Letting Individuals Vent out Energy! My internal rantings expressed in quotes, poems, or long stream of conscious notes, to remind and inspire myself (and also hopefully anyone who reads this) to strive for perfection. Continuous progression to the point of failure? When you FAIL, you are at the same point as When you SUCCEED. You still have to decide what to do next... Live 4 Greatness. Live 4 G...
Friday, June 19, 2009
SOLIPSISM
I am not the only being in the world...acknowledge other people...don't wait for others to acknowledge you!
Monday, June 1, 2009
MACHIDA era! "His Style is Unorthodox"....uhm no it's simply Basics!!! Back to Tradition!!!
First off, I would like to congratulate Lyoto Machida on his successful acquisition of the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.

Secondly, I don't normally hate, but man do the comments about this guy become quite, tiresome and annoying. "his style is unorthodox"...
As an avid watcher of violence (which I do not condone, but like to explore because of my human nature) and a Karate instructor, I've seen a lot of different fighting styles.
As my great Idol and hero Bruce Lee says, be formless...
Adapt.
There is no secret to Machida's style...only simply that he doesn't forget his basics, and keeps practicing... the moves he uses are the moves I teach my students. Although the way they practice it is a more basic form to than how Machida executes them...but it is STILL THE SAME MOVE!!!!
e.g. front kick from stance, and lunge punches.
It's up to the practitioner (Karateka) to make the move their own. To learn to put their spirit, and their entire Being behind each technique.
People forget the tradition, and get involved with the hype of being a badass, and bully. 99% of these UFC and MMA guys are REALLY nice guys who have a same passion of violence as I do, they just express and exercise it in a controlled manner....however when 90% of these mma fighters practice (DON'T quote me on statistics I am assuming on what I watch) martial arts, or forms of fighting, they do it to gain better physical fitness (well...who doesn't?). One Thing I notice though training in MMA gyms, as opposed to a traditional dojo (but what is a traditional dojo nowadays?) is that, the TRADITION aspect of the art/way is lost....
LOST only due to the growing popularity of showcasing ones "guns".
In Karate (specifically JKA) we practice the inseparable trinity of the 3 K's: Kihon (Basics) Kata (Forms) and Kumite (Sparring). Kihon (basics) is something that is practiced everywhere. People may sometimes just forget to continue maintaining their basic training because they have learned to perform more complex techniques, which is understandable. I won't necessarily ride a bike with training wheels now that I know how to ride a REAL bike...BUT the fact that I did start off in training wheels allowed me to gain the understanding of balance and coordination...
I can understand why people may oppose Kata training, because it may not be soo Practical in today's world... BUT the foundations and fundamental elements of Kata, I feel are important to the development of ones character, through discipline and control....
The stuff I hear from people nowadays is that, Kata takes too long to actually get a real understanding of, and use for practicality, and that training to fight is more practical for "REAL LIFE" situations...I Fully understand this and don't mind it, in this fast paced "dangerous" world who wouldn't want to learn how to protect themselves as quickly as possible?
What I am NOT particularly fond of is when people disregard Kata altogether and consider it obsolete... OKAY i understand it may be boring, tedious and takes a WHOLE LIFETIME to actually master...(but not even really master it, ones understanding of Kata's are always changing)...BUT what is life without challenge, or change?
For those who are not martial artists, I do not expect you to fully grasp what I am saying, I am just venting.
Now I do admire people who perform and showcase feats of great strength achieved through much HARD WORK, DISCIPLINE, SELF CONTROL, and PASSION...BUT it bothers me when this is not fully recognized and acknowledged...I still have to work on this, it shouldn't bother me as much as it does...but anyway this is an Itch I need to scratch.
***Real reason for this post***
Reading comments regarding how BORING MACHIDA is, and how UNORTHODOX his style is, is a mentality that irks me more than it should. Particularly because I feel people just do not understand what he is doing, and "people fear what they don't understand"
People may consider me biased because I practice the same style (Shotokan JKA) that Machida does, BUT it is only part of the reason why I love him. I love and respect him as a fighter because he KEEPS tradition, and is disciplined enough to maintain his performances to the use of basics, of what he learned since white belt ...

The people who blindly assume he is BORING because he is patient and waits for the PERFECT moment to strike, now can see him in a new light. If boring means executing perfectly timed, accurate strikes, then I don't know what intense and suspenseful action is...
For the record, as a Judo practitioner too, I find ground fighting tedious and boring, a lot of guys in mma win solely through ground fighting and submission, Machida on the other hand, perfers to finish through strikes only.
BUT this rant is strictly my opinion...
Lesson to be learned: At least acknowledge and understand this man's style of fighting before calling him Boring, Soft and or WEAK!
