Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Inspire yourself by writing Pt.2


As you all know, I'm a big fan of journals, diaries, or anything as such. Stumbling upon old pieces of writing has to be one of the most eye opening moments in life. I find it hard to believe that your conscience will allow you to lie to yourself in writing. From my experiences it seems like your true genius comes out when you write about life and the things going on around you. I would like to take this time out to apologize to all of my english teachers who made me write journals every morning in class and i gave them a dirty look. Please forgive me because I had no idea the power of what you spoke of. Now I see completely, and i plan to continue writing journals as often as i can. Here is a brief journal i wrote back in 2008 about Plato. I hope you like it. And please pick up a pen/pencil and write about the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe one day when you stumble upon it, it will spark a life changing moment. At the end is a song by J.cole called "see world" I added it because it's mirrors the idea of writing what you see and also it's DOPE!




This is a conversation between Glaucon, a student, and Socrates, his teacher, and then Plato writes an allegory of this conversation. Plato asks us to imagine human beings who are prisoners in a cave, chained and forced to face one direction. Behind the prisoners, there is a fire that casts shadows upon the wall the prisoners are facing. Since birth, all they have watched are shadows of statues and animals cast upon that wall. They also hear conversations of those who transport these statues. To the prisoners, the truth is literally nothing else except the shadows of the images they see. Plato asks us to consider what will follow when one prisoner is released from his chains, and cured of his ignorance. At first he will fight the truth, but inevitably he will start to see more than shadows. Getting accustomed to the real world , will he care about being the leader inside the cave or living as just another person in the real world? Plato asks us to consider the man going back to into the cave in his new state; wouldn't his eyes leaving the sunlight be covered in darkness? When he recovers and resumes to living with his mates, wouldn't he invite ridicule towards them because of their ignorance? And if he tried to lead them towards enlightenment, wouldn't they kill him?


This allegory has to be one of the best things I have ever read in my lifetime. It has brought total enlightenment to my eyes. Though it is tough to understand, with due reasoning I am really amazed on how much truth Plato is speaking about reality, change, and, ignorance. Whenever my eyes are opened to something new, something that has never been part of my life; like foreign foods or dating outside your race, my first reaction is to reject it because I have never tried it before. In a sense I am blinded by the shadows of my comfort level. Now when I try it and fall in love with it, the next step is to introduce it to my friends or tell them about it. If I tell my friends, or parents that I am going to marry outside my race, it will be looked upon as an abomination. But with my new state of mind I see nothing wrong with such things again, because I am not blinded by the darkness of my comfort level.


Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Life. What are we here for? "I look to the sky, talk to an invisble man and hope one day my prayers get answered"


I find myself asking questions over and over again. Why are humans so different from the next creature? what made us smarter? what made us think we're smart? Are we really better than any other living thing that roams around this earth? I ask myself questions like this constantly through the day. I've bought numerous books that claim they have the answer for 'a man's search for meaning' what exactly was i put on this earth for. I guess a dog doesn't ask it self that question, it just goes about its day looking for food and water. Think about a tiny bacteria that infects us (humans) everyday, what's their purpose, why cause stress to us, don't we both have the same goal? Don't look at me I don't the answer to that question but what i do have is this Dimethyltriptamine or better known as DMT. What is it? Its a chemical an alkaliod found in all beings, ours is produced by the brain. Its function? It's a psychedelic that creates the dream world that we must have every night while we're asleep. The truth is if you don't dream, you die. Simple as that. So DMT..how does that connect to the purpose of life..DMT is release during REM sleep and right before human death. Ok forget the REM sleep part, lets focus on the part where this potent pschedelic is released at the moment right before you die. Why is that? Is that the chemical that will create the after-life world thats been preached to us since birth? It's tough to say, but they chilling topic to ponder upon. The video below is comedian Joe Rogan...yes i said comedian Joe Rogan the guy from fear factor giving his view on the purpose of mankind, and i have to say it is the best I have heard so far. He speaks on his experience with DMT, and how the drug works, then he goes into talking about humans as an advanced form of bacteria whose job is to innovate and procreate to keep the earth spinning.He has really good points on how we humans are all dependent on each other, and that's part of our biological make-up. We were made to function as a unit, just as yeast makes dough rise, and mold takes over a sandwich, we humans have a purpose and that's to keep making babies, and inventing new things. Fuck emotions, fuck the little bullshit that comes with life all that is just a set-up to make us believe that we are individuals while in actuality we are actually just a piece in the puzzle of life. So what's next? Jay Electronica!!!