My Thoughts
Self Quotes of the Day
1) Sometimes the only way to get paint molecule number 8 million in to quadrant x-598 of a painting surface is to brush left 3 strokes.
2) Most approaches to mental health maintenance are individual based and have largely not kept up with the pace of globalization and our tendancy to see ourselves as inhabitants of a global village. Helping one individual at a time is a big "Make Work Program" which does not effectively address our needs as a group. Art therapy is perhaps the only approach to mental health which addresses social and individual aspects of the problem simultaneously by fostering dialogue between them. Other approaches, based on a medical model of treatment are primarily centered on the issues of individuals and therefore fall short in an essential dimension by failing to address the social factors involved in mental health issues. Most mainstream approaches to mental health in fact continue to exacerbate mental health deterioration in a global sense by continuing to fragment shared problems into microcosmic, individual issues. The short sightedness of the medical model for addressing the mental health epidemic resides in the failure to recognize that issues of grief, loss, depression, communication breakdown etc. are universal issues with individual manifestations. The result is millions of people suffering from depression, taking millions of pills to feel better while being completely unaware and disconnected from the fact that the same depression is in each of us to varying degrees and is not in fact their problem at all because it is a problem for which society is collectively responsible. This argument holds true for other group issues such as child abuse, violence, crime in general etc.
3) During the flu season, everyone with a diagnosis of Obssessive Compulsive Disorder, whose main diagnostic attribute happens to be compulsive obsessive hand washing and irrational fear of germs; should be entitled to have their diagnosis temporarily suspended.
4)I can tell when i'm feeling inadequate or insecure, because I tend to buy myself more clothes during such periods. When i purhchase a new shirt, I somehow get a renewed sense of self worth.
5) Staring at a woman in a bra and panties can get a man arrested, but staring at a woman in a thong bikini is expected and encouraged on the beach.
6) Individual shame is public business. Each person should be required to publicly name all of the things they are ashamed of as a rite of passage into current society.
7) Painting is like war. Small battles must be won for power to truly shift sides. First the painter strikes, then the painting strikes back and so forth until each battle is worked out and the power of self sustainable expression is released from within the painting itself. Sometimes a painter can lose too many battles with the piece, and lose the war. Such losses can be painful and I've experienced them many times.
8) Love is a verb.
9) Faced am i with the difficult task of reconciling my artistic identity as a painter with my professional identity as a primary school art teacher. Clearly, the two identities are not in opposition to each other or mutually exclusive. However, the school teacher dimension is a highly public sphere where exposure to public scrutiny is essential. It is just that a school teacher should be publicly accountable just as any person in a political position should be. However, the artist must be able to break free from this public opinion and judgement in order to create something which is truly unique and truly inovative. The artist must sacrifice his/her own feelings in the service of the art by using those feelings as a means to creation and not just for the sake of feeling something. Should the artist be too susceptible to the suggestions or values of those around him/her, then he/she will fall prey to those and take the path led by countless artists who depend upon the approval and favourable disposition of the public. Mass media hip hop has unmistakenly taken this path. In the case of mainstream hip hop, not only does the "art form" cater to it's public's demands, it actively seeks out it's public's desires and targets them in the same way a commercial targets a market. Decidely, this path can not lead to any positive change, for growth may only come from struggle and mainstream hip hop is too easy to swallow.
10) art has been slumbering. For so long now, we've looked at art as a function of consumption. For too long, art has been an object of desire, and as with masturbation, we've all taken part often with predictable results. However, our present times call for the purpose of art to shift from that of an aesthetic object to one of a prophetic object. For art does bring news from places we've been to but also from a place to which we are headed. Most, if not all of the technological devices we presently know of were first born as creations of the imagination and were first given life in Fiction. Fiction predicted what we can see today in technology from cell phones to space travel. We must learn again to listen to the music as our mothers and fathers could for in the music there is a message about where we are going individually and collectively. In the painting, especially the painting from the wellspring of the imagination, there is a tendency towards something which is universal and unspeakable. As mentioned in the small movie at http://www.tomartist.com/pages/gallery/artshow.php, painting is the art of saying without words. As such, it is pre-verbal and therefore prehistoric in it's ability to communicate an essence of being, the humaneness of humanity the universalness of the universe.
11) Just watched the PBS documentary series entitled: "The Secret Life of the Brain" and what impressed me most was how top academics in the field of neurology, biologogy, geneticists use biblical words like "Odysee, creation, pilgrimage, miracle" etc. to describe the process of how the brain takes its form and various functions.
12) Painting is for me a lifelong process of discovering all of the time and space which can exist within a walnut shaped cell mass called the brain.
8) Love is a verb.
