Grief melts away...




































































































































like snow in May











































































































































As if there were no such cold thing.


~George Herbert

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Jul 7 2009, 06:17 AM

INDECISION

n.

The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but one way to do nothing and divers way to do something, whereof, to a surety, only one is the right way, it followeth that he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards" -- a most clear and satisfactory exposition on the matter.

"Your prompt decision to attack," said Genera Grant on a certain occasion to General Gordon Granger, "was admirable; you had but five minutes to make up your mind in."

"Yes, sir," answered the victorious subordinate, "it is a great thing to be know exactly what to do in an emergency. When in doubt whether to attack or retreat I never hesitate a moment -- I toss us a copper."

"Do you mean to say that's what you did this time?" "Yes, General; but for Heaven's sake don't reprimand me: I disobeyed the coin."

- A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

What do you expect. Pain is really, and actually a gift...that nobody wants.

*smiled with air coming out from nose only*

You really believe in that strongly huh.

Aih...but what to do. It is the faith of a child that is to be amounted.

Sometimes inspiration and motivations come from not from words.

Search for the album titled: Water, birds & wind, by Atsuhiko Nakatsubo.

Socrates?

Will appreciate it if will you include his name so that it is not you who'll get the credit.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Nov 4 2009, 02:27 AM

If you are sad while reading this.







This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Nov 4 2009, 08:06 PM

The soul is something like this:

Quickly.

Find something you think that you always regard as unimportant to you.

The moment you found it.

You realize how important it actually is.

Go ahead.

Do that now.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Nov 5 2009, 09:30 PM

Waking Life - Final dialogue



Waking Life is a digitally enhanced American live-action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film was Fox Searchlight Pictures' only production using this technique.

The title is a reference to George Santayana's maxim: "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

~Wikipedia

Plot

Richard Linklater returned to the semi-improvised approach and philosophical themes of his debut feature Slacker while embracing a new and groundbreaking visual technology in his sixth feature film, Waking Life. Linklater and cameraman Tommy Pallotta shot the film on location in Austin, TX, using digital video equipment. Linklater and digital animator Bob Sabiston then used newly developed computer software to transform the images through a process called "interpolated rotoscoping"; the result merges the naturalism of live action with a stylized look that resembles a cartoon or a painting in motion. Waking Life's flexible, non-narrative approach follows a young man (Wiley Wiggins) who arrives in Austin and hitches a ride with a stranger, who engages him in a conversation about rarely considered facets of existentialism. As the visitor drifts through the city, he encounters a variety of people and finds himself absorbing their views on art, philosophy, society, and numerous other issues of contemporary life. Linklater's cast is dotted with well-known actors (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt) and pop-culture notables (filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese associate Steven Prince, comic Louis Black), alongside a large number of relatively little-known players. Waking Life received its world premiere at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival; Linklater's next film, Tape, was also screened at the same festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

~answers.com



The reason why I refuse to take existentialism...
as just another French fashion or historical curiosity...
is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century.
I 'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately,
the sense of taking responsibility for who you are,
the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life.
Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair.
But I think the truth is just the opposite.
Sartre once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life.
But one thing that comes out from reading these guys...
is not a sense of anguish about life so much as...
a real kind of exuberance of feeling on top of it.
It's like your life is yours to create.
I've read the post modernists with some interest, even admiration.
But when I read them, I always have this awful nagging feeling...
that something absolutely essential is getting left out.
The more that you talk about a person as a social construction...
or as a confluence of forces...
or as fragmented or marginalized,
what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses.
And when Sartre talks about responsibility,
he's not talking about something abstract.
He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about.
It's something very concrete. It's you and me talking.
Making decisions. Doing things and taking the consequences.
It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting.
Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference.
It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms.
Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example.
In short, I think the message here is...
that we should never simply write ourselves off...
and see ourselves as the victim of various forces.
It's always our decision who we are.



