John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Friday, July 12, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

I am a Bold and Courageous Warrior.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Well, it's friday... I made it. Yay! Well, not entirely... If you notice I didn't post a blog yesterday. I was just too tired to sit at the computer and post something up.

But i'm back now, baby!

So let's get this day started!!!

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. The only solution is the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life. --Conversations with God book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

I saw this video from SUSTAINABLE MAN in my Facebook Newsfeed, and I thought it was cool so I posted it. I hope you guys enjoy it too...

Published on May 6, 2012
The Earth Is Full. But will this "11th Hour" be our darkest...or our finest?

Footage taken from fellow advocates for a sustainable world:

The 11th Hour http://www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/11...

TED talk with Paul Gilding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZT6Yp...

Koyaanisqatsi http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/ko...

Baraka http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/baraka

Show Me Your Face by Ian MacKenzie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHeuV...

The Revolution Is Love by Ian MacKenzie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtc-k...

Sacred Economics by Ian MacKenzie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv...

Home - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENM...

Children of Men - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NikEQy...

Music by:

The End Of The World - Dramatic Instrumental - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0KHS-...

Oblivion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZXBbe...

Suspense Music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_BSh...

Sustainable Man Logo by Steve Agnos and Zach Swan

Sustainable Man Logo Animation by Immanuel Morales - http://www.movingartwork.net/

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"The increase of wealth is not boundless. The end of growth leads to a stationary state. The stationary state of capital and wealth...would be a very considerable improvement on our present condition...a stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There would be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress; as much room for improving the art of living, and much more likelihood of it being improved, when minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on." - John Stuart Mill

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God is always bringing us closer to Him.

Heavenletter #4593 You Are the Truth, June 22, 2013

God said:
You do not always speak the Truth. You do not always speak the Truth to yourself. Half the time you may not even really pay attention to what you are saying. What you say seems to spout from your mouth of its own accord, as if you are a recorder recording whatever it happens to record. The recording could be called palaver.

You speak because you speak. It sometimes seems that you have a daily or weekly or monthly allotment of speech. You are on, and you fill the vapor with whatever pops up from somewhere. You don’t know where it comes from. Are you on automatic? You may find out what you say after you have said it. There is no before or after or thought given to it. You spoke. Thus spake your mouth.

There is good in being spontaneous. Be spontaneously in your Truth. At the same time, there is no need to speak for the sake of speaking. Your speech does not have to be a filler simply said in order to take up space.

There goes the parallel between time and space again, both of which seem to be truth yet are fiction, mutually-observed fiction that everyone may say about: “Yes, yes, time and space.”

Time and space do not exist. They are perpetuated upon everyone and adhered to and accepted by everyone, mutually agreed to.

Nevertheless, Earthtime is nothing more than the tap of a pencil on the desk, and space is no more than marks a pencil makes, no more lasting than the tap of a pencil on the desk or anything else. What is lasting is consciousness by whatever name it goes by.

What lasts, beloveds? That which lasts, in effect, is suspended but not in time or space. What does not last, in effect, hangs out on a seeming clothesline for the sun to dry. And, yet I, I am the Sun, and I last at the same time as nothing is demarked in Infinity and Eternity. Am I demarked? I AM before existence got stretched out on a clothesline of the world. Yet it could be said I roam through two worlds or more. I am everywhere in space and time which do not exist, and yet I AM.

How did We get on this subject anyway? And what subject are We on? Oh, yes, Truth in all its strata. The Truth is nothing but the Truth. Therefore, I am the Truth. I am the One Truth Unparalleled. There is no equal to Truth. There are vines and leaves and varied blossoms that make up truth in the world. Even so, fact and Truth get mixed up. There is One Truth and many subheadings and distractions from Truth nevertheless held as truth.

What say you to what I say? Perhaps you speak gibberish. Perhaps you speak a filler, like cotton or those Styrofoam peanuts. Look how Styrofoam in the world gets capitalized, and Truth has to be manually capitalized and stand up for itself. A commodity takes precedence. I ask for Truth to take precedence over factions of truth.

There is only One Truth, and it is I. I am also the Truth of you, the real Truth, the one and only Truth, the Truth about what is there to say. The Truth I speak of has no parallel. It is indefinable. It speaks for itself. It is not a prescription to be filled. It is Truth by God. It is Truth staring you in the face. It is Truth that stands inherent in its own Being. Truth stands alone, and nothing else does. Pure unadulterated Truth. It beats in every heart. It beats in yours.

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Whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.
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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.

Friday, July 12, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

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