The last few days has been a blur.. it seems so strange as if intensifying to remind me of what it means to be a uni student.. I've seen one too many sunrises in these few weeks (the sun actually rises at abt 5:20+) and the same parched dry throat with the lingering aftertaste of my super expresso (3 scoops of nescafe expresso powder and 3 tablets of splenda low calorie sweetner).. Somehow I'd wish it'd all go away... go away exams... come to me sleep..
Somehow I'm begining to realise the truth of the cliquish nature of OCF.. and even tho I've been in it for coming to 4 years, I am begining to find it abit hard to interact.. in fact it is almost as if I'm echoing thoughts of some others in OCF.. I attempted to dissuade and just wave it off as a trivial matter- yet strange that I should feel it myself. Its as if when you try to engage into a enclosed ring of people talking, they detect your presence and change frequencies.. or being excluded from certain events.. people have their reasons I guess.. but oh well.. just a lingering thought with a slight measure of distaint. Does truly make one think about the sincerity of human-human interactions.. is it as a form of social norm? just to maintain a cohesion to hold together a single unit of people?
Just as atoms in a molecule hold together by bonds- some that are tighter (hydrophobic bonds) or some that are loosely associated just to maintain a general sense of form and structure (electrostatic and hydrophillic)- is that the way humans work and interact with each other? based on a heirachy of interactions? Its just strange that these paradigms seem to mirror each other in the social and molecular context- almost as if our molecular make up influences our social aspects. Just more random thoughts from a ailing pathology student.. which hopefuly do not represent symptoms of juvenile onset dementia.. juvenile?
Still caught up with Jon Lai's argument about the origin of love. According to Lai, J.H.J 2007, humans are all evil and love is only a learned response. Children learn to love only from observing their parents- suggesting that at birth a human is devoid of love and that only thru experiences, a learned response of love can be induced. However, Chin, K.F.W 2007 postulates that love is an innate and adaptive response- if we are born with sin, are we born without love? Just as if we understand what is light, we will most surely know what darkness is.. hence Chin, K.F.W 2007 suggests that love is a primary module of emotion that is inbuilt into our neural circuitry and that it can later be further enhanced or made abberrant by external factors/occurances- hence demonstrating that it posesses elements of an adaptive response.
Anyway, time to go.. basketball time with Chai et. al 2007 (1)
References:
1. Chai, T.B.C, Kwok, P.L., Lai, J.H.J., Wong, S.Y., Chua, W.L., Tan, C., Huang, Y.K., Ho, B.J.W. and Beh, R.X.Y 2007 Get Owned at Basketball. Journal Of Kenchin's Eternal Ridicule (JOKER) At Basketball 2007(17): 1-99
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Hey Jon I accidentally hit the delete on this one when I cleared the previous post.. could u post it up again?
I think there was a temporal lapse between the comments thus some misunderstanding- I didnt even realise you posted this first one here and thus did not read it before writing the second post.
I did read it and thanks for your tact. I appreciate your honesty and forthcoming on this matter.
Its been a very persisting feeling over the last few weeks of playing bball- just that I've suppressed and internalized this feeling of sheer frustration. I wouldnt know if just playing in a very sedentary mood would be more beneficial to the game. I wouldnt say I deserve the best player award- but I gave whatever I physicaly could to keep the team in play- I'm sure u understand the feeling of being taken out of the game as quickly as it started- thats why I play hard.
I don't know if you've ever been in my shoes before and I wouldnt assume (lesson from Bing) that you weren't. Tho if you were to see it from my POV, trying your very best with the resultant outcomes is incredibly discouraging. I wouldnt know what to do if I didnt try cos I can say without reservation that I've put in my very best efforts.
With that said, I'll ask you for advice then- placing yourself in my position- what should I have do, what could I have done and what can I do that is humanly feasible and practical?
I dont hold it against you. It is said somewhere in Proverbs that wounds from a friend you can trust, but the enemy sows kisses.. wherever that is in Proverbs..
And regards to your argument about love, then what about creation- Adam and Eve in the garden? after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil- that was the fall of man wasn't it?
but the fact that the fruit was from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil suggests that with sin, there was also good born into the next generation of mankind (the generation after Adam and Eve?)
Moreover, extracting from Plato, man whilst capable of doing evil, most certainly has an inherent sense of good- because even a society of crooks cannot exist without good. Because if people were purely evil, society would not exist in the first place.
Perhaps the same can be seen with love as an aspect of goodness?
Or perhaps the definition of love is ambiguous. Can the love of destruction be considered good? Thus this may suggest that the term itself love exists as an auxillary with no pertainence to the moral domains of good and evil?
Maybe you can further substantiate your argument so that I can grasp what you exactly mean?
I would say more if I knew what exactly was going on - in the same way that Bing says we shouldn't assume - context is just as important.
OCF Cliques only started really being apparent this year, I feel - but I can't say much about it, yet.
And as to what you can do to improve - slow down. Learn the ropes, and harness your energy. Speed is good, speed even you can't control is not.
Cheers
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