Cheers

ps: Vesak peace out.

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Ok ok,

What’s amazing about the library is that you go to this place and then you can take up almost any book and they just give it to you, and say bring it back when you are done.

This kinda reminds me of that pathetic friend everyone has in school, who would let you borrow anything that you want, if you would just be his or her (yes ladies, some of you used to be pathetic too) friend. That’s what the library is, its a government funded pathetic friend.

That’s why you see people bullying the library. People going “I will bring it back on time, i will bring it back late, What you gonna do sue me?”.

Tragic isn’t it.

I owe the library about 20 bucks for a lost book, that some guy-bitch borrowed using my account and have since not visited the library. He threatened suicide when i demanded a compensation. For his crime against me and the state, I have stripped him of his manhood.

Cheers

ps: I have used my Ginsu knife to cut my library card. More ..

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Ok ok,

Experiences in life depend on two occurrences: what our senses detect and how we perceive them. Not everyone sees the same things I do, or you do. A rose is a rose, but oh, what a rose it is.

What we ‘see’ filters through two processes. One is objective accumulation of data and ‘unthinking’ processing of said data. Our vision detects a cactus and our brain automatically interprets: thorns, ouch, stay away. This process and sometimes the final interpretation is often subconscious; you don’t even think about thinking it. Our lizard brain is imprinted with such responses for self-preservation. And we often react accordingly: cactus = thorns = ouch = move away.

Phenomenology Merleau-Ponty wrote: “In so far as I have hands, feet; a body, I sustain around me intentions which are not dependent on my decisions and which affect my surroundings in a way that I do not choose.” What is in the world is ‘there’, but our responses to that world, and hence, our ‘being’ in that world is more complex.

The other process is perception. Now, ‘perception’ is acquiring, interpreting, selecting and organizing information detected by our senses; sight, smell, sounds, touch, taste….. The first process is the input of raw data of the world around us in a specific point in time. Perception is, well, processing all of that data and ‘being’ in the world.

This is what differentiates us from each other. And from other animals. Our perceptions ‘color our world’, our reality, more than other animals because we have the ability to reason and think about thinking. That each piece of data may be perceived differently than the person next to you is what makes us individual. It is what splashes the variety of colors, shades and shapes on each of our world and reality. And being in that world as a thinking body that senses its surroundings.

It is what makes us, ‘me’.

Cheers

ps: I polished the facts off a textbook lying around at the computer table.

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Ok ok,

Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one’s really sure
how to do it. I love to exercise, but I still have to laugh at it. You go to the gyms, stadiums, around your neighbourhood, you see all these people and they’re working out; they’re training, they’re getting in shape. But nobody’s really getting in shape for anything.

In modern society, you really don’t have to be physically strong to do anything. The only reason that you’re getting in shape is so you can get through the workout. So we’re working out, so that we’ll be in shape, for when we have to do our exercises. Now that, is food for thought.

Cheers

ps: Local gyms are rumored to be filled with “weird” people and flashers.

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Cheers

ps: Sequel Article to the earlier “Hate is our map” article.

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Ok ok,

You guys know the one-liners said by famous people and quoted not so famous people. The kind that appears on the bottom of every page in your diary, and also in the inspirational office posters?

Well, i have a list of a few proverbs which actually contradict each other. I have compiled them together and call them counter-verbs. So the next time you want to send a card to tell someone what an ass they have been, you can use counter-verbs.

Actions speak louder than words.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Look before you leap.

He who hesitates is lost.

Many hands make light work.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Clothes make the man.

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Better safe than sorry.

The bigger, the better.

The best things come in small packages.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Out of sight, out of mind.

What will be, will be.

Life is what you make it.

With age comes wisdom.

Out of the mouths of babes come all wise sayings.

The more, the merrier.

Two’s company; three’s a crowd.

Cheers

ps: Hey, i was bored and didnt know what to do!

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