Coldplay and the Pyramid Stage

All this time I have been plainly expressing to the universe about the great adoration I have for Chris Martin of Coldplay and for the band itself, I could not explain why. Why I have this strong connection to the band and to their music.

The answer has been within me all along... I have been unconsciously linking myself to them because Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion — Coldplay and I certainly have one great thinking in common.

Courtesy of www.coldplay.com

Thanks to the capstone! Viva La Vida Coldplay!

And the best feeling I feel every time, this shared experience with them is when I watch the video below...

BTW, listen closely to Major Minus lyrics and you'd definitely praise, Viva La Vida Coldplay!

The World is NOT a Stage

The more you educate yourself the more you understand where things come from the more obvious things become and you begin to see lies everywhere. You have to know the truth and seek the truth and the truth will set you free. - Jordan Maxwell

I am overwhelmed by the realization that I could be considered a major threat to individuals in positions of higher authority and power—those who prevent society from becoming aware of the astounding truth behind every system. Yes, these elite people do not want anybody to think beyond what is plainly laid out before us. And coincidentally, my blog happens to be about thinking a lot (read my tagline above), which means I could very well be on their blacklist. :))

I watched two baffling documentary films: Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum. The first part delves into conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, religious myths, an inadequate educational system, and economic fallacies. I certainly admit that these topics are quite heavy for a small thinker like me, and I would not necessarily persuade everyone to watch these documentaries unless they are open-minded enough to receive the staggering ideas and concepts presented by Peter Joseph, the mind behind Zeitgeist. Indeed, if you're easily offended, then do NOT watch it! It presents several theological theories that could alarm religious institutions. In fact, they had already disapproved of the documentary’s public release due to its insensitivity toward religious teachings. (However, if you're familiar with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Zeitgeist presents similar arguments. In that case, watching the first documentary might not be as shocking. Also, both films have been viewed by over 50 million people worldwide.)

What particularly caught my interest was the conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attack, suggesting that the U.S. government itself may have orchestrated it—or at the very least, ignored intelligence reports from allied countries warning about the planned attack. While I do not fully accept the validity of this theory about the catastrophic event that claimed thousands of lives, I still find it intellectually stimulating to consider. Hence, I leave this one for your judgment. (If you're not interested in the theological theories, you can skip that part and go straight to the next section of the first documentary.)

The second documentary, Zeitgeist: Addendum, serves as an in-depth follow-up. However, this one focuses on the monetary system and how true human progress could be achieved by shifting from our current socioeconomic paradigm to a natural resource-based system. What I found particularly striking was the idea that behind all the intimidating economic figures lies a simple truth: money = debt, and debt = money. This was so compelling that I finally understood the invisible slavery we unknowingly submit to—working endlessly just to earn money, which keeps us trapped in the cycle.

Have you ever wondered how money was created in the first place and what kind of system it operates within? This sequel documentary is a must-watch to comprehend the reality behind what seemingly makes our world go round—money. Admit it or not, we all need it. We strive for it. We survive because of it. But would you believe that, given abundant resources and advancing technology, if we took proper care and management of these, we would eventually realize that money is no longer relevant? The Venus Project, also featured in this documentary, presents an ideal concept of how our natural resources and technology can sustain human development. I support this project because I believe it poses a major threat to the greedy and powerful authorities who view it as the ultimate end of their domination.

Watching these documentaries opened up a whole new perspective for me. However, this does not mean I fully support all of Peter Joseph's ideas. Rather, they have educated me with a different view, allowing me to weigh my thoughts more critically. What truly impacted me was the call for a consolidation of our ideas and knowledge. With the most ideal educational system, we should be learning everything that helps us reach our highest potential—our greatest contribution to human development. (You can start playing your part now by gathering information, thinking a lot, and contemplating deeper.)

Finally, the film emphasizes that love should prevail in each of us, and from that, every good thing will follow.

By the way, Peter Joseph has released a third documentary titled Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, which I have yet to watch. I’ll be sure to share my thoughts on it next time. :)

Our true divinity is in our ability to create. And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life, while being guided by the emergent nature of reality, there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish. - from the Zeitgeist: Addendum

Visit The Zeitgeist Movement site here.
Learn about The Venus Project here.

Unscathed Brain

When I watched Forrest Gump movie, I realized how fortunate those people who know less than I am, who speak innocently, who do things without a doubt, who basically think uncomplicated situations, who need less materialistic things, who ceaselessly hope that one can make a change with a single deed. Blessed they are because they worry less and their wishes do come true because they see no impossibility, and since they believe in everything and they've got true faith, their prayers are answered.

Forrest Gump like I Am Khan movie's lead actor, are individuals who think just simple. Basic. Pure knowledge. "Stupid is as stupid does", they may be slow thinkers but the thought and the course of their actions weigh much greater than the regular stupid does.

This afternoon, I watched another thought-provoking film, Taare Zameen Par (Stars on Earth). It is an Aamir Khan film that features a story of a nine-year old boy who has difficulties in reading and writing but possesses astounding intelligence to perceive the world differently. The movie is such a great inspiration to me that I wonder how is it to think like them, who can perceive another dimension out of the plain view, who can think out of the box.

We tend to think endless and diverse thoughts, who consider practical judgments, who take different options that it has been hard to decide directly, who perceive doubt as an early failsafe for failures and so on and so forth. Though we take our thoughts to have contained more than theirs, in absolute truth, they have the potential to create a new world out of their great imagination. I even more understand that I have barely used  my brain contrast to the default mindset that I thought I have been already overusing it.

From now on, I will try to reach out the implicate order of my thoughts by just thinking for simple and basic thoughts that need not much of deliberation. (How will I be able to take easy ones easily when doing them will actually require strenuous effort?)