- Excuse me. - Excuse me.
Hey. Could we do that again?
I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know?
I mean, it's like we go through life...
with our antennas bouncing off one other,
continuously on ant autopilot,
with nothing really human required of us.
Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there.
All action basically for survival.
All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along...
in an efficient, polite manner.
" Here's your change." " Paper or plastic?" "Credit or debit?"
"You want ketchup with that?"
I don't want a straw. I want real human moments.
I want to see you. I want you to see me.
I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be an ant, you know?
Yeah. Yeah, I know.
I don't want to be an ant, either.
Yeah, thanks for kind of, like, jostling me there.
I've been kind of on zombie autopilot lately.
I don't feel like an ant in my head, but I guess I probably look like one.
It's kind of like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road...
And instead of just passing and glancing away,
they decided to accept what he calls "the confrontation between their souls."
It's like, um-- like freeing the brave reckless gods within us all.
Then it's like we have met.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Mar 14 2010, 10:40 AM

I believe inspirations that come from music.

Enjoy:

Princess Mononoke: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 film, Princess Mononoke. The music was composed and performed by Joe Hisaishi, the soundtrack composer for nearly all of Miyazaki's productions, and Miyazaki wrote the lyrics of the two vocal tracks, The Tatara Women Work Song and its title song. The music was performed by Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Hiroshi Kumagai. The soundtrack was released in Japan by Tokuma Japan Communications on July 2, 1997, less than two weeks before the film came out. It was later released in North America by Milan Records on October 12, 1999.

Most tracks are identical, except for the main theme song heard at the end of the movie, which has been translated to English. A longer edit of the song, heard in the middle of the movie and featured on track 20 of the Japanese edition, has been dropped from the English edition. The Japanese version of the theme is sung by counter-tenor Yoshikazu Mera, while the English translation is sung by Sasha Lazard. The soundtrack has also been released in France, in its original Japanese form.

As usual with Studio Ghibli movies, additional albums featuring soundtrack themes in alternative versions have been released. The image album features early versions of the themes, recorded at the beginning of the movie production process, and used as source of inspiration for the various artists involved. The symphonic suite features longer compositions, each encompassing several of the movie themes, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mario Klemens.



From a You Tube user:

iNinja86 — March 15, 2009 — To all Miyazaki's and Ghibli's fans!!! Please enjoy my cover of a beautiful song from a wonderful movie "Princess Mononoke". It was composed by Hisaishi Joe and originally sung by Mera Yoshikazu.
Here are the lyrics:

haritsumeta yumi no
furueru tsuru yo
tsuki no hikari ni zawameku
omae no kokoro
togisumasareta
yaiba no utsukushii
sono kissaki ni yoku nita
sonata no yokogao

kanashimi to ikari ni
hisomu makoto no kokoro
wo shiru wa mori no sei
mononoke-tachi dake
mononoke-tachi dake

Translation:

The trembling bowstring of a drawn bow
Pounding in the moonlight, your heart
The beauty of a sharpened blade
Thy profile looks very much like that sword point.
Lurking in the sadness and anger
The only ones who know your true heart are the forest spirits
Only the spirits, only the spirits...

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: May 23 2010, 05:53 PM

Obviously Chananya has no idea what is the meaning of virtue and love. A typical example of a pessimistic, a self-defeating, 3rd-world, poor man's philosophy.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Nov 14 2010, 05:02 AM

Is there a quote of quotes that does not advocate religious and sensitive issues, and be accepted universally?

I came up with this on my own, from the inspiration from many people:

"People are not perfect, but none of us are allowed to be less from how less perfect we already are. When people tell you that people are not perfect due to the mistakes people can do, they are being ignorant to those who are real and so close to being perfect, effectively becoming rather superior in many areas compared to the ones who are far from being close to perfect. This may sound arrogant and triumphalistic, but one can even master those two vices, he can be perfect, if not, be the testimony that being imperfect is never the excuse for mistakes."

