Realization^2
Today I was wandering as usual, and my wandering was nothing close to dreaming. It's all introspecting, reflecting, learning through idleness, and I continue to affirm my long-time realization that reflection is among the best ways to learn. Facts, information, perspective we input from influences, successfully integrated into ourselves; refinement of knowledge from within.
More than not, I wonder what my brain is made of. Sometimes I even assume I am eccentric, naturally.. mad, challenged. On the other hand I arrogantly think I'm a cut above the rest, which is not true. The random ramblings of any sane mind.
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Majors
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What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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| You scored as Theater You should be a Theater major! Like a bohemian actress, you are seasoned and
confident and not afraid to express yourself!
Theater |
| 92% | Mathematics |
| 83% | Art |
| 83% | Sociology |
| 83% | Dance |
| 83% | Philosophy |
| 83% | Psychology |
| 83% | English |
| 75% | Linguistics |
| 75% | Anthropology |
| 75% | Journalism |
| 67% | Chemistry |
| 58% | Biology |
| 42% | Engineering |
| 42% |
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I'm surprised by the "theater" major, cause i'm not exactly the one who isn't afraid to express myself at all, save for my erratic spikes.
I'm actually a shy guy, and can't really picture myself in theater. Well I may be a jack of all trades, but never good at any of them.
Labels: christian-bboy, findings
balehead
American Psycho
the reality of consumerism and modernism,
whatever you call it.
is a firm i liked. fully of symbols, and a movie so open and subjected.
and that's not including Christian Bale's more than extraordinary performance.
Labels: reviews
Friends aren’t who you see, but they play with you the invisible game.
Labels: awakening
student paranoia, and the paradox of unlearning
I was conversing with a friend regarding my new status in Singapore as a result of my age maturity. We're exploring the topic, arguing a more befitting word, on issues like clubbing, alcohol, smoking etc. the stuff you are "legal" to do when you're 18.Well what came as a shocker to me, is the direct manifestation of a real problem with our academic-obsessed cultured today. Parent paranoia, and more significantly and relevant,
student paranoia. It's the state of being so obsessed with getting good results that they turn they aren't longer assiduous. They're workaholics, victims of the system they construct for themselves. So obsessed with getting an "A" they covet for it. I am not considering selfishness, what i refer to is on the more personal aspect. I do not criticize working hard, or mugging, or working very very hard. Yes I'm not a hard worker and I'm not the guy who grumbles over sour grapes, sarcastically calling people more hardworking than me "muggers"(in a negative tone).
The issue is that the lust of getting "A"s blends with the
paradox of failing in the applications of it. The more we learn, the more we become ignorant. The more we covet, the more we lust, the more we don't know what we're doing.The issue about the discussion earlier on the day is this: that I come to further realize how little some students actually take away from them after their schooling terms. We were talking about alcohol and the effect of defiling of the body. Her proposition is to not touch alcohol because it defiles the body. My argument is that the bible never said that touching alcohol is defiling the body, it's only getting drunk. She stubbornly stood by her stance, even if I tried to convince her that the bible is open to interpretation, and many of these "rules" have been changed by societal norms. Anyway, we moved on the clubbing. She asked me "would you go to a club?", and i replied a yes, she didn't really expect that. She told me that clubbing isn't good, and it's negative, it's bad. I rebutted and told her that it isn't necessarily bad, if one goes with good company, clubbing isn't bad. She stated "no sane good person will ever go clubbing". Well, I just stood there in a mix of a thousand thoughts. After all, bad is when one gets himself sinning. The only bad i find is that you may act as a stumbling block. After a while of useless convincing, we went back to the topic of alcohol. I continued to assert my point that drinking alcohol isn't a bad thing. But drunkenness is a sin. (see:
Alcoholism and bible) She then said that one doesn't know when he gets drunk. I pointed out scientific evidence, and she told me to ignore it.
This reminds of of Siddharta calling others "child people". He know not who they are, know not what they go through, just possess the notion that these people are after useless goals.This argument is a real eye opener. I am not a least bit convinced with her stance, but I've seen how people can spend so much effort studying, put so much emphasis on results and yet picked up nothing, worked for nothing, learnt nothing. They still exhibit the exact same traits of themselves as if they have not absorbed anything albeit their sincere efforts to try make it look like they did so. What I saw was hasty generalization, stubborn assertion, unevaluated thinking, and ignorance. It was as if the years of one's life is spent on studying and God (a good thing), but not using what they know although they profess to know (a bad thing), and ignorance towards the world, not giving a shit to know more about the world (a very bad thing). What makes it more surprising is this: she wasn't satisfied with the marks she got from Theory Of Knowledge presentation, she redid, and probably will get a good grade. What's the use of studying so hard, getting so worked up, getting so obsessed when you get not a freakin thing out of it? Ignorance seems to be a ubiquitous problem, and never had got better.
A teacher of mine said that marks do not fully dictate your intelligence and your proficiency and understanding 0f the subject. It is what one takes out of the class and applies it into his life which is important. In this academic-obsessed society, one who holds values over recognition is indeed a rara avis.
I've said this before, and I've said this many times before: Albeit my sincere dedication to Christ, there are topics I find inexorably hard to silence myself. I'm a honest Christian who yearns to know the true and preach the true, not live on the assumptions of the norms. Yes, it's hard to do so because there are norms in this world subconsciously engraved into us. But it's a responsibility to recognize them and do something to them. I recognize my position to not be so favorable at times, for I well expect someone to call me a "faithless" person. But I would like to get this straight: I'm not against faith, I'm against blindness (they are 2 different things). I'm not against ideals, I'm against ignorance. I'm not against rules, I'm against legalism. I'm not against aims to soar and lead and achieve, I'm against selfishness and hypocrisy. I myself am guilty of many of these sins, but as much as I'm conscious of them, my sincerest efforts to remedy intensifies, pari passu.
Labels: christian-bboy, voice
