34 Years Old + 4 Days

September 8th 2010. Well what happened today then? I visited a friend who advised me alot on getting a new camera. I have not got the camera yet but I am thinking of getting a Canon 500D (I think?). But this friend showed me cool things the camera can do, and they were amazing. I'm looking forward to being able to show macro pictures of flies heads and stuff. Much as I like my Blackberry its pictures do leave alot to be desired.

What else about today, ah, today is the day that we learn why America is good, and why it is bad. Bad because of the whole buring the Quran thing. But good because of the news that the University of Baltimore is offering an english class on Zombies!

Finally, I was at "Wednesday Night Movie Night" at my brothers place, and we saw "The Knowing" starring Nichlos Cage. It was a good film because it explores the notion of determinism vs freewill. To which end I believe that everything is determined, our paths are laid out for us, but because we can not tell the future we think we have free will!

That simple... Speaking of which, the universe determined 12.5 billion years ago that I should end day 4... NOW!

34 Years Old + 3 Days

You know what there are a few things that are starting to tic me off, one is this website. If you select all the text that you have written the whole thing disappears!!!! What the hell is that about!!! Fix this problem google and blogger!

Second thing is obviously the price petrol... how expensive, when you think about it, will petrol get before people say, "screw this, I'm going electric!" So that is the petrol crysis fixed, now do we go nuclear. Also, when the oil runs out, will we still have plastic? Or will we have bigger problems.

Anyway, this is day three of my project of recording my 34th birthday. Only 361 to go is it?

34 Years Old + 2 Days

So today I went to work as normal, there were a few people in the cafe which was good. Anyway I was finished at 6pm and i was home in time for dinner and I was able to spend time with the kids. Here is one of my kids... Also, I went into Galway with some friends and we looked at Scott Pilgram again....

34 Years Old + 1 Day

Today I went to the cinema and saw "Scott Pilgram vs The World". It was very good. Also we cleaned up a bit after the big mess of the 4th of September.... This post was meant for the 5th but you might notice that it was done a few days after the 4th.

So the picture is of the inside of the guys toilets in the eye cinema. Yep, not many people take pictures of toilets, as a part of normal life. But going to the toilet is normal so there I go.

The Pianist by Roman Polanski

You know the film "The Pianist" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/) by Roman Polanski. Well as stupid as this may sound, I realised 'wow, this is so bad what happened'. Lately I have been looking at alot of World War II footage on Discovery channel and I have actually learnt alot about the war.

Now nearly everybody that reads this will know about the Holocaust. But I think it is different to feel for the Holocaust. I was looking at the film, at the absolutely beautifully shot streets, the clothing of the people, the mood that was created in the film... it was just enough for a moment to bring a tear to my eyes. Again, everybody knows what happened (right?), but knowing what happened and feeling what happened are different. Now that I under stand better what happened I am beginning to think about the nearly same thing that is happening in other wars around the world. Have we actually changed as people in 1940s world war?

Personally I think that people are evolving, for the better. It is just that the evolution is happening so slow...

Forgiving

If a christian, or someone with belief in a god asked me for forgiveness I would say to them that they and the universe are the one and the same thing, and that god and the universe is one and the same thing and that they and the god are too the same thing by that rational. Then i would ask them to pray to their god and ask for forgiveness. Hopefully they would then realise that when we ask forgiveness of someone, we are not asking to make them feel better, but to make the person themselves feel better.

If I feel bad about something i have said or done to someone i should first forgive myself and change and endeavour not to do that again which made me sorry in the first place, for what is the purpose of forgiving if the offender is going to re offend. Once i have forgiven myself then I should approach the offended and explain that I am sorry.

This is the way of my utilitarianism, the good of the one outweighs the good of the few or the many.

Are there good looking people?

Having always thought about this, and ALOT... I have come to a definite conclusion. There simply are really ugly people and really beautiful people. Now, alot of people will be quick to say that beauty is skin deep or that true beauty is on the inside and to that I have to say is just rhetoric nonsense.

I am listening to the Ray Darcy show on TodayFM and there is guy that wrote in with a problem, that his girlfriend was not that good looking and what should he do, because he like her, but just didn't think that she was beautiful. My issue here is not with the guy, it is with the people that wrote in says silly things like "that guy is an ass-hole" or "tell that guy to dump the girl so that I can start dating her!". Now... in all honesty, what was that second person going to do? Just start dating her because someone else thought that she was ugly!?!

The problem here is that, as usual, when you apply reason to emotion that emotion quickly begins to look like the fool. The woman that the man wanted to dump because she wasn't good looking enough, lets give her a name, Jane. Now onto the second commenter there, do they find ANYONE good looking? Lets say that the second commenter found Jane to be the best looking girl ever. Now by his rational, HE is an asshole for dating Jane as apposed to someone other girl who is not as good looking as her, Jane. Understand what I am saying?

If he finds Jane good looking, then he is also judging other girls. He is as bad as the first dude. Now also, there is the whole things that people are better looking than each other. Good looks were and evolutionary method of telling who a healthy mate was. Now days because we see ourselves as more enlightened we like to think that we have distanced ourselves from the pack animals that we once were. We have not distanced ourselves from our barbaric past selves. If a wolf could look in the mirror and see it own reflection and recognise itself in the mirror, it would still be a wolf. If I stand in the middle of a busy street and call out to people "ugly... ugly... good looking... ugly..." I am telling you that the pack animals that are gentlemen and thugs alike would show their true colors. As in, I would be either scolded or mocked myself or hit or maybe worse still people would join me.

There is beauty in every magazine, TV show, radio show, and self reflection... The dude that wrote into the Ray Darcy show to ask Quenten if he should dump his girlfriend or not because she was not that good looking makes an interesting point. HE does not find her good looking... only HE can really judge should be the answer... instead he was judged by Quenten who himself called him an ass hole! Beauty is like every other opinion, relative. Of course so is my point.... I know the contradiction, can you see the contradiction? A person forms an opinion based on how they react physically, and psychologically and as a result of their interaction with society.

I do not think that Angelina Jolie is good looking at all, many people do... I do not see it. Does that mean that if (big IF I know!!!!) I stopped dating her afterwards because I did not find her good looking although sex and pass times was good with her that other people would call me an ass hole. No they would not... because she is famous, I would be patted on the back and as me with interest what the whole thing was like.

To finish, if someone is ugly they are so in two ways... they are ugly according to society and according to your personal tastes... The things is someone usually find you attractive, for what ever reason, call it the odds. My point is, people should note that there is a evolutionarily symmetrical face that is "good looking" and then there are faces that appeal to personal tastes.