Like how one percieves good and evil, beauty and ugliness are equally relative. Countless times have I seen actor(ress), musician and what not that people will pine about how sexy, attractive, beautiful they are. I won't say anything to contradict but am left to ponder what part of that person they find beautiful.
The focus of ones attention varies between everyone. Some people will take in the whole picture, others focus on key features while some will nitpick every crease, cranny and curve.
When it comes down to it, most people's perception of beauty relies on what they find attractive, not neccessary what is pretty by standard. I can name a few people popularized in media that people will pine over and I find...well, kind of ugly. Which brings us to the more important matter, what makes ugly? You can live your life homely or mildly attractive, but ugly is like a stink that doesn't go away.
So really if one is concerned about their looks or general appearance, shooting for -not- ugly is a reasonable goal, espicially if said person was not found attractive or does not find themself attractive.
What makes ugly? I'll be getting to that shortly...
The vast majority of us usually look are best at the earliest of ages, before the world, mankind and our saturation upon developement(either emotional or enviromental conditions). As you grow, how you're raised and treated, your view of yourself, contributes to your physical appearence. Even if you can hide emotion, your self gradually gets painted onto your physical form. The mind is a powerful thing, the tool of the soul to guide the body in the world. Simply being told and thinking that you are beautiful or ugly can make you thus. Even if you don't believe these things, a part of you might.
Beauty is tricky. Ugliness is pretty basic. Like smashing a stained glass window is far easier then building one, it takes no real effort to be ugly. Simple things like greed, selfishness, agressiveness, sadness and hatred chisel your face, bend your posture and even effects your stance. Its not hard to do any of those things, but it is to not do them. Which I'm pretty sure is the point.
So why do we get fooled? Well the answer lies within ones self. Trying to either find someone whose on your level or above...and in some cases below. The body you start with and grow up with, even if you take care of it, eat right, excercise or even do the opposite does not neccessary contribute. Sterotypes that people have tend to make those superficial things mandatory.
Some people know that they are either beautiful or ugly, their are actually a minority. Most people have a perception that they are one of the two, or in the middle, but its easy to lie to yourself. If everyone you know tells you so, you believe it out of trust. If you look at yourself, you may find every flaw, or every perk. Thus, we, both men and women who have the vanity for it, tend to fashion themselves in ways to direct the eyes of the onlooker. Makeup, clothing, accessories. Anything to distract the eyes, or draw them to a desire location, distorting the viewers perception of the targets true appearence.
In the end its not your body shape, weight, height, age, ethnicity, sex or even deformations that decides your look, but you yourself. Its truelly all in the mind, and the sooner you know, the less likely you'll find yourself ugly. And if you do, think of what you might be doing that is ugly. Not being ugly is a step up the pretty ladder. Oh, and you can't fake climbing a ladder, it just doesn't work. You find yourself staring at that ladder, invisioning yourself climbing up it...but you're still well in the mud, and sinking.
Remember, some of the -beautiful- people have flaws that you'd find ugly in others.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Ghosts in the machine.
Something I've become more and more aware of is that life is more than your basic nature made organic matter. There is another factor to life and that is energy. All lifeforms function off the basic principle that they need energy. A material is consumed and converted by the life and functionality ensues. So who's to say that what man has made does not have life itself?
It can be a scary thought to know that your very car could be a life form, more so if it had a spirit. Of course you cannot manufacture spirit or even create it. It something that is already here, but not all spirits have bodies, and some never choose to. With technology advancing and our creations become more complex and closer to lifeforms that nature has created, spirits begin to take host of them. Unlike a living person, there is no resisting spirit to keep them out, but the mystery would be the motive of said spirit.
