Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Rant 013 / Sight is the most important sense of all, because without it you cannot tell if its a girl or a fag with a high-pitched voice

Never judge another's grains with your own bushel.


Translation: Your own standards are not accurate when it comes to the actions not of your own.

This is entirely logical. No two person can think completely alike. Therefore the same action can be done by 50 different people for 100 different reasons. Precisely why "there is the truth, and there is the truth." There is the truth that you perceive, and there is the truth that really is the ultimate truth. And (Surprise!) it is the truth that one perceives that matters the most. What really happened, what really is, does not truly matter. Just think of the legal system. We rely of proof, and witnesses to guess what happened. There is NO way we can actually see what really happened, unless we were there. Proof only provides clues. Witnesses cannot be always honest. Thus people are judged by the perceived truths. This is inevitable, but this is not entirely correct. We have no choice, but no one should care if it is wrong. "Truth is perception", as said by someone in the Sword of Truth series.

But to judge someone using your own standards can be fatal to your interpersonal relationships. Euthanasia can be seen as murder, or mercy. If a friend of yours has euthanized someone, would you see him as a killer, or the kindest soul you've met? If you can adjust your standards to as similar to that friend's as you possibly can, you will see him as the latter. You can either try to understand his pains to alleviate a person's useless pain, or you can try to hate him for killing an innocent life. Both ways, you can only see the perceived truth, but only one way is the right way to judge the person.

To change your standards to suit another person's, you must first understand that person. This is a very hard thing to do, but observation is the key. A quiet person sees the most, but silence doesn't really do shit. Talking is another way to observe. Ultimately, it is really useless to do this for a stranger. It takes too much time.




Democracy is a farce when it is used by a society that is at least large enough to be referred to as a city. To let the people vote is ridiculous in a society of such scales. Before voting for a leader, one is supposed to know who one is voting for. One must vote for the person in that society who wants to lead, and is the most suitable to lead them. This is one critical point that is being ignored. People do not truly know who they are voting for. All they know the leader is entirely from the country's media. Do not imagine for one second that any government has no hand in the media of their country. When it comes to an important event as this, where democracy is proving to be still in existence in that country, no government can let the process go uncontrolled. And even before that, the candidates are "filtered" by government officials. It is good to know that no one we vote for has any serious criminal records. But there is no way to know anything deeper than that.

Even for a town-sized society, people barely know everyone else. They may be able to recognize some faces, gossiped about the others, but that is as far as it goes when it comes to recognition. But at least, most people in such a society may know someone who knows someone who knows the person being voted for.

The smaller the society, the better democracy works. This is unavoidable. Democracy requires the people to trust in the leader who wins the election. How can people trust someone they know only from the papers??! Hell, there is probably just barely 7 degrees between anyone in the country and the leader. In a democratic society, we trust someone who is a total stranger to us!

The fact is that democracy requires more efforts than is being spent by most governments of the world. They know that people can be "tuned to the right frequency" with an education system that is controlled by them. To hear something being repeated over and over again for years is a form of brain-wash. Therefore with this shortcut they can minimize the efforts they need to maintain this mockery of democracy, and maximize revenues. This world is being dominated by people who exploits the ignorance of billions of people. Singapore may be seen as trying to do something about this by introducing the idea of "grassroot leaders", representatives of the government who interacts with the general population regularly. This is not enough. The only way for the people to have complete trust in the government, to make an indestructible bond between the leaders and the people is to emulate some useful ideas in the leadership system in the military. They have to go deeper into the population, to the basic units of the society. Just like in the army, several men form a section, with a section leader to tell them where to go. Among section leaders, there is a platoon leader. And so on. So it must be for the society as a whole. Every family should have a representative, who in turn chooses a leader for each street, or road, who in turn votes for a leader of that "zone". These "zone leaders" should then choose their own leaders for the town/city and so on. People will trust in whoever they choose to represent their families, and trust their opinions. And this chain will apply to the whole process all the way to the top.

Only with this method can the people have complete trust in the leadership of their government. Thus can peace be maintained indefinitely, and maybe even permanently. It may sound ludicrous to some, but in chaotic times like this, even dry straws on the side of the cliff is hope for the falling man.

Tuesday, 30 January 2007

Rant 012 / "Leadership qualities are practically oozing out of me! Look, even my fart smells of Leadership!"