9) Faced am i with the difficult task of reconciling my artistic identity as a painter with my professional identity as a primary school art teacher. Clearly, the two identities are not in opposition to each other or mutually exclusive. However, the school teacher dimension is a highly public sphere where exposure to public scrutiny is essential. It is just that a school teacher should be publicly accountable just as any person in a political position should be. However, the artist must be able to break free from this public opinion and judgement in order to create something which is truly unique and truly inovative. The artist must sacrifice his/her own feelings in the service of the art by using those feelings as a means to creation and not just for the sake of feeling something. Should the artist be too susceptible to the suggestions or values of those around him/her, then he/she will fall prey to those and take the path led by countless artists who depend upon the approval and favourable disposition of the public. Mass media hip hop has unmistakenly taken this path. In the case of mainstream hip hop, not only does the "art form" cater to it's public's demands, it actively seeks out it's public's desires and targets them in the same way a commercial targets a market. Decidely, this path can not lead to any positive change, for growth may only come from struggle and mainstream hip hop is too easy to swallow.
10) art has been slumbering. For so long now, we've looked at art as a function of consumption. For too long, art has been an object of desire, and as with masturbation, we've all taken part often with predictable results. However, our present times call for the purpose of art to shift from that of an aesthetic object to one of a prophetic object. For art does bring news from places we've been to but also from a place to which we are headed. Most, if not all of the technological devices we presently know of were first born as creations of the imagination and were first given life in Fiction. Fiction predicted what we can see today in technology from cell phones to space travel. We must learn again to listen to the music as our mothers and fathers could for in the music there is a message about where we are going individually and collectively. In the painting, especially the painting from the wellspring of the imagination, there is a tendency towards something which is universal and unspeakable. As mentioned in the small movie at http://www.tomartist.com/pages/gallery/artshow.php, painting is the art of saying without words. As such, it is pre-verbal and therefore prehistoric in it's ability to communicate an essence of being, the humaneness of humanity the universalness of the universe.
11) Just watched the PBS documentary series entitled: "The Secret Life of the Brain" and what impressed me most was how top academics in the field of neurology, biologogy, geneticists use biblical words like "Odysee, creation, pilgrimage, miracle" etc. to describe the process of how the brain takes its form and various functions.
12) Painting is for me a lifelong process of discovering all of the time and space which can exist within a walnut shaped cell mass called the brain.
13) The local church in my neighbourhood uses one of it's ten confessionals as a broom closet.
14) a story made from the words found on a computer keyboard:
As i Enter the space I Insert myself to wonder. It must be asked whether or not I can get Ctrl of myself in time and take the required actions for a Shift in perceptions. No matter when I try to keep a Tab on how I'm doing I invariably find that I can not Alter the true nature of my being, nor can I Delete , Backspace or Escape from my circumstance. I must make my Home where I am till the End.
15) The words we can find on a computer keyboard all seem to denote actions or nouns involved in what we do as humans throughout our lives: Enter, insert, shift, alter, control, end and Home are pretty much what we do no?
16) What if friendship is in fact just an agreement to not anihilate each other?
16) What if friendship is in fact just an agreement to not anihilate each other?
17) If the answers which we seek are illogical and non linear, we would never find them through our present means of inquiry.
17) Depression is the disease, not a symptom of a disease.
18) Everyone has a counsellor.
19) Paint is my God.
20) I'd like to create software that could tell any person which chronological order they were born in, in relation to every other human being so we could each have our own number. One person might be 4000 to the power of 5 or something like that, the next person could use the software to determine that they were the 10 millionth person born etc. Just a number, that's what we really need, is our own personal, intimate number.
21) martial arts have added a perceptual framework through which to perceive. There is now a new dimension to a modern Art Therapy. Kung Fu will probably lead the way interms of its universally accepted martial art theory and practice. Qi Gong will also lead.
23/11/2007
If there were only one problem with pure science it would be that it presumes a physical cause for whatever process it is investigating. It does not recognize that non-physical existence is possible. It assumes that a process can be investigated through experimental designs. A dog which chases its tale is running in circles. Science in this sense seeks the orgin of itself ultimately since science is always concerned with the "reason" for phenomenon. Yet it is possible that a phenomenon has no discernable "reason"
4/01/2008
The relationship between the one and the many is reciprocal and accounts for all of the variation of in perspective. This means that if you could own your own perspective and add everyone elses, you would have the sum total of all perspectives and therefore understand all disagreement.
5/01/2008
There are things known to consciousness which can not be spoken. Tears and Laughter are a couple of examples of these things.
10/01/2008
Don't tell me you think it's all chance. There is no way chance put you there, in that chair at this exact time and place simply to have you say: "it's all chance".
