book of life

 

Jose Sarasola

Coming after the storm created by the Criselda Volks Video Scandal, wherein Criselda Volks admitted being the girl in the video, is another scandal this time still brewing since the guy ( yeah, a guy this time) is yet to be famous on Philippine Television. That is, if he ever gets a good exposure, now that it seems to be ruined by this unsavory news. The alleged Jose Sarasola video scandal has been going the rounds of gay Yahoo Groups and the gay section of XTube. Some people who stumbled upon the alleged Pinoy Fear Factor participantes Jose Sarasola pleasuring himself on cam then pointed out the striking resemblance between the Jose Sarasola publicity photos for Pinoy Fear Factor and the alleged Jose Sarasola in the video scandal. Jose Sarasola is a culinary chef from Paranaque and is a Spanish mestizo. He had his first brush with showbiz by appearing in Candy Magazine September 2006 issue with LaLola star Rhian Ramos. If the Jose Sarasola video scandal is true, this makes Pinoy Fear Factor even more exciting. Pinoy Fear Factor airs November 10.

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Karla Henry Paula of Philippines has been crowned Miss Earth 2008 on Sunday, November 09 (Manila time) at The Clark Expo Amphitheater, Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines.

 

“Final question - If you have a chance to speak to Newly Elected US President, Barack Obama, about the state of Global environment, what will you tell him? “

A total package of beauty, brains and genuine concern for the environment, Karla Paula Henry won the first Miss Earth crown for the Philippines.

Desiderata

– written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s —
Not "Found in Old St. Paul’s Church"! — see below

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Traditional European philosophy has favored theories in which causality is the dominant explanatory principle: things happen because someone, or by extension something, makes them happen. It is clear that this reflects a fantasy, probably particularly masculinist, of power over life, the world, and especially other humans (desirable females, dangerous males in the dominant view). But causality has rarely provided adequate accounts of most systems because they consist of many interacting parts and the behavior of the system as a whole, and often of the individual parts, is an complex aggregation of the interactions of all the parts — and no part controls the whole, or can even control another part outside the influence of the rest of the system. Such systems are said to be ’self-organizing’ and the behavior of aggregates of components is said to be ‘emergent’. In these systems, which certainly include living organisms, ecosystems, and social or ecosocial systems, there are no isolated controlling agencies. There is no all-powerful father, boss, or king. There are no control hierarchies among components: no generals, captains, and soldiers. Self-organizing systems are inherently democratic, and eurocultural philosophies basically are not.

 

The modern theory of self-organization phenomena has several roots: cybernetics, which did look for control hierarchies, but quickly saw more complex behavior; organismic biology, especially the early traditions of "holism" that opposed the "reductionism" of physics; ecosystem theory; the autopoesis theory of Varela and Maturana; auto-catalytic and cross-catalytic reaction theory in chemistry; mathematical ecology; cellular automata theory; thermodynamics and statistical physics of irreversible processes; and the mathematics and physics of non-linear equations.

 

For an overview in relation to social dynamics, see: Lemke, Textual Politics, chapter 6; Lemke, Cultural Dynamics article; and Lemke, Downward Causation article. References in these works cite the major sources of the theory. Key names and associations are:

 

• Stuart Kauffman — cellular automata, evolutionary and developmental biology

   

• Stanley Salthe — developmental and evolutionary biology, origins of life, hierarchical levels in complex system

   

• Ilya Prigogine — thermodynamics and statistical physics of irreversible process; origins of complexity

   

• Gregory Bateson — cybernetic models of ecosocial interactions, meta-learning

   

• Francisco Varela and Umberto Maturana — autopoetic systems theory

   

• Howard Odum — systems ecology

   

• H. Ross Ashby — cybernetics

1. Neo-Thomism- “Neo” new; Thomism is a branch of Christian scholasticism associated with the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. He contended that faith and reason do not conflict humankind in our ideas, our mind, and our spirit, as the physical nature of the world created by God as a perfect being is considered more important. it is established knowledge through both faith and reason.
               - The educational implications of idealism are to contribute to the development of mind and self, the school should emphasize intellectual abilities moral judgement, aesthetics, self realization, individual freedom, individual responsibility and self control.
2. IDEALISM- Stresses intrinsic or spiritual value rather than physical fact or material value. It emphasizes the development of the values in the student, values based on long held-principles and standard of morality, idealist believe the existence of God-summum, Bonum or the highest good in whom absolute good, beauty and values are found.
            - Idealism as an educational philosophy proclaims the spiritual nature of men. It stresses the human spirit, and soul or mind as the most important in life. T holds that the good, true, and beautiful are permanently part of the structure of a related, coherent, orderly, and unchanging universe (san Mateo and Tangco; 1997.)
3. EXISTENTIALISM- Is primarily attributed to Soren Kierkeggard. According to him that education should enable a person to make choices for his/her life. It should be a means to open his/her very eyes to the naked truth of existence and make him/her aware of his/her status. In so doing, Education serves as a guiding spirit for a person’s  decisions and wise action
              - Existentialism is a way of viewing and thinking about life in the world so that priority is given to individualism and subjectivity. The existentialists believe that the human being is the creator of his essence; He creates his own values through freedom of choice or individual preference. The most important kind of knowledge about the realities of human life and choices that each person has to make. Education is the process of developing awareness about the freedom the freedom choice and the meaning and responsibility for once choice
4. REALIS M- Applies to the position that education should be concerned with the actualities in life. Realism is an educational philosophy w/ advocates that education should be considered with realities of life and should prepare a person for his/her duties in life it holds that reality, knowledge and values exists independent of the human mind,
5. HUMANISM- Aimed for the development of the intellectual, spiritual and physical capacities of a person through education. This philosophy of education places spiritual things over and above worldly things. Man is both matter and spirit and his spiritual will must prevail over his material and worldly desires for him to avoid sinning and for him to attain spiritual perfection. For instance, an individual is confronted with a choice between going to church or going to a disco pub. If the spirits prevails, he goes to church. It is the function of education to make him choice going to church or to choice the better

