background picture from: robin good
Monday, June 18, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
learn the art of "phantom-loving"
1. look
2. once in a while, glance
3. stare if he's not looking
4. gaze if nobody's staring
5. ogle but... no no no, don't!
6. think but don't assume. just keep it in your own world...
7. smile... it helps you release that insanity...
8. dream
9. dream
10. dream
11. dream
12. dream
13. dream
14. dream
15. dream
16. dream
17. dream
18. dream... only to find out
the last piece of the puzzle won't fit... ->torn<-
hell! he's just turning
__. and you're months older... laugh! fool, you've been fooled!
2. once in a while, glance
3. stare if he's not looking
4. gaze if nobody's staring
5. ogle but... no no no, don't!
6. think but don't assume. just keep it in your own world...
7. smile... it helps you release that insanity...
8. dream
9. dream
10. dream
11. dream
12. dream
13. dream
14. dream
15. dream
16. dream
17. dream
18. dream... only to find out
the last piece of the puzzle won't fit... ->torn<-
hell! he's just turning
__. and you're months older... laugh! fool, you've been fooled!
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
theo...
sem-ender papers are hard rocks on head plus all the mind-bogging tests and a lot more. all you need is bottle of beer! this was my last requirement for our last theology course, which had a great impact on my orientations and views. born out of our philisophical/radical beer-talks the night of my birthday, this contained my thoughts during that critical week...
Break the rules! That is how I can describe my flaming passion for life — break the rules in the sense that we should not always end up conforming to what the society and religion dictates. There are a lot of factors to consider but at least we have a chance to show our individuality and not let the system eat us alive.
Sometimes we get drowned with illusory figures of a perfect world and rectify ourselves to conform to the normal setting. But who, then, set the standards of normality? It may not be far from possible that what we cling into is not linear to our nature then we end up twisting our brains just to fit in. The world does not always tell the truth. We just have to know our nature, consider others’ and live with respect.
I believe action is human behavior to which the acting individual attaches subjective meaning and can be overt or inward and subjective. But by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to it by the acting individuals, action becomes social, and it takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby guided. My actions can be causally determined by the behavior of others, while still not necessarily being meaningfully determined by them. I am an individual and I am free, insofar as I am not disturbing the live of anybody or destroying the situation. I can always tell the world who I am, but I can never expect them to think the way I do because I respect individuality. The uniformity rests insofar as behavior is determined by purely rational actions of people to similar ulterior expectations. And in most cases, our actual action goes on in a state of inarticulate half-consciousness or actually unconsciousness of its subjective meaning. The ideal type case of meaning may be where meaning is fully conscious and explicit: this rarely happens in reality, and we have to deal with it.
I have to thank everyone for bringing back my person, which I thought I lost for a while. In my nineteen years of stay in these soils of "sorcerers and black pearls", it was only yesterday when, once more, I felt I was important, and as I start another year of struggle, my questions about existence now boil down to one answer, and that is respect.
Break the rules! That is how I can describe my flaming passion for life — break the rules in the sense that we should not always end up conforming to what the society and religion dictates. There are a lot of factors to consider but at least we have a chance to show our individuality and not let the system eat us alive.
Sometimes we get drowned with illusory figures of a perfect world and rectify ourselves to conform to the normal setting. But who, then, set the standards of normality? It may not be far from possible that what we cling into is not linear to our nature then we end up twisting our brains just to fit in. The world does not always tell the truth. We just have to know our nature, consider others’ and live with respect.
I believe action is human behavior to which the acting individual attaches subjective meaning and can be overt or inward and subjective. But by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to it by the acting individuals, action becomes social, and it takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby guided. My actions can be causally determined by the behavior of others, while still not necessarily being meaningfully determined by them. I am an individual and I am free, insofar as I am not disturbing the live of anybody or destroying the situation. I can always tell the world who I am, but I can never expect them to think the way I do because I respect individuality. The uniformity rests insofar as behavior is determined by purely rational actions of people to similar ulterior expectations. And in most cases, our actual action goes on in a state of inarticulate half-consciousness or actually unconsciousness of its subjective meaning. The ideal type case of meaning may be where meaning is fully conscious and explicit: this rarely happens in reality, and we have to deal with it.
I have to thank everyone for bringing back my person, which I thought I lost for a while. In my nineteen years of stay in these soils of "sorcerers and black pearls", it was only yesterday when, once more, I felt I was important, and as I start another year of struggle, my questions about existence now boil down to one answer, and that is respect.
Unrepentant 'Dr. Death' still favors right to die
Dr. Kevorkian also asserts other physicians help ill patients commit suicide
By John Springer
TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: 8:20 a.m. PT June 5, 2007
Eight years in prison hasn't changed physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian's opinion that legislatures can prohibit doctors from helping chronically ill patients end their lives, but no man-made rule can ever take away a person's "natural right" to decide whether they wish to live or die.
"It is one of our natural rights that we are born with, the right to control the circumstances of one’s own death," Kevorkian, 79, told TODAY's Ann Curry on Tuesday during his first live television interview since being released from a Michigan prison last week.
"It can't be controlled by external forces and be a right," he told Curry. "The law can block your use of it. That doesn't mean they destroy the right."
The media starting calling Kevorkian "Dr. Death" even before several failed attempts by prosecutors in Michigan to send him to prison for murder during the 1990s. Prosecutors finally prevailed in 1999, winning a second-degree murder conviction against Kevorkian for the poisoning death the year before of 52-year-old Thomas Youk, who was suffering from advanced Lou Gehrig's disease. The assisted suicide aired on CBS's "60 Minutes."
Kevorkian has estimated that he participated in more than 130 assisted suicides before Michigan finally won a conviction and sentenced the pathologist to 10 to 25 years in prison.
