Thea's corner

Here I will put my thoughts about everyday or not so everyday things. My opinions on different topics or thought. Philosophize a little. record quotes I like.

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Mankind is a nauseated useless passion.

I'm sorry I am a horrible writer, I never want to write for a living I simply use this to put down my thoughts and relay them to you. They do have sentence structure hahaha its just that its the mechanics of it that I'm bad at. I hope you can see past that part and read my shit, I just want other people to see a different side to things and think outside of the box for a minute or two...

Also many of these terms like "nauseated" are referring to Jean Paul Sarte's thinking and philosophy it was his stuff that inspired me learn about this stuff and to write down philosophy instead of just reading it.

Don't take this offensively! well, really really religious people might get offended. But if you're only a little religious than you probably won't be that offended. It's not as ugly as it sound (but it is in some way existential) hear me out. We all know that we are rational problem solving beings,  and because we humans are so smart that have something called "awareness". That we are aware of our own of the concept that one day we will die and, we are aware  of our own conscience ego. the self. So since people can do that, we question our existence, why are we here? I'm not 5 year olds or even most adults today do this. I'm talking about the early man, like superearly man, like covered in fur man. Once we became so smart as a man that we have learned how to gather and grow food, man tho had hard work had more time to sit around than chasing mammoths back in the old days. Notice how an established reliion formed as soon nomads and tribes developed civilizations? And after that, came art and pottery, then basket weaving frescos? It's not a bash on religion but its just realizing that once man had rationality and self awareness plus sitting around more, these guys are gonna get stir crazy! Man has asked why we are here but thats the thing! there is really no reason for us being here!  I'm taking out the God factor at this point. Lets just say for a minute that there was no God, just for a second... Now that God doesn't exist, why does man really need to be there? What is our purpose? Well for awhile it was the bodies of our dead deceased ancient ancestors that contributed to the earth. But other than that really there is no reason for us being here!  This can be very scary but liberating especially this day in age. And thats what is means to be a useless passion. I just want to live to help people!  is that why people are here? to help eachother? NO! What if all you want to do is to save the trees and the rainforest? Thats a great dream but is that our purpose as humans is to save the rainforest we are destroying?  I dont think so either. So man is driven everday by passions in their life but they really aren't going towards any master plan or greater reason. Because we are all different we all have different passion this is why its so wonderful to live in such a colorful and diverse world! And we are nauseated everyday because I believe that our early humans could not stand the fact that we really had no purpose that we developed these things like religion and the arts and the sciences as a way of coping, a way to give their life meaning. And then, as soon as they invented one thing, they came up with an idea for something else, then something else to go with it and just like facebook, the more you get into it, the more you get bombarded by it! So yea now when I say nauseated useless passion I really mean    unable to bear the idea we have no meaning so we come up with our own meaning and develop a passion for it! :D

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suddenpacific:

The next time you’re about to say something about another person, ask yourself how true it is about you.

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HAHAHAHAHA!

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in love with this saying

from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra; 

"True we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness". 

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Whole Foods What does it mean to eat healthy?

Just because you are choosing to eat the lean cuisine instead of that slice of pizza doesn't necessarily mean you are eating as healthy as you can be.  It's a nice attempt but sorry, not enough. What we need to eat (and when I mean we I mean America) is more whole foods.  Foods that have kept most of their nutritional value. What are whole foods?  I looked up the difference on a website called www.naturalnews.com

Whole foods vs processed foods

Processed Foods

Generally speaking, processed foods are produced using manufacturing methods to transform raw ingredients into neatly packaged goods, which have a longer shelf life. Some of the artificial ingredients used include monosodium glutamate (MSG), flavors, preservatives, hydrogenated oil, fillers, and artificial sweeteners. Usually, consumers can prepare them quickly allowing immediate intake. Disappointingly, they don’t offer much in nutritional value. Most likely, it's processed food if it's wrapped in several layers of plastic, cardboard, and/or foil, and it didn't exist until after 1903 when the hydrogenation process was invented. In addition to being excessively advertised, this food category is well funded by government subsidies. These foodstuffs are located on the shelves of the inside middle aisles in grocery stores. Examples of processed foods include sodas, cereals, and crackers.

