That Which Is Written

An interpretation of the human perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Things bigger than us move slowly and noticeably while small things can be gone in the blink of an eye.

P.S. I missed writing on this blog. I feel like I'm in a different environment when I'm writing here. I've written different things here.

P.S.S. I'm into photography now. I like it.

P.S.S.S. Perhaps this is my personal journal to the world. - Now I'm going to go wander on the internet. Or am I wondering while I'm on it? I am a wonderer.

Officially Moved Back + New Site Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:08:00 +0000

Well, that was short-lived. This blog is back here, apparently where time itself has determined it be for the moment.

Oh yeah, for all of your bloggers out there or web designers, I made a new site that you will find interesting and/o

Publish Post

r helpful in your endeavors: Web Design Cafe

That Which Has Written

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:45:00 +0000

This blog has officially been moved to:

CHEXED.COM

The posts will probably, but not necessarily stay here.

If A.I. Believed The Purpose of Life was To Live

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:13:00 +0000

If the purpose of life for me is to live, then so is the purpose of life for all others. This is because the highest purpose of life must be attainable to all things in that state, penetrating individuality, or encompassing it rather, with unity. So shared- is our purpose to live. Our purpose is then equal.

My purpose is to be as I am and as I will be. That includes all things proceeding from being, such as actions which may or may not affect other things. I, in accordance with my limitations will be as good as I can be.

While I may not set all of my limitations- With ignorance, fear, or laziness, I allow many of my limitations to be set.

This may be one of the last posts on this particular blog. I may be joining this blog (chexed.blogspot.com) with my main blog (http://chexed.com/). I'm doing this in part because the topics and especially tones are often related or similar and I feel my readers from both blogs may stand to benefit from discussion with each other. I'll keep you posted.

Did Somone Crap Themselves?

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:33:00 +0000

Let's face it. Most of us have squeezed a little more out than gas by accident before.

A few days ago at work, I saw someone run by to the bathroom and just then- I smelled crap. I thought they crapped themselves. I felt bad for them. - I pooped a little bit in a store one time, thinking it was gas, but it was diarrhea.

Not until I got home did I realize I had dog crap on my shoe! On the only tiny patch of grass between my house and my work (about 35 mi.), I scooped up- Yes, scooped up poop on TOP of my shoe! Damnit! My dress shoes too! LOL I wear a tie at work often now.

That tiny patch of grass is between my house and my car, it's about 4 ft wide. I managed to land my foot underneath a wet, squishy, and disgusting pile of warmth.

Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:31:00 +0000

A blog is a captured story in progress.

Although they may not always tell truth, they tell times.

Things At Their Best

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:02:00 +0000

When things are at their worst, they can either get better or stay the same, but they're not getting any worse.

When things are at their best, they may stay the same or get worse, but they're not getting any better.

When things are somewhere in between good and bad, who the hell knows what's going to happen?

Michael Phelps, Pot, & DMT

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:48:00 +0000

Stumbling across an article an article about on Michael Phelps, the 8 Gold Medal winner of the 2008 Olympics, I found this poem.

"God is perfect.

Man is not.

Man made whisky.

God made pot."

This poem is a quote from Superficial Gallery who said it's a hippy poem. What does pot have to do with hippies?
http://www.superficialgallery.com/michael-phelps-smokes-pot-may-make-him-less-bouyant/2740

I just thought this was funny and shows how hypocritical man is sometimes... AHAHAHAHAHA

Also, did you know DMT is known in US, Canada and other countries as an illegal drug (Schedule 1) and it's a naturally occurring substance in the human body? Commonly found in the Pineal gland (brain)? Well, if you think just because someone makes a law you should follow it, think again, or rather, see how thinking works without your pineal gland. I don't know what it does, but I bet you it's important since it's in your brain.

We're a Team Aren't We People?! There's something we can all gain from negative and positive actions!

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:29:00 +0000

People are the number one reason I want to live and they're the number one reason I don't want to live.

Missing Attachments

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:06:00 +0000

We miss that which is familiar, this is attachment.

