Hmm, I actually prefer the Demo version of this song.
Simpler, sweeter. ^.^
MUSIC & LYRICS!!!
I love DREW BARRYMORE ever since 50 First Dates!
And I love Hugh Grant ever since Love Actually!
They're like so the King & Queen of Romance Comedies.
I hate comedies! But I would love to see them together!!!
And 300!!!
And go clubbing!!!
And play Jade Empire!!!
And slack!!!
And etc.!!!!!
I hate studying I hate studying I hate studying. =___=
It's so boring it's so boring it's so boring.
It's so frustrating so frustrating so frustrating.
It's so irritating so irritating so irritating.
WAHHH!!! With this kind of mindset, no wonder my results are like shit. =.=
But then, I just need something to happen. I don't know what, but I know I need something to happen. To feel like how I felt during Sec 2 streaming, and even the few days before O' Levels. All I need is that something and I am very positive I can secure wonderful results with minimal effort, still.
Or maybe all I need is for that mindset to change. HAHAHA.
ROARRRRR
I can't wait to watch this documentary also: The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion.
The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK.
Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy.[1] His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.[2] Dawkins' book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail.
Part 1: The God Delusion The God Delusion explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them. Dawkins opens the programme by describing the "would-be murderers . . . who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they're motivated by what they think is the highest ideal." Dawkins argues that "the process of non-thinking called faith" is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.
Part 2: The Virus of Faith In The Virus of Faith, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children. The title of this episode comes from The Selfish Gene, in which Dawkins discussed the concept of memes.
Quotes:
“ The time has come for people of reason to say: enough is enough. Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive, and it's dangerous. ”
“ For many people, part of growing up is killing off the virus of faith with a good strong dose of rational thinking. But if an individual doesn't succeed in shaking it off, his mind is stuck in a permanent state of infancy, and there is a real danger that he will infect the next generation. ”
“ The god of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic-cleanser urging his people on to acts of genocide. ”
“ Fundamentalist Christianity is on the rise among the electorate of the world's only superpower, right up to and including the President. If you believe the surveys, 45 percent of Americans, that's about 135 million people, believe the universe is less than ten thousand years old. ”
“ We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ”
“ We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here in my place outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. If you think about all the different ways our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here... We are privileged to be alive, and we should make the most of our time on this world. ”
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Blah blah, he so sounds like a guy I could love. WAHAHA. I mean, so intellectual and critical neh!
But seriously, I couldn't agree more.
Don't really have the time to elaborate on this yet, maybe I will after I watch the documentary after the exams... ERMMM
But basically my position has always been:
RELIGION is best served as a HOBBY. Something to be done as and when you feel like doing so, instead of the complete submission+obedience+unquestioning acceptance which will so relegate all its benefits and turn religion into something more like a dogma, or doctrine. Or whateverrr.
Basically, the best thing would be to adopt Scientific Thinking and Philosophical Reflection as the fundamental processes underlying life laaa
I know that Religion is like a refuge in a confusing and maddening world, a place which ensures answers when you don't know what to do. But what's the value of wilfully tuning off your critical thinking just to evade/ escape your problems? How different is this from taking drugs to lose all senses of reality?
In fact, religion is, by all means, when you look at the entire human history.
One of the greatest propagators of oppression - Oppression against women and heretics (people of another religion). Not to mention the countless executions against sound thinking - Take for example the trial of Galileo.
It's like,
I figure it's not meaningful to even make any references to religion in the modern world anymore.
Like all the Capitalistic markets have totally undermined the Bible's saying that oh well God will feed you so you don't have to worry abt blah blah just like wild creatures never worry abt starving.
And like the Theory of Evolution, and all those scientific discoveries and debates about the latest advances in life processes, genetics, blah blah. It's like those books dates thousands of years back has completely no relevance to all these modern issues of concern.
Budden, yeah, on the other hand, maybe it's because of all this modern madness and urbanisation that results in even GREATER need for religion, for safe and warm age-old answers. But I think that to take such a stance is really like leaving the fate of humanity to BACKWARD development, simply because we are unsure and inconfident about finding the answers ourselves, with modern intelligence. Like we rather forgo ages of development just for the comfort of un-thinking.
Whateverrr sia.
This world could do with more Liberals and free-thinkers and Philosophers and Economists and Scientists. ((= --- WAHHH I was looking up some of his quotations and I'm so like, OMG I RESPECT this guy like GOD!!! WAHHHHH
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. -- Richard Dawkins (attributed: source unknown)
Gotta check out all of his books. ((=
Because I'm trying to decide how this whole genetic destiny thing will work for me.
;rock YOU.
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>>descY
chronicles of a genius
lifetime of the GREAT
legacy of perfection
epitome of intellect
embodiment of knowledge legend of a modern human
breaking of the MYTH of the impossibility of success,
of static destinies,
of destituted fates,
of the inverse relationship btwn good looks & depth of thought =Pp
>>profileY
ENJIAO here =DD trying to think of an ENGRISH name for myself...CIEL!?!? =DD
>>playlistY
all-time faves:
jia BY nan quan mama
wo ai ni, yuan fang BY S.H.E
life's a struggle BY shawn song
shi ren BY Z. Chen
heng xing de heng xin BY mayday
imagine u n me BY simple plan
glamorous sky BY mika
faint BY linkin park
lose yourself, crazy in love BY eminem
when i think of all-time faves i think of songs that DeFINE ME a person. ((=
