John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

Caring - Kindness - Compassion - Appreciation ... It is my choice to care deeply about others.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

How does your life add value to the world? This is a question that can and should be asked on a regular basis. Those who have the most fulfilling lives are those who have followed their passion and created tremendous value in the lives of others. Too often those who have the most to contribute to the world are hesitant to share their gifts with others. They often fear being perceived as arrogant, pushy, or ego-centered if they try to promote their ideas and knowledge to others.

However, actually it is just the opposite. The person who is afraid to share their unique gifts and talents with others is the one with the greatest ego. In fearing being labeled or judged you are cheating others from the benefit of your special talents. You have something to offer the world that is truly unique. People are desperate for the knowledge, insight, and love that only you possess. Why not share it with as many people as possible? In doing so you will create a more abundant and fulfilling life for you and for all those whose lives you touch.

--Ted Murray
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Today is TUESDAY, which means another video about WORLD HISTORY. Today, I'm posting an episode of CONNECTIONS with JAMES BURKE.

Enjoy!

Uploaded on Jan 25, 2012
"Countdown" connects the invention of the movie projector to improvements in castle fortifications caused by the invention and use of the cannon. The use of the cannon caused changes in castle fortifications to eliminate a blind spot where cannon fire could not reach. This improvement in castle defense caused innovation in offensive cannon fire, which eventually required maps. This caused the need to see things at long distances (like a mountain top) so the effect was the invention of the incandescent light, or limelight. Burke turns to the next ingredient for a movie projector, film. Film is made with celluloid (made with guncotton) which was first invented as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Next was the invention of the zoopraxiscope which was first used for a bet to see if a horse's hooves all left the ground at any point while galloping. The zoopraxiscope used frame by frame pictures and holes on the side to allow the machine to pull the film forward. Communication signals for railways using Morse's telegraph led to Edison discovering how to speak into a microphone creating bumps on a disc that could be played back—the record player. This final ingredient gave movies sound. In summary, Burke connects the invention of the movie projector to four major innovations in history: the incandescent light; the discovery of celluloid; the projector that uses frame by frame pictures on celluloid; and finally, recorded sound.

Connections is a ten-episode documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science & Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979 (USA). It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The series was noted for Burke's crisp and enthusiastic presentation (and dry humour), historical reenactments, and intricate working models.
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“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.” ― James Burke

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God is always bringing us closer to Him.

Heavenletter #4597 Do You Debate with a Wild Tiger?, June 26, 2013

God said:
Indeed, life as you live it, often seems hard, so hard. It seems hard because of ideas you hold. You have sequences of ideas, one tied to another, and you believe in all of these ideas. Based on your thoughts, you may well set yourself up for difficulty.

You come to conclusions of what life is supposed to be. You want life to be easy, yet it isn’t. Why isn’t it? Isn’t life putting one foot in front of the other? What is so hard about that?

When you say that life has to be this way and not that way, you come up against an obstruction. Rather, you pull the obstruction up to you. You set a deterrent in front of you.

What if you could think that life is whatever it is right now, and it’s okay for life to be like this at this moment? It is okay. Life is the life before you at this moment.

Who says that decisions have to be difficult? Look, in life, if you find yourself facing a wild tiger, do you theorize about it? Do you say to yourself or to the tiger: “You shouldn’t be here. You don’t belong here. You shouldn’t be in front of me.”

Beloveds, I don’t think you debate the issue of a wild tiger when it is before you.

And yet you wrangle with what may be before you in life.

It is easy for you when there is a teddy bear in front you. You just go up and hug it.

You may have tasks before you, some you like, and some you don’t. And each has to be taken care of.

Life doesn’t always ask you: “What would you like, dear?”

Life often seems to say:

“Here I am. Do with me as you will. I suggest that you take care of me as I am before you. Know that whatever I present to you, for whatever known or unknown reasons, it is your course of life I present, and you are the one who has to take care of me. You are the one who has to deal with me, not as you would wish I be but as I am.”

Beloveds, when the radio is on too loud, you are the one who gets up to lower it.

When there is mud tracked on the kitchen floor, you are the one who wipes up the mud.

When you are facing a law suit which sets trembling in your breast, you are the one who has to go to court.

When life hands you what you consider a hard blow, you are the one who has to get up on the count of ten, and pick up your life.

When you are driving a car in traffic, you can’t keep blasting your horn. You are the one who has to get out of your own way. You are the one who has to move along. Moving along in life requires moving along. Not rebuttal but forward-moving action. Not moaning and groaning, but forward-moving action.

When your baby cries in the middle of the night, you get up and take care of your baby.

Your life is not to cry about. Your life is to get up and take care of.

It is no longer for you to blame the state of your life on something outside you. If you are in a pickle, it is for you to get out of the pickle. And if you can’t seem to get out of it, then you are the one to move along anyway.

You are responsible for your life. No one else is.

http://heavenletters.org/do-you-debate-with-a-wild-tiger.html

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The proof that God lives within you is that you are alive.
~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.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

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