Words.

I've been thinking, and there's a lot of words and terms I don't hear much anymore that I think should be recognized and brought back, words with class that put things in a more articulate(using language easily and fluently; having facility with words.) way in my opinion.

These words include:

Steezy: A word meaning style with ease.

Rad: A word meaning really cool, but in a more subtle way, as opposed to extreme or awesome.

Word: Word is the shortened form of the phrase "my word is my bond" essentially it means "truth" or "to speak the truth." Implies something is legitimate.

Legitimate(Legit): A word used to describe something in the up-most truthfulness as well as other times implying severe impressiveness of something.

Groovy: A word meaning highly stimulating or attractive, excellent.

(Synonyms: Sick, Wicked, Sweet or Dope.)

Boss: A word meaning incredibly awesome or miraculous. Or implying alpha stature, "winning."

Chill: The word "chill" has a lot of uses it can mean to calm down, to hang out, to be easy going, for something to decrease in temperature, for something to be okay, or to imply something is groovy.

Terms for cigarettes: Coffin Nail, Fag, Tab, Snout, Stoge and Square are less used.

Terms for good-looking: Sharp, Attractive, Beautiful, Stunning, Breath-Taking, Aesthetically Appealing, and Dazzling.

How do you feel about these words? Did you know what they meant? And do you have any words you think should be brought back & why?

Sadako Paper Cranes

For my Blogger class today I'm writing about Sadako. Sadako was a young Japanese girl at the time of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Bombings in WWII, she survived past the time of the bomb. She appeared fine until she was eleven running in a race, she was a very good runner. But she appeared white and unhealthy. Just weeks after she was found to have irregular lumps in her lungs, and was diagnosed with leukemia, a cancer of the bone marrow caused primarily by radiation. She was told a legend of one thousand paper cranes in which if she told one thousand paper cranes a wish it would be granted. It's said she folded 644 paper cranes, and her school did the other 356. Regardless, of what happened though she later died of her leukemia. This is a very sad story, and it really shows the long term effect nuclear war has had the one time it happened. Sadako was not a target in Japan during WWII, but she paid the price- not even as a accidental casualty from a stray bullet, due to excessive force and "research." Stories like this should be well known and I hope they help prevent any more nuclear war.

Fear thy munchies!

Oh my! I've had a incredibly frightful experience last night!!

Around 19:00 (07:00pm) my mother came home with my little brother and they had a surplus of groceries of which I was pleasently surprised. After helping bring in all the food and put it away I decided on making some Pizza Rolls, what happened next I would have never expected.

The first plate I made turned out fine, I ate them down as I normally would, thoroughly enjoying all of the deliciousness. The first plate went down so well I decided on another! After making my second plate I ate down to the last two Pizza Rolls... I ate the second to last Pizza Roll and found glass in my mouth!!! What the fuck?!?! Tontinos is slacking.... cause that's not cool.

I have yet to decide what my final course of action will be regarding my glass infested Pizza Roll.

Relatively Relative.

Watch the video above and do not look away, you will appreciate it, trust me.

After Watching:

The name of that video is Black Moth Super Rainbow Tooth Decay, and the reason I showed it to you is to break the ice on the subject of relativity.

Nothing is absolute, and everything is ever changing, even you at this second are constantly transforming. This video goes through a series of stages and transformations of which would be difficult to describe in any way other than psychedelic.

Psychedelic is a word meaning "of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception..." 

This video takes you through very relative, constantly changing and evolving visual concepts, and frequently changes. Essentially breaking the tie to thinking linear -which most people constantly do-, and looking at things overall, or in a free form fashion rather than structurally.

I think I'm going to leave this post open ended for discussion on this and people's thoughts.

My motive in encouraging you to watch this and attempt to understand it or get something out of it is only to provide a alternative method of thinking under the philosophy that the more you understand the wiser you are and therefore the better off you are.

The road...

Walking down a one way stretch, there's always an experience to catch.
But always have remember there's only one direction and you can't go back.
But sometimes, within the thoughts of the past you'll discover yourself entrapped.

Pressuring opportunity and free-will enact nervousness in choosing which directions to take when laying the road which is your life.

But when the only moment you can form is immediately don't meaninglessly meander in the seemingly harmless elapse, tangled and trapped.
Press on henceforth in your conquest to beyond.
Balance is what maintains the opportunity to subsist in space's pond.
Process of flow and determine how the dice roll, and comeuppance directs 'fate.'
It's a process of yin and yang, if it weren't meant to exist it wouldn't remain.
Attract positive energies and you're bound to be of cheer, but the negative is likely to bring fear.

