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R Sikat
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| Subject: Take a walk with me Fri 26 Apr 2013, 3:02 am | |
| Take a walk with me
In the summer heat, my day usually starts at 9 a.m. when I have finally convinced myself that today is not a Saturday. My mornings are greeted by warm hellos of baristas who have already punched my order as I entered the door. A part of me is not that spontaneous, kind of bland where I always order what I am used to. Perhaps, things are mundane, or things are too good to change. The walk is not that fast not that slow, just a skip of a beat. My awkward smile provides a certain amount of comfort to the people I encounter.
Intersection.
The waiting of lights changing is the greatest ordeal of all. Changing lights as passer-by passes, show that a life is fleeting. Cars going nowhere. I often wonder who these people are. Have they met their happiness? What are those frowns so early in the morning? All the sorrows and all the happiness on their shoulders I try to fathom.
Light changed.
You see, that momentarily stop allows me to breathe. The fast changing pace always makes the strangers blur. No faces and just shapes. I often wonder if these little figments of my memories are little disciples of Fate. That no matter how many bumps we made this morning, it was meant to be. The little fibers of our fate has been intertwined.
I walk with a blank expression. Needless to say that is who I am. I look at the ceiling of this building. The sun shines through. And I often wonder that if that is a good sign. I slightly stretch my hand, feeling the warmth wind on my fingertips. How many breaths, how many tears made up this air? Seemingly it starts to get cold as the breeze from my walk envelops my fingers.
Each step is burdened, lightened, burdened and lightened. What were my dreams?
Finally, I woke up in my cubicle, ready for work.
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shirane tuyan Mahiyain
Post Count : 9 Current Location : quezon city Sexual Identity : soft butch Preference : femme
| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 7:50 am | |
| - R wrote:
- Take a walk with me
In the summer heat, my day usually starts at 9 a.m. when I have finally convinced myself that today is not a Saturday. My mornings are greeted by warm hellos of baristas who have already punched my order as I entered the door. A part of me is not that spontaneous, kind of bland where I always order what I am used to. Perhaps, things are mundane, or things are too good to change. The walk is not that fast not that slow, just a skip of a beat. My awkward smile provides a certain amount of comfort to the people I encounter.
Intersection.
The waiting of lights changing is the greatest ordeal of all. Changing lights as passer-by passes, show that a life is fleeting. Cars going nowhere. I often wonder who these people are. Have they met their happiness? What are those frowns so early in the morning? All the sorrows and all the happiness on their shoulders I try to fathom.
Light changed.
You see, that momentarily stop allows me to breathe. The fast changing pace always makes the strangers blur. No faces and just shapes. I often wonder if these little figments of my memories are little disciples of Fate. That no matter how many bumps we made this morning, it was meant to be. The little fibers of our fate has been intertwined.
I walk with a blank expression. Needless to say that is who I am. I look at the ceiling of this building. The sun shines through. And I often wonder that if that is a good sign. I slightly stretch my hand, feeling the warmth wind on my fingertips. How many breaths, how many tears made up this air? Seemingly it starts to get cold as the breeze from my walk envelops my fingers.
Each step is burdened, lightened, burdened and lightened. What were my dreams?
Finally, I woke up in my cubicle, ready for work.
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 9:56 am | |
| the humility that radiates on that write-up appeals to me a great deal. it doesn't have an inappropriate spirit of arrogance that is normally present in most pieces i see online. what makes it very deep is the honest recognition of the writer of imperfections such as pain (maybe?), crossroads, whatnot. it's engaging with the deepest and truest self. it's definitely making sense. the only thing i do not agree with is the concept of fate. things happen because there are minds and forces behind those happenings, not because those were predetermined and predestined. | |
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shirane tuyan Mahiyain
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 10:02 am | |
| hello appple im very much interested to know u... | |
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 10:17 am | |
| - shirane tuyan wrote:
- hello appple im very much interested to know u...