Sorry Rashad, this one is not a pic you would want your kids to see.

This is for the people who thought Evans was to BIG and STRONG for the WEAK and SOFT Machida.
Evans after the barrage. I LOVE YOU Rashad, but Damn!

For those who have not seen this match....
it's been deleted off many sites due to copyright, but with the help of editing, hopefully this would not be deleted anytime soon.
Someone placed the score to Pagliacci's tragedy, with clips of Rocky IV...its quite hilarous, yet devestating at the same time...the power of the HUMAN BEING!
Lyoto Machida vs Rashad Evans: Rocky IV Style from buakaw on Vimeo.
***Machida has shown that he is not invincible! As can be seen by his losses to Shogun, and Jon Jones.
We are all human, and everyone and anyone can be defeated.
Just how can we get back from that defeat is the true test.
LG
Secondly, I don't normally hate, but man do the comments about this guy become quite, tiresome and annoying. "his style is unorthodox"...
As an avid watcher of violence (which I do not condone, but like to explore because of my human nature) and a Karate instructor, I've seen a lot of different fighting styles.
As my great Idol and hero Bruce Lee says, be formless...
Adapt.
There is no secret to Machida's style...only simply that he doesn't forget his basics, and keeps practicing... the moves he uses are the moves I teach my students. Although the way they practice it is a more basic form to than how Machida executes them...but it is STILL THE SAME MOVE!!!!
e.g. front kick from stance, and lunge punches.
It's up to the practitioner (Karateka) to make the move their own. To learn to put their spirit, and their entire Being behind each technique.
People forget the tradition, and get involved with the hype of being a badass, and bully. 99% of these UFC and MMA guys are REALLY nice guys who have a same passion of violence as I do, they just express and exercise it in a controlled manner....however when 90% of these mma fighters practice (DON'T quote me on statistics I am assuming on what I watch) martial arts, or forms of fighting, they do it to gain better physical fitness (well...who doesn't?). One Thing I notice though training in MMA gyms, as opposed to a traditional dojo (but what is a traditional dojo nowadays?) is that, the TRADITION aspect of the art/way is lost....
LOST only due to the growing popularity of showcasing ones "guns".
In Karate (specifically JKA) we practice the inseparable trinity of the 3 K's: Kihon (Basics) Kata (Forms) and Kumite (Sparring). Kihon (basics) is something that is practiced everywhere. People may sometimes just forget to continue maintaining their basic training because they have learned to perform more complex techniques, which is understandable. I won't necessarily ride a bike with training wheels now that I know how to ride a REAL bike...BUT the fact that I did start off in training wheels allowed me to gain the understanding of balance and coordination...
I can understand why people may oppose Kata training, because it may not be soo Practical in today's world... BUT the foundations and fundamental elements of Kata, I feel are important to the development of ones character, through discipline and control....
The stuff I hear from people nowadays is that, Kata takes too long to actually get a real understanding of, and use for practicality, and that training to fight is more practical for "REAL LIFE" situations...I Fully understand this and don't mind it, in this fast paced "dangerous" world who wouldn't want to learn how to protect themselves as quickly as possible?
What I am NOT particularly fond of is when people disregard Kata altogether and consider it obsolete... OKAY i understand it may be boring, tedious and takes a WHOLE LIFETIME to actually master...(but not even really master it, ones understanding of Kata's are always changing)...BUT what is life without challenge, or change?
For those who are not martial artists, I do not expect you to fully grasp what I am saying, I am just venting.
Now I do admire people who perform and showcase feats of great strength achieved through much HARD WORK, DISCIPLINE, SELF CONTROL, and PASSION...BUT it bothers me when this is not fully recognized and acknowledged...I still have to work on this, it shouldn't bother me as much as it does...but anyway this is an Itch I need to scratch.
***Real reason for this post***
Reading comments regarding how BORING MACHIDA is, and how UNORTHODOX his style is, is a mentality that irks me more than it should. Particularly because I feel people just do not understand what he is doing, and "people fear what they don't understand"
People may consider me biased because I practice the same style (Shotokan JKA) that Machida does, BUT it is only part of the reason why I love him. I love and respect him as a fighter because he KEEPS tradition, and is disciplined enough to maintain his performances to the use of basics, of what he learned since white belt ...

The people who blindly assume he is BORING because he is patient and waits for the PERFECT moment to strike, now can see him in a new light. If boring means executing perfectly timed, accurate strikes, then I don't know what intense and suspenseful action is...
For the record, as a Judo practitioner too, I find ground fighting tedious and boring, a lot of guys in mma win solely through ground fighting and submission, Machida on the other hand, perfers to finish through strikes only.
BUT this rant is strictly my opinion...
