THINKING (in) CAP (SLOCK)

Teach them religious and philosophical values, including the idea that some actions are right and others are wrong, regardless of circumstances.

Developmental psychologist, Thomas Lickona

If psychology as a science supports the existence of ‘truths’ regardless of circumstances, in order to encourage the process of evaluating ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, then surely there exists a judge to carry out this absolute judgement?

How could there be ‘right’s and ‘wrong’s, regardless of circumstance, if there was no judge?

And if there was no judge, then why does it matter?

So what if there is a judge, and things do begin to matter, then what?

Sometimes I watch a flight land.

Sometimes I watch a flight land and wonder what it’d feel like if you were on that flight.

Sometimes I watch a flight land and wonder what it’d feel like if you were on that flight, knowing there are a million other things that could happen to your flight other than ‘land safely’.

So simply put:

I don’t need to see your flight land safely.

I don’t need to see your flight land.

I just need to see your flight.

I just need to see you          . 

Sometimes I watch those distant specks of blinking blue, white, and red light become a massive roaring overhead giant and wonder when one of those will bring you back here. After all, it’s been so long since one’s flown you away.

Aggressive behaviour- behaviour intended to harm others.

Prosocial behaviour - behaviour intended to help others.

Indeed, the most aggressive behaviours come in the form of help.

It’s not good to see PDA which is ‘public display of affection’.

It’s bad to see PA because now that’s just ‘physical aggression’.

         note: A ‘pie arsenal’ is quite physically aggressive indeed. HA HA (:

— Lights; Peace Sign; Siberia.

to stop feeling out of place is to recognize that you are, in fact, here, in this place and to then make it your own place. Instead of wishing you were back in your element, make this your new element.

The key to stop wishing you could go back to the past is to see this present time would soon be your past and surely you don’t want to miss this?

…but time is so limited.

I regret ever sleeping in your presence because now I’m wide awake in your absence.

  Have you ever started listening to an album and suddenly realized you were no longer skipping the boring songs? It’s a rare but strange feeling to enjoy a whole album, even a whole discography, in its entirety, as if we were taught to solely stick to the singles. But there is something new to hear each time if only you’d spend some time. When this happens, I’ve gone so far as to buy the redundant physical cd, and then see them live. Below are some artists that have gone through this process.

  Of course, humans are much more complex, but my capacity to slowly grow to appreciate a whole EP reminds me that often times, it is the same in accepting a person full of blessings and flaws.

The Fray

Hedley *

Marianas Trench +

Switchfoot +

Coldplay +

Lights +

Owl City

Lupe Fiasco *

Lady Gaga

Nujabes * +

Colbie Caillat *

Sara Bareilles

TOKiMONSTA * +

( * = Have yet to see in live performance and some, may never see; rest in peace, Nujabes.)

( + = still love their whole discography)

“I want to see a generation finally waking up inside.” -Switchfoot

Sometimes I ask for opportunities only to realize they’re already in ma face. Derrrppp.

For having all these chances come up and for giving us the history of friendship so that what I said actually meant something, thanks. That consistent acceptance that they want is only found in you; they’ve already tried looking everywhere else. Let them find you and find a place to rest. Thank you God (:

You and I, we begin forever now.
I still believe in us together.

Going a further step in the philosophy as a record representing one larger work of multiple linked ideas, the album has no breaks between songs and contains an overarching theme of a “pop-rock symphony based around a fairytale concept,” says Ramsay, who wrote all lyrics and music. 

—Universal Music; Marianas Trench

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/03/overzealous-cleaner-ruins-artwork?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18)

I’m really good at forgetting how to love people; I’m better at guarding myself and making sure I play it cool. However, most of the time, that just means not sharing my joy and compassion with others, as if somehow I lose the game if I’m happy. Of course, that is not the case because as the question stands, ‘is love really mine to give’? And the answer is ‘No.

We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19).

Simple, isn’t it; hard for us to accept.

fee-fi-flo-fum:

I’ve got time.

But I don’t have the energy to use it all up.

My dear, I’ve got energy.

But I don’t have the time to use it all up.

Margaret Atwood
-Penelopiad (2005) - the tale of the epic Odysseus from the view of his wife
-You Are Happy (1994) - from the view of the island nymph, Circe
- Blind Assassin

Viktor Frankl
-Man’s Search for Meaning - this Existential theorist survived the Holocaust.  

“Life has meaning in all circumstances.”

“The body can become ill, the mind disturbed, but the spirit can rise above a sick body and a disturbed mind.”

Social; of society.
Racial; of race.

Socio____; prefix
Racio…. prefix doesn’t exist. (Properly, it’s ‘ethno’)

Sotio…. doesn’t make sense.
Ratio…. completely different word.

Using the same letters for the same function results in words that don’t exist or words that have completely different semantics. 

How happy are you
Are you joyful
Are you at peace
Does peace exist
Is this really okay
Is this really that great
Is there a forseeable future
Are you really better
Is there strength
Would you persevere
Can you face yourself
How strong are you really, if you are willing to do this

…without Truth?

Answer: I think you are meant for more than this.