful power-hungry sinners and we will always seek to embody higher powers. Every religious setting shows this manifestation of believed power via prayer,chanting, spell casting, rites and so on. Somehow channelling god's powers by their will alone.
Perhaps we need to begin thinking of God as ourselves. The one that could change everything is our own minds, everything that has ever been created by man began in the imagination.
I surmise that creativity itself is God, because it is the one limitless, all-powerful resource that we have, we are in direct contact with it and it is within us as well as all around us. Most importantly, it is a part of us that will go on long after we are physically gone.
Every book, idea and lesson are the gifts of gods past. The house you live in, the comforts we have, the relative peace this world experiences all came from creative desires that just wanted to help people. Every idea demonstrates how powerful that god is.
One such past god is Einstein, his imagination and creative thinking gave us space travel, and vast amounts of interchangeable energy. However that same idea created the Atom bomb that destroyed Nations.
The world needs to stop waiting on an imaginary god and use your own god of imagination. If each of us would come up with even just one idea to solve global issues. We'd truly be able to make the gods that have gone before us proud.
We are creations and so is god.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
High Heels. aren't just for women anymore
http://highheelspassion.blogspot.com/
As you will see in the link I've provided, Men are beginning to push the boundaries of fashion. I agree that there just is not enough of variety for the male wardrobe.
What happened to the many creative costumes of the bygone eras? puffy sleeves and silk capes, kimono tops and punjabi suits . The worldwide traditional wear has been replaced by the generic penguin suits.
I demand variety! I demand that the world breaks down their close-minded view of fashion.
Clothes are an extension of the skin for goodness sake.
You Go Cristiano Ronaldo!
That's what I call a brave man.LOL
Quentin Tarantino in his new show "Kill Bra"
As you will see in the link I've provided, Men are beginning to push the boundaries of fashion. I agree that there just is not enough of variety for the male wardrobe.
What happened to the many creative costumes of the bygone eras? puffy sleeves and silk capes, kimono tops and punjabi suits . The worldwide traditional wear has been replaced by the generic penguin suits.
I demand variety! I demand that the world breaks down their close-minded view of fashion.
Clothes are an extension of the skin for goodness sake.
You Go Cristiano Ronaldo!
That's what I call a brave man.LOL
Quentin Tarantino in his new show "Kill Bra"
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Mnemosyne
Mnemosyne is not a word with a spelling error. It is a word in the dictionary. It is the name of the Greek Goddess of Memory, mother of the muses.
I shall now attempt to use this word in a different context. It is now the word I shall use to describe that familiar jumbled up place in my head; the one that is made from your memories. Everyone has a Mnemosyne. It is that place you visualize when you think of the word 'home', taking pieces of where you've lived, and the environment of your defining moments to become a single,all-encompassing place.
In order to explore this, I must now detach myself from my own identity, to get a better look at my ownself.
Royce's Mnemosyne is a curious place. Due to his nomadic childhood which continued into adulthood, his Mnemosyne constantly shifts and reconstructs itself without any sense of order.
The first inhabitant of Mnemosyne is Emerald. rumored to be the goddess of love reincarnate, she is the epitome of emotion.
During one of my explorations in Mnemosyne, I had a conversation with Emerald. She broods upon this darkened tree stump in the middle of a windswept field where it is always just about to rain. It is her throne.
As I had no physical traits whatsoever within Mnemosyne, I couldn't help but admire Emerald's haunting yet beautiful presence. Her sad smile veiled now and again by her dark brown curls in the neverending wind. Her posture was melancholy as her small frame was weighed by the emotional weight of the world. But the most memorable thing about her, were her eyes. Earthy green as mother nature herself, her irises could summon your soul into them.
She explained to me with her gentle and motherly voice, that many confuse the title "goddess of love" to be the controller of all romantic feelings in every human. When in actual fact, it means she is able to love as powerfully and deeply as a goddess. She never claimed she was the original goddess, but she might just well be the real deal.
"Being the Lover of All, is both absolute pain and absolute joy. Whichever it is, I cannot stop it, because it is who I am."
The grass of the field rippled in waves as the wind blew. The clouds were heavy and roiling across the sky. There she waits, for what I do not know. But she waits....
The first ruler of Mnemosyne and oldest resident requested solitude for her brooding. With her eyes looking straight through me, I began moving away as if through a wormhole folding in on itself. I knew I was about to meet the second.
(to be continued)
I shall now attempt to use this word in a different context. It is now the word I shall use to describe that familiar jumbled up place in my head; the one that is made from your memories. Everyone has a Mnemosyne. It is that place you visualize when you think of the word 'home', taking pieces of where you've lived, and the environment of your defining moments to become a single,all-encompassing place.
In order to explore this, I must now detach myself from my own identity, to get a better look at my ownself.
Royce's Mnemosyne is a curious place. Due to his nomadic childhood which continued into adulthood, his Mnemosyne constantly shifts and reconstructs itself without any sense of order.
The first inhabitant of Mnemosyne is Emerald. rumored to be the goddess of love reincarnate, she is the epitome of emotion.
During one of my explorations in Mnemosyne, I had a conversation with Emerald. She broods upon this darkened tree stump in the middle of a windswept field where it is always just about to rain. It is her throne.
As I had no physical traits whatsoever within Mnemosyne, I couldn't help but admire Emerald's haunting yet beautiful presence. Her sad smile veiled now and again by her dark brown curls in the neverending wind. Her posture was melancholy as her small frame was weighed by the emotional weight of the world. But the most memorable thing about her, were her eyes. Earthy green as mother nature herself, her irises could summon your soul into them.
She explained to me with her gentle and motherly voice, that many confuse the title "goddess of love" to be the controller of all romantic feelings in every human. When in actual fact, it means she is able to love as powerfully and deeply as a goddess. She never claimed she was the original goddess, but she might just well be the real deal.
"Being the Lover of All, is both absolute pain and absolute joy. Whichever it is, I cannot stop it, because it is who I am."
The grass of the field rippled in waves as the wind blew. The clouds were heavy and roiling across the sky. There she waits, for what I do not know. But she waits....
The first ruler of Mnemosyne and oldest resident requested solitude for her brooding. With her eyes looking straight through me, I began moving away as if through a wormhole folding in on itself. I knew I was about to meet the second.
(to be continued)
Friday, 24 October 2008
Things to distract you
Things to distract you from proper tasks so you can procrastinate and prove to yourself that your still smart though you're totally wasting your time challenging your brain against a square piece of whirring metal.
Free-IQTest.net - Free IQ Test
My secret is Omega 3 from raw salmon sashimi! LOL. nah just bullshiting.
Free-IQTest.net - Free IQ Test
My secret is Omega 3 from raw salmon sashimi! LOL. nah just bullshiting.
| Intelligence Interval | Cognitive Designation |
| 40 - 54 | Severely challenged (Less than 1% of test takers) |
| 55 - 69 | Challenged (2.3% of test takers) |
| 70 - 84 | Below average |
| 85 - 114 | Average (68% of test takers) |
| 115 - 129 | Above average |
| 130 - 144 | Gifted (2.3% of test takers) |
| 145 - 159 | Genius (Less than 1% of test takers) |
| 160 - 175 | Extraordinary genius |
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