Whole Foods

On the other hand, whole foods are grown in orchards, gardens, or greenhouses, are unprocessed and unrefined, and have a shorter shelf life. These foods are authentically flavorful, have vibrant colors, and rich textures. Moreover, they are full of the micronutrient vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fiber. Typically, they require longer preparation times. In contrast, they receive very little media advertising, and are not well funded with government subsidies. When you are in grocery stores, these foods are mainly found on the store’s wall aisles to the sides and back of the store. Additionally, this food category can be found at farmers markets, and at fresh fruit and vegetable stands. Examples of whole foods include unpolished grains, fruits, and vegetables. Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/022175.html#ixzz1MfdL5WnQ

*If you want to read more on the article,  go to the link I posted.

Now because you are eating healthy doesn't necessarily mean that you will lose weight. You will probably lose a few pounds here and there but my advice to you is to stay away from as much sugar as you can. (this means natural sugars like cane sugar and honey, and all white bread products bread/pasta/tortillas). Even eating artificial sweeteners will trigger your craving of sugar. My other advice to you is to eat much less than you already are. We are biologically wired to go for long periods without eating. This doesn't mean you need to starve yourself but fill your tummy up with more water and water-based things (fresh fruits and vegetables).    

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usgroovykids:

One who exclusively applies personal reason and experience to existential, religious and moral questions, accepts and is inspired by the natural uncertainty of the human state, and denies the validity of revelation, faith and dogma.

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Britney Spears

I'm sorry I know her song is catchy and all but in general Britney Spears sucks! she's almost thirty for crying out loud and she was good when she was seventeen but now she just needs to end her career already.  I think as a child star singing was the only thing she was used to doing and now she doesn't have anything else to do.   :/

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Not really a question, but just a musing I had that your soul mate post reminded me of.I think that "happy" relationships are a catch-22 situation. To be truly happy with someone, you must know them and understand them better than anyone else. Conversely, if you understand someone better than anyone else, you are in a truly happy relationship with them.I had this thought a while ago, and back then it was much more complete. Now it's faded and I only have a vague memory of what it once was.

yes I agree with you if you don't know the person than right off the bat, the relationship is not really honest.

I think a problem that most people have is something called "emotional alienation" this happens when you first meet a person and start feeling chemistry towards them, you create in your mind what you "think" they are all about.

If a person is trying to impress you then of course they are going to put on a good front, and then the mind just fills in the rest. (something I have experienced).   If you take the person for who they really are and take time to get to know them, then you can weigh out if you want to be in a relationship with them or not.

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habanita:

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Soul mates

I don't think that there is someone for you destined to be with because I don't believe in a predetermined destiny. I don't believe in soul mates but rather someone that happens to bring out the best in you at all times. Because we are always changing and growing I think that someone could be perfect for you but only f...or that time frame i.e. highschool The best person for you is someone that brings out the best in you at all times and for all times to come.

Some people would think that this is disappointing, that in retrospect there is really NO ONE that you are supposed to be with. But this idea can also be very reassuring because that means that you have the entire human population to choose to be with!

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Love

I truly believe that love is a learned behavior. It's not something that is built into us, not something we are born with. As humans, the only instinctual behaviors we have already built into us is hunger, and the sex drive.(which is why a baby cries when she's hungry, and why a little boy keeps playing with his weiner but doesn't have an explanation as to why he is doing it)

Like sympathy, passion, anger, envy,  love is a feeling and a phenomenon that can only be taught. That is why it is so important to "love thy neighbor" because you are teaching others about love as well. Now we know we are not sat down in a classroom and take pop quizzes on the feeling of love because whoever came up with our traditional school system is a moron because that is NOT the most effective way of learning things. Love, like languages and sports is taught through action, and reaction, and most importantly PRACTICE! One of the most important reason we have a typical family structure today is to teach and practice love. 

That is why those radical extremist Muslims seems like they don't have one ounce of love in them. One would think, oh they may have had a good loving lifestyle and something happened where they became angry and cold and hurtful. Well in terms of the radical extremist I think that many of these people (not all)  have never been taught how to love.  especially themselves because they are willing to blow themselves up.

So if you have a fucked up family with a fucked up background, it doesn't mean that you will never learn. there is still hope for you too!