-yet to be finished-

The importance of parts of speech

Parts of speech are incredibly useful tools to us as mankind, they provide the ability to communicate through text  and establish philosophy and forms of verbal communication as a visual concept to glorify it and progress it farther. Some philosophers and scientists would argue the invention of written language has had a negative effect on mankind as prior to the invention of it people could memorize round-about of twenty thousand words consecutively commonly- now this is almost unheard of.

The eight primary parts of speech include adverb, conjunction, interjection, noun, participle, preposition, pronoun and verb. Each of these have very independent yet communicative distinguishing characters:

Adverbs are ultimately a verb altered from it's original state in a sentence, clause or phrase.

Conjunctions are essentially a binding part of speech describing the function of a word using one of the 'fanboys' [for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.] For example: We were going to go to the movies, but we got there late.

Interjections are parts of speech expressing one's emotional state; i.e.: "Aha! I've found it!" 'Aha' would be an interjection in this example.

Nouns are the most well known part of speech, as it's a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun in the end is ultimately something you can name or refer to. You are a noun, and so is whatever device you're reading this from.

Participles are by definition are verbals that operate as an adjective like 'burning,' 'burying' or 'tapping.'

Prepositions are ultimately words implying relation from one thing to another for example: "The coffee is in the cup." is a sentence in which in is a preposition implying where the coffee is.

Pronoun is a noun of which lacks glorifacation. You know that the name Natalie is a proper noun, and girl is a noun, so the only way to be less descriptive while refering to something or somebody would be to use a phrase that lacks directness such as  "it" "she" "him" or "her."

Verbs, lastly but not least are activities that can be done. If it can be accomplished or done it is a verb.

Shades.

I have really light sensitive eyes, and better than 20/20 vision, thus making me appreciate shades a bit more than the average Joe. If you appreciate shades be proud of it, they're not only one of the most comforting tools around, but some of the grooviest looking ones as well.
Go shades(:

I'm finding it difficult to write.

So, I've developed a problem and figured instead of sitting here trying to write about I have no clue what, I'd write about that. I'm unable to write really right now, I've developed a somewhat severe writers block which is making my mind go blank when I try to articulate my ideas into words. The process my mind goes through to achieve this frustrating feat is my general creative flow is present and influencing my thoughts as usual, and once I think I have something to write down I'll go to do so, and it acts like a small kitten to shy to be pet yet. I'm really in dire need of this to undo itself though.

Ultimately what I'm getting at here is I'd like whoever reads this to give me some new methods for getting writing inspiration. I know, it's awful right? You go read a blog and then the person writing is asking for your help, seems a bit backwards being reading is generally educational, doesn't it? But it's happening so here's what you should do: Come up with one or a couple(whichever suits you) methods to give writing inspiration, and then leave them as a comment. Also: If you have any other thoughts on how to remove oneself from a prolonged period of writer's block please feel free to comment about that.
Well, unfortionately that's all I'm able to come up with so far today, but we'll see what's coming soon, eh?

Remember Remember, the 5th of November.

"Remember remember the fifth of November, the gun powder, the treason and plot. I know of no reason the fifth of November should ever be forgot."

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Only every so once in a while will this demon find me, only every so once in a while will it find me, and lock me into place... cemented stationary. It's just one of those things that creeps up on you when you least expect it, and won't go away until you guess the magic words. Writers block is the beast I speak of, every writer's worst enemy. It's a enemy that prevents you from letting out an evident flow of creativity that just won't articulate. If you ultimately wish to find a way to conquer this nemesis, view it as a challenge and your best work could come from it.
Sometimes writers block will be a repeat offender, which can become increasingly frustrating. When writers block is attacking you all over the place, sometimes you have to learn how to slow down whatever your speed is so you don't lose your train of thought, and you're able to follow an idea while thinking here and there to come up with new ideas. Other times you can stop writing for a while and come back to it later, it all depends on who you are and what works best for you.
When everything ultimately boils down though, and you've finished your piece of work, writers block seems insanely minuscule. Maybe writers block could have even ended up being helpful to you. Sometimes it can bring out really deep seeded creativity, and other times it can make you rework something until's it's perfect. Every obstacle you encounter in life or writing always makes you more capable and successful. When it's all said and done, experience is always the best teacher and writers block is quite the experience.