Lesson to be learned: At least acknowledge and understand this man's style of fighting before calling him Boring, Soft and or WEAK!
Sorry Rashad, this one is not a pic you would want your kids to see.
This is for the people who thought Evans was to BIG and STRONG for the WEAK and SOFT Machida.
Evans after the barrage. I LOVE YOU Rashad, but Damn!
For those who have not seen this match....
it's been deleted off many sites due to copyright, but with the help of editing, hopefully this would not be deleted anytime soon.
Someone placed the score to Pagliacci's tragedy, with clips of Rocky IV...its quite hilarous, yet devestating at the same time...the power of the HUMAN BEING!
Lyoto Machida vs Rashad Evans: Rocky IV Style from buakaw on Vimeo.
***Machida has shown that he is not invincible! As can be seen by his losses to Shogun, and Jon Jones.
We are all human, and everyone and anyone can be defeated.
Just how can we get back from that defeat is the true test.
LG
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
CHANGE!!!! again...The next evolution? or Revolution?
Been listenin to this track, and it REALLY hits me.
Lyrically, it represents what I am learning at the moment. Learning about the world, Philippine History, and just reading about human nature...
CHANGE really is what needs to happen at this state of the world...
Why???
Just because!
I have been programmed through education, media, and societal factors that the world is due for a revolution soon...(soon being a span of 5-500 years in my opinion of historical terms...which I am making up in my mind)
But Seriously,
I guess I am hoping to evolve in a way. Like as humans, we continue to innovate our surroundings externally, why not internally? We haven't evolved since Caveman times...but can we say that we have really evolved???
Studies show(I don't have a citation but it's been heard through Psychology courses/liberal media etc.) that the most learned humans to have lived have only merely reached the capacity to unlock 10% of their brain (give or take)... DAMN! What would happen if that were the average for a regular everyday human...? I IMAGINE, as you can see I am using my 'Brain' here, that by unlocking more features of our mind, humans can learn to manipulate our surroundings, e.g. through specific brainwave patterns.
What I am leaning towards is like mutant evolution (X-men, Heroes)...IN A WAY, but one that does not have to do with biological business-DNA, Genetic mutation etc.
I am speaking of evolution more inclined to mind evolution (still biological but not about genes etc)...a.k.a Unlocking our minds to be able to process a WHOLE new LEVEL of things...The day that humans will be able to fathom the 4th dimension and beyond... maybe even God(but as long as we are human, that may be impossible...or so we are taught)???
Unlocking the MIND is/maybe on another level of hardcoreness...
Imagine being able to understand and fathom the Philosophies of Plato, Kant, Derrida, Machiavelli at age 4? Basically the stuff I am learning (luckily) at University NOW, I learn during pre school... (It's possible that we have an UNLIMITED a priori knowledge we simply just have to unlock and remember)...
WHAT IF humans evolved in this way, opening up a greater sense of learning, I BELIEVE the world would be a more calm and harmonius place...relatively speaking. People will understand the futilities of violence and its path to nowhere but death and destruction..."The art of FIGHTING without FIGHTING" will become the zeitgeist motto...
Humans being more "Evolved" will be able to understand that and thus simply battle through MASS dialogue and debates!...I feel that people will be more critical about their surroundings and express it quite explicitly in eloquent terms that will be artisticly offensive, which will cause mass debates, until a consensus can be agreed upon...which when the time comes, will bring a temporary Peace...
OR maybe a 180 degree turn could happen...WHAT IF we could learn how to manipulate brain patterns and read each others thoughts, pull a professor Xavier and fight each other mentally, and the last man standing will be able to 100% persuade the other that they are right...no need to have OPEN mouth conversations, it will all be done mentally. (talk about Fascism at its peak)
Plus Telekinesis? I want to be able to FLY, and use the FORCE! Pull some Dragonball Z stuff, knowhatimsayin? Unlock the ultimate POTENTIAL within all of us (and significantly increase my power level)!
I honestly just want to learn to teleport and or disapparate sometimes.
Through what I am taught to believe through society/religion, I feel that the next level we humans will become is to be like, angels...or demi-gods?
BUT we will still be mortal. Perhaps our mortality will grow shorter, because more energy will be required to make the brain work at a higher capacity....OR we may live longer because the brain is able to understand cell processes and repair old/broken cells, thus allowing to express maximum output and efficiency with minimal energy...
To what is suggested through my thoughts, I am concluding that Humans will continue to evolve until we reach a God-like state...the state where GOD actually accepts us and will communicate with us directly...(I still do through prayer, but what I am aiming for is a more explicit form of communication...like talk to God on the phone...waddup G!)
because that is my flaw, I WANT TO GO BACK TO PARADISE, WHILE BEING ALIVE!!!