He claims that the practice remains widespread, even if other physicians aren’t stepping forward as he did to advocate physician-assisted suicide so publicly and brazenly.
"What evidence do you have of that, sir?" Curry asked Kevorkian.
"There have been polls taken of doctors, anonymous polls," said Kevorkian, whose own license to practice medicine was revoked at the time he helped end Youk’s life. "I think more than half say they have done it before and 30 percent say they do it still."
No regrets
Although Kevorkian has said he will no longer participate in assisted suicides, he has no regrets about helping to end the life of patients whom he deemed to be suffering and beyond medical help, and who willingly chose to end their lives.
"If a doctor decides, 'Yes, it's true. This person has a serious disease. Yes, it's true. It looks like he's suffering. And, yes, it's true. There seems to be nothing that can help him' — the person has a natural right to request help by a competent professional in ending his life," Kevorkian said. "And the competent professional has a natural right to accede to that request and help him. Both of those rights [are] blocked by law, that's all. But that doesn't destroy the right."
Apparently, a majority of Americans agree.
A Gallup poll conducted last month found that 71 percent of Americans surveyed feel that doctors should be permitted to end the life of a chronically diseased patient when the patient and his or her family agree to it.
Kevorkian's attorney, Mayer Morganroth, who appeared on TODAY with him, said his client was always careful to satisfy himself completely that a patient seeking help in ending his or her life was mentally competent to make such a decision. "In any case where there was any doubt about mental capacity, Dr. Kevorkian had them referred to a psychiatrist and got a psychiatrist's report and analysis of the person's problems," Morganroth said.
According to the Web site euthanasia.com, 35 states have enacted statutes criminalizing assisted suicide and nine others bar it as a matter of common law. However, several states' courts have said assisted suicide is not a crime. Though Oregon is the only state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, California is considering a similar law with procedures physicians would be required to follow.
This article can be found in: www.msnbc.msn.com, segment: people
By John Springer
TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: 8:20 a.m. PT June 5, 2007
Eight years in prison hasn't changed physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian's opinion that legislatures can prohibit doctors from helping chronically ill patients end their lives, but no man-made rule can ever take away a person's "natural right" to decide whether they wish to live or die.
"It is one of our natural rights that we are born with, the right to control the circumstances of one’s own death," Kevorkian, 79, told TODAY's Ann Curry on Tuesday during his first live television interview since being released from a Michigan prison last week.
"It can't be controlled by external forces and be a right," he told Curry. "The law can block your use of it. That doesn't mean they destroy the right."
The media starting calling Kevorkian "Dr. Death" even before several failed attempts by prosecutors in Michigan to send him to prison for murder during the 1990s. Prosecutors finally prevailed in 1999, winning a second-degree murder conviction against Kevorkian for the poisoning death the year before of 52-year-old Thomas Youk, who was suffering from advanced Lou Gehrig's disease. The assisted suicide aired on CBS's "60 Minutes."
Kevorkian has estimated that he participated in more than 130 assisted suicides before Michigan finally won a conviction and sentenced the pathologist to 10 to 25 years in prison.
He claims that the practice remains widespread, even if other physicians aren’t stepping forward as he did to advocate physician-assisted suicide so publicly and brazenly.
"What evidence do you have of that, sir?" Curry asked Kevorkian.
"There have been polls taken of doctors, anonymous polls," said Kevorkian, whose own license to practice medicine was revoked at the time he helped end Youk’s life. "I think more than half say they have done it before and 30 percent say they do it still."
No regrets
Although Kevorkian has said he will no longer participate in assisted suicides, he has no regrets about helping to end the life of patients whom he deemed to be suffering and beyond medical help, and who willingly chose to end their lives.
"If a doctor decides, 'Yes, it's true. This person has a serious disease. Yes, it's true. It looks like he's suffering. And, yes, it's true. There seems to be nothing that can help him' — the person has a natural right to request help by a competent professional in ending his life," Kevorkian said. "And the competent professional has a natural right to accede to that request and help him. Both of those rights [are] blocked by law, that's all. But that doesn't destroy the right."
Apparently, a majority of Americans agree.
A Gallup poll conducted last month found that 71 percent of Americans surveyed feel that doctors should be permitted to end the life of a chronically diseased patient when the patient and his or her family agree to it.
Kevorkian's attorney, Mayer Morganroth, who appeared on TODAY with him, said his client was always careful to satisfy himself completely that a patient seeking help in ending his or her life was mentally competent to make such a decision. "In any case where there was any doubt about mental capacity, Dr. Kevorkian had them referred to a psychiatrist and got a psychiatrist's report and analysis of the person's problems," Morganroth said.
According to the Web site euthanasia.com, 35 states have enacted statutes criminalizing assisted suicide and nine others bar it as a matter of common law. However, several states' courts have said assisted suicide is not a crime. Though Oregon is the only state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, California is considering a similar law with procedures physicians would be required to follow.
This article can be found in: www.msnbc.msn.com, segment: people
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
type my mood in lowercase
BUT I REALLY CAN'T!!! I'M NOT LIKING WHAT I'M FORCED TO DO! (IMAGINE ME DOING AN SMS - ALL CAPS FROM AN IRATE TEXTER!) EVERY NIGHT FEELS LIKE I'M BEING DRAGGED OUT OF BED, AND SHOWERS MAKE ME WONDER IF I'M REALLY SCRUBBING MY BODY WITH HARD,POINTED STONES THE EARTH COULD EVER IMAGINE BEARING! IF ONLY CAP ONE WERE NOT MOVED TO MARIKINA, THEN NO NEED FOR ME TO ASK FOR TRANSFER, EXCEPT FOR SOME UNEXPECTED SHIT OF COURSE, THE QA, TO NAME ONE...
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