Possibly Helpful Advice

A lot of time in life we let fear prevent us from doing what we want to. So, in your life if you find yourself avoiding something you want to do due to fear, look it in the face and take it head on, and it will get easier as you go.

Steam on a fire.

I am the steam on a fire in the rain.
Keeping the balance of yin and yang.
Moving in and out, transient existence of length.
Transeunt thoughts undulate through the labyrinth of my mind.
My thoughts counter thought at least a thousand times.
Rash is not a congenial nature of mine.
Consciousness afloat in the cosmos of time, yet held grapnel by the terms of the physics we mime.


-unfinished-

If I told you.

What if my eyes lit up and projected the contents of my mind for you to see?
You became entranced, your gaze cemented to the projection of my conception of the existence we breath.

Sounds slowly building around you, undulating waves shrouding space, entirely surrounding you.
Words whispered from the depths of the swells, it's entrancing- your mind dwells.
 Always intimidated by the host of these temporary shells.

Space.

Always surrounding you, bending you, and compressing you.
Inevitably creating you, from itself, and itself from you.
For the purpose of understanding?
The process of evolution and replacement, of destruction and creation.
Knowledge being their only use.
But, these are patterns, not decree.
Everything is relative, it is what you conceive.
Reality is merely a piece.
It's specifically individual and unique.
And when the puzzle is completed tranquility will have it's release.

Oceans of energies oscillate around you.
Distant and abstracted you can't move.
Tangled internally, the ample emptiness only expands lament.
But within this vision you don't repent, this is your seed of creativity.
Yang can't exist without a yin, you can't feel tranquil is the opposite hasn't been.



-unfinished-

You never know...

We never know where our day is going. We never know where our life is going. We never know where anything is going really, until we get there. So imagine to yourself that whatever endeavors you've been aspiring towards are now completed and you're sitting there feeling accomplished, what do you do now? Do you know where you're headed after that? Next time you say good bye to one of your loved ones, you don't know what is going to happen once they're out of site, yet you'll most likely make plans regarding when you'll see them again upon their return... But you don't know what's going to have happened, or if they'll be back when they said. The only conclusion I can come to is that we should stop planning, and trying to know the future, and instead attempt to make it the best future that it can be, and let yourselves be surprised, so you can stand in awh to the beauty that will be there.

My thoughts on the law of attraction.

The law of attraction is influencing everything in the known and unknown universe. We used to believe the law of attraction was as simple as gravity. We have since learned that the law of attraction can influence thought.

 Some studies were done giving out a crossword puzzle to a group of people, they were all given the same conditions to complete the crossword. The next day they had them all do another crossword. Everybody scored 20% higher on the text that had secretly been released in another cities newspaper the previous day. The data in the end presented incredible evidence suggesting that because those problems had been solved the day prior, the knowledge universally became easier to access. Why would you think this happened?

Farther past that, in my own life and in research of mine I've found other's have experienced the same reaction to: simply thinking positively. I've dealt with a lot of depression simply put, and have been pessimistic for a greater deal of my life. I've at times truly felt the world is an awful place, I'd disagree with myself now. The world is whatever you make it, and how you feel is the manifestation of the thoughts and experiences you surround yourself with.

• If you walk into a room feeling unwelcome, you will want to leave and you will one way or another.
• If you walk into a room feeling amazing you'll have a positive time, and even if something mildly unfortunate happens you'll have enough positive momentum to just keep going.

If you can truly bring yourself to have positive thoughts frequently, you'll become frequently happy, because it's a habit. We are habit based creatures, we follow habit almost with no question. If we begin to frequently have depressing thoughts, we continue to have those thoughts, and evolve them until they grow larger than ever imagined. Don't be scared. Your brain can do the exact same process in reverse, all you have to do is frequently think you're feeling well, that you're happy, that you have what you want, whatever you want. The secret to this is though you have to believe it.

This won't make you feel better instantly, it won't make you feel better in an hour, necessarily. Over all it will brighten your life in so many ways you won't believe it. It will be subtle at first, then you'll never doubt it again.

If you decided to actually read this I hope you can take as much out of it as you can.

Remember also, this is just my thoughts. My own personal philosophy and how I feel, if you have any thoughts, comments or any input please feel free to comment.
I'm always up to learn, discuss or be flamed.

-Odin.

"Everything is relative.."

Ads.