Logic vs. Reason

I have watched The Matrix a long time ago. It did not occur to me that time that the movie centered on the programmed world of humanity while fueled by bioelectrical energy and body heat from pods of human beings. All I could remember about this movie were the popular matrix moves of waist bending to avoid bullets and slow motion actions of kicking the opponents. And as I watched it again some time last week, I have fully discerned that the trilogy was in fact, a genius movie! Especially that the main subject is related to my field, IT. And of course, they talked a lot of programming.

Further, I realized that it somehow resembled to what I have just learned these days about how everything in this universe imparts as a whole as determined by the great architect of the universe which is religiously likened to God. I even wondered in my previous post titled "Me On Paralleled-Many Worlds", how difficult it is for the universe's programmer part to make sure that every equation encountered is solved and thought about how many branch trees these programs have to decide to get desired results. Have you ever thought about it? That maybe every single breath we take is actually coded bits of ones and zeroes? (If you don't get it, pretend that I am speaking of metaphors here.)

Anyways, I was fascinated how the characters in this movie actually think like they're really humans. They have their subjective views rather than being objective. In which I first thought that they are mostly determined by logical operations than rational ones. Neo who was played by Keanu Reeves, is a good example of a programmed entity that is almost perfect representative of a human who feels emotions, who considers emotions as a mere module that stimulates the program to operate according to the flow of his emotions. It reminds me of my Future Technology subject during my last year in college, when we reached a certain point of discussion on how future machines could actually think like humans. Logic versus reason. And I thought that time, that is entirely impossible. But considering the boost of intellectual minds for the past years, I believe that it is possible for machines in the future to think like humans encoded with all the situations, all emotions, all choices, that even the most difficult woman who always changes clothes just for an occasion can be deliberately designed into a program. Maybe I can bet up to 99% of probability of that to happen when machines become humans. Emotions greatly contribute on how we think. So I think, if our emotions will be studied very well, then we become much predictable. But you know, the 1% counts for a doubt that a human mind can easily call back what he thinks about then he could act against it. No matter how obvious the result would be, it is still up to him to consider the other choice in his mind. But given all the factors that can influence a person to decide for a certain situation, I still favor the possibility. Besides, possibility considers success and failure.

If you have watched IRobot, there is a certain part of that movie that a robot has considered saving the older person from drowning rather than the main character's child daughter, based on the logic that this other person's probability to live is higher than the girl. It was logically right, but by reason especially influenced by emotion, anyone could have saved the girl first. Sadly, the girl died.

Everyday, we get to decide between choices in our lives. Perhaps, you mostly decide by reason but sometimes you have to decide by logic. Either ways, as long as we think whichever of it helps us arrive at our desired results then these ways to decide don't matter at all. But it certainly does matter when we'd invent hu-machines.

Me On Paralleled-Many Worlds

Lately, I've been much into sci-fi things. I am learning new things that I consider both intellectually and emotionally overwhelming and to some point, disturbing, as I live through this existence - my life.

The first time I've realized that I was too innocent about life was when I read "Beyond The Quantum". At first, I believed the semi-facts revealed on this book were totally absurd and inconceivable but somehow, I was able to consider that past, present and future are all happening NOW. They are happening simultaneously, which means that we cannot change the past nor the future since they are immutable just the same as the unchangeable present. So what is TIME exactly? As we understood, it is what makes past as past, present as present and future as future. The difference between future and present and past is what we call TIME.

But if all these happen at the same time, probably, that would mean that while you were about to click the link to my blog, you are also reading my blog entry, and finishing reading my blog, all at the same time. At one point, I understood this theory, it helped explain that destiny really exists. That my future is already written. That my actions in the past, present and future are already set in stone. FATE.

But can we, at the same instant, believe in both FATE and FREE WILL? I have once posted this on FB. What about the times that we'd have to choose in between different choices? What about FREE WILL? Our own volitions? So if the future's fixed thus, it would mean that the result can be determined by our future just while we are choosing in between two things. I guess I am also a believer of "many-worlds interpretation" theory and it might be justified.

ABC's Lost series which I have been an avid fan of, somewhat illustrates the "string" theory in which the characters in the story experienced same situations with different outcomes at different parallel timelines. Many-worlds interpretation is I guess, relates to this theory too. We possibly experience both options though as explained in the theory, happened on different worlds, or another timeline if I interpreted it well. So maybe, if I turned right on this world, on my another world, I turned left.

But as you can see, we all live in a common time frame, what I have become, what happened to everyone on this type of world, timelime, or whatever you call it --- is what we realize, is what we are aware of. This is the world our consciousness recognizes.

Flashforward, a TV series that I am currently being addicted to, also supports the theory of many-worlds interpretation. The story further exemplifies time-travel. And though, I somewhat believe that someday, we can have a peek on our future, I don't agree on the concept that we can actually remember future events back to present. You know, if the future is fixed and we may able to perceive it, that would provide preconception therefore, giving us more FREE WILL, which also means, we can make a choice to make our future mutable. The see-the-future-back-to-present would be a hoax. And it would not constitute the theory anymore. The "fixed future" is disputed. Unless, if it would be executed and presented on different worlds, making it a "fixed one" for each string.

Well, I am just expressing what bothered me a lot lately. Well, I believe in forever. I am present forever. My consciousness is eternal. I may not be residing in this body for limitless time but I am certain, my thoughts represent me in "whenever".

P. S. I wonder how many branch trees the universe allocates for every possible decisions we make. And the bit size it apportions for every output presented on different worlds. I guess, many-worlds interpretation require lots of logical operations and lots of outputs. Damn. Glad, I am not the universe's programmer.