When you're in a French restaurant, don't order a "quickie". Quiche is pronounced as "keesh". Unless, of course, you are interested in a short but intimate relationship with vegetables, seafood or meat.

Hillary may be the next U.S. President. Blue shirt, anyone?

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To want!

Desire is not a sin! It is what makes us us!

Hopes and wishes are all formed from desire. To hope for nothing, to wish for nothing, to want nothing, is to be nothing. Even a unicellular organism desires to live. It is inborn, a gift for the strong, a curse for the weak. But to ignore it, one is to be unnatural.

Gah!

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Ever wondered why some people always seem indecisive when asked what they want, yet when they are given something, they suddenly become as decisive as anyone else, in such a way they reject what is given because it "is not what I want".

To answer such a question with such an answer as "anything" is spouting nonsense. The fact is that the person who is answering really knows what is wanted, but feels it hard to admit the truth, for one reason or another. It may be because the truth is absurd, or the answerer's honest reply is in conflict with what the person wants to be seen as.

In short, there is a lack of guts to face the truth, to admit the truth.

Cowards.

Sheep.

Bullshit.

If you want to eat "anything", there's food floating in my toilet. No, I know what you mean. "Anything" here would mean "anything edible". The ketchup's free. Enjoy.

The thing I hate about such people is not because they answer with such an indecisiveness. What I dislike is when they reject what is given in the end. "Anything" does mean anything.
If there is something not wanted, tell us what is wanted then. Few of us are psychics. Those who are, wouldn't be here serving you anyway.

Indecisiveness is understandable. When overwhelmed with a large amount of choices, the mind cannot accommodate so many new things and become confused. But come on, just choose something, at random if you cannot decide on anything. Choosing something you do not like by mistake is better than rejecting what others chose for you. If anyone else can know you better than yourself, you're pretty much a failure. The fact is, no one but your parents, siblings and lover can know you as well as yourself. No one else really cares about you like this group of people. Therefore, do not expect anyone to know what to decide for you when you cannot decide for yourself!

If the worst comes, and you cannot allow yourself to choose even randomly, accept what is decided in the end. It is never their fault for the wrong choice. You were the one who cannot express what you desire. You were the one who let others choose what is good for you. If you are unable to bring yourself to accept the decision made by them, you should have said something more than just "anything".

This applies to all facets of life. Whether it is something as small as a meal, or something far more important like marriage, a decision you gave to others to decide must be accepted by you, good or bad. It is only logical.

Calmness is always necessary to argue the right way. Anger can lead to incoherence, in speech and in thought. Precisely why I don't argue. I get pissed easily, especially when I find that the other guy is arguing for the sake of arguing. Many people do that when I burst their ego bubble. Argument is healthy as a form of hobby (lol) but it is absolutely useless when it comes to important decisions that require a fast response. Like a rescue mission. You can argue about the whether or not the person is worth risking the volunteers' lives, or you can argue the best method to rescue that person. In the end, you are just indirectly trying to kill that poor guy.

If unable to decide, and time is running out, choose anything. If a wrong choice is made, you may just be able decide on the right one quickly next time. Take that mistake as a lesson. And don't fuck around with others just because you suck.

Saturday, 27 January 2007

Rant 011 / Bingaling Bongolong Bangalang Bungulung! BANG!

At the absolute zero temperature, time stops.
So is the transfer of energy really time?
Or is it just somehow proportionate to time?
Does this mean time is NOT an independent dimension, but a dimension that's completely dependent on every other dimensions?

This is where confusion occurs for the unlearned.

/script confusion

Life has no one meaning. It has infinite meanings and it is up to the living to decide what it means for them to live. But thinking is the world's toughest job, therefore having a religion makes things way easier. A religion is able to tell you why you live and how to live. It is like a pillar to rest on for those who do not wish to see the endless wilderness ahead. It is not a form of deception, just a guiding light for the ones who wants help. But the living is not limited to the choices offered by religions. Not all religions are good, or helpful. Some religions focus on the dead and thus believers live for the dead. That is wrong. It is a distortion of what should be respect for the dead. To respect the dead is not to worship the dead, and the dead do not belong in this world anyway.

People can form their own purpose for living. It may not be to help others, it may not even be beneficial to the society, but all is necessary. Not everyone can be good. Not everyone should think alike. A world that consists only of people who are good and think alike is not Utopia. It is a warped idea thought up by people who have been scarred for life by inhuman acts.

