Everyone of us usually finds themselves in line at one time or another. It is an arduous experience that leaves you frustrated, exhausted and angry. Why is impatience such a prolific affliction that most people in the United States have? Why has westernization left so many people impatient and easy to frustrate with something so simple as a line?
Monday, December 7, 2015
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Early morning cold
That ache that you feel gettingnout of bed. Old sprains and healed over broken bones aching. Joints feeling stiff, the air smelling fresh and new, all signs of the winter chill. Cold and painful, but fresh and new.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Dilemmas of Nick Carraway Part 2 of 3
There are a few actions and proceedings that Nick Carraway could have gone along with to better his situation. Nick Carraway had to have been honest with himself and come to terms with the fact that he is attracted to his friend’s wealthy and carefree lifestyle. Once he would have done this he would have felt a great weight lifted from his shoulders. He would have faced the truth that he is not so different from the people and friends he has come to care so much for and idolize.
The truth is that he enjoys the concept and reality of having the freedom of leading an ambiguous lifestyle, not pertaining to a defined and uniformed set of standards. He is attracted to the hedonistic life. This freedom of self is an enticing way of life to ponder. Realizing that he actually enjoys the ideas behind the way of life he sees as immoral and yet freeing would have helped him for the sake of his future. In realizing this he could have applied the standards he constantly stirs into his judgmental criticism toward his friends and people he surrounded himself with and instead directed it at himself. By doing this he would be able to determine once and for all what he chooses to be his way of life and what he wants from life.
This is one of the most crucial proceedings of his current state of life. Now that he faces the harsh reality that he has suffered a tremendous loss and is grief stricken from the death of his closest friends. Nick needs this time to really reflect on how much and how drastically his life has changed and that he is a different man now from the time he left his family, home, set standards, and ideals especially considering he is a war veteran. He is at a crossroads that has and will forever change his life and this is where he should have reevaluated his life to relive it and see how every interaction, excursion and adventure with his friends has been an experience that has allowed him to learn who he really is and how he feels regarding the fallacy of how he believed he should live according to the way he was raised and who he really has become and decide who he really wants to be.
The truth is that he enjoys the concept and reality of having the freedom of leading an ambiguous lifestyle, not pertaining to a defined and uniformed set of standards. He is attracted to the hedonistic life. This freedom of self is an enticing way of life to ponder. Realizing that he actually enjoys the ideas behind the way of life he sees as immoral and yet freeing would have helped him for the sake of his future. In realizing this he could have applied the standards he constantly stirs into his judgmental criticism toward his friends and people he surrounded himself with and instead directed it at himself. By doing this he would be able to determine once and for all what he chooses to be his way of life and what he wants from life.
This is one of the most crucial proceedings of his current state of life. Now that he faces the harsh reality that he has suffered a tremendous loss and is grief stricken from the death of his closest friends. Nick needs this time to really reflect on how much and how drastically his life has changed and that he is a different man now from the time he left his family, home, set standards, and ideals especially considering he is a war veteran. He is at a crossroads that has and will forever change his life and this is where he should have reevaluated his life to relive it and see how every interaction, excursion and adventure with his friends has been an experience that has allowed him to learn who he really is and how he feels regarding the fallacy of how he believed he should live according to the way he was raised and who he really has become and decide who he really wants to be.
The Dilemmas of Nick Carraway Part 3 of 3
What Nick Carraway needs to review and come to terms with in his life, is as what follows. His ideals and ideas of life. The ways of how he has led life have been called into question. His perception of people has been broken. He is depressed. His ideology of his friends has been destroyed. He has suffered the death of many of his friends and people that surrounded his life, some of which he cared for greatly. His fantastical and fictive view of the world has been shattered and he is now aware of the harsh truth of reality. He no longer knows where to go with his life.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Music and Life
Is music what we think it is? Is it not just a numerical and mathematical algorithm of sounds at a decibel level that humans can perceive enough to experience. Do we receive joy from it because it is familiar or because it is unusual. Compared to most things in life from when we developed as humans it, is unlike anything. We developed instruments to make sounds that are pleasurable. As someone with mild synthesia it is sometimes wonderful to see blue and green hues with nostalgic and emotional soft music. I first realized I was different with this when watching a movie very dear to me for a lot of reasons maybe this is the biggest one but nonetheless it means a lot to me. Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope is this movie. There is a rather emotional scene in the movie when the main character and hero of the epic, Luke Skywalker, looks out to the sunset with a sense of longing and the music that accompanies it gives a sense of pure nostalgia and longing. I get the same reaction every time I watch this scene. I get goosebumps, my eyes tear up and I start seeing vivid blues and greens and then as the short scene is coming to a close I get a warm feeling and everything becomes engulfed in a bright orange. I believe having this way of experience with sounds and music and connection with it I find myself sometimes wondering why we evolved this ability. It is a way to communicate emotions without speaking and maybe the next step toward our evolution to be able to understand one another better for the betterment of our race as a whole. I find it interesting that most people that develop synesthesia come from a scande-wegen or Icelandic region and I am a descendent of niether.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The Dilemmas of Nick Carraway Part 1 of 3
Great Gatsby Analysis
Nick is a war veteran and a normal man thrust into an abnormal situation. He is thrust into circumstances out of his control and experiences events that make him question his life views and morals. He considers these events much more endearing and life changing than his previous life experiences in the “Great War” or World War 1 or his studies at the Ivy League University. The reason that these events affect him more than the other life changing events he had previously experienced is because they were events that have put into question his sense of high morality that was inculcated to him since he was a child.