So, I've added advertisements to my page, annoying I'm aware. But, I started this page on a vision of learning how to blog for freelance writing websites, etc., so by adding these advertisements I'm able to accomplish a simmular sort of thing without having to be officially hired yet which is pretty cool. The thing about the advertisements on my page is that I get like a couple cents right now everytime somebody who is viewing my page clicks on an add, not everytime they see it. I won't ask you all to click on my adds nonstop, or anything like that... But, if it won't hurt you or you don't mind.. At least don't avoid clicking them..xD Haha.
Every advertisement clicked also says a thank you.

-Odin

The fruit of knowledge. "To rediscover the joy of learning."

To rediscover the joy of learning is a broad statement. We could ask ourselves what learning is,  what joy is, we could even go as far as to question if we need to rediscover anything and if we actually haven't forgotten what we learned last time, but all of this is bollocks, just a bunch of wasted text.

To rediscover the joy of learning is as simple as to open your mind.

If you're able to open yourselves up to new ideas, theories, thoughts, physics, imaginative realities and so much more you can find yourself surrounded with thoughts of the wildest things- all found from simply opening your mind, and learning. Everywhere you go there is a lesson to be had, weather it be taking a different route home because there is one light that always takes forever to change, or if it's that your microwave burns popcorn on the popcorn setting so you have to take it out of the over 20 seconds before it says.

What are you interested in?
What do you enjoy doing?
If you don't enjoy doing anything(I call bullshit, but I'll bare with you), what do you enjoy watching?
What do you listen to?
What do you think about?
And last but not lest: Are you a parapoligic?
If you had any answer other than yes on the last one, you're capable of moving around and doing something and if you reference any of the other answers to the 'no, I'm not missing all four of my limbs therefore I'm not entirely disabled' to the 'Are you a parapoligic?' question you will find there is always something to do if you really want to, and once you start doing stuff you'll find pride in accomplishment.

Learning is really a self sustaining process, because it's fed ambition, and produces sustainability.
The learning process if flawless, so why don't you go find something that you can do, progress into finding something you love doing, and then while rediscovering the joy of learning keep it up.

Illumination- Poetry ov Mine

Blank eyes cast across twilight skies.

Reminds me I'm alone.

Cast aside and lied to,

And I've burnt the bridges home.

Suffering in agony, butchered of all hope.

Blank face.

Staring, lost in the matrix of starts.

Wind blows, almost as if it carries a message from a land afar.

Blowing past your ears, it leaves a message so clear.

The message strikes fear, memories from the past.

The light sparkles off of the tear that could not be held back.

The moon sings to you, the sea matches her tone..

The trees breath for your,

Your lungs are filled with new.

The grass sleeps with you, to dream in your world..

Eyes close, with a rested head.

Drained of energy, no concept of time.

Dawn approaches, light on the horizon.

Night creeps away, the mysteries of the day arise.

 

Hobo Superheroes!

five homeless guysrestrained and secured a sex offender just out of jail recently until the police came when he attempted to grab a fifteen year old girl on a bus in california. when i heard about this it rdefinitely made a positive contribution to my day.

In respect to Neil Pasricha.

Today I learned of a man named Neil Pasricha, I don't know if you've heard of him, but in my opinion he is a bright light in today's world. He started a blog regarding the little positive things in life while he was at an all time low to direct attention to those things that warm you on the inside as apposed to the chaos spilled upon you by more sources than most realize in day to day life.

His blog is titled 1000 Awesome Things, and in my opinion it is specifically special because it was created to lift his mood, by being able to have a place in his life where the positive aspects of reality were the point of focus, and it evolved into a source of positivity for millions proving a little seed of positivity can amount to more than one would imagine.

Personally I admire his idea, and it's encouraged me to share with you something somebody I know started named "Hug Bug," and before you ask yourself the question yes the root of the idea comes from "Slug Bug" but the difference is this isn't meant to spread any form of pain. Instead of punching somebody when you see a Volkswagen Beetle hug everybody your with, and maybe even others, and tell all of your friends about it and so on...

This concludes this blog, so I bid you an excellent proceeding  to the rest of your day.

-Odin.

Standards.