Ever noticed that in all the food chains and cycles you have ever seen so far in your life, humans are never a necessary part in any of them? Ever noticed that if humans are extinct, none of the naturally occuring food chains will be disrupted to the point of destruction? So, what are we here for?

Ironically, despite the fact we are not necessary, we are also the only species that can save our environment. The Earth doesn't need us, but it does. But then, if we were not here in the first place it wouldn't need saving, now would it?

Therefore, what is the purpose of humanity?If you believe in one religion or another, this question would be easier than 1+1. See now how necessary religions are for those who wants to stop wondering about this? For the non-believers, there is a purpose. Just because you cannot see it, feel it, or understand it doesn't make it non-existent. You cannot see, feel or understand some countries on the other side of the globe, but they are there, aren't they? Yes, it can also mean that they aren't there, just like the belief that the moon-landing by Neil Armstrong was done in Hollywood. But it does feel better to believe that we have a purpose. To live a life when one does not see one's own purpose is to live a very empty life.

The thing is, the world can take whatever purpose you give yourself. Good or bad, the world will absorb any impact you made and move on. Nothing has proven that even the whole-hearted actions of an entire race can destroy our world. So far, the event with the biggest impact by our entire race was World War 2, if not our global warming. We are still here, and we will always be around. Humans can adapt with amazing speed, compared to any other primates. Yes, it doesn't mean that we are invulnerable to anything, but for such events to occur, it will not be of our doing. Or at least not completely. If you sincerely believe humanity is weak and easily destroyed, you have watched too much TV.

So do anything you want! Set any purpose you want to set. Kill yourself, by all means. It will benefit those who knew you, for they will learn not to be so frivolous with their purpose in life. And in turn, fewer people will do the same as you. Think of how many lives you can save if you have thousands of friends. But of course, there are those who won't learn, and those who cannot control their emotions sufficiently. The world will move on, with or without them.

So yes! No longer should you see life as finding your way through darkness, in need of a light of guidance. Think of life as a sandbox. Everything is malleable. Everything can be shaped as you will, as long as you have enough will. The world is your playground. Stop whining and start building. You can choose to burrow into a hole and never look into the Sun, or you can build the tallest tower and let the rest look up your shorts/skirts. It is all up to you. The world will move on, nonetheless.
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Understand this: Utopia doesn't exist in the afterlife. It exists here and now. This is perfection.

Friday, 26 January 2007

Rant 010 / A Dickhead is where the real brain of a man resides

Lust!

A sin. A natural phenomenon. A necessity in Man.

It may or may not be any any( or even all) of them. But I see Lust as is a burden.

Sex is the omnipotent solution for any problems in guys. Generally, men see sex as the goal in life. In fact, I have heard some guys saying that everything a guy does, always lead to sex. Which is what inspired me to make up the saying, " All roads lead to sex."
And it is true! At least for non-celibates. A general description of the life of a guy would be: birth, play rougher games than girls, study, girlfriends, more study, work, marriage, kids, death.

Birth. Look at it this way: U cry, and tits get pushed into your face.

Then you start playing soccer, baseball etc. An inborn urge to get fitter. Someday later u will find that useful in attracting girls.

Study. U try to be the best. Why? To get a better pay! Why? Better future! Why? Better sex.

Girlfriends. The word speaks for itself.

More study! College. Sex, study and sex all day long.

Work. Pay. Promotion. CEO. Supermodel wife.

Marriage. Mistresses.

Kids. Oh never mind that..

Death. End.

See? Everything a guy does, eventually leads to sex! If my summary isn't satisfying enough, just think on your life and everything you have been doing.

Enough with this. Time to go back to Lust.