....sigh...sigh...sigh
"Lest we forget, we are mortal."
Without Further ado, Listen to CHANGE -->
Lyrically, it represents what I am learning at the moment. Learning about the world, Philippine History, and just reading about human nature...
CHANGE really is what needs to happen at this state of the world...
Why???
Just because!
I have been programmed through education, media, and societal factors that the world is due for a revolution soon...(soon being a span of 5-500 years in my opinion of historical terms...which I am making up in my mind)
But Seriously,
I guess I am hoping to evolve in a way. Like as humans, we continue to innovate our surroundings externally, why not internally? We haven't evolved since Caveman times...but can we say that we have really evolved???
Studies show(I don't have a citation but it's been heard through Psychology courses/liberal media etc.) that the most learned humans to have lived have only merely reached the capacity to unlock 10% of their brain (give or take)... DAMN! What would happen if that were the average for a regular everyday human...? I IMAGINE, as you can see I am using my 'Brain' here, that by unlocking more features of our mind, humans can learn to manipulate our surroundings, e.g. through specific brainwave patterns.
What I am leaning towards is like mutant evolution (X-men, Heroes)...IN A WAY, but one that does not have to do with biological business-DNA, Genetic mutation etc.
I am speaking of evolution more inclined to mind evolution (still biological but not about genes etc)...a.k.a Unlocking our minds to be able to process a WHOLE new LEVEL of things...The day that humans will be able to fathom the 4th dimension and beyond... maybe even God(but as long as we are human, that may be impossible...or so we are taught)???
Unlocking the MIND is/maybe on another level of hardcoreness...
Imagine being able to understand and fathom the Philosophies of Plato, Kant, Derrida, Machiavelli at age 4? Basically the stuff I am learning (luckily) at University NOW, I learn during pre school... (It's possible that we have an UNLIMITED a priori knowledge we simply just have to unlock and remember)...
WHAT IF humans evolved in this way, opening up a greater sense of learning, I BELIEVE the world would be a more calm and harmonius place...relatively speaking. People will understand the futilities of violence and its path to nowhere but death and destruction..."The art of FIGHTING without FIGHTING" will become the zeitgeist motto...
Humans being more "Evolved" will be able to understand that and thus simply battle through MASS dialogue and debates!...I feel that people will be more critical about their surroundings and express it quite explicitly in eloquent terms that will be artisticly offensive, which will cause mass debates, until a consensus can be agreed upon...which when the time comes, will bring a temporary Peace...
OR maybe a 180 degree turn could happen...WHAT IF we could learn how to manipulate brain patterns and read each others thoughts, pull a professor Xavier and fight each other mentally, and the last man standing will be able to 100% persuade the other that they are right...no need to have OPEN mouth conversations, it will all be done mentally. (talk about Fascism at its peak)
Plus Telekinesis? I want to be able to FLY, and use the FORCE! Pull some Dragonball Z stuff, knowhatimsayin? Unlock the ultimate POTENTIAL within all of us (and significantly increase my power level)!
I honestly just want to learn to teleport and or disapparate sometimes.
Through what I am taught to believe through society/religion, I feel that the next level we humans will become is to be like, angels...or demi-gods?
BUT we will still be mortal. Perhaps our mortality will grow shorter, because more energy will be required to make the brain work at a higher capacity....OR we may live longer because the brain is able to understand cell processes and repair old/broken cells, thus allowing to express maximum output and efficiency with minimal energy...
To what is suggested through my thoughts, I am concluding that Humans will continue to evolve until we reach a God-like state...the state where GOD actually accepts us and will communicate with us directly...(I still do through prayer, but what I am aiming for is a more explicit form of communication...like talk to God on the phone...waddup G!)
because that is my flaw, I WANT TO GO BACK TO PARADISE, WHILE BEING ALIVE!!!
....sigh...sigh...sigh
"Lest we forget, we are mortal."
Without Further ado, Listen to CHANGE -->
Monday, May 18, 2009
E--GO!
My conscience, my mind, my friend...my ENEMY?
the Ego?
what is the Ego?
I recently watched a movie called Revolver...and it hit me...
YOU AND ME = EGO...
My surroundings create a reflection of me...
Picture of Dorian Gray...
I AM the painting.
...
"The Apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared" Northrop Frye- The Great Code
the Ego?
what is the Ego?
I recently watched a movie called Revolver...and it hit me...
YOU AND ME = EGO...
My surroundings create a reflection of me...
Picture of Dorian Gray...
I AM the painting.
...
"The Apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared" Northrop Frye- The Great Code
The Hate That Hate Produced
Excerpt from an early documentary exploring the Nation of Islam and anti-NOI movments of the time. It was filmed in 1959.
