collaboration with others for our common goals, being open minded, thinking, reading, breathing, eating, improving life for the majority of earth's population that lives in poverty, more thinking, being an antagonist, good movies, expressing myself, listening to others, bodyboarding, skating, playing bass, surronding myself with other sucessful people, people watching, answering questions, embracing other cultures, religions and languages, listening to music, attempting to begin the endless labor known as graduate school, Introspection, self-critical reasoning, empathetic reasoning, smelling good, things that are different and abstract like art (esp. impressionist). Nature, Politics, school, run on sentences, Good food, Cap'n crunch, Non pop music, global disarmenment, humanism, being ambitious, honesty, progressiveness. Independent music stores like ameboa. Not feeling overly sorry for myself. you get the idea. read my journal www.xanga.com/darcore
People who are serious and funny at the same time. People with empathy are always good. People who like to think are good. People against the establishment are good. People aware of the futile nature of - following trends, fashion, looking young, being the strongest, having the most of X, living life only in pleasure/avoiding death. People who realize their life is what they make out of it and how we chose to perceive it. People focused on getting what their giving in proportion to everyone. People realize the necessity of working collaboratively. People who believe in and understand the importance of consensus decision making. People who realize how precious each life is. People who realize that earth is a very unique place in the vast array of the cosmos. People who strive to end needless human suffering, people who realize their lifestyle represents but a small portion of diversity on earth. Non-violent people. Young people are cool, Old people are cool. People in between are cool. People who have over come some sort of struggle in life. I like other student counselors. I like people who like to read. I like people who like movies. People who do/are these things don’t always realize it. People who embrace the ambiguous nature of life. People who embrace each other with a smile. People who make jokes. People who like music. People to be active with. People who realize the importance of art and being able to express themselves through some outlet. Check out the video directly below, I'm in it.
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You must see "HOTEL RWANDA" Best movie in the last five years. Garden State is good. Also check out- Motorcycle diaries. What the bleep do we know?, City of God, Kinsey. Requiem for a dream. Y tu mama tambien. Bowling for Columbine (although I think that Michael Moore often makes a mockery of worth while casues with his overtly biased and erroneous presentation, Guilty by association. Traffic. I am Sam. Forest Gump. South Park. The Ben Stiller comedy cartel, The Seventh Seal, 1776 is a cool musical, Tootsi, I saw an interesting documentary about Abu Ghraib today, that presented one of the most holistic pictures I have heard about the tragedy and torture in general, Of course I love the movie "Gandhi", "Remember the Titans" always evokes strong emotions, and lastly that one movie about the group of men in the East Bay that are on a retreat talking about their various cultural perspectives. ....
INTERVENTION!!! most other forms of TV rots my brain but fulling my brain with it's visual/audio projection is a powerful evasive tactic to use on reality. Thus, the content of the show isn't as important as the anesthetic properties for my seemingly never ending cognition. I enjoy watching "Lost", Laker games, and Curb Your Enthusiasm from time to time. TV can is a lot like other things in that it can be used to help or hinder us. I think a key to any activity we do is to be mindful doing it. Being mindful is to be aware of the moment and asking is this very moment helping me to do what I to do? If what you're doing is helping you be where you want to be, then just chill. If what you're doing isn't helping you then try doing something that will help you get there.
The Night Is Dark And I Am Far From Home by Jonathan Kozol. Reading Kozol's remarks on the function of public education in America has resulted my firm belief in alternative education like the Montessori system. The title is not an AFI song, it's a lyric to one of Monhandas Gandhi's favorite songs which appeals to God to guide us in our search for truth. Other books I like- "The Jung Reader", "The Sartre Reader", "Manufactured Consent" "Fahrenheit 451" "Brave New World". "Grapes of Wrath." "The Stranger." "The Family" "The Republic" "How to Build a Time Machine", "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Conscious Mind", my sociology 101 book, the writings of Nietzche, Locke, Kant, Zinn, Camus, (other various readers), etc. who's buying the canidadtes, Some of the other Propagandous books at Barnes and Noble, Picture books of the world. The Torah, The Gita, Koran, Buddhist teachings and the book I have read the most in my life, The Bible. I think if people read more they wouldn't do such stupid things.
Jean Dominique.... Throuhout my life my brother Paul has been a guiding light for me. I feel bad that it took me almost four years to put him into this section. I know my brother has always done the best he can to be a good person. As for people I haven't actually met- I'm not even going to lie I have a major thing for Gandhi. Here is something he said about love once,"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself" For those not aware he is pretty much parapharsing a bible verse, pretty awesome for a Hindu. Also please think about this thought the next time you say "I love you" or the next time you think you are in love. Or even the next time someone says they love you, and think of their/your sincerity and maturity of emotion. Some other famous minds I really appreciate are: Kierkegaard, Rollo May, Joesph Campbell, Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, Buddha, Jesus, Sartre, Chomsky, et al.