All corporations emerge out of basic human need to supply that need. corporations want to be good citizens by making jobs and financial contributions to good causes. We must help them to be good citizens by showing them what we need and want more evidently and helping them to make the right choices. corporations are to serve the people, for the people, by the people and of the people.
05/02/2008
if i seem strange to you it's only because i choose to spend up to 8 hours per day staring in silence at a blank canvas trying to figure out what the best way to put colour and form on it would be.
05/02/2008
here is at least one other reality which i know of. It runs in parallel to the one which most of us share but it is completely different in terms of how space and time are experienced. I go to this place often when i paint, and i am convinced it is a completely seperate psychological and spiritual reality which is no less real and no less rich than the regular reality which most of us share. I can not take you there, but i can bring something back and show it to you.
06/02/2008
In painting, I need to keep several physical locations in perspective simultaneously never resting focus on just one.
06/02/2008
When painting, i'm often thinking of ways to destroy the house that ego built.
06/02/2008
When painting I am often flooded with words and memories of conversations. without fail, every time i pick up the brush, those things come back to me.
06/02/2008
Painting is an emptying of my subjective container.
06/02/2008
The only problem with cognitive behavioural therapists is that they have no feelings.
10/03/2008
Our commercial system, that is the system through which we buy and sell goods and services, is an adversarial system. It is a system in which the seller attempts to get the most from the consumer while providing the least and also a system in which the consumer attempts to get the most from the seller while providing the least in exchange as well. Make no mistake, anytime you buy something, a war is being fought through smiles, politeness and courteous falsities. In fact, if a salseperson is being polite with you, you are assured the experience of an inauthentic interaction. The only correct disposition to have in such an interaction is one which presents openely the true disdain and loathing which both the consumer and the seller have for eachother.
11/03/2008
Gommery has not even begun to shine within his destiny as hero to the people. His cards remain heavy and secret. But they will be laid.
17) Depression is the disease, not a symptom of a disease.
18) Everyone has a counsellor.
19) Paint is my God.
20) I'd like to create software that could tell any person which chronological order they were born in, in relation to every other human being so we could each have our own number. One person might be 4000 to the power of 5 or something like that, the next person could use the software to determine that they were the 10 millionth person born etc. Just a number, that's what we really need, is our own personal, intimate number.
21) martial arts have added a perceptual framework through which to perceive. There is now a new dimension to a modern Art Therapy. Kung Fu will probably lead the way interms of its universally accepted martial art theory and practice. Qi Gong will also lead.
23/11/2007
If there were only one problem with pure science it would be that it presumes a physical cause for whatever process it is investigating. It does not recognize that non-physical existence is possible. It assumes that a process can be investigated through experimental designs. A dog which chases its tale is running in circles. Science in this sense seeks the orgin of itself ultimately since science is always concerned with the "reason" for phenomenon. Yet it is possible that a phenomenon has no discernable "reason"
4/01/2008
The relationship between the one and the many is reciprocal and accounts for all of the variation of in perspective. This means that if you could own your own perspective and add everyone elses, you would have the sum total of all perspectives and therefore understand all disagreement.
5/01/2008
There are things known to consciousness which can not be spoken. Tears and Laughter are a couple of examples of these things.
10/01/2008
Don't tell me you think it's all chance. There is no way chance put you there, in that chair at this exact time and place simply to have you say: "it's all chance".
All corporations emerge out of basic human need to supply that need. corporations want to be good citizens by making jobs and financial contributions to good causes. We must help them to be good citizens by showing them what we need and want more evidently and helping them to make the right choices. corporations are to serve the people, for the people, by the people and of the people.
05/02/2008
if i seem strange to you it's only because i choose to spend up to 8 hours per day staring in silence at a blank canvas trying to figure out what the best way to put colour and form on it would be.
05/02/2008
here is at least one other reality which i know of. It runs in parallel to the one which most of us share but it is completely different in terms of how space and time are experienced. I go to this place often when i paint, and i am convinced it is a completely seperate psychological and spiritual reality which is no less real and no less rich than the regular reality which most of us share. I can not take you there, but i can bring something back and show it to you.
06/02/2008
In painting, I need to keep several physical locations in perspective simultaneously never resting focus on just one.
06/02/2008
When painting, i'm often thinking of ways to destroy the house that ego built.
06/02/2008
When painting I am often flooded with words and memories of conversations. without fail, every time i pick up the brush, those things come back to me.
06/02/2008
Painting is an emptying of my subjective container.
06/02/2008
The only problem with cognitive behavioural therapists is that they have no feelings.
10/03/2008
Our commercial system, that is the system through which we buy and sell goods and services, is an adversarial system. It is a system in which the seller attempts to get the most from the consumer while providing the least and also a system in which the consumer attempts to get the most from the seller while providing the least in exchange as well. Make no mistake, anytime you buy something, a war is being fought through smiles, politeness and courteous falsities. In fact, if a salseperson is being polite with you, you are assured the experience of an inauthentic interaction. The only correct disposition to have in such an interaction is one which presents openely the true disdain and loathing which both the consumer and the seller have for eachother.