White vs. Black
always and forever.
it should be more that White + Black = Always and Forever (Yin Yang)
It's Crazy that the Broadcaster's decided to Title this with the emphasis on HATE!
suggesting that Black people incite the HATRED...
Frack,
I 'HATE' the ignorance of ignorance...
Check out the Autobiography of Malcolm X.
..
All I have to say is... in this world, the way you act towards others will bring in consequences both good and bad, in the future generation.
Treat someone bad today, that person will treat someone bad tomorrow...which may eventually lead someone to treat you or someone you know badly...or if not your grandchildren will feel the repercussions...Karma.
Therefore if only people can learn to follow the golden rule...
Treat others the way you wish to be treated...
NOW!
then can we find a sense of peace and harmony.
KEEP IT R.E.A.L!!!
White vs. Black
always and forever.
it should be more that White + Black = Always and Forever (Yin Yang)
It's Crazy that the Broadcaster's decided to Title this with the emphasis on HATE!
suggesting that Black people incite the HATRED...
Frack,
I 'HATE' the ignorance of ignorance...
Check out the Autobiography of Malcolm X.
..
All I have to say is... in this world, the way you act towards others will bring in consequences both good and bad, in the future generation.
Treat someone bad today, that person will treat someone bad tomorrow...which may eventually lead someone to treat you or someone you know badly...or if not your grandchildren will feel the repercussions...Karma.
Therefore if only people can learn to follow the golden rule...
Treat others the way you wish to be treated...
NOW!
then can we find a sense of peace and harmony.
KEEP IT R.E.A.L!!!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
I Don't Give Up! I Give Down!
Never Give UP!
Never succumb to oppression and exploitation!
When times get Rough, and the weight of the world seems to be placed on your shoulders, the thoughts of just "giving up" always come to mind. It seems so easy to just give up and just rest. But "giving up" comes with dire consequences as well. To give up, means to yield and surrender. All the morals and principles one holds dear to them is lost (depending on the scale of the situation). I always hold the mantra to never give up and keep fighting through, even in the face of adversity. Fights that I am constantly in are not physical, but internal mental bouts. Especially with studying. I am fighting my procrastination syndrome so that I can Focus and finish my work. I fight my temptations, inner demons, my writer's blocks, my self-hate, and other negative dealings in my mind.
This is what I mean when I say NEVER Give UP! I don't want to give in to temptations and fall prey into oppression and exploitation. Procrastionation is a form of oppression, rather I MAKE it a form of oppression, because by not doing my work, my mind becomes oppressed on learning new knowledge, and its right to exercise creativity and expression.
Always Give DOWN!
When I say I GIVE DOWN, what I mean is to apply all my energy into the activities I need to do down here on earth...Also to Give to the people in need...
But to address the former, To Give DOWN is to apply all that energy contemplating on "giving up" taking that break, succumbing to temptation, and listening to that voice that just tells you to stop, and redirect it to become motivation. I like to personify "Giving up" as that hard kick in the ass to remind me of my mortality and my humanity. It proves that I am weak, I am not superhuman and cannot do everything at once. This is why this thought of giving up comes in mind in the first place.
It also however, proves as a test of the strength of humanity. Though we are weak, feeble, and mortal (in the eyes of the divine), we also have the capacity to exercise our abilities to keep working as much or as little as we want, until it kills us. Technically we have an UNLIMITED source of power between the time of our birth to the time of our death! No matter how short or long our life span will be, with enough understanding, education, knowledge and persistence, we can literally MOVE mountains, REACH for the stars, and even CHANGE the world.
As human beings, individuals, we have to capacity to shape our own circumstances, we are what we make of this world. Looking back at the story of "Coffee Beans" in my previous posts, Humans have the capacity to become the coffee beans that transform the water.
---------------------**#2#**--------------------
Now to put this mantra in the context of my interpretation for the current economic situation, is that When I say to GIVE down, I suggest in giving to the poor, the exploited, the proletariat, a.k.a the considered "lower" class of the society. By giving UP, we are just feeding the rich, wealthy, bourgeois, our "Oppressors". When I give Up, I feel as though I am just disregarding, or yielding my individual humanity to the hands of those who I allow to control me, through the economy, media, etc...
It is very difficult in society to take an honourable stand, without fear of causing ruckus or great disturbance to the masses. I am all up for cultural revolutions and all, but I am not up for having to kill or injure people in order to achieve it...
What I solely intend to achieve from thinking about this, and by trying to explicate my thoughts, I want to Never forget about the people in the "bottom". I always am ready and willing to extend my hand to those who are down, to help bring them up. Or rather I am ready and willing to Jump DOWN and look up With them, rather than stay high and look down on them...Who are the people in the bottom?
