KARMA. JUSTICE. IMPUNITY.

With all these crimes happening around town, of which some argue that Christmas is near and crooks also needs to serve up something on their table and shove up some gifts onto their beloved, i sometimes wonder if there would be a safe place on Earth from all these crooks wanting more cash on the expense of other’s lives?

(Oh Darn what Logic! )

Added to that is the issue of impunity being a bigger problem in society that members of a Government and huge corporations just get away from the crimes they have concocted and society starts to think “Hey if we can’t beat them, join them”.

( small time crooks should steal from the uber rich and from government officials,lol)

I wonder, does Justice and Karma even exist? do they really pay the price for what bad they had done to others?

And granted that we are all sinners and we had put on suffering towards others,

Should it not be by now that we have equal sufferings and success?

Or if one would desire a righteous path would it in any way, make that one person’s life better-in financial or emotional terms?

Or will it be that the world we humans made up is the world that its us alive and even regurgitates us and eats us back again? 

In the end of the Money is just paper and every value we create out of it is  a mere illusion.

Greatest Age of Philosophies

Rene Descartes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHihkRwisbE

Crude animated drawings and descriptions aside,The main point is Descartes was saying, “don’t trust sensory data” and lets just forget about his dilemma of existence for i have the same dilemma too and that would require another post.

So it other words, Hah arr Matey! Do not trust thy senses. Deception is everywhere.

In the art world, Artists use optical art to trick the mind as sense data through the eyes received and interpreted by the brain only to thing that a surface is not flat or an image is moving but in reality, its not.

Advertising uses it too by using ambient ads. While they are creatively and cleverly utilizing mundane space into effective ad spaces, they also tend to screw with your brain making it a memorable ad.

We also do that in fashion, we beautify people. with lines, we tend to slim someone down or widen someone up. We can magically make you loose 20 pounds or gain that 20 pounds in just a few wardrobe items.

tada! lines can deceive you too. :P

 with makeup, we contour the face to make it look slim, your nose taller or your skin flawless. So I must tell this to all of the guys out there, When a gorgeous girl you picked up in a club turns a bit different and less charming to your eyes, its really not the ugly bus coming over.  its just that her make up is all gone in the morning. I know its mind f*ck but guys buy it works anyway. :P So be wary of deception and don’t merely trust the sensory data you get. 

I really did not even know that Rene Descarte’s idea could be applied in art now that makes him a real jack of all trades! :P

Eastern School Of Thought

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A FORLON WANDERER’S TAKE ON

VANITY AND NOBILITY

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF STOISM

Based on the teaching of Philon (Judaism + Helenic)

Disclaimer: Reader discretion is adviced

People see tons of advertisements or imagery and hear waves of either valid or misleading information on media channels every day.What we see or hear often gets registered to our brain whether we received the information subliminally or consciously. This information will basically affect our perceptions and decision on this.Society has a relatively darker dangerously distorted view of beauty nowadays influenced by new age misinformation and wide spread by the mass media. From an endless appetite desire for luxury, tweaked youthful beauty, drug addiction, and obscure weight loss, almost everyone desires this same thing. We see advertisement on how to look young and slim, websites supporting or glorifying anorexia and bulimia, and many media promoting over the top consumption. Are many people suffering from the sickness of vanity, having excessive pride in one’s appearance and perhaps pride in one’s financial capability?

No matter how we would obsess ourselves in these bodily alterations, lavish things, one thing is for sure, we are mortals and we will age and die anyway. Our bodies, most particularly our cells are programmed to multiply with errors and that is what we call aging. What’s all the effort for? Some may say they want to die pretty. But then they will just be rotten in their graves and or worse they were just being turned into ashes through cremation.

Stoicism Rule 1

Live according to nature

The point is, we can’t alter nature and if we break it, we might just end up breaking ourselves in the process. For example, depriving oneself of food is actually depriving the body from nutrients. Nutrients are what the body needs to synthesize healthy cells. And a body deprived from nutrients will create bad or erroneous cells and no cells at all. This situation now is similar to aging. Slowly, the organs will age and will malfunction but that’s okay, one has gotten the skinny body that they want and died relatively pretty. 

Stoicism Rule 2

Indifference is a must

External information could either be true or false and the more we try to make unnecessary reactions, the more it gets through us. One should know when to take and when not to take the information and should know when to avert from mundane desires and actions. We should learn not to be biased when filtering and weighing information we get as well by separating facts from half truths.

Amusingly, the rule can be applied on shopping as well:

Case:

A new beautiful branded bag came in town.

Reaction:

Oh it’s just a new bag it’s so today’s fashion but it’s not that practical, fashion will just come and go. I’ll just buy the bag that is practical for me and does not go much out of style. I’ll buy only when I need it.

I don’t care. Those things are normal and it will eventually happen. A designer releases a bag per season. So I’ll just shake it off and go do my thing.

Stoicism Rule 3

Find happiness on eternal realities

When one reaches a point that they become wiser in logic, morality, ethics and spiritualism, this would mean bliss.

When you do something, do it right and do it in a good way.

Case:

The situation needs for a designer of a proprietor to copy designs from big fashion houses and reproduce them for the masses buying from designer/proprietor a brand. The act will be profitable

Reaction

person A will not do it because it is illegal (in terms of copyright infringement), unethical and the act is criminal (stealing)

Or  in lay man’s terms:

“ IF, you happen to be treated to a nut shot,

(a) maybe Nature thinks you might deserve it, and

(b) if you deserve it, then it’s because you’ve done something to deserve it or it’s your turn to get the shot, and most importantly,

(c) there’s no use in crying about it, because it is what nature has deemed just and proper at that time—and you can’t control nature.”

— The Modern Wimp’s Introduction to Stoicism, (Mendez, 2010)

Bottom-line:

Nature won’t do stuff according to one person’s rules, Nature rules over man and man rules only himself. A person should follow how nature plays.

Don’t Cry over spilt milk because its already spilt and dirty and the least thing you can do is wipe it off and ask yourself what did you do wrong and then move on.

“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”  – Seneca