Monday, August 20, 2007

you and me baby aint nothing but mamals....



The lack of posts on my new blog doesn't mean I have stopped thinking and searching ..... I sometimes wish I could, or maybe its better to say I often need to remind myself I should..... which I do - do.
In the real world I went from having no one to talk to - to being surrounded by brilliant individuals, so most of my learning is now directed outwards as opposed to the internal reflection I once struggled to contain.
I have also managed to put myself back together.
with help from a few .......

Jung - Myers - Briggs have aided me in understanding myself

"I"
am whats labeled INFJ personality

which translates - introverted - intuitive - feeling - judging
very useful tools in understanding people.
No one type is more "right" to be. Everyone is different!
Though I'm not sure if we are born or made into what each are, accepting and learning how to use yourself is key.
both encouraging "strenghts" and overcoming "weaknesses"
and reading that above link kind of put the pieces back in place for me.
Its not that I blame others - ever!!!!! but it sure would be nice if it was possible to tell another person something and at least have them consider maybe they aren't perfect either???
Actually I can trace back to all the things that brought out the INFJ in me, and its fascinating to find many of my own personal role models on the famous INFJ list, even before I knew they were there.
its like Socrates said after all .... people made of the same substance are connected to each other in the sense that they come from the same source.
sure there are lots of things I wish I were, or could be ..... but trying to hard to be what you're not, through force either by self or other just makes a mess of everyone.
Which is why I put more hope and focus onto the youth of the world, its true .... you can't teach an old dog new tricks, especially when they do not want to learn (cause they are right and know everything already) ..... but that's another topic.
Being connected to Socrates, I have also given up on "arguing" to prove a point and have instead been practicing his style of "questioning" others and their theories as opposed to "debating".
I might be an idiot, but I'm surely not stupid!!
The things people say are just ridiculous!!
And the "intelligent" ones are making less and less sense.
especially when they try to use science as evidence to back their logic.
Including political science.
Everyone is sooooo fundamental!!!
and I don't know which is worst religious or non religious groups.
One almost refuses to accept facts and the other fails to recognise any harm or damage to our existence being caused by their cold hard facts and flat meaningless reality.
To me it doesn't take a genius to memorize information, if people want to say we evolved from chimps maybe we did??? it does not change the fact we are no longer monkeys and if they want to be part of the experiment and learn to push the right buttons in order to avoid electrical shock .... good luck to them!!
Knowledge like anything else if not progressive becomes stagnant. The above image is an expanded version of the work done by Abraham Maslow, whos original had only 5 stages linking man to the animal kingdom, some more human elements that separate us from that have been added.
Humans as individuals and on a whole share a common goal .... survival.
but can the levels on the pyramid really be called "needs"?
Why in our modern world do we seem to be regressing or progressing into a lower animal state instead of our higher self?
If Darwin was right we as humans work against evolution and support our every weakness until it becomes dominate.
I once had someone comment that the war for survival will ultimately be fought between the haves and have nots. Im not sure what that means, but I might be cheering for the have nots to win.
(don't freak out at that .... without an explanation)
but the way things head in the "haves" world, kind of make us as a species some hideous disease infecting the planet like uncontrolled parasites devouring everything including each other.
and the things they focus on aren't really the traits I would consider admirable in people.
looks, material gain, power ...etc.
then add everything connected to pride to the list including race, nationality, and religion.
none of those things lead to survival they lead to destruction.
If the the world wants to convince each other we are nothing but animals don't be surprised when we start acting like ones.
and to the religious police .... its true the world is full of "sin", but how do you control the actions of others and expect it to magically solve everything?
if God searches hearts and minds wouldn't it make more sense to work at changing those things first.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

humans?

While watching random U-tube videos I ran across this short series
"The history of woman sex symbols"
Its a slide show of famous female icons starting from early 1900's.
you really can tell a lot from pictures.
At first I thought to myself WOW!
The early women give new definition to the term timeless beauty.
Everyone of them just ooze some incredible combination of - womanhood, confidence, and individuality, and all in very feminine ways.
who decides what we find "attractive"?
Men or women?
As the history progresses the females go from strong - to frail and helpless looking, but the tribute ends with 70's icons.
Continuing on my own, today's images that set the impossible standard for us girls to live up to ...... seems to tell us we should be both/either - men and hormonal driven objects or divas..
where being "female" in any way is almost a weakness compared to the empowered bitches that are taking over everything.
The art of being woman is dead!
I have just as much sympathy for the men out there, the regular everyday ones .... and I have to agree with shania and say "that don't impress me much!!"
LOL now Im side tracked thinking of men and the second true love of my impressionable young dreams .... ahhhh sigh, Michael - ;)
ahem... anyway,
The world has become a very shallow and soulless place to live in, and I blame both sexes equally.
I credit "religion" and "science" combined as the causes.
where one as an establishment holds woman guilty for the down fall of man and sentences her to an eternally oppressed existence, the other as a theory almost erases her duty and role as a separate necessity.
In no way am I saying men and woman are not of equal worth and value, neither is above the other!
But what is happening?
When did men and women stop working together and start using each other or battling for control?
Personally I was born and raised inside a "mans world" I don't know how to relate to other women.
In attempting to figure it all out I went back to the beginning, if that's where the truth is found, and tried to understand the concept of Adam and Eve as founders of the human race, spiritually, philosophically, and scientifically according to what the study of evolution has taught us.
but what exactly have we evolved into?


I can wash out 44 pairs of socks and have 'em hangin out on the line
I can starch & iron 2 dozens shirts 'fore you can count from 1 to 9
I can scoop up a great big dipper full of lard from the drippins can
Throw it in the skillet, go out & do my shopping, be back before it melts in the pan
'Cause I'm a woman! W-O-M-A-N, I'll say it again

I can rub & scrub this old house til it's shinin like a dime
Feed the baby, grease the car, & powder my face at the same time
Get all dressed up, go out and swing til 4 a.m. and then
Lay down at 5, jump up at 6, and start all over again
'Cause I'm a woman! W-O-M-A-N, I'll say it again

If you come to me sickly you know I'm gonna make you well
If you come to me all hexed up you know I'm gonna break the spell
If you come to me hungry you know I'm gonna fill you full of grits
If it's lovin you're likin, I'll kiss you and give you the shiverin' fits
'Cause I'm a woman! W-O-M-A-N, I'll say it again

I can stretch! a green black dollar bill from here to kindom come!
I can play the numbers pay the bills and still end up with some!
I got a twenty-dollar gold piece says there ain't nothing I can't do
I can make a dress out of a feed bag and I can make a man out of you
'Cause I'm a woman! W-O-M-A-N, I'll say it again
'Cause I'm a woman! W-O-M-A-N, and that's all.