Friday, June 23, 2006

the common sense and the uncommmon...

"Common sense, indeed!" said the Rocket indignantly; "you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable. Why, anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. But I have imagination, for I never think of things as they really are; I always think of them as being quite different. As for keeping myself dry, there is evidently no one here who can at all appreciate an emotional nature. Fortunately for myself, I dont's care. The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. But none of you have any hearts. Here you are laughing and making merry just as if the Prince and Princess had not just been married."

Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900 "The Remarkable Rocket" in The Happy Prince and other Other Tales (1888)

Thursday, June 08, 2006

quarter of the century...

with all the care and love,
with all the pain and hurt,
with all the happiness and sadness,
with all the income and expenditure,
with all the good and bad experiences,
with all the people who i share this space,
with all the complaints and praises,
with all the strenght and weeknesses,
with all the bruise and scars,

with God permission,
with mom on one side,
with siblings on the other,
with relative at the rear,
with friends around,

here i am,
from nothing to crawling,
from standing to walking,
from running to jumping,
at the age of quarter of the century...



p/s:
"He who is of calm and
happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an
opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

Plato
(427 BC - 347 BC)
in 'The Republic'

Sunday, June 04, 2006

when two heads clash...

morality in one side, should be consider as an essential principles for all humankinds but as one should notice, nowadays moral is being put aside or in some cases, being negotiated. i saw this printed quote on my friend's bedroom window;
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)


i can say that, a man without moral, will be govern by their nature instinct and therefore, will cause harm, either to themself or to others. as we proceed with the next civilisation, albeit, it will be different from the previous, i can say that the basic thing will never change. man is capable to mutate themself to suit the environment, for good or for worst, and this would not change their natural instinct or behaviour as a man.

out of many, one definition of moral that could be achieve from the internet , thanks to wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn is;
concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life"

but, as we can see in the current world, to determine whether is something is right or wrong, depends on whose interest get serve and not because it is actualy right or wrong. while my intention is to study, why men go to war or in another perspective, why they create a war, does involve the issue of morality. Machiavelli, as many knows, believe that humans have nothing to lose when they go to war but will eventually gain something if and only if, thay win the war. He even proposed that, for a man to lead a state, nothing should bother him except on how to win a war. Quoted by him;
"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince



to be continued...

i have to stop now as i have something to finish. i'll try to finish this when i have enough information. for the time being, have a happy life and try not to complaint so much. alrighty, cheers.

p/s:with a sore knee and a pair of crutches, im wondering whether am i fit to work tomorrow night...