EVERYONE!
Humanity is all in the bottom, as in we are all grounded in the earth. It's just a social construct that we produce that enables us to perceive and think we are above others, or below others.
I want to condone the belief that we are neither above nor below, but rather, BESIDE each other. We all humans, we all in this life together.
Never GIVE UP!, Always GIVE DOWN!
Never succumb to oppression and exploitation!
When times get Rough, and the weight of the world seems to be placed on your shoulders, the thoughts of just "giving up" always come to mind. It seems so easy to just give up and just rest. But "giving up" comes with dire consequences as well. To give up, means to yield and surrender. All the morals and principles one holds dear to them is lost (depending on the scale of the situation). I always hold the mantra to never give up and keep fighting through, even in the face of adversity. Fights that I am constantly in are not physical, but internal mental bouts. Especially with studying. I am fighting my procrastination syndrome so that I can Focus and finish my work. I fight my temptations, inner demons, my writer's blocks, my self-hate, and other negative dealings in my mind.
This is what I mean when I say NEVER Give UP! I don't want to give in to temptations and fall prey into oppression and exploitation. Procrastionation is a form of oppression, rather I MAKE it a form of oppression, because by not doing my work, my mind becomes oppressed on learning new knowledge, and its right to exercise creativity and expression.
Always Give DOWN!
When I say I GIVE DOWN, what I mean is to apply all my energy into the activities I need to do down here on earth...Also to Give to the people in need...
But to address the former, To Give DOWN is to apply all that energy contemplating on "giving up" taking that break, succumbing to temptation, and listening to that voice that just tells you to stop, and redirect it to become motivation. I like to personify "Giving up" as that hard kick in the ass to remind me of my mortality and my humanity. It proves that I am weak, I am not superhuman and cannot do everything at once. This is why this thought of giving up comes in mind in the first place.
It also however, proves as a test of the strength of humanity. Though we are weak, feeble, and mortal (in the eyes of the divine), we also have the capacity to exercise our abilities to keep working as much or as little as we want, until it kills us. Technically we have an UNLIMITED source of power between the time of our birth to the time of our death! No matter how short or long our life span will be, with enough understanding, education, knowledge and persistence, we can literally MOVE mountains, REACH for the stars, and even CHANGE the world.
As human beings, individuals, we have to capacity to shape our own circumstances, we are what we make of this world. Looking back at the story of "Coffee Beans" in my previous posts, Humans have the capacity to become the coffee beans that transform the water.
---------------------**#2#**--------------------
Now to put this mantra in the context of my interpretation for the current economic situation, is that When I say to GIVE down, I suggest in giving to the poor, the exploited, the proletariat, a.k.a the considered "lower" class of the society. By giving UP, we are just feeding the rich, wealthy, bourgeois, our "Oppressors". When I give Up, I feel as though I am just disregarding, or yielding my individual humanity to the hands of those who I allow to control me, through the economy, media, etc...
It is very difficult in society to take an honourable stand, without fear of causing ruckus or great disturbance to the masses. I am all up for cultural revolutions and all, but I am not up for having to kill or injure people in order to achieve it...
What I solely intend to achieve from thinking about this, and by trying to explicate my thoughts, I want to Never forget about the people in the "bottom". I always am ready and willing to extend my hand to those who are down, to help bring them up. Or rather I am ready and willing to Jump DOWN and look up With them, rather than stay high and look down on them...Who are the people in the bottom?
EVERYONE!
Humanity is all in the bottom, as in we are all grounded in the earth. It's just a social construct that we produce that enables us to perceive and think we are above others, or below others.
I want to condone the belief that we are neither above nor below, but rather, BESIDE each other. We all humans, we all in this life together.
Never GIVE UP!, Always GIVE DOWN!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Born into This...Like This... DOOM! Bukowski
Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
As the oily fish spit out their oily prey
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
It will be guns and roving mobs
Land will be useless
Food will become a diminishing return
Nuclear power will be taken over by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
Radiated robot men will stalk each other
The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms
Dante’s Inferno will be made to look like a children’s playground
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter.
...I am Born into this world. Consumed by Leviathan.
Can I change it?
I can only await what happens next, await for the choices that lay ahead of me.
What I can change is my direction.
Am I continuing on the path to Greatness? Path to Destruction?
I realize...
I am a product of Leviathan...Either path I choose, my Life will CHANGE...I CHANGE my world as I Live...Can I choose to slay Leviathan? or stay in it?
I want to slay it, but I wouldn't mind staying in it, if I can tame it...
I'm still sharpening my sword, my mind.
When I am confident in my skillz, I will face it and decide its fate...my fate...