 The buildings, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts of ancient Egypt from about 5000 bc to the conquest of Egypt by Rome in 30 bc.

 

Today, we look at Egyptian art primarily in museums or in books. For the Egyptians, however, the objects now regarded as art were made to serve a particular purpose, usually a religious one. For example, temples were decorated with paintings and filled with statues of gods and kings in the belief that doing this served the gods, showed devotion to the king, and maintained the order of the universe. The Egyptians wore jewelry and amulets (charms) not only as decoration, but because they believed these items protected them against harm. They buried their dead with jewelry and amulets for the same reason: to protect against the perils of the afterlife.

 

Most Egyptians never saw the art that is now displayed in museums, because only kings and members of the ruling elite were allowed to enter temples, tombs, and palaces. But the Egyptians had in mind another audience for their art: the gods and, for the art in tombs, the spirits of people who had died.

 

Artists in ancient Egypt joined workshops and worked in teams to produce what their patrons—the king and the elite—needed. For this reason, few works can be attributed to individuals. Religious beliefs largely dictated what artists created, especially the paintings and statues that filled Egyptian temples and tombs. Artists endlessly repeated the same themes and subjects, changing them only when beliefs changed. (A rare change came around 1350 bc, for example, when the sun god Aton gained more prominence than ever before.) The style of depicting these themes and subjects, by contrast, changed from one generation of artists and patrons to the next. For example, during the 18th dynasty (1550-1307 bc) there was a shift from painting the human figure in a rather stiff and rigid posture to using curved lines and varied poses. But most of the changes were more subtle.

 

            Welcome to the world of art. Wherever people exist, art exists. Art is universal. Through the ages, men and women have reached out to express their feelings and their thoughts, and share their experiences and their view in life.  They do this through the medium of worlds, color, sound, body movements, bronze, and marble. With their imagination and creativity, the string of words become poetry, the sequence of sound becomes music, bodily movements become dance, the harmony of color and canvas become paintings, form in space become sculpture, form around space become architecture, and a series of pictures becomes movie. Joseph Machlis wrote “Art appeals to our mind, arouses our emotions, kindles our imagination and enchants our senses” Art brings us to the heights of awareness of our being human and intensifies our experience.
            Whenever you listen to music, look at painting, view a building, touch a statue or vase, recite a poem, read a story or watch a movie, you are communicating with the artist –another human being. When you get the message he or she gave, or share the same feelings, you will realized that too, are human.
            In this life, you will be able to discover and appreciate the language of art. Be aware of the significant role of art in your daily life –that of feeling your need of beauty.

By: Conrado V. Pedroche

This is a Carabao, horns, hide and hoofs, a huge hemispherical belly well-filled and pampered; a long tapering tail ending in a tuft of hair heavy with caked mud whipping the sides right and left, right and left; tongue sticky licking wet fly-infested nostrils in and out, in and out; eyes wide and hairy, neck furrowed and rough, the chant of chewing jaws, the slow unvarying motion of grinding teeth, the quiet of shifting cud; a bird poised for flight upon the back – suspended grace of wings, unuttered loveliness song: this –this a marvelous statue in live bronze strong, majestic and more wonderful far than all the ways of Gods and fools.

We’ve been together for so very long
But now things are changing, oh I wonder what’s wrong?
Seems you don’t want me around
The passion is gone and the flames died down

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem
That time that you made it with the whole hockey team
You used to think I was nice
Now you tell all your friends that I’m the Antichrist

Oh, why did you disconnect the brakes on my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore
Got a funny feeling you don’t love me anymore

I knew that we were having problems when
You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
You’re still the light of my life
Oh darling, I’m beggin’, won’t you put down that knife?

You know I, even think it’s kinda cute the way
You poison my coffee just a little each day
I still remember the way that you laughed
When you pushed me down the elevator shaft

Oh, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s this poisonous cobra
Doing in my underwear drawer?
Sometimes I get to thinking you don’t love me anymore

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill
Now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will
You set my house on fire
You pulled out my chest hairs with an old pair of pliers

Oh, you think I’m ugly and you say I’m cheap
You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep
You drilled a hole in my head
Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead

Oh, you know this really isn’t like you at all
You never acted this way before
Honey, something tells me you don’t love me anymore, oh no no
Got a funny feeling you don’t love me anymore