11/03/2008
Gommery has not even begun to shine within his destiny as hero to the people. His cards remain heavy and secret. But they will be laid.
23/03/2008
There is no Civisme in montreal. Feet on seats in the subway, people stand in each other's way, no holding of doors for the next person, no helping people out, no sense of social duty and responsibility. Recycling seems to be viewed as a favour the government does for us. Corruption and Mafia values are maintained.
23/03/2008
Any government which promotes one culture over another is misleading it's people into thinking it has their best interests at heart. Any government which acts in a divisive manner by say promoting french culture over english is a divisive government which hurts people and contributes to a lack of civism and a lack of people feeling connected to each other. French culture is no more relevant than any other and need not be fought for to maintain. It is commerce which errodes the lines of culture by pushing its brands and views on a people but it is people who make and are culture. There is no culture to protect if there are no people to be that culture. In short, I would do away completely with what we now know to be culture in Québec because the preservation of french and english lines only serves to divide the people. I would rather have everyone get along in two languages than argue about how to get along with just one. Some have suggested that Hitler's hate for the other can be conceptualized as a bi-product of an overwhelming love of self and i think it is a fine line between wanting to preserve one's culture and believing that others are somehow less worthy. Look at the Hasidic jews of montreal. A good example of a culture which has hermetically sealed itself off from the culture of the milieu surrounding it. Do you think generally speaking that Hasidic jews of montreal have any empathy or sense of civic duty to those cultures around them? Let's put the question in reverse: Do you have any sense of empathy or even affinity for Hasidic Jewish culture? At best, you are probably like me and most people and know nothing about Hasidic Jews as a people. A true culture of the people is lived through experiences of one's past and through stories passed down, through art of all kinds and yes through Language. But language difference in a sense only serves to confuse the core of the matter which is that there is only one culture and that this particular culture to which I refer requires no fight to preserve it for it is universal human culture. We are human first and cultural beings only as a distant second and a culture is not worth preserving if it belongs to people who are not loving beings first. There is only one force which truly errodes culture. Only one force which must be checked and balanced because it has no regard for either individual-local, or universal-global culture of humanity. That force is mainstream commerce. If one want's to learn about another people's culture, one must invest and travel to the place where that culture is. It can not be imported.
23/03/2008
An opaque reality is one through which you see nothing.
28/03/2008
When a surrealist laughs, it's a compliment.
06/04/2008
I keep my rational mind locked up like a slave kept around only to do the bidding of a fundamentally irrational self. You do the same but are less likely to admit it.
23/03/2008
An opaque reality is one through which you see nothing.
28/03/2008
When a surrealist laughs, it's a compliment.
06/04/2008
I keep my rational mind locked up like a slave kept around only to do the bidding of a fundamentally irrational self. You do the same but are less likely to admit it.
13/04/2008
I recently experienced a painful hot water burn on my arm. when the skin broke away, i cleared it, leaving an exposed wound of about 2X2 inches in diameter. With this first layer of skin removed, i observed that the ambient temperature is much colder than previously thought. I also observed that it can hurt to be touched by air. This experience has changed how i see the world.
13/04/2008
I've reached an age when I'm more affraid of getting away with it than getting caught.
14/04/2008
Inequity is not a bi-product of capitalism, it is a producer. It produces jobs the same way fires produce firefighters, crimes produce police jobs, lack of education produces the massive industrial education complex. Inequity rooted in class, race, sexual orientation and gender produces hundreds of different jobs employing millions of people. Sorry, what we have been doing so far does'nt seem to be working even though it looks like it's working.
14/04/2008
The Quebec cultural issues in debate for hundreds of years actually contributes to the errosion of culture and community on the whole within the province. When people are fighting over which territories will belong to people of which languages, there are others who would benefit from the cahos. While English and French groups are in a passive aggressive stalemate, battling to determine who's right to exist takes precedent, both are effectively living in a disputed territory. This territory is not unlike Israel or Palestine in which Israelis and Palestinians people's fight to claim a home but never actually live in one. Some would argue that Christian and American political structures benefit when Israel and Palestine fight, the same way that Hyenas and Vultures benefit from the work of Lions on a troup of Gazelles. My usual and perhaps somewhat cynical Modus Operandi of "Follow the Money" seems to apply. We need to ask ourselves, who benefits financially or materially from a conflict around language and culture in Quebec? Who benefits materially from land and ressource disputes in the Middle east? Who benefits from war in Irak? Following the money answers so many questions regarding how and why things happen, and yet, it is still not our main focus of inquiry in either news research or public inquiry of any kind. In my ideal society, everyone's salary is public. There is no reason why what one person takes from the communal table of goods should be secret. You would not go to a pot luck, serve yourself several times while hiding both what you brought and what you took by eating in a closet would you? The only people who want to maintain secrecy around their salaries, are people who have reason to hide it. When the revolution comes, the first questions will be how much money did you make, and what did you do to earn it? these questions will determine which streams citizens will follow for processing.
