Karma: Fatalism, or Complete Control?

I think that everyone controls their fate. I think at one point of your life you’ve made a decision and that decision brought two more. Then those two cause two more and so on. Each path is set out for you but it’s your choices that determine which paths you face. So even if everything is set out then you still have complete control over which directions your life goes.

My Own Private Utopia

If I was allowed to create my own Utopia then I would have a lot of fun doing so. I would base it in the jungle but it would never be too hot or too cold there. Every building would be solar powered. There would be all sorts of weird things stores. There would be laws against racism and everyone would just allow people to live life in their own tyle. Everyone who came to live in my Utopia would have to be tested to see if they would fit in there. There’s just certain types of people I can’t deal with. Everything there would be bright candy-like colors mostly consisting of blues and greens with an occasional pink/purple.

If I were in Charge

Most parents tell their kids that they can’t wear something or can’t stay out past a certain time. My mom most certainly doesn’t care what I wear and most of the time she trusts me enough to stay out as late as I want, as long as she knows where I’m at. Two things that I would change if I were in complete control are: I would go get a job and I would get my permit. But it’s not up to me.*glares*

Braham the Universal Spirit

Recently I decided that I don’t want to visit New Jersey anymore. About a week ago my mother tells me that I’m going to New Jersey for my dad’s retirement. I dont think that this happend because I don’t want to go to New Jersey anymore. I don’t think it has anything to do with my actions. My mom just decided that I should go to the retirement with my sister and brother.

What Religion do you fit in with?

You fit in with: Spiritualism Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way.  While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you.  It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms. 60% spiritual. 60% reason-oriented.

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The Soul

Shankaracharya was a Hindu teacher who founded four great monasteries in India. He once explained that humans are like jars filled with air. "Our souls are the air. This air is the same as the air outside the jar. When the jar breaks at death, the inside air joins the outside air."

I think that what Shankaracharya said was pretty interesting. I’ve never really worded how I thought of death and souls like that but it’s kinda along my train of thought. Everything that is outside our bodies is inside our bodies, we’re connected to it. And when we die what’s inside joins whats outside making the world stronger…

To Be Great

I guess that I agree with what Martin Luther King Jr. said about everyone being able to be great, not famous but great in serving others. If people do a lot of things for other people then I think that’s a really good thing. I don’t really like the right word is great. It’s to much of an over-excited word for me but I guess I can use good. Good people do good things. So if you volunteer or just help when you can then that is a good thing.

Hamlet The Play

Yesterday, October 19, 2005, I went to see William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Directed by Dr. Mikell Pinkney at the Nadine McGuire Pavilion Black Box. This is the second Shakespeare play I’ve seen at UF’s College of Fine Arts and I think that they did an excellent job.

I hadn’t read Hamlet before, which I know is kinda pathetic, but it was cool because I didn’t know what to expect. I knew that Hamlet would be haunted by his father’s death but that is pretty much all the knowledge I’d collected about this particular play.

Joshua Price played Prince Hamlet. I think that he did an excellent job. Especially when Hamlet went mad, I found it very amusing. My other favorite characters were Ophelia, played by Alison Miller (she was also in a Midsummer Night’s Dream,) and Lord Polonius who was played by Holan Carey.

The costumes and set were also amazing. They had stairs and the top of the stage wrapped around the sides so that they could go off stage. The stage was also very small and very close. The actors/actresses did an excellent job keeping the audience’s attention.

Hamlet was my first tragedy. This was my second play at the College of Fine Arts and I’m very interested in seeing more plays that they do. This season looks a little dull but maybe if I go see a few plays they will surprise me.

Transmigration of Souls

Hindus believe that a soul is not attached to one body. When the body dies the soul moves on to more complex life form and the things that we do in the previous life effect our next one. If people are responsible for their own future then they should be very careful how they act in their current life. They should be nice, and not lie or steal. People should also be giving.

Vampire Dreams Report

Vampire Dreams is an SAT vocabulary novel. During the book you come across a lot of hard words and you look at the bottome of the page for the definition. It seems like an ok way to study vocab. but I dont think it really worked for me.

The story is about a boy named James Weston. He lives in England with his mother who is very light sensitive. James goes to college and is working in a class for hematology (the study of blood). One day James gets jumped and robbed by two men on the street. He goes home and his mother can’t look at him because the "blood makes her sick". A man named Alistair helps him clean up that night and returns a few days later for dinner, with a friend. The weird thing about this is that his mother never has the same man over for dinner twice.

During dinner James is tested and in his mind he thinks that he has failed. After dinner as they sit around the fire his mother bites him and drains some of his blood. Then lets James drink her blood to become a vampire. Then James’ mother is very weak so she and Alistair eat the other guest. James is horrified.

The next day James wakes up in an old fashioned house like his mother’s. There’s a girl in his room whose name was Susan. After much deliberation he decides she is a vampire too. That night Adam, another vampire, takes him to a club and while Susan and Adam feed, James is once again disgusted.
James then flees England after almost killing Adam. Killing another vampire is a crime in the vampire world.

James goes to New York City where he tutors students in Biology and seems to think he is the only vampire in the city. Even the "Vampire Killer" (someone who was killing humans as a vampire would) doesn’t seem real to James.
During his time in NYC James meets a girl. And falls in love. James usually feeds on criminals after he has visions of their crimes but after a while he has urges. And, after he gets visions of the Vampire Killer and realises that people he knows are dying, including his cat, he starts to wonder if maybe he is the Vampire Killer.
I really like this book. I’m not going to give away the ending of course but I do recommend to anyone to read it.