Seeking Wisdom? Or just plain reclused?

Originally in Christianity, the term ‘hermit’ was applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament (i.e. the forty years wandering in the desert that was meant to bring about a change of heart). In the ascetic eremitic life, the hermit seeks solitude for meditation, contemplation, and prayer without the distractions of contact with human society, sex, or the need to maintain socially acceptable standards of cleanliness or dress.

The Major Arcanas of the Tarot portrays the Hermit as one who has internalized the lessons of life to the point that he is the lesson. In other words, the term hermit is associated with those who find not the need to abide by society in order to achieve greater wisdom.

Nowdays, those referred to as hermits are basically just social recluses, those who pretty much shun society and human companionship. Spending their days in utter emo-ness or depression, rotting away bit by bit… cough ehem. Uh, anyway, that was a long and serious introduction, save for the choking on words bit. Oh, hermits can also refer to a spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts >_>.

Uh, right. Today we’ll be looking at the fall of the hermits in recent decades… or something like that. Anyway, in this day and age, unless one finds oneself in an internal struggle or some manga-ish krap like that or if one’s just a weird religious old coot (no offence dudes), one would not find the need to exclude oneself from society just to find enlightenment. One can choose to seek further education, travel the world, or get high on weed, among other things.

Why lock yourself up in a room all the time, life ain’t THAT krap. Find the courage to seek a new beginning, unless life IS that krap, there are OTHER alternatives ehem… Believe it or not I’ve had my fair shares of depression. No I’m not sniffing coke. If your down just by experiencing pain then you’re WEAK muwahahaha. That’s right, you’ve heard this from countless mangas that have the word “drama” attached to it. After all, only by experiencing pain can one know the true meaning of happiness. Oh krap, I think I just blurted out a totally fine quote of the day… Damn, curse the train of enlightening thoughts, you never come at the right time.

Uh, anyway, I’m bored now so Imma not write anything else. Ending the post with a quote as per usual:

“History only repeats itself for those who are unwilling to change it”

Let me tell you noobs out there, this is like one of, if not my all time favourite quote. So may this quote shine true light upon those who are afraid of being hurt again and guide them towards a brighter tomorrow. Unless you have not a shred of humanity left in that pitiful shell you call a body. Seriously, I think Johnie might be right. I’m pretty suitable to be one of those religious propaganda-ists… whatever they’re called…  Even Shakespeare’s feeling proud in his grave. Uh, so till next time etc…

The Horror is Reborn

Yes… I originally intended to complete these two 2000 words essays like a week ago…. But, well, things got outta hand, especially with those damned tutorial quizzes. Macross Frontier, Code Geass and Nodame Cantabile Live Action SP was also a bit of a problem… ehem >_>. Anyway, I guess it’s time I went on an all out battle against the axis of political evil. I DEFINATELY won’t get into that “zOMFG its due tomorrow and I still have 1000 freakin’ words to write” situation, seeings as how theres still a month left and I’ve written some 500 words :-”. Well, uni students tend to get into that situation… alot, and I’m not just defending myself either <_<.

Well, at least I won’t have four exams, and especially not two on the same day like some other unlucky chap, cough cough. Meh, I’ve also noticed how mah posts have become longer and longer over the course of time. And now that I’ve NOTICED, I feel kinda pressured to write more… Man,  won’t I ever escape from this hellish fate of barely being able to push out one or two more words?! Then again, not having enough words to write was/is also krap.

When I first got into uni my dearest mother was like: “Meh, we had to write 20 to 50 pages when I was doing my Masters Degree.” I thought, “Woah… 20 to 40 pages, most krap.” Well, nowadays I write 10 to 15 freakin pages all the time. Ugh, just thinking about it makes me wanna throw this brick (collection of chapters assorted books that students HAVE to buy (its worth it though, and you won’t get through the courses otherwise) that looks AND feels like a freaking brick) out the window.

Oh yes, let me also spend some time bitchin about mediafire. As you all might’ve noticed, mediafire has gone to, please excuse the language, shit. A few days before, one (me) would’ve downloaded to 99% and had to pause the download, resume, and let it download the freakin file again or else it woulda just stopped at 99% and DIED. Well as of yesterday, the file would download to 99% and the connection DIES, PERIOD. This conversation between me and Johnie goes to show you how much mediafire has fallen:

Johnie: …..
Johnie: well
Johnie: collective overuse, i’d say
Shiki: sigh
Shiki: i mean at 1st
Shiki: mf was this god that had descended to the earthly hell of shitty ddl providers
Shiki: then that god slowly decayed and fell to krap as well
Shiki: well rapidshare is regaining its status as god
Shiki: but lots of noobs still up to mf!!
Shiki: >.<
Johnie: well
Johnie: “& god sees to it that he was more abused than the basest whore in Bangcock
Johnie: “thousands of dl-ers gang through him every single day
Johnie: “so god sez, ’screw u guys, i’m goin’ home’
Johnie: “thus endeth der divine host”

Man, I laughed HARD at that… Goes to show you should be like me and not believe in gods. Alright, lets end this freakishly long post with today’s philosophical quote:

“There are no Gods, only the living, and the dead.”