I read bits and pieces of a book (I never finish a book) called LOVE  by leo buscalia and he goes much more in depth with it that I am right but he had a quote that stuck with me,   "Love and the self are one, and the discovery of either is the realization of both"  

If you find yourself, and find yourself again, and even more so, and once you know you, you will learn to love yourself.  It is only when you can love yourself that you can learn to love others.  The self comes first because well, its you! This doesn't mean you shouldn't think of others but it simply means that if you are not going to do what's best for yourself than who is?!!?  

so how to acquire this behavior of love.  (if that is what you are truly seeking)

 You can go find yourself (I dont mean travel to a destination)  go inside, look deep down in your sub conscience, what are YOUR virtues? what are your ideologies? what do you find to be "universally true?"  not the ones other people put in your head for you but YOURS.  and once you find yourself, you can then understand yourself and then loving yourself will easily fall into place from there. 

Once you love yourself then you can have love for others.

BUT!

Love is not something that is just to capture and hold onto. We never know what situation will arise in the next hour, day, week etc... which means that we will constantly be finding ourselves. You think you know yourself so well until life throws a curve-ball and changes your entire behavior or outlook.   So if we are constantly finding ourselves it means that we will continue to find more love. It is something that grows and grows as you grow. And if you grow in love, others will be quick to join you and to love with you. 

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Summer Skin

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shecallsmeartemis:

Ah, summer.  The weather warms up, the clothes become more scarce, and suddenly you realize… My skin is dull, patchy, and dry from winter…  Sexy.

Due to the cold and dry weather of winter, then the damp, musty, dusty and thick air of spring, your skin has been in a bit of a war over the last 6 months.  Plus add all the sugar and alcohol (which turns into sugar when you digest it) you’ve been consuming from various holidays, your sudden decrease in drinking water (it’s not hot, you aren’t sweating, so you forget), and the difference in produce available to you… 

Oh!  And don’t forget how your elbows, knees, and feet are suddenly wrought with desert-like consistency, because you haven’t had to reveal them in so many months… 

Let’s just say that the skin you’re in is a consequence of overindulging in sinful behavior and a lack of consciousness.  Nothing wrong with that, unless you have a pocket book that cries a little when you look at getting a full-over aesthetician treatment, facial series, or spa mani/pedi.

NEVER FEAR!

Before you start slathering on a bunch of chemically-toxic over-the-counter witch’s brew, put the brakes on it sister!  Everything that the aesthetician or your favorite neutrogena product has, comes from your local farmers’ market… and a lot of the fixin’ is just a set of habits that are wholly good for your body.

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aealmon:

“We don’t attract what we want, but what we are.” 

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My apologies to everyone....

I am a horrible writer.  I only write stuff down just to get the idea out on paper, I dont write with the intention of being a good writer, I write because I want to share my thoughts with you so please bear with me in terms of mechanics and grammar. 

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The odd parallel between the ecological proposition of "The Competitive Exclusion Principal" and College Sororities

In ecology the competitive exclusion principal states that "complete competitors cannot coexist". In a stable environment with two species competing for the same resource, they cannot coexist equally. When one species has even the slightest advantage or edge over another, then the one with the advantage will dominate in the long term.

not only does this principal apply to ecology and competing species but it also has many inorganic applications we created for ourselves; modern day capitalism, the work place or office, and funny enough but college Greek organizations.

I think this totally applies to Penn State Altoona in specifically because we only have two sororities on campus. *And where there are two groups of girls, of course theres gonna be tension between the two because we are competing for the same resource which is potential new members, or freshman for that matter. 

Sorority rush events (for those who are non-greeks) are the events planned on or off campus to recruit girls to join our organization. This can be a very intense week because how many girls we get will mean how much stronger our sorority is gonna be for the upcoming semester.

So what does this have to do with the competitive exclusion principal?

TONS if you do rush like our campus does. At the beginning of each semester there is a combined event that both sororities attend to introduce Greek life to potential new members. However if we look at it in theory, it simply will not work. One will dominate over the other because of competition. And that all the combined rush event is about is looking better than the other sorority.  The rest of rush however; is evidence for showing the competitive exclusion principal exists. 

Two competing species can both get the amount of resources they need when these conditions are met;

-foraging at different times and different locations   (different locations on campus on different dates at different times) 

-Different kinds of food  (or in our case different girls that would match with each sorority better

-overexploitation  (when one sorority gets all the girls and the other is left with only a few) 

All I'm saying is that I see a huge parallel between the two situations in the natural world and in college. If my sorority sisters understood this idea a little better it may give us the edge and give us an advantage in recruiting girls and that I think the combined rush.event does NOT work... (well it works but not equally)

I think that in general we should take time to step back and remember that we are still animals and that If we understand animals role and function in the natural world, we will be able to understand ourselves even better. Just because we are rational minded and have some self awareness, we shouldn't forget that we are still nothing but mammals ourselves and that we are only a few thousand years out of the forests and into our computer cubicles.  