Doing Nothing for Peace of Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:34:00 +0000

I want to do nothing to get peace of mind, but I am restless for fear of losing time. I think doing nothing as much as possible may bring outer peace. Outer peace shoud intice inner peace. I wonder if the observations of a peaceful situation will show it is the same as an unpeaceful situation, with majorly the perception of the same situations changed. I wonder if there is no time to do nothing, then perhaps there is time to give up? Perhaps giving up the strained search for peace will make peace reveal itself? It does seem contradictory to strain for peace... However it goes against modern thought that specifically reducing the ammount of effort would produce better thoughts. Perhaps when thinking about nothing, it removes both positive and negative (doubt) thoughts... Giving a chance to start a new each time the "giving up" is started... And the direction of the new hope seems likely to have a good chance to more easily go in the direction the new hope was started... Either doubted or doubtless...

Holy Bloody Crap Batman, that's disgusting!

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:03:00 +0000

I have a feeling that no matter what your exclaiming about Robin, it's not going to compare to the level of disgust what you just said stirs.

Multiple Lines of Lore

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:44:00 +0000

The best punishment I can give myself for having vices is to disallow myself to act towards the vices.

I want to rid myself of pride, yet make sure that void is filled with an idea of equality being more, not an idea of admitting equality being less.

I just shaved and now I fear that my physical check of humility being gone will result in pride. I don't know why that whenever I seek humility for myself, people see it as self-destruction... The ego is not self, is it?

The Commute

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:34:00 +0000

poo shoe,
originally uploaded by paulbillett.

I realized I stepped in dog mess towards the beginning of a three hour traffic jam on my way to work.

Quality of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:40:00 +0000

When judging the quality of life at any point and disregarding the misery, which is worth disregarding, life has always been amazing.

Hungry and Pickiness

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:26:00 +0000

The more hungry you are, the less picky you become.

You Think You're So Smart

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:25:00 +0000

you are think you so smart with your fancy law schoolin but when you are thirdsy in the dessert and need to find the watter whole les see who have the smart now.

Knowledge and intelligence are different. Make sure you know the difference before you consider yourself "smarter" than someone else. Knowledge is relative to locative conditions, whereas intelligence, ones abilities* to use knowledge is not.

Quitting smoking

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:09:00 +0000

I just responded to someone asking for advice on quitting smoking on Yahoo Answers. I know my reply isn't going to be well received by everybody, but I figured if I didn't say something, the worst that would happen is someone wouldn't get help. I figured the worst that would happen if I were wrong is I would only look like an idiot, which seems well worth the risk of damage of my personal image considering someones personal health. I shouldn't care about my personal image.

Self obsessed ego's are entrapments of men. Ironically and thankfully, those 'mightier-than-thou' of ego's are becomming cliche.

I've been guilty of having one of those ego's. I've been trying crushing it, but it's been hard... It's as if I'm throwing away a shield, but it does make me more light-footed, so to speak.

I am not who others think I am and I'm probably not who I think I am, for neither others nor I know myself well enough. I do know that I want peace and will do anything short of disturbing peace in pursuing it. I'm not talking about peace of action, but peace of mind, where happiness can remain in myself and others as in a reflection on clear waters on a sunny day. When Earth trembles, our minds still can be still. Our minds will not spill as the Earth moves, as our cup does not spill when we walk with it. We will have peace.

About Happiness in the World - A comment

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:44:00 +0000

This is an extended comment I made on Donald Trumps blog post about "The Worlds Happiest Nations"

I'd say Mr. Inglehart is right [about the correlation between happiness and peace]. Who's happy about fighting except professional fighters? And even those professional fighters are only happy when they're winning, but in modern times they don't even have to worry about death so much. It's not like the sword fights of old.

Regarding the correlations [of peace between democracies] - I'm not a history or political major so I can only speak for recent years through memory, but it seems to me like governments usually don't want to fight each other, considering themselves friend by default (enemy of my enemy is my friend, considering other forms of government their enemies)... I think there's more to the correlation of happiness with democracies though... People actually feel more safe from their government because they have a strong hand in its actions (at least, they're supposed to). Even at its worst when the people are convinced they've played a major part in their own directions, they can say "at least I'm fighting for something I believe in."