With that I bid you adieu. Till next time fellow pursuers of true knowledge.

Randomness BANZAI

Well, after sufferring from slight stomach problems >_>, I am now going on an all out all Japan cuisine week as natural treatment. Of course… I’m still cooking, I ain’t rich enough to go out to Jappo places for an entire week. The day before was ramen, yesterday was nikujaga (beef stew Jappo vers.) and today was kitsune udon (buckwheat noodle soup with fried tofu sheets). I messed up the aburaage (fried tofu sheets) though. They turned out all crispy-ish… Aus sucks for not selling that stuff even in oriental stores… Meh, dunno what I’ll have tomorrow though, but I’m making Chirashizushi Shiki-style on Friday (its Fri after all).

I noticed how this has just become my random blog. There ain’t any philosphies anymore. So Imma discuss some today, finally! So you know how people tend to think, “I’m alone in this world but I can do it” and stuff like that right? Well news for them, you’re not alone (actually you might be, in which case sucks for you), nor can you do things by yourself. Just by LIVING you’re depending on other people! Ha! Zas rite! Just by eating you’re depending on the supermarket or butcher or grocery stores or whatever that provides you with food/ingredients. By turning on your PC/laptop you’re relying on the electric company! Hell, even when you’re working you’re depending on your fellow workers or on your boss (to pay you, mainly). If its a self owned kinda thing, you rely on rentors and etc… In short?! Humans can’t survive alone. Just a matter of time till loners die out… heh heh heh… cough ehem.

So I shall end with this philosophical quote that I’m not all that happy about:

“If we fear what we cannot truly see, what we cannot truly hear, what we cannot truly feel… We should fear ourselves…”

Its kinda long… Meh. Then fellow pursuers of true knowledge, till next time.

Absence and Re-emergence

Psh, damn Aussie services have to be so frickin’ systematic. I went without internet for the last freakin two weeks cuz of their idiocy. To sum it up, my phone service contract ended so they cut, and my ISP saw that my phone was cut so they cut the net too, but this was all fine and dandy, since I wanted to switch ISPs anyway. But when I got mah phone reconnected (like three frickin’ days later) and signed up for a new service, they wouldn’t freakin let us (me and mah flatmate, if that’s what you wanna call him) sign up cuz the addresses were different. So we were like wtf and called up the phone provider (Telstra, as you might have guessed) and it turns out they got our address (the suburb) wrong for some screwed up reason. So we called the ISP and told them the deal, but noooooo, they can’t give us internet if the addresses were different. All of the aforementioned took some four days mind you. So we had to sign up for internet again with the screwed up address from the phone provider. So we waited 7 (working) days for our internet to get activated. So basically, we were screwed. I felt like such a hick without interent…

Alright, enough about Aussie services and their stupidity. I dled this little doujin today, and thort this part was funny as hell, mebbe even for those who don’t know wtf Code Geass is:

Anyway, the doujin is Code Geachu, written by whoever did Nano Strikers, which was also as funny as hell, and scanlated by J-Sis. Search for it on MangaUpdates.

Uh, right, philosophical ramblings. I’m feeling lazy today so I’ll leave you with a quote. If you want more wiki Karl Marx or sumthing.

True fate is achieved by defying a predetermined destiny.

Yes, this was totally influenced by superb RPGs such as Riviera Yakushoku no Chi (the promised land) and Odin Sphere, both of which I recommend.

Death and Rebirth

 

No, this is not a post about how krappy Evangelion’s OVA/movie thingy was.

As you all know, I was on the verge of death as I was writing 6000 freakin words of pure Soviet krap. I finally felt reborn as I handed in the 2nd one today. But mah tutor had to go and ruin it by saying, I won’t give you the topics for your next 2000 (x2) words essays YET. I’ll wait until a week after for you to be deluded by the sweetness of free life then I’ll hand them out when its ever so close to your exams.

Well, looks like I’m alive again for another week. Seriously, I feel as if college was kindergarten compared to Uni (YES! Omg! For who don’t / has never (hopefully will never, no offense Aussies) live in Australia, High School is called college here).  Anywho, Johnie refused me the joy of rebirth by forgetting to bring me the game cds I asked of him. Even though I spent like 5 mins yelling at him to stuff it in his bag. But noooooo he was like: I’ll wait and see if I can remember later on in the evening, kho`h kho`h kho`h (<- his trademark weirdass pervert old man dying while high on cocaine laugh).

Alright, back to philosphical ramblings. Right, so as you all know, death is an inevitable part of life. If you didn’t, too bad, ya do NOW (and seriously, read more books or something). Ehem, so, why do humans continue on living knowing that they’ll eventually die and be reduced to nothingness (actually, you’ll be reduced to an old corpse rotting away six feet under the cold wet icky ground while nature is sucking every last bit of you out to make the ground around your grave green and lively, ironic eh?). In any case, what are we living for? Is it for the sake of sadistically bringing more of us to this miserable world or suffering and cruelty? Or is it for the sake of our utterly infinite egos, preserving the existence of a bloodthirsty and war-mongering race? Well, in Johnie’s case it’d be for the sake of being as indebted as possible to brothels and the like. But he’s “special”, so we’ll disregard him. I guess every individual has a different reason for their existence. Some realise it and some don’t.

