John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!

My life is the eye of the hurricane - an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

The holy one requests:

Not “my lord” –

“my love” instead.

--Dei-Ku Poems by Jeffrey Agnoli
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.

Now, here's today's highlights:

Published on Aug 6, 2013
Discover superheroes, the supernatural and the super-weird, hosted by Matt Mira from Nerdist and Stan Lee's World of Heroes. Watch the playlist: http://goo.gl/8aOY2T

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WATCH SUPER WEDNESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS:
Watch Marvelous Movie Shawarma: Secret Endings on Stan Lee's World of Heroes - http://goo.gl/vJXFON
Watch What if Batman Drove a Nissan? by The Fast, Furious, and Funny - http://goo.gl/KcC3OT
Watch The Sidecar: The Death of Blu-Jay by Above Average - http://goo.gl/F5NzPH
Watch the Top 10 Most Haunted Places by BlackBoxTV - http://goo.gl/lWmmC6
Watch 10 Superheroes You've Never Heard Of with Simon Pegg & Nick Frost - http://goo.gl/nioexZ
Watch 10 Real Life X-Men with Shawn Ashmore - http://goo.gl/9ytMxu

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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 #4619 The World of Your Making, July 18, 2013

God said:

Look, you want to stop rushing. It is not for you to be in a dither of activity. It is not efficient to rush. This does not mean you have to plod.

When you have a job to do, do it. Move along. Sometimes, it would seem that you think finishing what you are working on is urgent. Do you feel that you must be done or you will be thrown off the planet? Just what do you think will happen if you don’t finish a project on time or ahead of time – whether it is housecleaning or an essay assignment – would the world collapse? Would your world collapse?

Beloveds, time does not exist, and yet you are ravaged by it. It claws at you. It gets you out of breath. You panic with it. You do not know how to get out from under the pressure of time.

What happened to enjoy?

The thing is that once you finish this job, there are two waiting for you, and you rush and pant and rush again. Because of something in your approach to life, you spend a lot of your time – and your life, beloveds – rushing to finish something. You are like a rabid weeder in the garden. As soon as you pluck one weed, then two seem to grow in its place, and you are ready to pounce.

Okay, what is so important? What is worth your very breath to the degree that you expend it? Your duress is as if you are being hunted by a murderer. As soon as you slam a door in the murderer’s face, you turn around, and another dangerous interloper is waiting inside to leap upon you.

How much do you think I am exaggerating? This is the way some of My children live their days, weeks, months, years, lifetime in a tense race against time.

You put yourself in a vise of time time and time again. When are you going to even your pace? When are you even going to do what you have forgotten, and that is to forget the panic and live life instead?

Instead of viewing life as a marauder, view life as a lovely calming bath you relax in. You will see that nothing is chasing you. You don’t have to gasp and pant to keep ahead of a bill-collector who is chasing after your time.

There is an easier pace to life, and you can have it. Your life does not have to be harried. Your life can be enlivening and relaxing. You don’t have to be on the firing line. Honest, you are not trying to win a race. It is you who keeps raising the rope higher. Something in you says that you have to raise the stakes higher and higher, that you have to outdo yourself, that you have a race you must win, or else.

Alas, beloveds, those of you with this temperament, no matter your speed, no matter your frantic activity, you do not ever seem to get out from under. You are your own whipping boy.

What will you do about this?

Do you agree that you spend too great a chunk of life in this situation of a kind of imposed direness? Awareness is a first step.

Can you see the possibility that you don’t have to run around in so many circles? That you don’t have to expend the degree of energy that you do?

If you are worn out, you are the one wearing yourself out. Somehow, you have had the habit of confining yourself in a small space of time even as you try to get out of it. It is like you are pushing and resisting at the same time.

This is called tension, beloveds. You don’t have to be so tense. Who requires this of you? Not I. It is good to get into activity, but, not, dear ones, a constant flurry of energy. This just isn’t a way to live.

Perhaps you have not really taken a moment to look at the whirlwind of activity you put yourself in. Pause. What you wear yourself out over, someone else is taking it in his stride. You take on too much. Or whatever you take on, you make too much of it. Take a break. Life is not out of hand, nor do you have to be. There is no race to run.

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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.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!

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