Some women wish they were born men. Some women were born men. The former group doesn't understand what they're wishing for. The latter are smart. Being a woman without having periods must be comfortable.
Lust is like a film over a man's eyes. When a man is horny, or haven't been sexually satisfied for some time, he sees the world differently. Thoughts gradually become more inclined to sexual desires, women gradually grow hotter and eventually they will do anything for sex. When a guy hasn't had sex or masturbated for a long enough time, anything looks hot! And when he's done, it is as if he wakes up from a trance and wonders: How the heck did it/she look so sexy just now?? It is sad, but if you are a guy, you would know.
And because of this, men cannot think properly if they do not satisfy themselves regularly. Regularly can mean any amount of time to different guys. Some need it monthly, some weekly and some even daily. But the result is the same: they would do anything if they are horny enough. And whatever they do, they might not have done if their minds were clear.
Therefore it is a burden. A mental problem, and a serious one at that. It is incurable, other than by castration. But the temporary cure is pure euphoria, an ultimate happiness that cannot be found elsewhere.
The price is not worth it though. To live in this world but not be able to think clearly all the time is just horrible. Lust would make a man agree to anything when he is horny enough. But castration is just evil. Women think that their periods and the pain and such that comes with it is the greatest burden, making women deserve a better treatment than men. I think, men got the worse deal. To choose between a mental burden or a physical burden, I think the physical would be the lesser evil.
But we do not have a choice. We are born who we are and we shall be who we will be. A sex-change does solve some problems, but it brings about even worse problems. I would say daily masturbation/intercourse would be the best solution to this because it will reduce men's lust to the absolute minimum. There are studies that claim that this is not healthy, which would make sense. Men are made to help reproduce, but they aren't born sex machines. Just sperm dispensers.
However it may seem, men generally aren't the better thinkers. Lust is an incredible obstacle in men and unless one can remove it, it is better to leave the decisions to the female partner. Not that I'm saying that men aren't capable of better logic, but not all men can get rid of their lust whenever they want. Unlike women.

Gah! It sounds as if I'm whining halfway through the rant! But what's wrong with a little whining once in a while?

Thursday, 25 January 2007

Rant 009 / Sheeps! I despise sheeps! Except the edible ones!

Maturity!

Maturity is overrated!

People listen to this person talk, and think: what an immature guy!

This is wrong.

Never judge others with your own scales.

Instead, try to understand this person and adjust your scale accordingly.

But it's your life!

Who should care about what you do besides yourself?

Who should judge your actions besides yourself?

Who should tell you how to live your life besides yourself?

No one!

To listen to others, to follow their instructions, to do what others do.

Do you just want to live their lives?

Do you just want to be "them"?

Are you "them"?

No!

You are "you"!

You are who you are, no less!

But maybe more.

You live your own life, not follow what everyone else is doing!

Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right!

Just because everyone else believes in something doesn't make it real!

Millions of people around the world believe in Santa!

Millions of people around the world believe in Elves!

But are they real?

That is precisely why one should hear what others say, but take their advices with a pinch of salt!

Life has infinite angles.

But no one angle fits all.

Everyone should strive to find themselves the right role, and the right way!

The right way for one isn't always the right way for another!

You are who you are and you will never be who they are!

Tuesday, 23 January 2007

Rant 008 / Life has infinite angles

If the Matrix is real and everyone is really living in a pod, doesn't it mean I've been soaking in my own piss for the past 21 years?

The gateway used for Travelling in the Wheel of Time series must be an incredibly dangerous phenomenon. It is a "hole through the fabric of reality" that one person can just step through to go to anywhere in the world. Since it cuts through anything with an obscene amount of precision when it opens, it makes sense that the edge of this gateway is infinitely sharp. This is because time and reality can be sliced into infinitely precise moments.
Think of reality as a roll of film, and time is the time that is used to "play" the film. The gateway would be like pasting two frames together and cutting a hole through. And the frames "played" in each moment encompasses all possible parts of reality of that moment. Meaning that there are more than one reel of film, and all of them are playing at the same time, or (a more direct but harder to understand view) that all frames are really one infinite-sized film, and yet are also an infinite number of frames( because no one view can encompass all angles). Btw that's also caused by the fact that infinity is a paradox by itself. There are infinite number of frames each moment because all of them have to contain all parts of reality from every single angle possible.
Back to the gateway, since each frame would be infinitely thin, pasting both together would make the thickness of the 2 frames still infinitely thing, and sharp. Infinite sharpness would be cutting through anything, even through sub-atomic particles, EVEN CUTTING THROUGH PHOTONS!
What would that imply?
Once it opens, it should immediately start nuclear reactions because air molecules and light would already be getting sliced the moment it opens. A number of free sub-atomic particles will be roaming about. And what would happen when electrons and even photons are cut into pieces? Yes they will be cut as easily as just by colliding into the edge of the gateway.
The actual implicatons are hard to imagine. To me at least.
One more thing: the space where the gateway occupies(albeit the impossibly thin amount of it) is also where 2 moments of reality exist at the same time.
Therefore Travelling is an impossibility no matter how far Physics can go in the future.

