John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

Like a Butterfly, I have been Reborn with Bold Colors and Strong Wings.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Today, I FINALLY go to the downtown L.A. Artwalk! Yay!!!!!!

O.K., it's not that exciting, but I haven't been there since febuary...

The world is changing dramatically. It is no longer useful to use the past as a barometer for what may happen in the future. Weather patterns have changed, technology has changed, and world leadership is changing. The entire energy of the planet is shifting so rapidly that it is a tremendous challenge to try to keep up. The key is not to look to the past for guidance. That is a recipe for disaster. Instead, look to your own heart. What does it know to be your purpose? What does it feel about the future? How is it connecting with the wisdom of the universe?

When you trust in your heart for guidance you are opening up to the path of love. No longer are we to be slaves of the mind, trying to figure everything out and attempting to manipulate our lives to look a prescribed way. Instead, enjoy the incredible challenges that lay ahead in an uncharted future. Be eager to embrace the unknown. The times ahead can be the most incredible period in history if you connect with the heart and trust in the loving guidance of universal energy.

--Ted Murray
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:

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Gaming Thursday, hosted by Machinima and Polaris, is for anyone who loves games... games brought to life, new gaming shows, and more. Watch the playlist: http://goo.gl/bZOKff

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Easter Egg #6: Type "1980" anywhere on the page while watching any Geek Week video to defend the video from missile attack! (Hint: don't type in the search box or in the comment area. Click the white background first and then type "1980"). This easter egg unlocks a badge at http://yt.be/geekweek. Can you find them all?

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WATCH GAMING THURSDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:

Watch Video Game High School: Season 2 on FreddieW - http://goo.gl/ACuNfj
Watch YogsQuest Episode 1: Adventurers Assemble - http://goo.gl/qvxLut
Watch Multi-player: Games Bring Us Together by Polaris - http://goo.gl/plnaqm
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YOUTUBE: Find your channels during YouTube Geek Week: http://yt.be/geekweek

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Now today, I saw this really cool video about gamers and why they play, which is perfect for today's geek week theme, GAMING THURSDAYS.

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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 #4620 Happiness without Boundaries of Perception, July 19, 2013

God said:

Today I bequeath happiness upon you. The day you read this, happiness is yours. And if you read this every day, every day happiness is yours. Know happiness is yours. It belongs to you. The whole configuration of your life changes according to your thoughts. This is really true what I tell you. You set yourself up for happiness, or you set yourself up for unhappiness. Unhappiness is a set-up. It is something you have set yourself up for.

You may say: “But, God, there is something I am truly unhappy about. Anyone would be.”

Right now, beloveds, there is someone who would be thrilled to have your difficulties.

For the sake of argument, let’s say that you had an accident and lost the sight of one eye. What a terrible thing happened to you. Don’t think that I don’t understand. I understand very well.

Yet what I want you to understand is that someone who is blind in both eyes, would be overjoyed to have one good eye. You bemoan a loss, and he would be grateful for what you bemoan.

Even as you know this story, still, you are weeping. O Beloveds, to be glad for what is. You know all the stories, all the possibilities, and still you moan and groan. It sounds like an expression to you and not Truth that there is good in everything. Even with what seems like the worst thing that could ever happen -- to lose a child -- someone who yearned for children and could not have a child might wish to have had the years with a child that you had. Everyone understands what is considered loss.

What I am really pointing out is that, in the relative world, the world in which you live on Earth, everything is relative. This is the myth you live in. There is more, and there is less. There is the best, and there is the worst. There are all kinds of notes that can be played on the flute of life. All extremes, and all the middle ranges.

At one end is happiness, and at another end, is unhappiness. The world is changeable. It changes from minute to minute, the world does. Perception may well not be Truth. Perception may be fallacy. Certainly, even your perception varies from time to time. Pretty much most or all of the time, everything you know or think you know depends upon your perception. If it were not for the boundedness of perception, you would simply be happy. You could be gracious to life, glad for it no matter what shape it comes in.

Here’s one possible aid for you. Instead of standardizing what life has to look like in order for you to be happy, tell yourself you are on an adventure. You are the hero of an adventure story. In this story, your life is not supposed to be preplanned. Your life is supposed to be only what it is. So you are the protagonist in a new story now.

If you, the hero, loses sight in one eye or two eyes, you are a hero who happens to lose sight in one eye or two eyes. As the hero of this adventure story, not even for a moment do you sulk in bed. Not even for one moment. Without sight, you can’t be a swashbuckler right now, yet you can be an heroic protagonist. You can be such a good sport. You lose your sight, and you gain a new perspective on life. It isn’t the adventure you might have chosen, yet, nevertheless, it is the adventure you are in. You have a new part to play, a new role to get the hang of. Nothing prevents your hero-ness in whatever guise you wear.

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And now, as always, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world.

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The word is a force that you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of the force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
~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.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

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