John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY MONDAY!!!

Monday, August 5, 2013

HAPPY MONDAY!!!

When I Honor myself,
I am confident of my being,
and I am gentle with myself.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

A Vision for Harvesting

We envision a world where nothing is taken before its time; where every fruit from every tree is allowed to stay on the branch until the exact moment when it is ready to let go; where every vegetable is allowed to stay on the vine until it has completely finished its process. We see a world where we are taught from the time we are young children to approach the plants with love and to let them drop their beautiful, sweet, nourishing fruits into our hands at the slightest touch from us.

We picture a world where we know - indeed, we see - the life-force energy/chi/prana that is in the plants, and, when we eat, we feel that life-force energy being transferred to us to the fullest extent possible because we waited until the plant is ready to give it to us.

In the same way, we see humanity having awakened to treating ourselves and the animals in the same way that we treat the fruits from the plants; where no one is taken before their time; where the life of every man, woman, child, and animal is allowed to go full term. We envision a world where all wars, killings, executions, and inhumane acts are seen now as an intrusion upon another's path; where the sending of our innocent children - our most prized possessions - off to fight and die in war is now viewed by every thinking person as form of premature harvesting of their life-force energy by those who live in the shadows of our world.

Indeed, we see us living in a world where every person's life is precious to everyone else; where we truly do unto others as we'd want done to ourselves; and where all who live and breathe upon this planet can go to sleep at night knowing, in their heart of hearts, that they will get to live out their lives, fully and freely, to the very last instant, and then to be picked, sweetly and oh-so-gently, by the loving hand of God.

--The Intenders for the Highest Good; Vision Alignment Project
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 on this blog.

Now, since geek week actually started yesterday, I thought it wouldn't be right to not show you yesterday's highlights. So, here they are:

Published on Aug 3, 2013
Today we celebrate iconic characters, movies, sci-fi, fantasy and animation with host FreddieW. Watch the playlist: http://goo.gl/VbWxkj

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

SUBSCRIBE to FreddieW: http://youtube.com/freddiew

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

There are two secret, geeky clues in this video. Can you solve them both? Hint: once you've got the answers, try typing them each into the YouTube search bar.

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WATCH BLOCKBUSTER SUNDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:
Skyhook by FreddieW - http://goo.gl/AqIa3f
We Meet Again by Above Average - http://goo.gl/rsUWcl
An Interactive Geek Week adventure - http://goo.gl/V36Or2
DramaBug Catbug Minisode by Cartoon Hangover - http://goo.gl/OTsxG7
RWBY by Rooster Teeth - http://goo.gl/1Hh5LL
10 Best Blockbuster Fan Parodies w/Brian Blessed from AllTime10s - http://goo.gl/RNPjiF
10 Ways To Make A Hollywood Blockbuster For Under $100 from AllTime10s - http://goo.gl/dSdNnR

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

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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And now, here's today's highlights:

Published on Aug 4, 2013
Explore geek culture from around the world, hosted by Chester See from YOMYOMF. Watch the playlist:
http://goo.gl/dskOeF

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

SUBSCRIBE to YOMYOMF: http://youtube.com/YOMYOMF
SUBSCRIBE to Chester See: http://youtube.com/ChesterSee

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

There's one secret, geeky clue in this video. Can you solve it? Hint: once you've got the answer, try typing into the YouTube search bar.

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WATCH GLOBAL GEEKERY MONDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:
Watch Naruto The Movie! (Official Fake Trailer) by Ryan Higa - http://goo.gl/tQNz0l
Watch episode one of 18 Days by Graphic India - http://goo.gl/SAeNhp
Watch How to be More Live an Asian by YOMYOMF - http://goo.gl/JzDdmT
Watch Teenage Rebel by Chameleon Circuit - http://goo.gl/nnt4LL
Watch Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ on DAISUKI - http://goo.gl/YnEka7
Watch the 10 Best YouTube Animations with Warwick Davis - http://goo.gl/tE8Vww
Watch 10 Whovian Facts You Need to Know by Nerdist - http://goo.gl/AV6W6e

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

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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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 #4617 The Crux of the Matter , July 16, 2013

God said:
It is an acknowledged fact that you get upset about occurrences as well as about non-occurrences. This is not a great strength to get upset. It is a weakness and often your downfall. This is not to say that something is not upset-worthy, for, yes, of course, there is much that upsets you.

I could ask you to ask yourself: “Must I always answer the doorbell so quickly? Do I run down the stairs? Is everything so urgent to me?”

And then, you admit: “Why, I guess it is. I act like that, yes, I do.”

Are you on the fight or flight mode all the time? Are you geared to the fight or flight mode of life? For Heaven’s sakes, why?

Something presses your buttons. You get interrupted too many times. You lose your place in your work. You can’t find your earrings. All these upsets you. A storm of big proportions brews in you. What if what you are looking for cannot be found? Will your heart stop a beat? What if you get interrupted again? Tell Me, is it better to get upset than to be interrupted?

Who set your buttons? Who insists that it is right and necessary for you to be upset? What would happen if you did not get upset? It has to be that you set your own buttons. You supplied yourself a list and you listed them and you left space for further irritations that you might add another time. If you set up your buttons, can you not reset them?

Of course, the buttons are within you. There is a signal that goes off within you. It says: “Alert. Warning. Get upset.”

This signal is not your friend. What this signal really says is: “Time for you to have a tantrum to one degree or another. Get upset. Upset your digestion. Upset your peace of mind. Clamp down on your arteries, breathing, and joy. Frenzy yourself. Get all worked up. Upset others in the process. Be sure to kid yourself that getting upset is a worthy thing to do. Kid yourself that getting upset is the ONLY thing to do. Don’t find any other way to handle irritations in life. Make everything worse.”

I would urge you to go beyond the signals you listen to. I would ask you to cease summoning frustration. I would ask you to think more along these lines. Say to yourself:

“Okay, right now I can’t find something I think I need. And this and this and this are irritating me. Do I have to let them get to me? Is this what I need? What I need more than what I can’t find is to find peace of mind. Is this annoyance I’ve come across right now, is it really worth my getting frazzled? What do I think I’m doing? By getting upset, all I do is gain more upset. If I truly don’t want to go through upset, why do I then?”

If you can’t find a good reason, then it must be you find something attractive in being upset. Do you need upset? What do you like about it? What does it give you that you like?

You know, your act of getting upset gets your attention off something else. Perhaps you feel neglected in life. Perhaps upset is a way for you to add a spark to your life. Perhaps upset is a way to remind yourself that you are a person and you need to be considered.

Consider yourself, please, and lay off upset.

You may say: “Okay, God, You are right. But how do I do it? How do I break this habit? I am willing to, but how?”

And that is the crux. Find another way. Who is going to find it unless you do?

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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.

Monday, August 5, 2013

HAPPY MONDAY!!!

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