I just watched the most recent episode of The Office. If you haven’t seen it your probably shouldn’t read this. Go watch it, then come back here and read this. I thought it was fantastic and I can’t wait for the next one. It was great how Andy and Dwight were going to fight and I thought Andy was going to have an outburst and punch through another wall. He instead pulled out the Prias sneak attack and believe me, they are so silent it’s creepy. I almost got run over that same way! Not really though :p

I really want to see what happens next! I think that Andy and Dwight now both hate Angela since she lied to both of them. Dwigt will probably show his anger in a vary strange form that he learned as a schrute boy. Andy will probably just quietly stew by himself and end up exploding and killing somebody.

So I watched Gran Torino today. I was really excited to watch it since it has Clint Eastwood in it and I think he’s an awesome actor and a total badass. Ever since The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly he’s been a totally rad actor. However this movie left me slightly disappointied at the end. I don’t want to give anything away, I just was a bit dissapointed with the ending. However it was still a great movie since the entire thing was well shot and had a fantastic plot. Clint put on a great performance as usual and I was truely impressed. Though there was a lot of racist talk in it, the movie was still fantastic.

I’m in the process of making another blog. And I felt it was prudent to tell all of my loyal readers *pauses to chuckle to himself* about it. It’s about computers, which is what I find to be fun. I’m going to put up useful tutorials on how to do… stuff. Very interesting stuff like hack WEP encrypted networks, for security testing purposes of course, and information concerning torrents. Also I’m welcome to make tutorials on anything that you guys are interested in or want to know more about! So leave me a comment or two and also tell me if the site itself works. I couldn’t get on at Katie’s (My Girlfriends) house. *Shrugs* Works at my house.

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Hi guys. This is Alberto.

I wish i was Asian. AZn people are hella cool. I’m just plain white and i steal puppies.

Sometimes in the morning I wake up and I just go straight to class. Theres no need to wash my face or change or even look in the mirror. I look like this all the time in fact. It’s the cool werewolf look I’m going for. You know that awesome movie Twilight? I want to be the werewolf like Jacob Black. He was my inspiration.

I also think that i need cialis. You can look it up if you are curious enough. I just watched a commercial about it just now. It looks good, I think I’ll talk to my doctor about getting some.

I want a husky. they are so cute. I like furry animals. they are soft. i could rub my face all over their fur. i want to name my dog killa. i think it is a funny name. i also like spagetti. my favorite day in the DC is when they have spaghetti and meatballs. also, mashed potates and chicken pot pie. they are so delicious. it makes me drool thinking about food. i think i will eat soon.

my roommate armando is a funny fella. he is sleeping. i think i should pull a prank on him. maybe i will fart on his pillow. then he will have red eye, like from that pregnant movie.

Taoism

Comes from China

Began with a society of very primitive Chinese living very close to nature, it didn’t used to be a philosophy but instead a way of life.

Natural = Ideal.  Things in nature are “perfect”

The very moment that you start asking “philosophical” questions like “How am I?” is a sign that something has gone wrong. We have become un-natural. A normal person would know who they are or what is right and wrong. You don’t see plants and animals trying to figure out who they are or what is right and wrong.

PU = Original Self

Because of the pressures of society and such, at a very young age we start to live a lie or go wrong. We are actors and we sometimes do not even know what our opinions are anymore. We become unnatural and loose the taste of our own being. We do not know what to do because we do not know what to be.

The Tao- The collective naturalness of the universe

The universe is perfect and harmonious, because there is a general feel that all little things are part of the same large things.

Buddhism

The Buddha observed the human life as one of complete dissatisfaction or Dukkha.  Dukkha is human suffering.

Like a lot of religions, it starts by telling us that we somehow see that the world is wrong. But how have we seen things wrong? It begins with the overlooking of the fact that the world in a constant state of impermanence, that is to say, nothing is permanent. Humans want permanence though, we want things to stay the same and to not change.

What is reality? It is an unfolding thing that we don’t really realize. We think things permanent to us because of our relevant view of time and how slow things are to us. Things fall apart and come together all the time. Therefore there is nothing really except partials and forces.

There are no “things” there are only particles and forces. This is because everything comes together and breaks apart in time. A cloud at one moment is there and in the next it can be gone. There are only temporary clumping of particles and if we recognize them, then we can give them names.

Buddhism believes there is no God, there is no soil, there is only dust which is you and by eating and living we can sustain our being for a while. We must enter the world of the way things really are. If you hate your roommate, don’t think about how much you hate him for the entire year till June, instead just accept the fact that you don’t like your roommate and go on with your life.

All suffering is self created. We create a sense of bad feeling ourselves.

