Being a girl

Are emotions important? - YES
Is rationality(or everything that is considered the opposite of emotional) important? - YES

One quality shall never override the other for such miscalculated deeds often cause unsatisfaction in our lives.

Harmony... harmony.. harmony.

Heitor Villa Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I shouldn't be wasting my time watching movies but I had a very tough day today so I decided to give myself a little treat and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I really enjoyed this movie. Cried twice for it brought me back the memories of people that I really wish that I had said good-bye to but I couldn't, and can't anymore.

The truth is, even if I could say good-bye, to somehow help myself release some of the memories (and destroy the ambiguity) of these people, I would have never done it. If I let these memories go, what would I run to whenever my most "current" reality shatters my hopes and dreams. (Face it? It's not always easy being strong minded) Memories are like shelters or any other places one considers safe(your mom's closet?), safe because memories are done and over with. Already determined, no more responsibilities for you. There's nothing you can do to alter your memories (unless you reconstruct your recent emotional reactions to these memories which is a whole different story)and thus, there are no concrete consequences, of course there are some burdens that come along with memories such as frustration and freedom(speaking of contradictions!). Frustration because there's nothing, absolutely nothing you can do to renovate your memories and freedom because you are dismissed from obligations for you are not able to make your own choices.

Is there free will? :) I think not.

Potential evolutionary role for same-sex attraction

Potential evolutionary role for same-sex attraction


And accidents occur to teach people how to appreciate their life? Ridiculous.

Do fish feel pain?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100112090126.htm

This story breaks my heart.

Le Dînner De Cons

I've just finished watching "Le Dînner De Cons".

THE WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN, MY GOD!

I'm trying to understand why the French may find this movie amusing. Can it be because of their personality preference for perceiving over judging? Do they want to watch the "evil" suffer in a slowly disturbing way?

This movie definitely is going to go on my "the most detestable movies list" right next to 'Gummo'.

Conventionality, why and why it shouldn't - Bertrand Russell

It is a sad evidence of the weariness mankind has suffered from
excessive toil that his heavens have usually been places where nothing
ever happened or changed. Fatigue produces the illusion that only
rest is needed for happiness; but when men have rested for a time,
boredom drives them to renewed activity. For this reason, a happy
life must be one in which there is activity. If it is also to be a
useful life, the activity ought to be as far as possible creative, not
merely predatory or defensive. But creative activity requires
imagination and originality, which are apt to be subversive of the
status quo. At present, those who have power dread a disturbance of
the status quo, lest their unjust privileges should be taken away.
In combination with the instinct for conventionality, which man
shares with the other gregarious animals, those who profit by the
existing order have established a system which punishes originality
and starves imagination from the moment of first going to school down
to the time of death and burial.

From Political ideals - Russell