22/04/2008
I know that a humbling is good for me, even though it tastes bitter.
22/04/2008
I need to leave a record of my life on this earth because my life must be worth something passing on rather than passing away.
22/04/2008
I know that a humbling is good for me, even though it tastes bitter.
22/04/2008
I need to leave a record of my life on this earth because my life must be worth something passing on rather than passing away.
02/05/2008
I no longer accept people who don't accept other people. As a result i no longer accept part of myself.
05/05/2008
I've looked at the thing a thousand different times from all sorts of angles, never actually seeing it. I've tried every way of talking about it. I've tried to define it as verbs, adjectives but still it evades my every attempt to ascertain it. Before you tell me you don't know what i'm talking about, let me tell you that i think you know perfectly well what I mean because i'm talking about that which is beyond my understanding. I am talking about that which has no reason but is nonetheless.
05/05/2008
I've looked at the thing a thousand different times from all sorts of angles, never actually seeing it. I've tried every way of talking about it. I've tried to define it as verbs, adjectives but still it evades my every attempt to ascertain it. Before you tell me you don't know what i'm talking about, let me tell you that i think you know perfectly well what I mean because i'm talking about that which is beyond my understanding. I am talking about that which has no reason but is nonetheless.
22/05/2008
I was looking for my paint brush the other day but could not find it anywhere even though i was looking directly at it. I inspected the set of 5 or 6 brushes over and over again, each time, looking at the brush i was seeking, without realizing that it was what I was looking for. I realized that the image i had in my mind was not a correct representation of the brush, as it was in reality. As I looked at the pack of brushes the one i was looking for, slowly started to appear, as the image i had in my mind morphed from a distorted representation into an accurate 1 to 1 representation of the object. I could actually feel the perceptual shift happening in my brain as my mental picture changed to accomodate the reality of the object. I have learned that what I see in my mind as true, is not necessarily so. My memory of the brush may differ from the way the brush actually is. You may have experienced a similar phenomenon when looking for something in the fridge which you do not see even though it is right in front of your nose. When we are looking for something important like house keys or wallet, we are somewhat anxious about finding it. I believe that this anxiety is an impediment to attending to the present time and space where the object is most likely located. When we are looking in a specific place we are not attending to the bigger picture of 'places' where the object most likely is. it seems our attention is able to look at either a specific location or a general area, but not both. Specialists and generalists may need each other after all.
25/05/2008
There is as much to learn about oneself as there is about the entire universe. You may ask how can the quantity of knowledge to be gleaned from one individual's experience be equal to or greather than the knowledge we could gain from studying the entire cosmos. The answer is that knowledge is not quantifyable, at least not precisely. we can get an idea of whether or not a person has a certain knowledge or not, but we can not as of yet quantify the sum total of an individuals knowledge. I believe knowlege to be irreducibly complex as a phenomenon and that inasmuch as it can not be quantified, we are at extreme odds when trying to qualify what knowlege is. Is it experience? is it rote learning? is it conscious or unconscious? Upon looking into my own experience, even within the confines and parameters of experience related only to the activity of painting, i am always taken to the conclusion that there is an infinite amount of learning which can be done. The proof of this is that hundreds and thousands of lifetimes have passed since painting began in caves, and we still do it. That must be because it continues to teach us something untangible and bring us a certain kind of inexhaustible and unquantifiyable knowledge. The rational and reductive knowledge which is privileged over all others in our society is but one form of knowledge. Subjective, experiencial knowledge is greatly underestimated in terms of its usefulness and this underestimation bears grave consequences on the development of intelligence in human kind.
26/05/2008
The only question which evolution can not answer is "evolution from what?"
26/05/2008
Evolution does not trump spirituality but does kill religion.
16/06/2008
I got a cold chill briefely a few days ago. As soon as I felt cold, the image of my beer, forgotten in the freezer emerged. The cold in my body, reminded me of the freezer and my beer. This is an example of corporeal memory through which a physical sensation can evoke a mental image.
21/06/2008
A prison guard in a sercure max prison in the U.S is like a god as far as the inmates are concerned. he operates the light, food, sound, temperature and everything which an inmate sees and feels. this scenario is exactly analoguous to the situation in which God provides all of the stimuli that man experiences. The difference is that in prison, man has the experience of a world which is ex-machina while man on earth has no direct experience of an environment outside of the one he is confined to.
