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.

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. 

"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015.

Rainbow Splotches in the Sky

On the way to California from Las Vegas, seeing this.

Japanese saying

Ko in ya no gotoshi
Time is passing so fast like an arrow

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/

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.

*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.