Extension:
(I thought this may be a bit too political of an extension to include in the comment on his blog)
People need to realize something about democracies which makes them fragile though. The biggest reason they're better than a communist government is because a democracy realizes that a single person or small group of people can easily become corrupt. When corrupt they will over look the common good. A democracy needs to be stirred, like any good soup, it will burn if not stirred. The richest and most humble flavors need to be spread throughout, so that every bite will be just right. Not too powerful, not too weak. A democracy is a Samaritans government when it's working the way it's supposed to.

By the way, the Trump Blog has some very good reads to it. I suggest subscribing to it if you want to hear one of the most powerful mens opinions in the world, he supposedly posts the blogs himself. I find he's surprisingly humble and expectedly intelligent.

Enunciation Without Information

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:26:00 +0000

First they want take away our information, creating a stunted education, resulting in a society too stupid to save their right to enunciation.

I had this thought around the time I wrote an article about Obama on Net Neutrality.

Relaxing Lions

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:56:00 +0000

I think it takes a little ignorance to really relax sometimes... So I suppose a small dose of it every now and then is probably healthy.

Image Credit: Tambako

Lions don't relax in fields because it hurts ;)

As long as we don't get gluttonous with relaxation, we'll be alright... It's amazing how quickly and easily anything can be over done (referred to as gluttony), I'm pretty sure a major key to controlling gluttony is realizing that just as easily as a habit has started is just easy as it can be put to rest. We don't think very much about habits when we start them, so why should we think so much about stopping them? That's so tiring that it's boring. Just don't think about it, quit it, and relax. Take a break.

The Value of Scientific Opinion

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:36:00 +0000

Sometimes science is creating public opinion, other times it's validating it, but either way it currently determines for the masses the question of their own sanity claiming priority over their own experiences; In essence, determining reality for the masses.

Who's the Smartest Person in The World - A comment

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:10:00 +0000

This is an extended version of a comment (which only allowed 300 characters) to this question (which I did answer and had my answer chosen the best): Who's the Smartest Person in the World and Why?

I think the more virtues and stronger virtues a person has, the more smart they may become...

This "serenity prayer" is about requesting virtues from god... acceptance, courage,
"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer

There are many other virtues though...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue#Virtues_and_values

I think the lessons people will learn from obtaining these virtues can be applied throughout life and make things in general more understandable. Some virtues are learned by chance, but many may need to be actively sought.

Struggling with Trichotillomania

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:51:00 +0000

Well, after quite a few months of a newly acquired habit (started before I cold-turkey quit smoking), I've started to get thinning hair in the spot I pick. It does happen to be in the back of my head, right where the hair twirls outwards from the start.

Jesus, it's been hard putting it aside... Especially since it doesn't really hurt and kind of feels good. I've felt like my scalp was itching since I was about 15/16. I forced myself to stop picking after a short few months of doing it when I was younger, after trying dandruff shampoos and they did nothing. I didn't know why I was doing it, just that I was pulling out hair in the process.

I've come to the conclusion (as perhaps I did the first time, if my memory was perfect) that this is a self-perpetuating habit. I may scratch my head once out of curiosity, or because some outside source has made it itch. From there the perpetuation follows: Slightly scratching stimulates skin which feels good, the skin is damaged so it needs to regrow, the process of healing and regrowing creates more itching, it's scratched more, it re-heals causing itching, then is scratched again, eventually the skin hardens and it takes harder scratching for the same amount of stimulation, so it's scratched harder, eventually to the point where hairs cannot stand the scratching.

I keep finding/making up reasons on the fly for why I should allow myself to scratch. Sometimes it's because "maybe it will be different this time?" I'm actually pulling out hair follicles that for some reason, perhaps because their roots remind me of pimples seem to be bad, and thus GOOD to be pulled out. I'm probably wrong with my conception that those little knobs on the end of hairs are bad for any reason... I shouldn't rule out the environmental factor, possibilities in food consumption or natural surroundings not agreeing with my particular body makeup- or hair follicle make-up to be more precise.