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Only when the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
will we realise we cannot eat money.
-Cree Saying
Monday, April 6, 2009
Passion of the Student!!! A week of School left, and It's Holy Week!
It's been a while since I last posted. I've been searching for inspiration on a next blog topic, for the past 4 months. Something that I learned in my creative writing class is that, I personally, struggle and think too much on what I feel is inspirational, or what I should be writing about. This is more of a flaw for me.
I feel like I need to develop the PERFECT blog post...well that's not possible.
Look at this, already I've gone into a tangent.
Anyway, it's Last week of my 3rd year at UofT, and it so happens to land on HOLY WEEK!
I pray that things will work out for the good in the end. 2 things to look forward to, End of School, and of course EASTER Celebration!
If anything its like an omen in a way...(but not really I'm just developing a crazy context as a form of procrastination)...Since it IS HOLY WEEK, a week involving the Passion of the Christ...This also kind of plays a part in the Passion of the student! I am a student, figuratively and literally. I study Life, and Im always learning something new everyday.
I must endure and suffer through these Exams and Assignments, and do my best on them...only then will I be able Raise* myself up and enjoy the Easter Celebration and fully accept my beloved Summer Vacation...
I feel like I need to develop the PERFECT blog post...well that's not possible.
Look at this, already I've gone into a tangent.
Anyway, it's Last week of my 3rd year at UofT, and it so happens to land on HOLY WEEK!
I pray that things will work out for the good in the end. 2 things to look forward to, End of School, and of course EASTER Celebration!
If anything its like an omen in a way...(but not really I'm just developing a crazy context as a form of procrastination)...Since it IS HOLY WEEK, a week involving the Passion of the Christ...This also kind of plays a part in the Passion of the student! I am a student, figuratively and literally. I study Life, and Im always learning something new everyday.
I must endure and suffer through these Exams and Assignments, and do my best on them...only then will I be able Raise* myself up and enjoy the Easter Celebration and fully accept my beloved Summer Vacation...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Failure is Not an Option! It's a Fate we must endure to our advantage!
I just recently saw J.K Rowlings commencement adress to the 2008 graduates at Harvard, about the "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination," and found it very inspirational! she talks about how FAILURE, the biggest FEAR that I would say 99.99999999% percent of the human race holds is something that we shouldn't fight to avoid, but rather accept and work with to overcome. Meaning We shouldn't base our merits and our dealings in life because we don't WANT to Fail, but should base them on because WE WANT TO DO THIS AND JUST FINISH THIS... I know I may not have been able to articulate my thoughts succinctly enough, but Basically what she says in her speech is "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
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Click Here to READ the Speech
a.k.a when you hit the bottom, there is only one way to go...UP!!! you silly children!!!
Ah just Listen to it already!!!
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
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Click Here to READ the Speech
Monday, December 15, 2008
knowledge is POWER...Knowledge is HECTIC!
I'm on the verge of cracking in a way.
Ah I'm about to study for my last exam for tomorrow. I just realized there is SO MUCH I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING!!
It just overwhelms me how the stuff I'm reading and learning about, is never going to completely satisfy my UNDERSTANDING until I know all the aphorisms, allusions, double meanings etc.
I'm studying for my Topics in Shakespeare Course, and SHIT SON! There is SO much to denote in Shakespeare's plays. Whether it was written by Him FULLY or not, DAMN...So many underlying themes, puns, and hardcore double meanings!
Much like a Lot of Wu-tang songs, and other Really good Musicians and Artists, there are ENDLESS deeper meanings that can be interpreted in anything!!!
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IF you read my post below, I am in a constant pursuit of KNOWLEDGE!!! and Now at this hour is no different. I say I AM studying, but really I'm wiki'ing and google searching random things of interest!
(Damn this crazy information Age!!! I LOVE and HATE Thee!)
Things just Feel so Overwhelming because I WANT TO KNOW more, I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING!!!
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But I KNOW that it is IMPOSSIBLE to KNOW EVERYTHING! It's just this human complex in me, My want to BECOME like God, by gaining knowledge (Eating the APPLE)! I won't stop trying though, just because it is what drives me to learn and understand...
Although I still need to LEARN to control my mind to not get so overwhelmed with this, and UNDERSTAND that my capacity to learn is ENDLESS, meaning I can constantly keep learning and learning, and there is no such thing as being able to know everything! There is however, such thing as KNOWING a lot!
To know everything is to know nothing.
Basically the purpose of my rant is to VENT out my desire to want to DO So MUCH IN MY LIFE!!! I want to travel, I want to explore the World, the Universe, Watch Movies all day, Watch all the Nostalgic T.V Shows/Cartoons from the 90's, Read Graphic Novels and all pieces of Literature...and the LIST GOES ON!!!