Spirits have inhabited other objects before, far less complicated and more of effigies than functioning machines. Take dolls and houses for instance. The materials used in both tend to have some organic beginning. The wood of the house frame, the cotton filling of the doll provided remnants of life that draw vagrant spirits. Cars too are composed and function from the product of organic material. Crude oil is broken down from lifeforms millions of years ago, it is still very much an organic compound despite the series of refinement and additives mixed into it. Add to that the use of electricity and you have a man made life form. Gas provides it energy, electricity controls its brain, oil works like blood by keeping the parts functioning, perhaps in a different way.
Of course cars are still primitive despite being more complex than inanimate objects. However today we've gone the extra mile, we have computers. They only require energy, making them an ideal host to inhabit. This is were I have a little more experience with the behavior of computers with spirits. Although I cannot say for sure, it seems that the primary residence of a spirit in a computer tends to be the hard drive, the only device on a computer that retains information.
Hard drives, I have found and my wife had noted, can talk after. They don't all talk, but one with a spirit can. It can be unnerving to hear it speak, especially if it says your name. I've experienced similar instances with my father's speaker system, connected to computer, making a periodically spooky cry. Me and my wife share the theory that my mother's mother's spirit may lurk within the house, as she as tussled her hair once while we were over. Probably doesn't help that there is a quasi shrine for her in the house, belongings of her.
Another thing to note is that a spirit does not have memories like the living, being out of body there is no threshold of memory, as it is like the essence of the spirit. Once dead, all knowledge is in theory accessible to the spirit, however desire and drive for such is usually not there, and those spirits so enligntend tend to pass on to the next life instead of dwelling amongst the living like an outcast.
With that said, what you do most often on a computer tends to direct what the residing spirit desires and dislikes, additionally the connection of the living user whose physical body touches the devices of the system creates a sort of emotional connection. If the user is enjoying themselves, the spirit will feed of said emotions, the hard drive will provide a place for current memory to be reaccessed. Beware your computer doesn't get too attached to you or other users of the system can have difficulty operating it. Additionally programs and routines not common to it after possession may create conflicts in the developed personality of the spirit residing.
Likewise for vehicles and how they are operated. I've experienced my most recent car exhibit cautionary behavior. Being at a full stop at a point where visibility was low in areas that could pose a threat, I would begin to release the brake in preparation for movement, however an uncharacteristic jerk would occur moments before an approaching vehicle was coming my way, unseen by myself and without the warning may of resulted in either a close call or accident. Its a modern car, they have computers too...
This kind of behavior is a little more of a relief than say your computer calling out your name through the sounds of its hard drive...
You could call me crazy for believing such things, but I can call you crazy for not believing too.
My next little rant will be a surprise for you and me, since I can't decided what I'm going to write about next.
It can be a scary thought to know that your very car could be a life form, more so if it had a spirit. Of course you cannot manufacture spirit or even create it. It something that is already here, but not all spirits have bodies, and some never choose to. With technology advancing and our creations become more complex and closer to lifeforms that nature has created, spirits begin to take host of them. Unlike a living person, there is no resisting spirit to keep them out, but the mystery would be the motive of said spirit.
Spirits have inhabited other objects before, far less complicated and more of effigies than functioning machines. Take dolls and houses for instance. The materials used in both tend to have some organic beginning. The wood of the house frame, the cotton filling of the doll provided remnants of life that draw vagrant spirits. Cars too are composed and function from the product of organic material. Crude oil is broken down from lifeforms millions of years ago, it is still very much an organic compound despite the series of refinement and additives mixed into it. Add to that the use of electricity and you have a man made life form. Gas provides it energy, electricity controls its brain, oil works like blood by keeping the parts functioning, perhaps in a different way.
Of course cars are still primitive despite being more complex than inanimate objects. However today we've gone the extra mile, we have computers. They only require energy, making them an ideal host to inhabit. This is were I have a little more experience with the behavior of computers with spirits. Although I cannot say for sure, it seems that the primary residence of a spirit in a computer tends to be the hard drive, the only device on a computer that retains information.