Nick is now a difficult situation. He is conflicted and is questioning himself. His sense of high morality that he was raised with has been called in questioned. He has had more than a taste of ‘the Roaring Twenties’ in the most powerful experience possible. He became friends with Jay Gatsby and associated himself with that circle of people. He saw firsthand how immoral and dishonest people can be and most importantly he saw that those with power and money are the ones most responsible for that. He sees firsthand the way the elite socialites are; he witnesses the sycophantic suck-ups, he experiences firsthand the two-faced friends, he even comes to witness the freeloaders and the immorality of the high class elite socialites. This has driven a blade into his personal ideals and ideas of peoples. He has become conflicted with how to view the world and he has come to odds with his high standards.
Nick is a war veteran and a normal man thrust into an abnormal situation. He is thrust into circumstances out of his control and experiences events that make him question his life views and morals. He considers these events much more endearing and life changing than his previous life experiences in the “Great War” or World War 1 or his studies at the Ivy League University. The reason that these events affect him more than the other life changing events he had previously experienced is because they were events that have put into question his sense of high morality that was inculcated to him since he was a child.
Nick is now a difficult situation. He is conflicted and is questioning himself. His sense of high morality that he was raised with has been called in questioned. He has had more than a taste of ‘the Roaring Twenties’ in the most powerful experience possible. He became friends with Jay Gatsby and associated himself with that circle of people. He saw firsthand how immoral and dishonest people can be and most importantly he saw that those with power and money are the ones most responsible for that. He sees firsthand the way the elite socialites are; he witnesses the sycophantic suck-ups, he experiences firsthand the two-faced friends, he even comes to witness the freeloaders and the immorality of the high class elite socialites. This has driven a blade into his personal ideals and ideas of peoples. He has become conflicted with how to view the world and he has come to odds with his high standards.
What Is Porn To You?
Porn now runs the modern world by way of the internet. It is, currently, one of the biggest resources and movement of internet traffic. As many people now know, pornography is one of the most prominent reasons that the internet is as presently used. It has helped to increase internet speeds and server sizes, due to its prevalence and prominence in society. It is one of the reasons the internet browsers on mobile phones are as fast paced and developed as they are. Porn has concurrently had an influence on technology. The digital camera has developed to film at higher qualities, due to the want of higher quality pornography. Internet speeds are faster. One of the more prolific uses of HTML 5 is to watch high quality, high definition pornography. Despite this resource and cause for internet traffic, pornography is still universally viewed as taboo in our modern civilizations. Socially, it is still viewed as an unacceptable act to view it. People still have to view it privately for fear of being judged as a pervert, yet almost every internet viewer has at least visited a porn website since being on the internet.
What is porn to you?
What is porn to you?
Monday, November 2, 2015
An analysis of a Common Proverb
The Apple Does Not
Fall Far from the Tree
A child
has a predisposition to act similarly to his or her parents. The inherit
predisposition to act similarly is based in both nature and nurture. Certain
traits found in a child that relates to psychological and sociological factors,
such as the psycho-social development, are genetically transferred traits.
Certain genes found in both parents relating to extraversion versus introversion
can be inherited. However, this genetic predisposition is a train of observable
behaviors.
Studies
of psycho-social behaviors can be changed through the developmental stage and
or through behavioral therapy (Carl Jung). As a result of this, we know and
understand that if, for example, a child was born with a genetic predisposition
to be an introvert but both his or her parents were extraverted, the child will
develop similar behaviors to the parents. This nurturing of behavior can influence
the predispositioned genetic trait to lessen and be replaced by the nurtured
behavior that was taught and shown to them by their parents.