if it's in the context of exchanging views, you are very welcome. i wanna know you and others too. thank you. | |
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shirane tuyan Mahiyain
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 10:20 am | |
| its someting personal.... | |
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 10:30 am | |
| @ shirane, what personal? like religion? lol. i really wanna grab people i can talk to about religion. lol. so are you a theist, agnostic or atheist? what arguments can you provide for your belief? you know we have a culture that prohibits scrutiny of religion but the socio-political implications of religion are monters that make peace on earth very impossible to achieve. | |
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 10:31 am | |
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 10:43 am | |
| exactly, that's about me. me not wanting theism because it tolerates slavery, power-tripping, sadomasochism, wars, homophobia, and a whole lot of concepts subservient to moral inferiority campaigned by those who wrote the ancient book with exhausting tales of love and hate drama. | |
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R Sikat
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Sun 28 Apr 2013, 5:10 pm | |
| my friend, does that mean the coexistence of Fate and free will is beyond irony? Although my literature may sound like a metaphor, the truth is, these thoughts really enter my mind while going to the office. May be that is like you have pointed a sign of humility of my inferiority or a clouded mind.
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Mon 29 Apr 2013, 2:40 am | |
| my friend, i'd like to answer that with a few images that will clearly exhibit my postulates on that seemingly confusing subject area. hang on, i'm trying to figure out how to insert images. i'll get back to you later today. | |
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Mon 29 Apr 2013, 4:42 pm | |
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R, my friend…It’s always my pleasure to exchange views with you. It always fascinates me to realize that there are still few on earth who desire to break-free from the stranglehold of mundane concepts that proliferate across the globe. The malnourishment of ideas is pervasive because just a few dare to question their secondhand beliefs. They never subject these to scrutiny believing that these came from great sources anyway. Most are lazy to think. Maybe because not knowing comes along with comfort. Yet the price of that comfort is way too high paid by humanity. Those who stepped out of their comfort zone to challenge these postulates that are repugnant to reason, logic and intelligence were brutalized by a great number of theists who never truly contributed to the development of the world in the context of polishing thoughts, discovering scientific and medical breakthroughs for the comfort of the people. They were just actually within religious spheres to exchange delusions and barbarism with a little bit of preaching on love and holiness. Again, if scrutinized, their propositions never accord with moral superiority. That prevailed during the Dark Ages and unfortunately, the remnants remain forceful even after the Renaissance. They insulted those with giant brains that substantially initiated reforms in arts and literature, social sciences and philosophy, physical science, secular fields, what have you. Who are they? Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Voltaire, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Sagan, Karl Marx, James Randi, Jean-Paul Sastre, Michel Foucault, yadayada. These people are/were very busy discovering developments that they never see/saw the need to flatter God. They are those who sacrificed/are sacrificing their lives to beautify the world with electricity and countless scientific breakthroughs, abolition of slavery and other maladies. And if there is a sensible God that exists, receiving recognition would be the least of his or her concern. If the Bible keeps on asserting that you will rot in hell for not recognizing him or her and the primary reason why you were born is to praise him constantly, then he is a complete narcissist who doesn’t deserve to be praised. Such assertion of constant need of praise and recognition is an obvious symptom of attention deficit disorder. A shallow being. A virtuous being is someone who doesn’t get mad even when his or her great actions become unnoticed. And a fair judge is someone who doesn’t reduce your contributions to the world by saying that you can be saved only if you get close to him or her. The downside of that insanity is: we have troubled church leaders and followers that keep on sinning and confessing – vicious cycle of hurting people and begging for forgiveness yet hopeful to earn a space in heaven. They need god to validate their worth. They cannot make decisions on their own. They cannot introspect morality without comparing their perspectives on the content of the book that was written by so called partially civilized men. They never own their minds. They are slaves.
Freewill? If things are meant to be, then freewill is never necessary. Likewise, if things are meant to be, then prayer is futile because murmuring to the invisible sky fairy will never change those that are destined to happen. And if some are destined to go to hell and some are destined to go to heaven and if this was predetermined and predestined from the very beginning by the alleged creator who is allegedly omniscient/all-knowing then he or she is not fair and if he or she defeats and tramples on equality then he is not at all desirable. And if it would be argued that he or she never knew from the very beginning who would be residing in heaven and hell, then that falsifies his or her omniscience/being all-knowing. And if his or her divinity is associated with the alleged death on the cross, and if there is a script from the very beginning and he or she is the script writer, director and producer, and he or she assigned everyone to do the roles each was/is/wil be performing, why then would there be judgment in the end? This is nonsense that cannot be considered true by intelligent beings. Is it possible that the freewill of human beings can alter fate – the grand plan of the presumed mightiest in the universe for that matter? Is it possible that that freewill can be stronger than the final will of the alleged most powerful? No way, isn’t it? This kills the very notion of freewill being the final arbiter of your destination after death. Ought implies can. You can only be required to do something if you have the capacity to do so. It’s either you believe in fate or destiny or grand plan and be a passive recipient of grace from circumstances around you or you believe in freewill and start taking over of your life to be very happy, fair and productive with people you consider important.