Hard drives, I have found and my wife had noted, can talk after. They don't all talk, but one with a spirit can. It can be unnerving to hear it speak, especially if it says your name. I've experienced similar instances with my father's speaker system, connected to computer, making a periodically spooky cry. Me and my wife share the theory that my mother's mother's spirit may lurk within the house, as she as tussled her hair once while we were over. Probably doesn't help that there is a quasi shrine for her in the house, belongings of her.
Another thing to note is that a spirit does not have memories like the living, being out of body there is no threshold of memory, as it is like the essence of the spirit. Once dead, all knowledge is in theory accessible to the spirit, however desire and drive for such is usually not there, and those spirits so enligntend tend to pass on to the next life instead of dwelling amongst the living like an outcast.
With that said, what you do most often on a computer tends to direct what the residing spirit desires and dislikes, additionally the connection of the living user whose physical body touches the devices of the system creates a sort of emotional connection. If the user is enjoying themselves, the spirit will feed of said emotions, the hard drive will provide a place for current memory to be reaccessed. Beware your computer doesn't get too attached to you or other users of the system can have difficulty operating it. Additionally programs and routines not common to it after possession may create conflicts in the developed personality of the spirit residing.
Likewise for vehicles and how they are operated. I've experienced my most recent car exhibit cautionary behavior. Being at a full stop at a point where visibility was low in areas that could pose a threat, I would begin to release the brake in preparation for movement, however an uncharacteristic jerk would occur moments before an approaching vehicle was coming my way, unseen by myself and without the warning may of resulted in either a close call or accident. Its a modern car, they have computers too...
This kind of behavior is a little more of a relief than say your computer calling out your name through the sounds of its hard drive...
You could call me crazy for believing such things, but I can call you crazy for not believing too.
My next little rant will be a surprise for you and me, since I can't decided what I'm going to write about next.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The non-religious view of higher power.
After living about a third of a lifetime, I've had many opinions on the existence of god. When I was young science had lead me to believe all of what religion said was fantasy. Grant it if you look at some of the stuff in religious texts some of seems like it could only be thus. This I learned is beside the point. Long through human history have we written tall tales to show our future generations the basics of morals. What is just and what is wrong. Good and evil may seem like relative terms that only apply to humans, but in reality it applies to every living creature whether we realize it or not.
If we look at all the religious beliefs held across the world we find a lot in common. The concept of higher power(s), spirits, and karma. Arrogance has made mankind feel that they, do to their communication and physical abilities that animal is less then, but humans are just as much animals as a common rodent. We all have needs, fears and desires. A layer of cultural sophistication does not really offset this.
Breaking it all down, we are just all an assortment of atomic particles revolving amongst each other to eventually create a living force. The more complex this entity the more it can do. But at its root it is but one thing, a life form. So with this in mind, perhaps like animals, we underestimate other entities which can be considered living. We know that the smallest form of life is but a single cell. Virus are smaller but its debatable whether they are alive or simply blocks of information thrown into the mix just for fun, or perhaps even as a tool of an even higher form of life.
Lets look at our Earth. One could argue that it is not 'alive', but I'd beg to differ. Consider the fact the Earth's core is a moving producer and receiver of heat. Much like the heart pumps our blood through our veins, the Earth blood is its lava and the rocky crust is its skin. The tectonic plates that shift very slowly show that Earth does more than just rotate along a star. It is very much alive and we are a part of it, composed of its raw materials. Likewise the sun which produce heat and consumes matter for sustenance.
Now lets zoom out a bit and take these massive bodies of life into perspective. They are much like cells in the sense of complexity. They act like atoms in the sense that they bond through a gravitational force to create systems. These systems comprise larger bodies in the form of galaxies. Taken in its whole the universe itself is the largest know life form, composed of numerous elements big and small.
Where am I going with this? Well I'm going to use what I've learned from science, for which members of its study have attempted to disprove, to prove that God is very much alive and visible. Recent discoveries have found that there are two different forces at work in the universe, matter and anti-matter. In essence the God and the Devil. Or in actuality the Angel and the Devil to comprise God as one whole. Much as life is a wonderful thing, death is an unfortunate necessity for the latter. Without evil there would be no good, and thus there would be nothing. At the heart of it all these conflicting entities must exist to create what is. The constant tug of war between the forces drives us everyday, challenges and tests us, both sides trying to lure us away.
