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Conservative
0After watching a movie, I tried to discover where life can go wrong. In this movie, some people were so rich, they spent their whole life avoid violent criminals, slowly moving, conserving what they have. And some who were so poor, they literally would die by the end of each day unless they did enough work, or sold enough, or got loans, made do by any means necessary.
To one, life was safe, to the other, anything but. Who has the better life?
As was (poorly) portrayed in the movie, success was found by ones who were free from the burden of money, both the burden of too much money, and too little. They spent time in relationships, discovered joys to make life worth living.
I believe it is a common dream to make a safe comfortable walled garden around us for ourselves and those we love. But do the walls really make our life better? Investing in bigger, shinier, stronger walls of conservatism is a sure fire way of missing out.
If someone next to you needs help, or has something to give, you can’t appreciate the gift of taking or receiving if you are behind a wall. You also aren’t help them if you are harming them at the same time.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
rewritten as:
All that is necessary for evil is for good men to do nothing.
Peace
0Walking home at midnight on a sunday night through downtown seattle, there was no danger or rush. People walk around, police sitting in his warm car, workers cleaning up their business. I saw people cross the street on a ‘dont walk’ and then a single car comes, stops at their green light, and waits for the people to go across. By the time it was clear, the light turned red, so this car hit the brakes again and waited. Peacefully.
What does it mean to live life like this? No big meeting to miss, no work to finish, nothing at midnight on a sunday.
Yes we need to go get rest for the hustle bustle to resume again, but in some precious moments, we dont need to do anything. Just breathe.
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summersonic
0I was at summersonic! I took some photos that didn’t come out very well, but here they are anyway
Strokes, SNSD
–rock
Strokes
Sound: 10. Showmanship: 4 Crowd fun: 4
Casablancas mostly stood in the dark with shades. But he sounded great and the last song had fireworks.
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Dealbreaker #4 destroyers
04 months ago
by Sheridan
in Dealbreaker
In programming I write a lot of constructors and destructors.
Constructors define a lot of initial traits and properties and make sure there is enough room to grow. When that preparation is finished, it signals that it is ready to perform some responsibilities.
Destructors are the opposite, erasing traits, eliminating any capacity to grow, and if you try to perform an action after it is destroyed, you can easily crash.
In the same way, women who describe one of their peers as unattractive, unhealthy, or unfit somehow are destructors — destroyers. Confidence is crushed and then there are fewer people who are willing and able to encourage others.
Why does all this happen? Some women are self-declared ..dogs, to those who cross them. Perhaps this is an effective defense mechanism to hate your enemies and make them weaker so you are the strongest but I dont want to live in that world. I choose to rise above it and succeed by my own growth instead of hindering others. Hate breeds hate so from more hate spewed on others, enemies will accumulate. I don’t want that. In fact it is something very important to me that in various situations nobody has ever hated me. Not in school, with women, in video games, or working various jobs has someone had strong negative emotions and I hope to keep that going. It certainly is easier if my spouse was a uplifting constructor even in the face of adversaries. Jesus said, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. Listening to Jesus guidance is always best. No matter how much fun you think it is to rip someone’s head off, or how much you think they deserve it.
Culture reboot
0With my new asian pop phase, I’ve also jumped on board asian television, specifically Korean “variety” shows and reality ones.
I feel I have learned a lot about a different culture and makes me mostly tired of this one. But Koreans definitely aren’t perfect either.
They take the ‘would you rather’ game to an extreme and compare people doing things all the time. Compete to make the stupidest face, compete for being a more ideal wife. I used to think it was light hearted and joking, but they make no apologies and laugh about it. Then it becomes news and turns into dating rumors. I suppose I had childhood times where we would compare girls and give them numbers, or pick A over B. But, somehow doing this to their face was horribly insulting. Not in Korea.
Shinyoung: Im so good at making steamed riced cakes
Sunny: Oh, that means you will have a beautiful daughter. (Korean saying: she who can make steamed rice cakes will raise a beautiful daughter)
Shinyoung: My mother was also good.