I feel so limited in my life. There really is Not enough time for me to do everything in ONE Lifetime!
Therefore I'll just have to do the MOST I can with what TIME I have.
What got me overwhelmed and thinking like this in the first place???
Well as I listen to my Beats, it overwhelms my mind how
Everytime I hear a crazy beat/sound, that stimulates my mind beyond anything I can explain, I go friggin **berserk!!! Like How something THAT Good be able to enter my mind??? If you don't understand me, listen to one of your favourite songs in the WHOLE world, and just get lost in its sounds. How can these sound frequency's fuse together to create something that is SO incredible??? If I could express how I feel like when I hear Music, put your visualization on your Itunes (or winamp or Wmedia Player, or whatever you use), all those crazy colours that explode as it goes with the beat, THAT's how i FEEL like my mind is when I listen to music...and or when I read, and try and understand something that is really mesmerizing and Deep
(Exhales deeply)
ALSO I just watched this episode recently. It's from "The Twilight Zone" and the episode is called "Time Enough At Last"
For those of you who Don't Know, its been parodied a lot from Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy and other t.v shows. About the LAST guy on the planet, who Loves to READ, but then breaks his glasses and is Not able to read! (its Sad, yet FUNNY at the Same time) Its funny because its So Ironic!
It just also summarizes my rant in a segment. We can't know everything, nor can we do whatever we want, whenever we want! Therefore just ACCEPT what you can and Live your life... well something like that at least. I've been meaning to actually watch this for a long time, and I finally found Time enough at last...during my "study" breaks.
HERES THE VID!!! "Time Enough At Last"
The Twilight Zone - Time Enough At last
LASTLY I want to Leave you with some Quotes that I found really inspiring, and helped me to vent out my feelings in the First Place.
That which does not destroy us makes us stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. — Benjamin Franklin
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. - Francis Bacon
THEREFORE
Knowledge Is Power, Power Corrupts. Study Hard, Be Evil
(but not really =P)
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At the end of the day, I write this because I realize, that sometimes we (humans) need to vent out our FRUSTRATION of being human!!!
Naw' means???
Again the only formula to take control of THIS, (I find at least) is to keep it R.E.A.L!!!
I just have to Respect, Endure, Accept, and Love my human flaws, so I won't feel so sporadic and all over the place. Control is the KEY, to Keeping it REAL!
Peace and Love
LG
Monday, December 1, 2008
In Pursuit of Knowledge...(The Procrastinator's way)
I cannot believe it is almost CHRISTMAS time again, and the beginning of a New Year!
...Just as soon as I finish my exams!
I dont know what I'm doing right now... I want to continue to succeed in my studies but...In light of the season, I'd much rather enlighten my mind to music, watch episodes of Hey Arnold! and Batman TAS, read stuff on wikipedia, and just learn about New Things, instead of study!
I know this seems kinda WACK, but like I'd rather read stuff on Howstuffworks.com and learn how stuff works and expand my knowledge that way, instead of reading the material my Prof's assigned to be ready for my EXAMS!!!
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But Luigi, that's just Silly why don't you just sit down, shut up, and study?
The Answer: as much as I want to JUST 'study', my procrastination complex in my mind kicks in and would much rather be enlightened by learning about other things than whats necessary for my courses. =S
I don't know why but I feel as though my mind is inkling for a constant pursuit of new knowledge.
I mean I actually enjoy the courses I'm in, love the prof's and all, but when it comes down to studying for it, I push it off aside and increase my knowledge by learning about OTHER things...
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Ah this is crazy talk! This crazy procrastination complex in my mind has gone F.U.B.A.R (Fucked Up Beyond All Repair) that it is sending me messages that makes me FEEL like it's controlling me...
Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.
I guess it's an inherent part of being a student.
Not only am I paying a hefty sum, to be a student, but it boggles my mind that my attitude toward my studies is very lax.
The messed up thing about this all is that I KNOW that the only SOLUTION for this is to SIMPLY just shut everything off and start studying the material that's relevant to my GRADES!
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I don't know, but only until HOURS before the exam/assignment actually is, I will be found reading articles from various other sites instead of my studies, and producing blog posts instead of essays.
I don't want to fail in SCHOOL, and in LIFE! But for some reason the slackers instinct pushes through and tells me to learn new things than continue to understand my courses...I would also much rather help other people finish their work, before I finish mine!!!
I should end this here. I am actually reading this article on how to STOP procrastinating, and it seems helpful. Check it when you MAKE the time! actually check it...
NOW!!! CLICK HERE TO STOP PROCRASTINATING
Confused???
I am...
PEACE and LOVE
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