21/06/2008
The unconscious is taken to be true because it can be shown that a mechanism or process defined as the unconscious systematically produces predictable results. However, the unconsious has never directly been observed because it does not exist within any definable space. This means we can infer it is there, make predictions based on our theory of it, but we can never actually see it with our own eyes. The unconsious is therefore a phenomenon akin to the shadows in Plato's cave.
22/06/2008
21/06/2008
A prison guard in a sercure max prison in the U.S is like a god as far as the inmates are concerned. he operates the light, food, sound, temperature and everything which an inmate sees and feels. this scenario is exactly analoguous to the situation in which God provides all of the stimuli that man experiences. The difference is that in prison, man has the experience of a world which is ex-machina while man on earth has no direct experience of an environment outside of the one he is confined to.
21/06/2008
The unconscious is taken to be true because it can be shown that a mechanism or process defined as the unconscious systematically produces predictable results. However, the unconsious has never directly been observed because it does not exist within any definable space. This means we can infer it is there, make predictions based on our theory of it, but we can never actually see it with our own eyes. The unconsious is therefore a phenomenon akin to the shadows in Plato's cave.
22/06/2008
08/09/2008
Politics are in the heart of each one of us. our democracy is one of the illusion of free choice just as our choice of products in the supermarket aisles is made in the illusion of free choice. All competing products belong to the same producer, futureshop and best buy are the same store, Pharmaprix and Shopper's Drug Mart are the same store, republicans, democrats, liberals and conservatives all one dragon with many heads. The position to not not vote is a defensible one and I have never found anyone either a politician or any doctoral degreed debaters to convince me convincingly that the "no vote" is a fundamentally flawed choice. Many have accused my non voting as immoral, lax, irresponsible and even unpatriotic. Most people vote thiking they understand politics but failing to understand it's most fundamental concept which is as the feminists put it that: "the personal is political" and that the heart of the man does matter. We pay attention to things like impressions given to us during speeches, and we place value on a candidates experiences and education, but we do not ever really look at the man or woman running and who they are. The biographies of Canadian prime ministers always come out after they have served their terms, not before, like they should. There is always too much information and not enough time when decisions really count but if you want to pick between two t.v shows or two types of margerine, you can think about that all night if you want. I do not have enough faith in decision making processes to believe that we will make the right choice either. By not voting, we are voting to break the system completely in order to rebuild it and to demonstrate that people's votes are not even required for a government to be in power. If nobody voted in the next election, what would happen? A government would move into place anyway of course. Votes based on common sense are mislead by people who know so much about how common sense works that they can manipulate it into complete nonesense. We don't like to think of ourselves in this way, but the truth is that hypnosis is only the tip of the iceberg and that we are highly influenced and that sometimes, so called free thinking, highly educated people are just as easily influenced through subliminal message, appeal to reptilian brain, unconscious motivation and other means. We are basically not as smart as any of us think we really are, though we may be excellent specialists in various fields, being truly intelligent on intellectual and emotional levels is phenomenally rare. As rare as Ghandi's and Bhudda's.
08/09/2008
All living things have a beginning, a middle and and end. The world we know is one which has only revealed to us the middle part. We don't know how it started, or how it will end, but we can imagine both things happening.
15/09/2008
Culture will follow the same basic trend towards globalization which is dictated by the enomical and political movements of our times. Individuality will persist, but it's significance and identifying factors will shift from cultural ones to ever more universal ones. A person's uniqueness will no longer be a function of where they are from, what their cultural roots have imparted upon them but will depend more on what that particular individual experienced, how they experienced it and what it meant to their development. In taking this avenue towards a Global culture, the universal aspects of what makes us human will surface. At present, we know that nearly every culture has notions of male and female, god and devil, love and hate, living and dying and all of the fundamental existentialist issues which we seek to know through culture. However, we also recognize, that each culture, as different as it appears, is fundamentally similar to each other culture, with only superficial differences based in language and symbolization. An example of this is illustrated by the many names given to the concept of Deity or God accross various cultures, all describing the same essential entity or set of properties. The next step is for us to do away with culture entirely as we know it, because it does not render us civilized individuals but on the contrary, splits us into groups and fragments us into factions, distracting us from our true destiny which is to be as one and to become that which we seek to understand.
15/09/2008
We have long looked outside of ourselves to see what we wish to know. All of our external gaze has sprung from an internal one, reflected outwards. Going to the moon is an example of the inward desire for exploration and understanding, turned outwards. Looking at cells in a petrie dish illustrates an interest in understanding what happens inside of us. Plunging to the depths of the ocean exemplifies our wish to undertand the world in which we live but also the world which lives within us because we are nearly 80% water. The question is always, is Psyche inside of us or are we in the Psyche?
