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Thursday, December 31, 2009
A Better World
Do not judge a book by its cover.
Blah blah blah, we’ve all heard this before too many times. It’s cliché by now, but that does not eliminate its legitimacy and significance in this world. And yet, I’m sure most if not all of us still do judge people based on appearance; it’s our inherited instinct to make general assumptions about people simply because of their appearance. People generally associate positive human traits with an attractive face; negative traits are associated with an unattractive one. Researchers believe because back in cave times, men and women had to be able to distinguish who they can trust. Since attractive people were associated with positive qualities, they are treated better. But I don’t even need to really explain any of this, everyone living at the moment or have ever lived would come to know this as true from personal experience.
But why?
This is not a rant on beautiful people, haha. But can anyone really explain why we treat attractive people better? What is it about an attractive face that can alter people’s attitudes towards that person? Surely not everyone commits to beauty bias, many people treat everyone equally. But for the remaining 99% of the world population, we favour beautiful people. Why?
Beauty bias appears to me to be more prominent for males than females. Men instinctively put more emphasis on physical beauty when looking for a potential mate than females because we associate a woman’s beauty with more potency in reproduction. This is instinctive to men, some can fight it; but most will succumb to a pretty face. What does this mean for guys? Don’t worry you don’t have to look like a prince; just focus on building your character! And for the ladies? Sorry, the ugly truth is the pretty girl will probably have an advantage over you in terms of winning over your dream man.
So where is this all going? Since we can’t seem to change our instinctive nature to associate positive qualities with beauty, what would make this world a better place? The proposed solution: have people’s physical attractiveness directly proportional to the beauty of their inner soul. Yeah, it is pretty much impossible. But if such natural biological law existed in this world, then finding the beautiful people – both body and soul – would be almost trivial. Concurrently, it would be just as easy to avoid the, let’s just say “bad people” for a lack of a better term.
Why is there such a need?
Most of us will learn in our lifetimes how to deal with many different kinds of people and will also discover how diverse this world really is. There is a complete gradient of people that exist in the world, ranging from extremely virtuous to extremely vicious. When meeting strangers, it’s very hard to discern their intentions and personality. Sometimes it’s scary when you start realizing people’s façade, especially if you THINK you know that person. What’s worst is that attractive people can get away with it a lot of the time. A beautiful face is essentially just a physical mask, basically the starting gear our parents gave us. You will never know the true contents of their heart and soul until you take enough time to get to know them. But guess what? You will encounter people who can totally defy your perception of them no matter how long you’ve known them for or how well you think you know them. Why is that? Masks are worn by people all the time. The best actors in the world are not those on the stage or in films, but people all around you who can put on a spectacular deceiving performance.
If only people’s physical appearance reflected off what kind of person they are on the inside. This would allow everyone to know publicly if you are a good person or not. As for the unattractive people? That’s because you’re ugly on the inside too! But that’s okay, if you change, you can become attractive too. If only such world existed…
But we all know such world cannot exist. People’s physical attractiveness has ABSOLUTELY NO correlation to their true basic nature. People should understand that a person’s physical exterior and their soul are completely separated with minimal to no relationship between them. So don’t judge a book by its cover!
But as we all know, in the end physically attractive people win. Fuck you beautiful people!
Blah blah blah, we’ve all heard this before too many times. It’s cliché by now, but that does not eliminate its legitimacy and significance in this world. And yet, I’m sure most if not all of us still do judge people based on appearance; it’s our inherited instinct to make general assumptions about people simply because of their appearance. People generally associate positive human traits with an attractive face; negative traits are associated with an unattractive one. Researchers believe because back in cave times, men and women had to be able to distinguish who they can trust. Since attractive people were associated with positive qualities, they are treated better. But I don’t even need to really explain any of this, everyone living at the moment or have ever lived would come to know this as true from personal experience.
But why?
This is not a rant on beautiful people, haha. But can anyone really explain why we treat attractive people better? What is it about an attractive face that can alter people’s attitudes towards that person? Surely not everyone commits to beauty bias, many people treat everyone equally. But for the remaining 99% of the world population, we favour beautiful people. Why?
