Subject: Chapter 1 Discussion Question #1 Topic: Chapter 1 Discussion Question #1
Author: Yajaira Murillo Date: June 24, 2009 2:37 PM
Holistic health health by what I understood was the approach that addresses the body, mind and spirit.
As for my mental health I will continue my active reading, my spiritual health some go to a house of worship for a spiritual health but I like to draw it relaxes me what i love to draw the most is the beauty of nature & for my physical health I'm attending a belly dance class so it should help my physical health by been active and i work at subway its good, fresh and healthy!
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Subject: Yajaira message Topic: Chapter 1 Discussion Question #1
Author: Salvador Pinela Iii Date: June 25, 2009 10:35 PM
Yajaira, in your discussion answer, it's apparent you don't believe in any house of the lord. Drawing is not
a way of achieving Spiritual Wellness. Prayer and belief
gets you close. In their lifetime one should try.
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Subject: Re:Yajaira message Topic: Chapter 1 Discussion Question #1
Author: Joshua Cabrera Date: June 26, 2009 1:30 PM
I don't think it's completely necessary to believe in a "house of the lord" to be spiritually healthy. In fact I don't believe in a lord/God at all and yet I consider spirituality to be a major presence in my life. To me spirituality is the contemplation of the meaning of our existence, as well as how we can better it.
Even so, if you do believe God to be the lord and creator of all things in the universe, then it must be true that spirituality can be found within all things.
Drawing can help someone keep in touch with their own thoughts, feelings and perceptions of the beauty that resides in all things. I think if there is a God, he'd be most apparent in the beauty of nature, rather than in some building we attend once a week. I'd much rather be a part of a church that appreciates the beauty of the natural world or images conjured by the imagination, over ancient doctrine and ritual.
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Subject: Re:Yajaira message Topic: Chapter 1 Discussion Question #1
Author: Gerardo Iribe Date: June 26, 2009 1:39 PM
Again, stop trying to tell people what they should or should not do.
I'm an atheist, what do you recommend I should do about that?
The tangible arts nourish my spirit. That's how I roll.
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Subject: Re:Yajaira message Topic: Chapter 1 Discussion Question #1
Author: Joshua Cabrera Date: June 26, 2009 2:12 PM
*insert secret atheist handshake followed by a high-five*
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Right to Life
If housing and food be conditioned on a job, then employment should be a social right.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Tattoos
I've always had respect for people with tattoos.
I think to commit to something, anything, that'll be with you for the rest of your life is impressive.
I know for certain what my first tattoo will be:
It's the oscilloscope reading of the double-scroll output given off by the Chua Circuit, the simplest electronic circuit that exhibits Chaos Theory. Chaos being a system that is predictable in principle but unpredictable in practice. In other words, although the system follows deterministic rules, its time evolution appears random. While it is based on predictable mathematical principles like all other circuits, it is so heavily based on initial conditions that make it's output vary so greatly, it becomes unpredictable. I think this applies to the universe as a whole. We live in a universe of some predictability, based on some constant principles. But there are so many simultanious phoenomena occouring all at once the world, the future, is unpredictable. Chaos.
Plan to get it on my right shoulder blade or at least that general area.
Other tattoo ideas floating in my head right now as well:
The word "Life" in 8-bit ascii binary. Left shoulder blade. The idea that everything we know and interpret and love can be contrived from soley 'yes' or 'no' answers.
Cactuar. Behind my right ear. Mischief, happiness, elusiveness of life, the importance of imagination in my life.
Pixelated Companion Cube from Portal. Left shoulder. Friendship, love of the past, willingness to let go, the ability of innanimate objects to inspire humanity to love.
Meteor/FF7 Logo. Right shoulder. Imagination, preciousness of life, persistence, fighting against impossible odds, general badassery.
Bread and Butterflies. Right wrist. Imagination, power of words, importance of the 'ridiculous,' and seemingly meaningless.
Small letter 'e' from the Serial Experiments Lain logo. Behind the left ear? Stands for Experiments, importance of curiosity in an unexplainable chaotic, sometimes harsh world. I swear it has nothing to do with ecstasy =P but I don't mind the amusing common misunderstanding that would likely ensue.
and lastly, while I don't have a picture, I'd like the two bar measure of the Song of Time from Legend of Zelda. Basically for the same reasons I want the Meteor logo from FF7.
Oh almost forgot.
TMV on my left wrist. Although I'm wary of a band tattoo cause they could always turn into something you no longer approve of. But I think chances of The Mars Volta doing anything like that is slim =P
I think to commit to something, anything, that'll be with you for the rest of your life is impressive.
I know for certain what my first tattoo will be:
It's the oscilloscope reading of the double-scroll output given off by the Chua Circuit, the simplest electronic circuit that exhibits Chaos Theory. Chaos being a system that is predictable in principle but unpredictable in practice. In other words, although the system follows deterministic rules, its time evolution appears random. While it is based on predictable mathematical principles like all other circuits, it is so heavily based on initial conditions that make it's output vary so greatly, it becomes unpredictable. I think this applies to the universe as a whole. We live in a universe of some predictability, based on some constant principles. But there are so many simultanious phoenomena occouring all at once the world, the future, is unpredictable. Chaos.
