John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive. When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!!!

Take an image of something tranquil into your dreams tonight. As you visualize a peaceful scene, or imagine something like playful dolphins, your dream time can be more productive and you can awaken more rested. Happy dreams! ~ Selacia - FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Well it's SUNDAY, so we have another SUNDAY SCHOOL VIDEO, where I post a video about religion and religious topics. Today, I posted up the latest episode of a series named DISCOVERING RELIGION. I hope you enjoy it.

Video description taken from You Tube:

Published on Jan 19, 2013
The twenty-fourth installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion". In this episode I examine the claim made by many proponents of a naturalistic origin of morality that our understanding of right and wrong is solely derived from evolution, with little to no influence from philosophic logic and reason.

My goal with this episode is to demonstrate that human beings share numerous behavioral traits in common with a variety of species throughout the Animal Kingdom. Our capacity to care and to kill are far from unique on this planet, for animals can inflict just as much "good" or "evil" on members of their same species as do human beings. Within the context of social animals the phrase survival of the fittest refers to members of a group that care for one another and help each achieve common goals. However, this alone does not lead to a sound understanding of morality, for often the goal of one group is the demise of another. If we are to achieve a consist and all-encompassing code of conduct that equally applies to every human being, then we must employ the tools of science, logic, and reason.

I hope you enjoy the presentation and thank you very much for watching!

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TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=908

PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=70E757541E8576D7

WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net

FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discovering-Religion/143122652390020?ref=ts

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FEATURED VIDEOS CITED:

Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 29)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyd6om8IC4M

*OMITTED - Planet Earth - 8/11 - Jungles (BBC 2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7XuXi3mqYM

Evolution and Morality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZ3Xt6ZMBA

How Political Correctness Works (The Asch Experiment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqEzsngSuYQ

Milgram Experiment clip Jeroen Busscher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5cjyokVUs

In Time (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Child of Rage The FULL Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-Re_Fl_L4

The Secret Life of the Dog (BBC Horizon 2010)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pssgh

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YOUTUBE SOURCES CITED:

cubs killer lion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y2XeSj4J6s

Lion Fight - Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KPmxBcb1c

last moments of a lion's life. (watch in HD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOH1VaNSmVw

BBC - Wolf Pack [Part 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsPH1lanK3Q

BBC - Wolf Pack [Part 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNMxig-4Jw

It's a Shark-Eat-Shark World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_5blaQLJWg

John Deere 9660 STS Combine Harvesting Corn Arthur Illinois
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgYFpoWjV8 Crowd 24 07 2010. Vadim I. Filimonov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iuNSa4lJoA

Slow motion of Oxford Street on October 8, 2011 in London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng8Wivt52K0

Amman - A City in Motion (Time Lapse Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHUwNP2UdJI

Busy City With Busy People (Time Lapse)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwTGK9qY19U

New York City HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZfzglwU27w

New York HD Time Lapse video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A

Timelapse - The City Limits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIXcM1hN3k

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DOCUMENTARY SOURCES CITED:

World At War - Episode 20 - Genocide (1973)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/

The Nature of Sex - 2/6 - A Time and a Place (PBS 1982)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(TV_series)

The Trials of Life - 08 - Fighting (BBC 1990)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trials_of_Life

Neanderthal (Discovery 2001)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432334/

Walking with Cavemen (BBC 2003)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/tv_radio/wwcavemen/

Planet Earth (BBC 2006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)

Planet of The Apemen (BBC 2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apemen

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MOVIE SOURCES CITED:

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Fight Club (1999)
Patriot, The (2000)
Band of Brothers - 1/5 - Crossroads (2001)
City of God (2002)

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MUSIC CITED:

Brian Eno - The Chill Air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVlnbMNFLN4

Stairway To The Stars (Bill Evans)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r1RidtQKnE

Africa (Toto)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCca5mPMp9A

Poet Acts (Philip Glass)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fca2oXLe9g4

Promise - reprise (Silent Hill OST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ndB4l7oNg

Brooks Was Here (Shawshank Redemption OST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJsjIyS1wQ

A Hard Teacher (The Last Samurai OST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b75VNnrRO0A

Babylon
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Babylon&Sea...

Boards of Canada - High Score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4NyNJQesL4

Immediate Music - Redrum (Dante's Peak OTS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9ya9l-ofQ

Main Title - Marco Beltrami (I, Robot OTS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W3PkA1Eld8

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Entertainment
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"Spiritual gifts are divine enablements for ministry, characteristics of Jesus Christ that are to be manifested through the body corporate just as they were manifested through the body incarnate."

And now, let's start the morning with TAHLIA FRANCINE, performing "AT LAST" on the Promenade in Santa Monica.

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She regularly plays out on the 3rd street Promenade in Santa Monica Ca. So, if you're out in Santa Monica, stop by the promenade, check her out, and if you can, leave a tip.

For more Information about Tahlia and her music, check out her Facebook fan page, TAHLIA FRANCINE MUSIC, and her Twitter page, TAHLIA FRANCINE.

We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us, teach us how to dream the way society dreams.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

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