20/09/2008
no problem can be solved until it is owned.
20/09/2008 in painting, a shadow is like a liquid in that, if you can find the pressure points associated with its movement, you can estimate where it will fall.
20/09/2008
what many of us call god, all of us call love. That is love and God as not only the feeling or sensation of wellbeing and oneness but the conviction of wellbeing and oneness. When the feeling and the conviction are one, there is no defensive position on earth which can protect you if you are wrong.
20/09/2008
The question is not whether you are neurotic or not, it is what do you do now that you are neurotic.
20/09/2008
Just as with the college of scientists there are other colleges which have codes, intersubjectively verified data upon which their assumptions reside. theory in both colleges is proven true many times but through different means, and with different results. The college of like minded individuals of which i'm speaking is the college of people whom believe that ojective knowledge can be understood and grasped internally through intersubjective processes base in the senses. Science has shown that the senses are not reliable sources of objective data. Intersubjective data however is another matter entirely. it is anther matter because intersubjective experience is evidence of an objective effect on a subjective being. Therefore, intersubjective validity holds that simply because a group of people believe they are affected by objective causes, they are. In short, I belong to a college of like minded individuals who belive that things can be true, just because you believe them to be true and not necessarily because they are objectively true.
20/09/2008
be the god you wish to believe in.
20/09/2008
no problem can be solved until it is owned.
20/09/2008 in painting, a shadow is like a liquid in that, if you can find the pressure points associated with its movement, you can estimate where it will fall.
20/09/2008
what many of us call god, all of us call love. That is love and God as not only the feeling or sensation of wellbeing and oneness but the conviction of wellbeing and oneness. When the feeling and the conviction are one, there is no defensive position on earth which can protect you if you are wrong.
20/09/2008
The question is not whether you are neurotic or not, it is what do you do now that you are neurotic.
20/09/2008
Just as with the college of scientists there are other colleges which have codes, intersubjectively verified data upon which their assumptions reside. theory in both colleges is proven true many times but through different means, and with different results. The college of like minded individuals of which i'm speaking is the college of people whom believe that ojective knowledge can be understood and grasped internally through intersubjective processes base in the senses. Science has shown that the senses are not reliable sources of objective data. Intersubjective data however is another matter entirely. it is anther matter because intersubjective experience is evidence of an objective effect on a subjective being. Therefore, intersubjective validity holds that simply because a group of people believe they are affected by objective causes, they are. In short, I belong to a college of like minded individuals who belive that things can be true, just because you believe them to be true and not necessarily because they are objectively true.
20/09/2008
be the god you wish to believe in.
22/09/2008
When we cry for the loss of a loved one for example, our tears embody a number of different things which we generally refer to as mourning. In the shed tears, there are other painful memories such as past trauma (what happened to us?), future anxiety (What is going to happen to us?) and present confusion (What is happening?). Tears for the loss of a loved one flow as triggered by the event, but also continue to flow depending on how much material they dig up and drag out with them. In this theory of operating factors in depression, the extent of mourning, the duration and severity of symptoms depends largely on how much depressive material is dredged up by the triggering event. In accordance with this model of operating factors in depression we can see how preventitive art therapy might be used to reduce base line levels of depression (also known as daily depression) by allowing the emotional system to vent out depressed feelings periodically, thereby minimizing the impact of depressive triggers such as the loss of a loved one. In fact preventative art therapy serves to reduce the risk of severe depression by training the emotional mechanism to vent periodically and to use the therapeutic processes of symbolization to cope with depression when it happens.
22/09/2008
Rather than look back at the great depression, or World Wars to say, "how could we have been so stupid?" I prefer to look into the mirror every day and remind myself that i'm not as smart as i think i am. It's a kind of ego abuse which inhibits egotistical over inflation and narcissistic tendencies.
02/10/2008
I have never voted in a federal election. Though many have a problem with this choice of mine, i've justified it to myself by saying that by not voting, I choose the side of those who can not or do not vote. Children, the mentally ill, the deceased, the elderly, the oppressed are all people who can not or do not vote. My abstinence is in solidarity with theirs.
19/10/2008
many groups of people have insight into how groups of people behave. Managers of corporations, ceo's of marketing companies, psychologists, the government, banks, owners of the internet all have tremendous insight into what groups of people do and what they are interested in. We have to ask ourselves: What do they use this knowlege for? I suppose they use it for different reasons.. But each is definitely using that information to do something with it. In some cases it seems to be more manipulation of us than anything else. In other instances it seems to benefit us greatly. Whatever the case, knowing what groups of people do is powerful knowledge for someone who wishes to have power. In fact, education workers are a major group of people who know what people do and what they are interested in. Who knows more about how we learn and how we are likely to respond to that learning than teachers. Teachers may have more pull or clout than any other group among those mentioned above. Yes, teachers can affect the machine, and because they are like minded individuals they should normally be easy to assemble into a movement of thought and action.