Generally
this nurtured nature of behaviors can also be transferred from isms and idioms
of the guardian even if the guardian is not related by blood to the child that
is being raised. They can develop similar speech patterns, accents, hand
gestures and other types of isms related to their guardian more than anyone
else. Though a child does also adopt behaviors from the ones they socialize
with the most, it is almost a certified quantifiable idea that this will be
their parents for the first years of their lives which will shape their main
behaviors that they will carry with them throughout their lives.
A child
will develop traits from their parents and act similarly like them due to both inherited
traits and also learned behaviors. That
naturally occurs during the developmental stages of the parent-child
relationship. “The apple does not fall far from the tree,” indeed, it is a safe
bet that a typical child will develop similar behaviors to their parents and or
guardians.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Quotation of the week 4
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” – Aristotle
Love is something that no one person can truly have by him or herself. It is something that requires two people to be in unity and balance with one another till they are one soul if they ever wish to be together.
Aristotle was a prolific Greek philosopher that has helped develop our modern understandings of a variety of subjects. He was a student of Plato who had studied under Socrates. He was the next line to revolutionize and continue the evolution of philosophy and intellectual thought of the Greeks which would later inspire most of the world.
"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015.
Love is something that no one person can truly have by him or herself. It is something that requires two people to be in unity and balance with one another till they are one soul if they ever wish to be together.
Aristotle was a prolific Greek philosopher that has helped develop our modern understandings of a variety of subjects. He was a student of Plato who had studied under Socrates. He was the next line to revolutionize and continue the evolution of philosophy and intellectual thought of the Greeks which would later inspire most of the world.
"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Quotation of the week 3
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
The road can be arduous and the journey can be as if it were a venture into hell, but at the end of it, you will finish it feeling fulfilled. It takes an incredibly amount of hard work to learn something, but when you do, you feel satisfied of having conquered whatever you were trying to learn.
Aristotle was a Renaissance man before the term existed. He studied all walks of art, logic, and life, continually improved his understanding of every subject he encountered, and wrote more and more about them. He did this to improve his understanding of the world and, maybe, help others to also see the world in a different light. He was one of the first to develop a formalized system for reasoning and studied the structures of arguments and validities of arguments. He continued the work of Socrates in this way, by helping give rise to the modern propositional logic and study of thereof.
Aristotle was a Renaissance man before the term existed. He studied all walks of art, logic, and life, continually improved his understanding of every subject he encountered, and wrote more and more about them. He did this to improve his understanding of the world and, maybe, help others to also see the world in a different light. He was one of the first to develop a formalized system for reasoning and studied the structures of arguments and validities of arguments. He continued the work of Socrates in this way, by helping give rise to the modern propositional logic and study of thereof.
"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
A mini study and Interpretation on People with Dyslexia
Unlike most misconceptions about Dyslexia, it is niether a disorder or disease. It is a thinking process apparent in many people. People with Dyslexia generally have a very great understanding of 3 dimensional objects and abstract reasoning. Generally speaking their abstract reasoning is more developed than literature reasoning due to the difficulty with it. Therefore they excel in their skill of expertise as they give up to ten times more effort achieving to learn and understand the concepts they are genuinely interested in. People with Dyslexia appear to have a focused expertise or display if skill due to this type of focus that they put into understanding the concepts.
Taken from
http://www.Ncbi.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002379/
http://www.Ncbi.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002379/
Boredom
Bored
verb (used with object)
1.
to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.: The long speech bored me.
noun
2.
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
3.
a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do.
1.
to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.: The long speech bored me.
noun
2.
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
3.
a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do.
*These terms were provided by www.dictionary.com
When a person says "I'm bored" do they really mean the definition of being bored? The dullness in a room can be understood and the tedious repetition of a task can be well understood, but the simple fact of sitting inside one's own house and saying those words, typing them in a twitter feed, blog, or Facebook status post seems rather irrelevant.
The usual crowd of using this phrase comes from children and young adults. Being laden with video games, social media, television, and the ability to have things at the ready, at the exact moment of wanting it, has influenced the coming generation.
There are so many distractions that present themselves to us in the United States. The main target for advertisers is children and young adults. How much time is spent on playing video games vs. learning? How much time is spent on social media networks vs. physical activity? How much time is spent on television vs. doing what you are supposed to be doing?
The more prominent answer is the obvious one. Technological advancements are not being used correctly. All these amazing video games with the highest of graphics are such eye candy they leave little room for children to fixate themselves on other things that could be more beneficial. The social media aspect of the internet can be such a great tool to bring awareness to topics from around the world and yet we worry too much about who Jack and Diane are dating.