From my studies of people, something I've come to question are people's standards.
I accept that I may be wrong in my analysis here, but to me it appears as if people follow the same evolutionary pattern psychologically, as animals do over long term evolutions. We adapt our views, traits, habits, everything to where we are. Although we do attempt to evolve our environment to us, we still always mould one way or another to where we are- I don't see anything wrong with this. Where I'm going with this though, is as children in elementary school, through middle school, and even through high school you're always asked: "What do you want to do/be when you grow up?" Almost implying that a singular activity is supposed to describe you. This mixed along with college prices, and laws requiring licences to sell almost anything, and so on prevents people from being able to do many things, what I'm getting to is that I feel like everybody is meant to evolve throughout their life to want to do many things and this closed minded competitive atmosphere of today's world is inhibiting it.

So I'm sure somebody is thinking "Well that's just depressing... Thanks asshole." but that's not the point. I'd like to suggest something to anybody who happens to read this: If you ever want to do something in life do not hesitate. Do not leave it as a dream, you'll often be surprised with the experience you find, and sometimes you won't. Even when it isn't the result you had hoped for, you will always gain something, you will learn at least something and grow in some way. Do yourself the favor, give yourself the experiences you want.
-Odin.

Grammar is key.

So, today in my Blogging class we had a lesson on run on sentences, sentence fragments, and grammatical errors related to that. Although this was quite remedial for me, I had some surprising results:

The Capital Community College Run On and Fragment quiz: 6 wrong and 4 right.
(I would enjoy discussing a couple of my answers if I had the opportunity, because I feel as if some of them were debatable- I'm most likely wrong.)

On the other hand we had the "Grammar Bytes- Chomp Chomp Quiz on Sentence Fragments which I scored perfectly on.
(Ironic? I think not... Quite possibly my dyslexia played some tricks on my eyes. I know the concept of this material very well, but I finish sentences for myself at times if there are a lot of repeating words because my eyes scramble them.)

For those of you who would enjoy an example of a run-on sentence and a sentence fragment simply read below:

Run-On Sentence example:
Last week I went to Children of Bodom's Blooddrunk tour where they headlined for Swallow the Sun, Enslaved, Morbid Angel and Blood of the Black owl; the show ended up being more than six hours, having a pit on almost the whole bottom level, and a triple encore, unfortunately though you had to be 21 for re-entry so I was unable to take a 'breather' between bands.
This is a really easy to accomplish error. Sometimes we'll have a large idea or long story to tell and we want to express it as quickly as we're able to think about it, but you still have to slow down and explain it properly or what you've expressed isn't as well articulated as you'd imagined in your head.


Sentence Fragment example:
Right on the other side of Kipling.
This is something you may say every day, and not even stop and think that it is a short, not proper (Although it is acceptable in a short verbal sharing of information.) to write response. This is easy to fix though, all you have to do it add a bit more information.
Example: The gas station is right on the other side of Kipling.
This is now a proper sentence.

'Blogography' is what they call them.

So, I'm taking this blogging class at my school, Jeffco Open School. My initial inspiration for taking this class was the little bind I found myself in whilst applying for freelance writing jobs online, and finding that I had to know how to 'blog.'(As a verb.) So I started taking this class, and found out some pretty interesting facts about 'le blog;' such as blogging was originally done on paper and it was a news updating system essentially, that informed persons on what was going on withing a specific subject, which to me was fascinating. But, obviously from the title of this post I'm not telling you about my class, or my school, or my aspirations for writing, no... I'm writing not a bibliography, but a 'blogography' is what they call them.

So let's cut to the chase. My name is Odin. I'm a philosopher, a metalhead, a hippie, a daydreamer, and a Viking. I'm interested in a ridiculous amount of things, but primarily everything. I'll probably mostly be posting about my views regarding the basic issues in the world  and what mankind has done to this planet- in my opinion, and the problems I see, not recycled words and opinions from every bodies most loved or hated media source.

My personal opinion is:
If everybody on the planet were to go into nature with no man-made devices and created their own means for survival, entertainment, and ultimately life, everybody on the planet would feel more wholesome, happy, and capable.
We've conventionalized, linearized, and made bland the world that brought us life. Nobody has freedom anymore, because they have to do something by somebody elses' standard to simply survive. Nobody should have to have money to be alive, we're limiting ourselves with convenience which is ultimately preventing us from having the skills to keep ourselves alive, so then we have to rely on an abusive system for stability.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

First Post.

Thursday, September 6th, 2012; 2:30pm

So, this is going to be my first blog entery ever. Thus far I haven't entirely decided what I'm going to post about of frequent, of even if there is going to be a common theme within my posts.
I would make this post longer but I'm not quite sure what to put here, so I'll get back to this another time.
-Odin.