John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Friday, August 9, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Like a Manatee, I am Peaceful, Respectful, Gentle, Kind, and Self-Healing.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Today, I FINALLY went to the downtown L.A. Artwalk... And I had a pretty damn good time!!!

I saw many good artists, danced with some Krishna followers, etc. But 1 group and 1 artist stand out in my mind.

When I was going to go eat something, I ran into a small group of ladies from The Open Canvas Project. These people are amazing! they find a space, set up some canvas, paint, brushes, etc. And they invite passers by to stop and paint. At first, I had NO INTENTION to do something I thought was a silly little kid's activity, but when I actually started getting into it, I was actually having so much fun! Anyway, Their website is theopencanvasproject.blogspot.com.If you're in the L.A. area and happen to run into them, stop. paint something. Unleash that creative artist in you.

You'll be glad that you did.

Now right next to the Open Canvas Project, there was this guy named REGGIE AGEE. Reggie makes beautiful art out of vinyl (that's old records,to those of you who know what I'm talking about).

Yep, all he needs is a small table, a drill, some paints, and an old record, and he can make a masterpeice.

And, he's a hell of a funny guy too.

So be sure to check out his facebook page atFACEBOOK.COM/HOUSE OF HOOLIGANS

I declare that humanity is good and has unlimited potential, and that social transformation starts with personal transformation. I therefore recognize the importance of connecting with my divine essence and inner wisdom throughout my life’s journey; allowing the finest and highest levels of human potential to flourish for the benefit of all.

--3rd statement in Oneness Declaration created by Humanity’s Team (Please sign the Oneness Declaration…over 86,000 have signed the Declaration on the Humanity’s Team web site)
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

YOU TUBE SPOTLIGHT PRESENTS GEEK WEEK!!!

That's right boys and girls, it's geek week on you tube, and since I'm a BIG GEEK at heart, I decided to post up the video highlights from geek week all this week here on this blog.

Here's today's Highlights:

Published on Aug 8, 2013
Fans take center stage for Fan Friday. People fans. Not ceiling fans. Hosted by Felicia Day from Geek & Sundry. Watch the playlist: http://goo.gl/G1T2hR

SUBSCRIBE to get YouTube Geek Week posts from the YouTube Spotlight channel: http://yt.be/geekweek/subscribe

SUBSCRIBE to Geek & Sundry: http://youtube.com/GeekandSundry

Easter Egg #7: Search on YouTube for "ponies". This easter egg unlocks a badge at http://yt.be/geekweek. Can you find them all?

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WATCH FAN FRIDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:
Watch "Gastro Geeks" on Geek & Sundry - http://goo.gl/VcLcuU
Watch "How To Make A Viral Video" by SoulPancake - http://goo.gl/Z1QBeQ
Watch "I Can't Even" Geek Week Special" on Crabstickz by - http://goo.gl/nQEdF0
Watch "Breaking Bad: Etch-A-Sketch Recap" on Todd's Sketches - http://goo.gl/8eXle3
Watch "Top 10 Incredible Cos Play Outfits with the Weasly Twins" - http://goo.gl/JJpuQf

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YOUTUBE: Find your channels during YouTube Geek Week: http://yt.be/geekweek

GOOGLE PLAY PICKS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comics (http://goo.gl/quXxqc) & nerd music (http://goo.gl/7xRqXC)

GOOGLE+: Follow +YouTube (http://plus.google.com/+YouTube) and use #GeekWeek (http://goo.gl/PrQ9CQ)

TWITTER: Use #GeekWeek (http://goo.gl/dAfS4A) and follow @YouTube (http://twitter.com/youtube)

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License
Standard YouTube License

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Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.

Heavenletter #4621 Hello, Myself, July 20, 2013

God said:

You are My testament to Myself. You are the Speaker and Revealer of My Heart. Reveal it! Get on with it now.

I made you in My Image. I gave you all the Rights and Privileges and Purposes and Responsibilities that are Mine. I made you My Heir. I proclaimed you Myself. I told you to venture forth and reveal Truth. By My Very Nature, and by yours, I drew you in My Image, and so I multiplied Myself and spread My Multiplication Tables upon Earth and told you to go forth and multiply. Multiply My love, I said. I told you to be a Mirror of Myself, to reflect Me upon Earth, to be a testament to Me, a revealer of Me, a brightener of the Sun, a polisher of souls, a cleaner of eyes, a helper of others to see.

I washed your windows. I kissed you tenderly. I sent you forth. I spread you upon the Earth like homemade frosting on a cake, and, then, you forgot everything including what you were on Earth for. You thought you were on Earth for yourself alone, and, so, you wandered, not really fathoming what you were on Earth for and what you were doing here in what appeared to be a jungle to you, so unseeing were you.

You became a pauper King, a King with a paper crown. You forgot that you were gold. Instead, you claimed to be an imposter, tarnished tin, a poser as it were, someone who arrived in a new country with false identity papers. You made too little of yourself. Instead of walking like the Son or Daughter of God, you scrambled on Earth, walked on tippity-toes, or you crawled on Earth and could hardly lift your head. You cast your eyes down and hung your head and said, “Tut, tut.”

You found fault with others. You didn’t realize that you were chalking up flaws of yourself and brandishing them around as if they belonged to others. Instead of inspiring the world, you looked for inspiration and couldn’t see it. You simply did not see the splash of light you yourself shine on Earth. You saw a shadow of yourself. You denied yourself and called yourself victim. That is as good as calling yourself a cartoon character. You let yourself be a patsy. This was a nod you gave yourself.

At the same time, you strutted around with world importance and tried to get worshippers to you who didn’t know who or what to worship. On bended knee, you refused yourself your identity, or, in truth, you saw yourself as no more than refuse. You thought you were a staggering loss, you who are everything to Me.

You may well have accused Me of poor dealings with you. I became a scapegoat while you became an accuser. You attributed your irresponsibility to Me. You pointed to anyone and everyone. You refused to admit your own culpability.

All of this subterfuge was to refute your own capability. You couldn’t bring yourself to go out of your zone. You stayed enclosed or even embalmed away from your True Self.

Here I AM. Your True Self. Look at Me and see your Self. I am your Co-Signer and your Heritage. I AM you, and you ARE I. Now you are getting closer to the Truth of Who you really are and What you are really made of. You are more than any words can say. Still, just the the same, I whisper your Greatness: “Thou art I. I AM thou. Hello, Myself.”

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How do you know when you are using the word impeccably? Well, you are happy. You feel good about yourself. You feel love.
~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.

Friday, August 9, 2013

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

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