With all these distractions it is easy to fall into the habit of needing to be in front of a screen doing "something" when in reality nothing is being achieved. There is a whole world out there that needs to be explored. The internet is such a great tool for acquiring information that could be used exactly for that purpose. Taking on projects, traveling, learning a new language, learning how to perform a new activity, reading a book, reading information, learning to play an instrument, watching a video on history-science-animals-etc.
The thing is to not limit yourself and expand your mind. Let go of the telescope, binoculars and instead open your eyes and look in all directions to see what you can find.
An Interesting Religious Concept
There is a particular branch of Satanism known as Luciferianism which takes this view in regard to the Adam and Eve story. The interpretation here is that God deliberately forbade eating from the Tree of Knowledge to keep humanity blinded, ignorant, and subservient. This left room for the serpent to free them from their chains of servitude and ignorance. The serpent freed them from this and thus gave humans the capacity for knowledge, learning, higher thought and true self sentience. Of course, the cost of humanity's higher knowledge (and morality, sentience, deeper consciousness, conplex thought processes, science and technology and all the other baggage that comes with it) may or may not have been worth it. I found this literary interpretation fascinating due to how it paints Lucifer (the original serpent) as a saviour and dammer of mankind at the same time, becoming an anti-hero for humanity instead of just a pure character of hate. This is especially prevalent if tied in with the "Paradise Lost" interpretation of Lucifer being a sympathic and tragic character.
I would like to think, that despite him knowing it would be a losing battle what he was actually trying to do was make humanity free and independent. Satan is the hero. If you look at the bible from a modern standpoint, satan looks more like someone like V from V for Vendetta than he does as the epitome of all evil. God had a totalitarian orwellian type regime and kept inposing that with his peoples and would destroy those against him with superior technology and firepower but satan despite knowing it was a losing battle did his best to free the minds of others and show that humans have free will, his conversation with Jehovah in his court in Job from a literary analysis view point wirh modern literature and understanding of civilization in mind makes u see Satan/Lucifer as the hero as he tells god that Job will decide for himself and God becomes the villain tempting job with great prosperity if he gives into his ways and stays loyal. It feels as though god is the one tempting Job with evil more than Satan is. Satan was trying to free Job so much he was willing to make him come near death to show him the truth that he was being nothing more than a slave but then he defied Satan and chose his slave master, God, as his savior instead.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Quote of the Week 2
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
Success is branded as people who are successful want to see others succeed while unsuccessful
people want to see others fall.
A man of success is only successful if his beginning values are unchanged when he becomes successful. Hence, remembering where you come from.
Albert Einstein is a man so widely recognized and known he almost needs no introduction. The German born physicist, who redefined the theories of relatively and time and gravity, is infamous for his work on the atomic bomb and spatial and time theories. Born to Jewish parents in olden Germany, he had an interesting life. I will write an article about him later on as he is one of my inspirations and early influence on my quest for knowledge.
"Albert Einstein | Biography - German-American Physicist." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 19 May 2015.
Albert Einstein
Success is branded as people who are successful want to see others succeed while unsuccessful
people want to see others fall.
A man of success is only successful if his beginning values are unchanged when he becomes successful. Hence, remembering where you come from.
Albert Einstein is a man so widely recognized and known he almost needs no introduction. The German born physicist, who redefined the theories of relatively and time and gravity, is infamous for his work on the atomic bomb and spatial and time theories. Born to Jewish parents in olden Germany, he had an interesting life. I will write an article about him later on as he is one of my inspirations and early influence on my quest for knowledge.
"Albert Einstein | Biography - German-American Physicist." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 19 May 2015.
Monday, July 13, 2015
Quotation of the Week, 1
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the
impossible."-
Francis of Assisi
The impossible is always achievable. There is no such thing as something impossible. Something that is generally seen as impossible is generally just incredibly difficult and may seem overwhelming. Look at it from a simple eye and deal with it one thing at a time and what once seemed impossible has now become possible.
Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic Friar who was born as Giovanni di Pietro di
Bernardone in 1181 A.D. He died at the age of 44 in 1226 A.D. He had a couple notable accomplishments in his life, as he founded the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis for men and women. He helped to reorganize the Franciscan Order. He was dedicated to imitating the life and work of Jesus Christ. He was a great read. I highly recommend reading about him as a life figure. For anyone wanting to be volunteer or for someone who wants to do good deeds, even if you are not religious, he is an inspiration.
"Saint Francis of Assisi | Biography - Italian Saint." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia
Britannica, n.d. Web. 19 May 2015.