This is why God knows what has and will, as well as complete power over all, for he is all. Much like we are gods of our own bodies, we can and have the power to control the parts of are bodies. We do not willfully control all of ourselves, as does God does not control our thoughts and actions. However our actions will trigger reactions from God, or more for us, Earth in our recent times. We've pissed off Earth on a whole, we have to admit it. Can we say the same for past master races like the dinosaurs? Of course, they, much like us today, ruthlessly devoured resources and breed like crazy, amassing our numbers and straining the resources of the world.
Now the Earth is mad and shows it well. While we are not wrong to say that this is from Global Warming, but it would be more accurate to call it a Global Reaction.
Of course these are just my thoughts from what I've learned and observed over the years.
Next time I'll rant about my thoughts on souls and the least likely lifeforms that man inadvertently created...
If we look at all the religious beliefs held across the world we find a lot in common. The concept of higher power(s), spirits, and karma. Arrogance has made mankind feel that they, do to their communication and physical abilities that animal is less then, but humans are just as much animals as a common rodent. We all have needs, fears and desires. A layer of cultural sophistication does not really offset this.
Breaking it all down, we are just all an assortment of atomic particles revolving amongst each other to eventually create a living force. The more complex this entity the more it can do. But at its root it is but one thing, a life form. So with this in mind, perhaps like animals, we underestimate other entities which can be considered living. We know that the smallest form of life is but a single cell. Virus are smaller but its debatable whether they are alive or simply blocks of information thrown into the mix just for fun, or perhaps even as a tool of an even higher form of life.
Lets look at our Earth. One could argue that it is not 'alive', but I'd beg to differ. Consider the fact the Earth's core is a moving producer and receiver of heat. Much like the heart pumps our blood through our veins, the Earth blood is its lava and the rocky crust is its skin. The tectonic plates that shift very slowly show that Earth does more than just rotate along a star. It is very much alive and we are a part of it, composed of its raw materials. Likewise the sun which produce heat and consumes matter for sustenance.
Now lets zoom out a bit and take these massive bodies of life into perspective. They are much like cells in the sense of complexity. They act like atoms in the sense that they bond through a gravitational force to create systems. These systems comprise larger bodies in the form of galaxies. Taken in its whole the universe itself is the largest know life form, composed of numerous elements big and small.
Where am I going with this? Well I'm going to use what I've learned from science, for which members of its study have attempted to disprove, to prove that God is very much alive and visible. Recent discoveries have found that there are two different forces at work in the universe, matter and anti-matter. In essence the God and the Devil. Or in actuality the Angel and the Devil to comprise God as one whole. Much as life is a wonderful thing, death is an unfortunate necessity for the latter. Without evil there would be no good, and thus there would be nothing. At the heart of it all these conflicting entities must exist to create what is. The constant tug of war between the forces drives us everyday, challenges and tests us, both sides trying to lure us away.
This is why God knows what has and will, as well as complete power over all, for he is all. Much like we are gods of our own bodies, we can and have the power to control the parts of are bodies. We do not willfully control all of ourselves, as does God does not control our thoughts and actions. However our actions will trigger reactions from God, or more for us, Earth in our recent times. We've pissed off Earth on a whole, we have to admit it. Can we say the same for past master races like the dinosaurs? Of course, they, much like us today, ruthlessly devoured resources and breed like crazy, amassing our numbers and straining the resources of the world.
Now the Earth is mad and shows it well. While we are not wrong to say that this is from Global Warming, but it would be more accurate to call it a Global Reaction.
Of course these are just my thoughts from what I've learned and observed over the years.
Next time I'll rant about my thoughts on souls and the least likely lifeforms that man inadvertently created...
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