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R Sikat
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Tue 30 Apr 2013, 4:38 am | |
| my friend, it is my pleasure to read your thoughts and to understand them. As I may agree on you on some points how theism has idled the minds of many (especially our countrymen), I must contest that Fate does not validate a supreme being.
My idea of Fate is that each action of each individual no matter how small, contributes to a plan that is constantly changing. Free will chooses which path to which plan we accept. This is a form of acceptance that the things happening in our lives were destined because of our actions. As you can see Fate here is not what movies and fairytales have made, it is more of self-realization and self-acceptance.
But then, if there are plans, who is the grand designer? No one. The endless possibilities were developed by our endless actions. Should we have missed the bus, what would have happened? If I did not stop or pause for a minute then what would have happened? As many as the seconds in a day, and as long that a person's mind works, then the plans are endless.
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Mon 06 May 2013, 10:10 am | |
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yeah friend, pretty much that way. freewill kicks in the brain and that converts the thoughts to action or inaction. a person may choose to love or hate, or do or undo whatever, it's the mind working, there's no wrestling between god and satan within the mind for they both don't exist. any argument that stubbornly asserts that there's a cosmic reason behind conceiving and doing or even undoing or that there 's something else that intervenes within the mind proposes a legitimate excuse from punishment from possible misconception or even more because it is never you alone that works in such a case. ergo, you should not be punished for a freewill with an intervention of a higher power.
when your freewill is totally free from undue intervention, you are completely responsible for whatever consequential results it may give you or others. your energy provides heat and that creates a lot of things you call possibilities and that slowly or swiftly produce the same or different things. and the processes keep on going. the same thing goes for evolution. some species continuously live and some go extinct through the years. so you see now elephants giving birth to birds. or you see now goats as big as carabaos. and you don't see now dinasaurs. that's not magic, that's science. but who created the universe with such a great science? i say evolution came from a single organism that evolved through the years and understanding of genetics, neuroscience, paleontology, and wider range of scientific fields would help understand that the creationism mars intellectual pursuits and that cannot accommodate science. and they say, where did that single cell come from? i dunno but evolution proves that the universe was not created in seven days and the ethics discussed in the bible just doesn’t impress me completely. you see intelligence has limits and the arrogance of stupidity makes the sky’s the limit and that permeates immensely in public spheres. and they say,"so maybe the seven days for god refers to what you're saying that fossils hint this world has been evolving for billions of years. maybe 7 days for god means billions of years because the bible says god's time is different. only he knows." lol. ok, there goes cognitive dissonance again. there are two (or more) options in fact-finding. first, you get everything and scrutinize. if that’s impossible, you go to the second, you substract. sherlock holmes has to say about this, “when you have removed the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth.” and I’m done removing the impossible in my previous post. so where to go after death? i dunno but that never frightens me.
by the way, science is now trying to stretch mortality the best way it can. death via heart attact is now allegedly curable in new york. if you want the link, i will give so that you can further cross-examine and verify using other references. i discussed this with a christian fundamentalist and she said during the last days before the final arrival of god, miracles will really happen. and she further said any miracle that doesn’t recognize the intervention of god is satanic. so that for her is satanic because the improved resuscitation is being introduced by an atheist british physician who is based in new york. see how science becomes substituted by the word miracle. so electricity is satanic because thomas alba edison did not recognize god’s intervention as well? science cannot be satanic for it never coerces you to use it. it leaves you options to use it or not. it’s not like religion. lol.
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| Subject: Re: Take a walk with me Mon 06 May 2013, 11:43 am | |
| heaven is very alluring but the grand view about it is unethical. as someone i can't remember said, "anyone who advocates infinite punishment or rewards for finite crimes and deeds is morally inferior."
what's left to do now that imagining heaven is no longer expedient? use freewill to be good for goodness sake. death might be what some say a cancellation of extensive goods or maybe a continuation of bliss in yet unknown territory. i find it more ethical doing good without thinking of rewards than thinking of rewards and doing good for that.
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