My view of the idea of infinity as a paradox is that it is, at the same time, both a number (that cannot exist) and a range of numbers(that also cannot exist) that contains the forementioned number.

Numbers are infinitely precise too! No drawn/printed point on any scale can be totally correct when it means a number. Even a tiny dot u poke on a graph chart, with the ranges as small as u can possible fathom, will not be totally precise. Instead it can only be a rough estimate of the position of the number in question, and within the diameter of the dot are the range of values u are including in your answer. Of course, usually the difference is negligible, but what i'm saying is that is technically not completely correct.
One implication here is that numbers do not exist, and yet they do. They cannot exist because they are "infinitely precise" and infinity cannot exist. But they do exist. Just count your fingers and see!

There is no "good" and "bad" in the sense that good is what should be embraced by all particles of the Universe and "bad" doesn't belong anywhere. No, such is an idea to simplify life, created by smart guys before and embraced by all humanity to make life easier.
Good and Bad are really one and the same. But in most minds, Good is symbolised by one giving another person stuff that the person wants, and Bad is symbolised by one losing one's stuff to another involuntarily. The "stuff" here encompasses anything a living creature may possibly want. Money, privacy, relations, material belongings, etc.
But the truth is, whenever one loses something, someone always gains something. It may even be the person who lost whatever was lost.
The phrase "something for nothing" is as possible as infinity itself.
Another way to see it is that something that is good for someone may be bad to another. And vice versa. I think it's easier to understand it this way.
To summarise, Good and Bad are really just an idea, not a truth of life.

Nothing is black and white, precisely because they don't exist! Everything is really gray!

Time to end the rant. I know I have no proof and such but everything is derived from logic. No research was done and if anything here is printed somewhere(that is one insane hope though), I did not rip it from anywhere. That would really be pointless. In any case, all these may also seem very shallow to some. I have no idea.

Logic isn't everything, but sometimes, it helps.

Sunday, 21 January 2007

Rant 007 / Sight is the least valuable of the 5 senses. Blind men can fuck anyone.

Stupidity is a wondrous thing. It is what makes brave men brave.

Never judge a dollar bill by it's face. A uglier face doesn't make it worth less.

Cosmetic surgery's greatest and most horrifying side effect? Ugly babies.

There is the truth, and there is the truth.

Male mouths and female mouths are of different shapes. Penises fit in most female mouths but not most male mouths.

Never download pron. Pron makes hands smelly.

Nubtards are not smart and they are not pro.

This aint no rant! tis jus a list! wth!

Humour requires at least one of these 2 things:
1) A less stringent filter for your thoughts,
2) quick wits.

What is a 1? Everyone filters their thoughts. They think many things every moment but only some ever remain in their minds. The rest are discarded, forgotten. Ever had a moment when you were proven wrong in something you did, and when you look back you remembered thinking about the right choice but discarded it as impossible to be right?

A less stringent filter allows one to keep somewhat random thoughts about one's current situation that may seem funny. People laugh at things that are impossible or outrageous, and related to the present. This is how 1 works.

Another thing that humour needs is diligence. Not every joke is funny to everyone. It's usually a trial-and-error thing. The only times when you can make everyone laugh is when when you know them well enough to deduce what they will all laugh at. Keep trying and surely someone will laugh at at least one of your jokes.

But humour doesn't consist of jokes only. Pranks can be funny. Comments can be funny. Many things can be funny if you put your mind to it.

Depending on what you have, you may need to abandon some types of humour. Personally I do not have a great memory. Jokes require memory. When I hear a good joke, I laugh and usually forget about it. It's tough to remember many jokes when you know not everyone you know will laugh at most of of them. One group here will laugh at these few. Another group there will laugh at those few. What is really worth remembering are, of course, jokes that most will find funny. But people often find jokes that have to do with their lives more funny. That's why your colleagues will be tickled by jokes that are related to your jobs.

In Singapore, jokes that have to do with racial differences are the most welcomed, generally. Such jokes are not told loudly for fear that others would think the joker racist. But it is not racism! Technically it is, but unless you are telling such jokes with the belief that they are not exactly wrong, you are not a racist. One does not have to believe anything about a joke to tell it. And stereotypes are funny, sometimes.

Da meaning of LIFE is in the hands of the living. Let not the dead change what the living is living for.

Confusion is in the eyes of the beholder.