Well, I’ve wasted that last paragraph trying to make you people who read my posts (I’m feeling like theres no1, sniff) to feel most krap about your own existence. Fun, eh?

Too bad, there ain’t no philosophical quote today. Instead, I’ll leave you with dis link and some of mah anger.

http://zepy.momotato.com/2008/04/27/mx0-to-end-in-shounen-jump/

YES! OMFG they’re killing Mx0!!!!! DIE JUMP DIE!!!! Dammit, I swear to god universal knowledge that Jump has been taken over by a bunch of monkey high on caffeine. Seriously, Mx0 of all mangas?! ZOMG I’ll even believe in god or buddha or watnot if some other publisher picks this up. Dear mother of all living existence please let Bush hit his head on the “Launch nukes by accident” while they’re doing a test targetting and is aiming at wherever the hell Jump’s located (I know its in Japan at least, so shut up).

So, I tribute half-ish of this post as a farewell to Mx0’s crazy ecchi magical rampaging hormones school-life cute girls goodness… May you rest in peace… Sniff.

Burnt chicken and the future

I burnt my chicken drumsticks today. Why? Cuz I was overworked. But that’s besides the point. What’s the point? The uncertainty of the future. Why am I using rhetorical questions? *Whistles* Why am I doing it so much? Hehe, you’ll never know. Anywho. The burnt chicken example(?!) shows that you can never expect to find the future to be what you predicted it. There’ll always be something different, whether it’s significant or not. I expected mah chicken to be done right, yet I burnt it, because of uncontrollable factors, such as sunk costs (no, this is just me being stupid and rambling on).

But you can’t expect us to precisely predict the future, no matter how hard we try, cuz we’re only human. Unless some of you cheapskates out there can do it but won’t tell me… >.> <.< <.> *Ehem*. Moving on, the future is as predictable as the number of . and , and … and crap you’ll use in a 3000 words essay on Soviet Central Asia.  Ok, too much sidetracking. So, what to do? Well, I dunno bout you but I just do my best, and look foward to a future. After all, morning will always come, no matter how long the night might seem. Unless some aliens or stupid presidents block the sun or blow it up, but we’ll all die if that happens, so no worries.

Finally, what you’ve all been waiting for! Our not so random philosophical quote of the day!

The only thing certain about the future is uncertainty.

Don’t quote ME on this, I’m pretty sure I heard it/sumthing similar sumwhere. So, have a great night and an even better tomorrow.

Irony and the World

Today I’ve finally finished one of my two 3000 words essays. Naturally I feel most krieg, as to quote Johnie once again. However! I opened the essays info document to check some stuff, and found out that the essay I had just finished is due one day after the impending essay. Which, I can only say, is most ironic. Seeing as how I worked with 50% madness since I originally thought these two essays were due on the same day (since they’re from the same professor after all), I am now infused with 10% frustration. But this frustration will probably go away after I LOL at some random hypocracy or paradoxical actions coming from my very own laughingstocks (Johnie’s prolly the only one who understands this).

Well, it seems like I’ll just throw this essay to the side (which is what I had intended) and finish the other one. Anyhow, those willing to provide me with money or the like to motivate me on my conquest is most welcome to do so. I believed in those kind souls out there. But looks like even Lenin will be pleased enough to give me a High Distinction, I hope (damn you Lenin, you better! Or I’ll unwax you, HA!).

And last but definately not least, our random philosiphical quote for the day (night, whatever):

My choosing of the light would only be to satisfy my need for the dark ~ Shiki 20/03/08

Ehem, too bad you don’t need to know the details of how this quote came to be :-”

First Post of Random Philosophy (Ramblings)

Greetings, fellow pursuers of knowledge and truth.

So, in my joining of the emo trinity bloggers, in accordance to Johnie’s commandment: let there be blog, I’ve set up a blog in wordpress. First thing I realise is that wordpress hates my header. So, any of you kind souls out there willing to lend me a few hints as how to fix that, you have my graditute. Meh, turns out all I had to do was turn off the original words. Since I had no help, expect no graditude >.>.

Anywho, here is my random philosophic comment of the day (hell, maybe even week or month, don’t expect too much).  To all the little boys out there who are ever so proud of their bestest friend in the whole wide world, I give you my condolences and a few advices. Go watch Code Geass instead cuz they’ll betray and kill you once they learn of an existence known to humankind as ‘girlfriends’. Thats right, so don’t go around killing other people’s girlfriends while trying to take over the world! All hail Britannia.

This has been a random philosophic rambling brought to you by Shiki, the maker of Annoyance 1000% and Final Fartasy, a herioc tale of love and friendship.