Obligatory Introductory first post
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Obligatory Introductory first post
I will start off by saying that this blog will be pretty simple, but it will also be quite impeccably random with its choice of topics. It will be filled with a variety of quotes from some of my favorite figures of history. I will sometimes provide some personal commentary about these quotes. I will also give a simple introduction or back story to the person who wrote the quote. Other times, I will just post them and leave them be. This blog is mostly going to encompass some editorials about some strange and weird subjects that I find interesting. I will try to, sometimes, keep it a little normal for a bit, but it will not always be the case. My topics will encompass several different types of posts; something that is strange, an editorial about something weird, a topic I am passionate about, and something a bit more average or normal. Among these topics I will be writing about them in a variety of ways. Some will be opinionated (personal thoughts). Some of my posts will simply be analytical (based on logic). Others will just be a factual or journalist like article. I will deal with subjects of language and other languages, philosophy, psychology, counseling, music, movies, books, life and leisure, sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with anything else that might come my way. I might go into some personal topics and subjects or things affecting my life. I will also write about relationships and friendships, it sounds quite cheesy thinking about it but it is something that affects everyone and maybe my personal experience with life will correlate with another person’s experience. I will write each entry to be from a couple hundred to a couple thousand words. I will keep them short and sweet and will attempt to not be too elaborate with my language and vocabulary, so as to not dissuade the reading of my articles (So I don't scare you away). I am a jack of all trades. I am a musician; guitarist, pianist, drummer, trumpeter, keyboardist, bassist, composer, music arranger, hobbyist audio engineer, Psychology and Criminal Justice Dual Major, and I am also doing a Pre-Med scholastic career. I will be doing an EMT-advanced course in December. Over this summer I am going to be hospital volunteering and Red Cross volunteering. I am also an independent filmmaker and actor currently working on a movie as the producer, acting director, assistant director, script editor, composer, musician, and arranger, assistant casting director. I keep myself busy with as much as I can. I am going to start working with children with autism as an assistant behavioral therapist. I am also a tutor for English. I am fluent in English and Spanish, I can read Latin, and I am learning German and Japanese, over the next two years I hope to learn Mandarin, Japanese, and German. I am also writing a couple of books and am an artist with a proficiency in sketching. I am involved in my university’s student government and have dealt with many political agendas within these past couple of months and will continue to do so.
I hope all of you enjoy my writing and reading my blogs. Please feel free to comment when you
feel like it.
@Solaresisms on Twitter
Obligatory Introductory first post
I will start off by saying that this blog will be pretty simple, but it will also be quite impeccably random with its choice of topics. It will be filled with a variety of quotes from some of my favorite figures of history. I will sometimes provide some personal commentary about these quotes. I will also give a simple introduction or back story to the person who wrote the quote. Other times, I will just post them and leave them be. This blog is mostly going to encompass some editorials about some strange and weird subjects that I find interesting. I will try to, sometimes, keep it a little normal for a bit, but it will not always be the case. My topics will encompass several different types of posts; something that is strange, an editorial about something weird, a topic I am passionate about, and something a bit more average or normal. Among these topics I will be writing about them in a variety of ways. Some will be opinionated (personal thoughts). Some of my posts will simply be analytical (based on logic). Others will just be a factual or journalist like article. I will deal with subjects of language and other languages, philosophy, psychology, counseling, music, movies, books, life and leisure, sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with anything else that might come my way. I might go into some personal topics and subjects or things affecting my life. I will also write about relationships and friendships, it sounds quite cheesy thinking about it but it is something that affects everyone and maybe my personal experience with life will correlate with another person’s experience. I will write each entry to be from a couple hundred to a couple thousand words. I will keep them short and sweet and will attempt to not be too elaborate with my language and vocabulary, so as to not dissuade the reading of my articles (So I don't scare you away). I am a jack of all trades. I am a musician; guitarist, pianist, drummer, trumpeter, keyboardist, bassist, composer, music arranger, hobbyist audio engineer, Psychology and Criminal Justice Dual Major, and I am also doing a Pre-Med scholastic career. I will be doing an EMT-advanced course in December. Over this summer I am going to be hospital volunteering and Red Cross volunteering. I am also an independent filmmaker and actor currently working on a movie as the producer, acting director, assistant director, script editor, composer, musician, and arranger, assistant casting director. I keep myself busy with as much as I can. I am going to start working with children with autism as an assistant behavioral therapist. I am also a tutor for English. I am fluent in English and Spanish, I can read Latin, and I am learning German and Japanese, over the next two years I hope to learn Mandarin, Japanese, and German. I am also writing a couple of books and am an artist with a proficiency in sketching. I am involved in my university’s student government and have dealt with many political agendas within these past couple of months and will continue to do so.
I hope all of you enjoy my writing and reading my blogs. Please feel free to comment when you
feel like it.
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