23/10/2008
The names sir and madam originated when people discovered there were haves and have-nots. At that time it was learned that some distance between us would be helpful in protecting us from each other. So the terms Sir and Madam originated and helped people of higher class to maintain distance from those who wish them ill and want their possessions. However, the titles Sir and Madam also serve the function of helping ordinary people gain some knowledge of whom they are speaking to. If you are approached with sir or madam as a designation, you are probably more likely to be engaged because you feel the engaging party has respect for you.
23/10/2008
I once called a black man Sir and he was deeply offended. He said to me: 'my name is Joe, not sir, you need to call me by my name'. For him, I suppose, being called Sir seemed condescending because black people have spent so long calling white people Sir. In any event, there I was in a politically tense moment because I had offended someone's sense of history and culture by attempting to show them respect. It was an odd situation which did make me think about the meaning of the denominations of Sir and Madam.
23/10/2008
We must have an open discussion to get some closure. We must try so we can fail, give to take, be to cease being, have not to have, not see to see,
31/10/2008
what i have now is inevitably what my ancestors stole from others.
31/10/2008
Each word, each thought must be crafted as if a work of art because to do otherwise is to open oneself up to the possibility of speaking and thinking garbage.
15/11/2008
Cognitive behavioural psychology is in the process of demonstrating how there is 'nothing to fear but fear itself'. It is soon to be shown that what you believe to be true is actually true for you in an absolute fashion, even though you may be completely wrong about it.
15/11/2008
Evolutionists are not against religion but instead worship animals.
15/11/2008
When I look at a budgie or a puppy, I often feel that i too could worship animal. When i see such vulnerability, i wonder if I'm not in the presence of a god who has something to teach me.
02/10/2008
I have never voted in a federal election. Though many have a problem with this choice of mine, i've justified it to myself by saying that by not voting, I choose the side of those who can not or do not vote. Children, the mentally ill, the deceased, the elderly, the oppressed are all people who can not or do not vote. My abstinence is in solidarity with theirs.
19/10/2008
many groups of people have insight into how groups of people behave. Managers of corporations, ceo's of marketing companies, psychologists, the government, banks, owners of the internet all have tremendous insight into what groups of people do and what they are interested in. We have to ask ourselves: What do they use this knowlege for? I suppose they use it for different reasons.. But each is definitely using that information to do something with it. In some cases it seems to be more manipulation of us than anything else. In other instances it seems to benefit us greatly. Whatever the case, knowing what groups of people do is powerful knowledge for someone who wishes to have power. In fact, education workers are a major group of people who know what people do and what they are interested in. Who knows more about how we learn and how we are likely to respond to that learning than teachers. Teachers may have more pull or clout than any other group among those mentioned above. Yes, teachers can affect the machine, and because they are like minded individuals they should normally be easy to assemble into a movement of thought and action.
23/10/2008
The names sir and madam originated when people discovered there were haves and have-nots. At that time it was learned that some distance between us would be helpful in protecting us from each other. So the terms Sir and Madam originated and helped people of higher class to maintain distance from those who wish them ill and want their possessions. However, the titles Sir and Madam also serve the function of helping ordinary people gain some knowledge of whom they are speaking to. If you are approached with sir or madam as a designation, you are probably more likely to be engaged because you feel the engaging party has respect for you.
23/10/2008
I once called a black man Sir and he was deeply offended. He said to me: 'my name is Joe, not sir, you need to call me by my name'. For him, I suppose, being called Sir seemed condescending because black people have spent so long calling white people Sir. In any event, there I was in a politically tense moment because I had offended someone's sense of history and culture by attempting to show them respect. It was an odd situation which did make me think about the meaning of the denominations of Sir and Madam.
23/10/2008
We must have an open discussion to get some closure. We must try so we can fail, give to take, be to cease being, have not to have, not see to see,
31/10/2008
what i have now is inevitably what my ancestors stole from others.
31/10/2008
Each word, each thought must be crafted as if a work of art because to do otherwise is to open oneself up to the possibility of speaking and thinking garbage.
15/11/2008
Cognitive behavioural psychology is in the process of demonstrating how there is 'nothing to fear but fear itself'. It is soon to be shown that what you believe to be true is actually true for you in an absolute fashion, even though you may be completely wrong about it.
15/11/2008
Evolutionists are not against religion but instead worship animals.
15/11/2008
When I look at a budgie or a puppy, I often feel that i too could worship animal. When i see such vulnerability, i wonder if I'm not in the presence of a god who has something to teach me.