And though I am an existentialist and truly believes that existence proceeds essence I can't help but think that there is some preexisting human nature built biologically/genetically into us.  There are some things...     like hundreds and thousands of years naturally and sexually selected traits that we as human cannot break. maybe at least not for another hundred thousand years.

Try and take a look around sometime at a bar, the grocery store, church, the park, and look at it through an evolutionary biologist would look.   Some of our displays of behavior are not too far away from a common house rodent.  

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This summer (I think some college students are in the same boat as I am)

As high school graduate, about to spend my last night in the 724 I was sitting on the front porch with my step dad david and he said to me "when you go away to college, you never really go home"  and then he went on saying "you'll understand"  well yea I understand now. The last summer was awesome but thats because I dicked around all summer but I did take a class and did well in it. Anyway this summer I KNOW I gotta save money and I gotta pass the classes I need to for Penn State.  sounds like really boring adult stuff. I was always so concerned with being with my friends and spending the summer with friends but now I'm looking at it like wow I have shit I HAVE to do. that is, if I wanna stay on the right track that college has set our for me. 

*on a side note...I remember that when we were a children we were young and free. and now that we r adults, and gained the knowledge of the world we have to go through pain, torment, and labor just to get a taste of the freedom we once had.  sounds kinda sad to me.

and now about summer

I have absolutely no clue what im about to go into this summer. usually my intuition or foresight can give me a pretty accurate depiction of the "essence" of what im about to go forth into, but for this upcoming summer... no clue.  I'm excited about state college because I know what's gonna happen. I'm gonna live on campus, im gonna be 21, ill be united with some old altoona buddies, go to games, you know, state college stuff. Anyway im not really nervous for state, im nervous for this summer because idk what to expect!   I guess that is one of the major thing that people are afraid of is the unknown right?  (the reason why most people are afraid of death)

The only thing i can look at in terms of this summer is my throwness and projection.

throwness = the past, what we are thrown into; whether by choice or not (high school, friends, college, major, family, ethnic background)

projection = our future; what we can project ourselves into.  ex; if a little boy grows up dreaming to be a fire fighter, he will go through his life doing what he can to become a firefighter.. he projected his own future. 

So my throwness for this summer...

I'll be coming back from my second year of college. (and I hear that if you do anything for two years or more you become an expert at it) So ill be with all of my high school friends coming back as an expert college student. I'd have to admit, I was still in high school mentally freshman year. but thats what college (esp Penn State) is there for.  Penn state was seriously a big slap in the face for me like DO WELL IN SCHOOL, GET GOOD GRADES, MEET OUR EXPECTATIONS. So i feel like I already gained so much more out of it than I possibly could have wanted. I see now that Penn State is a lot harder and a lot more labor intensive than other schools but thats the point is to whip you into shape so you can say you earned that Penn State degree. I didn't get that until I was in Penn State for two years. 

I suck so bad at math so I have to take a math class over the summer as well ugh. and possibly a chemistry class GO ME   :/

and about my friends..

two of my best high school friends will be turning 21 so they will be off at the bars, however one of them is living in new york city so he won't be around. I know I'm going to be working but I don't even know where and that is also scary for me. 

Now onto my projection I found out the one really big thing that I need for my major I'm going into is experience. So this summer I would like to try and shadow someone that works for the fish and game commission. (not really what I want to do but hey its experience with Wildlife). One thing I would really like to do is Wildlife rehabilitation but its all volunteer :/  so I would need to find a job first and then go onto all that good stuff. I feel like I have so much shit to do but I have the throwness of remember how awesome and relaxing summer is. so maybe I will have a lot of stuff to do but in a "summer state of mind" so to say.  who know?!  thats why I wrote this I have no idea!  

ugh this constant angst is the stuff that kills me and makes me look back on it and makes me wish I could go back in time and have a chat with myself and tell me everything is going to be ok or give me advice.   but I guess thats the fun part like forest gump said "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." 

maybe Ill respond to this post at the end of summer this year...