Shinyoung: It’s a lie.
Hara: What do you call someone who sells doors? (door = moon in korean)
Boss guy: moonfany? (fany = selling)
Shinyoung: Sailor Moon?
Hara: Yes! (Sailor sounds like seller… nobody laughs, hara still smiles)
Shinyoung: She’s not even phased!
“Write it as a failure but read it as an experience” – Korean saying
useless
0Are some people useless or skilled in traits that are less valued by society?
I don’t think it is fair to say that everyone’s total skill is equal in sum, because if i improve in my cross country skiing, my rifle shooting skill, doesnt deplete. I suppose some skills are developed and maintained with time and time is a universal resource. Nobody has more time than another. even if you keep travelling west, and you keep gaining an hour, that international date line will really screw you over.
If you develop skill at a faster rate, then you are a blessed person, and it might be the best use of your time to continue.
If you do not have a fast rate, then doubling efforts might be necessary, with both perserverance and humility needed in order to keep pace.
So to the people who many might seem worthless, do they lack perserverence + humility to apply themself in areas they are slow to learn? Or are they just so incredibly disadvantaged that they will never catch up? I guess a generalization I might make from my observational experience is that lack of skill is most often misguided direction or a lack of willpower.
celebrity world news, reality show.
0If I could wave a wand and become massively powerful, this is one thing I’d do.
Instead of news being about reality, i’d have reality show about news. With ‘celebrity’ types, comedian style and supermodel style, because normal newsfolk are boring I imagine. They need to be similar age and would benefit with some playful flirting or games and pranks.
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good, and soul crushing?
0I’ve seen two movies in the past 12 months that were brilliantly made and very compelling in subject matter, and actor performance. However, the end results were straight up sad, and depressing.
I still go seek out the indie dramas, and foreign films but I have to analyze the cost to my soul brevity to decide if it is worth it.
I, unlike the average moviegoer, do not have an easy time in a soft contrived uplifting movie and they make me more angry than soul-lifting.
So if the nice movies annoy me and the sad movies are a bummer, I should read more books. That way my bummer or annoyance is spread out over the months and months it takes me to finish reading anything.
Ok, I take it back, I saw a pretty solid, sad-ish indie drama with will ferrell that made me still appreciate movies.
Review:
Confessions (japanese), brilliant story, acting, direction, A
Up in the Air, I also liked this concept and at times the acting was painfully real, I might watch it again. A-
Everything Must Go, less impressive or memorable but solid all around, great atypical characters, felt very real, A-
shapes and life
0In an aesthetic world, some shapes are more appealing than others. Symmetry and smoothness I think provides some form of logic and comfort. Things that appear oblong or assymetrical or jagged are often percieved as wrong or misshapen, even if there is no shape that something needs to be. There is no correct shape of a fruit yet we might view an awkwardly shaped pear as wrong or bad.
The composition of a life may be shaped in a variety of ways. However I think most people find some comfort in fitting in a certain pattern with a spouse and a house, or some educational pursuit and travel. It seems like there is a lack of symmetry if someone has a spouse and education, or travels and has young children. They can seem awkward because of their rarity, but also because of the assumed imbalance that a life with unconventional characteristics would have. Someone may be a wizard with time, or perhaps more likely sadly neglecting one of these major areas.
Cultural output
0I appreciate changing culture around me. We come across people from cultures that we are not in and it is foreign to us. For this reason I like making foreign cultures less foreign. To watch, or be immersed in, something new is key to understanding the value systems and qualities that make a culture.
Who is revered in this culture, and why are they there?
What qualities are ostracized and what happens to those who don’t comply?
How long do people stay at the top, and what happens after time?
What are the products of this culture to the rest of the world?
To know, requires a lot of travel and talking with locals. I would like to know more, and meet more people.
Do I know what my own culture’s output is? Does Canada give the world… apologizing, syrup and multicultural harmony? Hmm.