------- Deadlocks, the questionable but existent philosopher (but questionable, nonetheless, especially when the title "philosopher is self-proclaimed).

Other quotes include:

"People always have things that never go well. These things will eventually decline, but at a very slow, downward rate. If the individual decides to be ignorant, he/she will continue to decline with the things that were declining with them, simultaneously. Here's the catch. Even if the individivual decides to be proactive and take action instead of being ignorant, the things that were declining will rush its downtrodden path is even faster and deeper, possibly making things worse than before. If one is able to survive the ordeal, the decline immediately teleports itself to the top, making things better than ever before, possible even better than what was to be expected. If he/she fails the ordeal instead, the things revert itself back to the first word of this long quote."

------- Inspired by Batman: The Dark Knight

"Every philosopher or anyone who loves philosophy should read the article about philosophers from Uncyclopedia. Just in case one of you lost your touch with reality.

"Everything has a price. Even the price of being perfect."

"Those who think that only God can judge them, are judging the rest of humanity".




This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Mar 8 2011, 02:51 PM

And try this out too:

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2106779

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Nov 13 2011, 04:23 AM

Gaming projects an existentialism which are suppressed by the distractions and the decisions in reality. It is fantastical and fictatious in nature, but it allows a realization of one's true potential in making life choices, so that if it is practiced healthily, it will bring forth a veracity of an individual which is otherwise invisible in the real world, so that dreams can be finally be ephiphanized, revealed, and made.

The secret to life is to be schizophrenic with only two separate personalities, one that pursues perfection, and the other that stops you whenever you reach your limit.

The trick is to be both different people at the same time.

~ My own quote ~

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Sep 26 2014, 09:37 PM

We do not see the things they are. We see the things we are.

Both happiness and suffering that you see is a product of your own experiences, hence, if you wish to find someone or something to blame, you only need to look at a mirror.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 27 2014, 06:47 PM

http://zenpencils.com/comic/65-marianne-wi...r-deepest-fear/



This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Jan 28 2015, 01:30 PM

https://youtu.be/pxN1YnVUfjM

THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS

http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

ETYMOLOGY

From German klecksography, the art of making images from inkblots, famously used in Rorschach psychoanalytic tests. Interpreting their ambiguity is thought to illuminate the subconscious of the patient.

TRANSCRIPT

Your life is written in indelible ink. There's no going back to erase the past, tweak your mistakes, or fill in missed opportunities. When the moment's over, your fate is sealed.
But if look closer, you notice the ink never really dries on any our experiences. They can change their meaning the longer you look at them.

Klexos.

There are ways of thinking about the past that aren't just nostalgia or regret. A kind of questioning that enriches an experience after the fact. To dwell on the past is to allow fresh context to trickle in over the years, and fill out the picture; to keep the memory alive, and not just as a caricature of itself. So you can look fairly at a painful experience, and call it by its name.

Time is the most powerful force in the universe. It can turn a giant into someone utterly human, just trying to make their way through. Or tell you how you really felt about someone, even if you couldn't at the time. It can put your childhood dreams in context with adult burdens or turn a universal consensus into an embarrassing fad. It can expose cracks in a relationship that once seemed perfect. Or keep a friendship going by thoughts alone, even if you'll never see them again. It can flip your greatest shame into the source of your greatest power, or turn a jolt of pride into something petty, done for the wrong reasons, or make what felt like the end of the world look like a natural part of life.

The past is still mostly a blank page, so we may be doomed to repeat it. But it's still worth looking into if it brings you closer to the truth.

Maybe it's not so bad to dwell in the past, and muddle in the memories, to stem the simplification of time, and put some craft back into it. Maybe we should think of memory itself as an art form, in which the real work begins as soon as the paint hits the canvas. And remember that a work of art is never finished, only abandoned.

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Published on 15 Feb 2015

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ETYMOLOGY
From Latin, it's a play on the word "albedo," which is a measure of light reflectivity. "Ambedo" is the opposite, a measure of how much you absorb the world.