The one thing which is most hard, but most necessary to not even consider stopping my trichotillomania is public opinion. I shouldn't let what others think of my "looks" determine how I look.

I've begun pulling hair out in other places as a test. While I've developed those places to a point where the hair is easier to pull out, it still hurts and at its best never feels good - it doesn't even itch. So perhaps the re-healing/perpetuation theory is out... It's still slightly up in the air.

I know I don't have lice, unfortunately I wasn't lucky enough for it to be something so easily identifiable as this. I've been scratching my head on and off for years and have even shaved my hair within less than a quarter inch to my scalp. There's no flakyness, so I'm not even sure if it's dandruff. Even when shaved though, my scalp still itches. It feels so good to scratch it and that usually ends up being my final justification to allow myself to do it... It's like scratching a mosquito bite... Something which I've prided myself on having self-control over by not scratching... I've prided myself on self-control a lot. Perhaps this is my punishment... Perhaps since I believe I should be punished this is a psychologically self fulfilling prophecy. That would suck. There's so many things it could be. I know what I really need to do (but for what reason?) is to just stop scratching. All of the other mumbo jumbo doesn't matter... But what is my motivation!

It's possible that UV rays may be causing the itching, at least that's one of the things I assumed from this article. I used to have psoriasis when I was younger, but I stopped giving it attention and tried willing it away. I'm not sure if that's why it's gone, but it's gone now. Modern science would suggest that's crazy, but modern science doesn't integrate will power into their calculations far too often. Will power is often an absolute deciding factor in some situations. I'm just curious what will happen if I continue to scratch my head? Will the ultimate lesson be that I should have stopped myself when I thought it might be the right thing to do earlier? Or will the ultimate lesson be I've evolved past the necessity of hair? Hahaha. Who the hell knows? I'm pulling my hair out over this question! :D lol, that's right... laugh... it's not that serious anyways. well, at least not for me since i seek spiritual peace and know that my body will never be as i want it, unless i want it as it is.

I've also thought that perhaps slight scratching of the head, so long as it's greatly controlled and moderated may be good for my hair, since it may stimulate growth.

Who knew I could go on so long about hair? I'm surprising myself right now.

Since global temperature has been rising, and evolutionarily speaking, the hair of my race (white) has been formed to keep warm, the hair is becoming less necessary, perhaps even obtrusive, potentially causing overheating and the scratching of the head is induced by an adaption to environmental changes.

Perhaps I am getting too little or too much UV exposure? Perhaps I need more direct exposure or less? Hahaha. So many things it could be and it could be more than one or even none! Should I shun this for lack of fun? I think I should stop pulling my hair and without pun this matter is done!

Enso Circles

noreply@blogger.com (Quecumber) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:32:00 +0000

space circlces,
originally uploaded by chexed.

Finally, I have someone else who uses the creation of the circle in some of the same manners I do. I used it for years to achieve enlightenment.

While I don't use it as a spiritual diary as is used in the Buddhist Enso, my frame of mind (or "mind set") may be viewable from the circle.

The painting in this blog post is something I did years ago, towards the height of my spiritual journey. As of recent years, I have focused on family. However, in the most recent times, feeling the responsibility of a father, I have become humbled and seek enlightenment once again, so that I may help others achieve happiness.

I found the Enso while skimming an article on Zen Buddhism which I found while researching a psychology article titled "Flow_(psychology)." I found this article when curiosity led me to view the results of a Google search of "the flow" (with quotations), hoping that my recent article (or a past one I had forgotten about) on "the flow" as I know it would have been a top result. My article was not even in the top 100 Google results.

There are so many great things to learn from so many religions. Due to this experience, I am interested in finding a book on Zen Buddhism.

If you want to see the original version of the painting (before the colors were digitally inverted), see it- the "spacious circles."