Plan to get it on my right shoulder blade or at least that general area.
Other tattoo ideas floating in my head right now as well:
The word "Life" in 8-bit ascii binary. Left shoulder blade. The idea that everything we know and interpret and love can be contrived from soley 'yes' or 'no' answers.
Cactuar. Behind my right ear. Mischief, happiness, elusiveness of life, the importance of imagination in my life.
Pixelated Companion Cube from Portal. Left shoulder. Friendship, love of the past, willingness to let go, the ability of innanimate objects to inspire humanity to love.
Meteor/FF7 Logo. Right shoulder. Imagination, preciousness of life, persistence, fighting against impossible odds, general badassery.
Bread and Butterflies. Right wrist. Imagination, power of words, importance of the 'ridiculous,' and seemingly meaningless.
Small letter 'e' from the Serial Experiments Lain logo. Behind the left ear? Stands for Experiments, importance of curiosity in an unexplainable chaotic, sometimes harsh world. I swear it has nothing to do with ecstasy =P but I don't mind the amusing common misunderstanding that would likely ensue.and lastly, while I don't have a picture, I'd like the two bar measure of the Song of Time from Legend of Zelda. Basically for the same reasons I want the Meteor logo from FF7.
Oh almost forgot.
TMV on my left wrist. Although I'm wary of a band tattoo cause they could always turn into something you no longer approve of. But I think chances of The Mars Volta doing anything like that is slim =P
Something for Someone
My personal interpretation of the underlying meaning of the end sequence, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, of 2001: Space Odyssey:
The Monolith is either a synthesized energy source or mass information storage built by an alien life form of some sort, although I think with powerful enough technology those two things would probably be synonymous. When Dave approaches the Monolith, he begins receiving the information/energy and witnesses the "Star Gate" phenomenon: tunnels of colored light racing at great speed across vast distances of space, seeing many strange astronomical phenomena.
What I believe he is experiencing are the different interpretations that form various levels of reality. For example: we've no idea what the world looks like at the atomic level. We know atoms exist and we know partly their structure. But what the world LOOKS like to a person at the size of an atom, we have absolutely no idea. We've no idea what the world LOOKS like viewing five, or more dimensions. When we look around all we see is light, but we've come to be able to interpret that light into something understandable, our known reality. We see a hexagonal shaped object giving off red light and we come to understand it as a stop sign, but to any other being it means nothing because it's just sensory information that lacks context. The tunnel of light Dave was witnessing was just that. A giant overload of sensory information to which he nor any other human could apply context and assign meaning.
Slightly related to this subject is my belief that the universe is both infinitely large and small. I believe we will continue to find smaller and smaller particles all working according to their own laws and principles. I also believe the correlating macro perspective of that. Our solar system is part of a bigger galaxy, which is part of a system of galaxies, which is in the greater universe, which resides in something even bigger.
Back to the movie however, when he appears in 'the room' and sees an aged version of himself, I believe this is the alien life form becoming aware of his presence and his tampering with it's device. It begins to return him to his normal plane of reality, or what it believes is his normal reality, and slowly prods and experiments with him and his consciousness. When it finally decides what is to become of him, he turns him into what many refer to as 'the Star Child,' or that glowing fetus figure that the movie ends with. I think he bestowed to Dave (or perhaps it synthesized a totally new life form) some key knowledge that would likely direct the future progress of the human race upon its discovery.
Re: Life at the Moment
Hello there neighbor.
It's been a bit of a while hasn't it?
The past week+ has been trying, to say the least.
Me and the people around me are going through something profound.
I can't think of any better word to describe it.
These are hard times for a lot of people.
But the main thing I keep trying to remind everyone, to help them see (even if I fail to see it sometimes), is that we have one another.
You're not alone.
Your friends are here for you.
Life is hard right now, yes.
But there is still good.
And we need to live for that.
And while the heart may ache for now.
And while it will never be mended to what it was before, it's still there.
It's ready to see what happiness tomorrow might bring.
Grab hold of what you can and learn to say goodbye to what's out of reach.
I think I'm ready for the summer.
It's been a bit of a while hasn't it?
The past week+ has been trying, to say the least.
Me and the people around me are going through something profound.
I can't think of any better word to describe it.
These are hard times for a lot of people.
But the main thing I keep trying to remind everyone, to help them see (even if I fail to see it sometimes), is that we have one another.
You're not alone.
Your friends are here for you.
Life is hard right now, yes.
But there is still good.
And we need to live for that.
And while the heart may ache for now.
And while it will never be mended to what it was before, it's still there.
It's ready to see what happiness tomorrow might bring.
Grab hold of what you can and learn to say goodbye to what's out of reach.
I think I'm ready for the summer.
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