The world is emptiness or Shunuata. There is no “thing-ness”

1)      Life is suffering

2)      Suffering arises from selfish craving (got to have this and this and this)

3)      Craving can be eliminated (accept whatever happens, don’t despaired if you don’t have  all that you desire)

4)      8 Fold Path (The way to achieve happiness)

Emptiness is the freeing of ourselves from everything. Once we realize that our desires are empty, we become the masters of ourselves.

Hinduism

Veda = Knowledge
1000 B.C. Immense amount of questions started to be asked. Primarily: How did this happen?

They recognized that time flows and that there is a cause and effect, one thing leads to another. What started it all?

At some point in time there must have been something that gave rise to everything. There was a time when there was nothing, what happened to make something?

At the beginning of time there was an entity. They call it a “person” or Purusha, the original being.

[The world is made of Matter, Energy, and Consciousness]

Purusha was at the beginning and thought “I can create a vast world full of all greatness full of everything and the universe. However since he is all there is, he would have to destroy himself to create it.

He struggles for a while and the struggle builds up inside of him and finally he just says “Yes I’ll do it” and he explodes out with the force of the internal debate. [Big Bang Indian style]

They recognize that things are different because they came from different parts of Purusha.
They recognize that everything that exists has a purpose. The universe is a organism, and you cannot understand the pieces unless you see the whole.

People are entities and the things inside of us all work to make each other work. All our organs and connections, our blood and body, work together as a whole to make us an entity.

The purpose of life is not to figure out what you like to do, but to find a work that supports creation. The less selfish we are the happier we are. The only real happiness is to have our identity dissolved in the essence of the entire universe.

A selfish person is a cancer on the universe.

Philosophy seems to insist that if there is no evidence for something, it is irresponsible to believe in.

A myth is a tool that is used to describe something that is otherwise unexplainable. Therefore it does not matter whether or not it is true.

The  Hindu myth that talks about the world being a single organism, much like our body, where everything is connected but working on their own to make the world work. It shows us that selfishness is a waste. This is because, according to the myth, we are all part of the same organism. You must lose your sense of ego and self importance and value.

Heinz’s Dilemma

Heinz is a man whose wife is ill and about to die. There is a medicine that can cure her but only the pharmacy down the street has it. He needs it to save his wife but he only has $1000 and the medicine is $2000 and the pharmacist won’t give it to him.
Steal drug to save wife?
Let wife die but don’t steal?

This was tested on children. Boys said steal the medicine, girls said they refuse to believe there are no other alternatives.

Masculine- Linear- Left Brain [mind]
Feminine- Intuitive- Right Brain  [feelings]

Irrational Faith

Cannot be proved but I still believe it because I have faith.
We can never know got through the mind, we cannot reduce him to ideas or something that we can think about and comprehend.

Contractual Rights

Contracts between individuals that state rights in the contract
If you do this, I’ll get this.
Like a painter and a home owner.

Legal Rights

Rights that come from general laws. These do not apply to everybody.
You must be 16 to drive a car.
Laws can be revoked

Civil Rights

Based on philosophical principles derived from the society and the government
Civil rights determine how the government works.
In America our civil liberties are emphasized on liberty rather than equality. People are not guaranteed a certain standard of living.

Human/Intrinsic Rights

Rights guaranteed because we are born humans
These cannot be taken from us
Is there something that we as humans should always be given, or always be entitled to.
Is torture bad everywhere, or is it dependent on the laws of that area

Aristotle

He was the first philosopher that stressed classification; we need to start breaking things up and collecting like with like.
To get a handle on something, we must reduce it to its smallest components.

Politics

People tend to agree on things and discuss things but in the sense of politics, subjects tend to pull away from one another.

What is the measure of a rightly organized society?
What do we need more of or less of in this country?
                Freedom?
                Equality?

Tolerance: should we be tolerant to intolerant people? People tend to be less tolerant of others that don’t share their same opinions.

Whoever wins an election, supporters of the person that lost will call it an injustice. However it is in fact the will of the people who got elected. Democracy is the voice of the people.

We want society to operate along the lines of righteousness.

If somebody doesn’t like something, is it their fault?
Somebody doesn’t like bananas. Is it their fault that they don’t like banana?
Somebody doesn’t like gay people. Is it their fault that they don’t like gay people?

Are those arguments the same?
Prop 8: is it just something that has to do with people feelings?
People don’t feel comfortable around gay people so if the majority votes for the proposition is it ok?

We pick people to represent us and we pick one person to govern our lives on a day to day basis. We need somebody that is “WISE”
What makes somebody wise though.
Somebody that upholds rights.

When we make claims about justice, saying something is unjust or just, we say that there is a way the world must be and that you have violated that order.
Therefore it is implied that there is a way the world should be, a structure or order.