Beauty bias appears to me to be more prominent for males than females. Men instinctively put more emphasis on physical beauty when looking for a potential mate than females because we associate a woman’s beauty with more potency in reproduction. This is instinctive to men, some can fight it; but most will succumb to a pretty face. What does this mean for guys? Don’t worry you don’t have to look like a prince; just focus on building your character! And for the ladies? Sorry, the ugly truth is the pretty girl will probably have an advantage over you in terms of winning over your dream man.
So where is this all going? Since we can’t seem to change our instinctive nature to associate positive qualities with beauty, what would make this world a better place? The proposed solution: have people’s physical attractiveness directly proportional to the beauty of their inner soul. Yeah, it is pretty much impossible. But if such natural biological law existed in this world, then finding the beautiful people – both body and soul – would be almost trivial. Concurrently, it would be just as easy to avoid the, let’s just say “bad people” for a lack of a better term.
Why is there such a need?
Most of us will learn in our lifetimes how to deal with many different kinds of people and will also discover how diverse this world really is. There is a complete gradient of people that exist in the world, ranging from extremely virtuous to extremely vicious. When meeting strangers, it’s very hard to discern their intentions and personality. Sometimes it’s scary when you start realizing people’s façade, especially if you THINK you know that person. What’s worst is that attractive people can get away with it a lot of the time. A beautiful face is essentially just a physical mask, basically the starting gear our parents gave us. You will never know the true contents of their heart and soul until you take enough time to get to know them. But guess what? You will encounter people who can totally defy your perception of them no matter how long you’ve known them for or how well you think you know them. Why is that? Masks are worn by people all the time. The best actors in the world are not those on the stage or in films, but people all around you who can put on a spectacular deceiving performance.
If only people’s physical appearance reflected off what kind of person they are on the inside. This would allow everyone to know publicly if you are a good person or not. As for the unattractive people? That’s because you’re ugly on the inside too! But that’s okay, if you change, you can become attractive too. If only such world existed…
But we all know such world cannot exist. People’s physical attractiveness has ABSOLUTELY NO correlation to their true basic nature. People should understand that a person’s physical exterior and their soul are completely separated with minimal to no relationship between them. So don’t judge a book by its cover!
But as we all know, in the end physically attractive people win. Fuck you beautiful people!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
iRiddle
Just came up with this on the spot =P. Can you guys guess it?
Those that dry, end up to die
Such a shame they couldn’t survive.
Those that live, offer to give
New life, a joining of two.
Combination of love, without a glove
Just natural life from above.
Those that are swallowed
Its nutrients will sure follow.
Those that end up on your face
Well that’s a disgrace
You shouldn’t be messing with it!
What am I?
Those that dry, end up to die
Such a shame they couldn’t survive.
Those that live, offer to give
New life, a joining of two.
Combination of love, without a glove
Just natural life from above.
Those that are swallowed
Its nutrients will sure follow.
Those that end up on your face
Well that’s a disgrace
You shouldn’t be messing with it!
What am I?
Rebirth
Oh I haven't updated this since ... MAY 2009?!?!? Haha wow. A lot has happened since then... like how I was in San Diego for the whole four months of summer! =D
Anyways I figured I'd restart this blog with a really interesting quote I found when cleaning up my room.
"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure!
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented or fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us – it is in everyone.
And as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela
Anyways I figured I'd restart this blog with a really interesting quote I found when cleaning up my room.
"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure!
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented or fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us – it is in everyone.
And as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sex Ed Rocks
I actually found this video a while ago on Youtube and decided to post it up now. This video is pretty jokes and what really threw me off was the song. It actually sounds good, I was surprised. The guys from Smoosh teamed up with I Set My Friends on Fire to make this video, but the song was written by the band. The lyrics are actually pretty funny.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Thanks Hollywood for stealing all Asian ideas and making them into movies
Astro Boy in HD
This is the trailer for Astro Boy. I'm sure most of you might at least have an idea of who Astro Boy is. At least it's animated and doesn't look as terrible as Dragon Ball did. God, don't even get me started on Dragon Ball. =__=
This is the trailer for Astro Boy. I'm sure most of you might at least have an idea of who Astro Boy is. At least it's animated and doesn't look as terrible as Dragon Ball did. God, don't even get me started on Dragon Ball. =__=
Friday, May 1, 2009
Is there anything Japan doesn't have?
I introduce to you, The Wine Spa
What else can I say? If you look at the picture thoroughly you would first notice there's a bunch of people gathered in a spa that is filled with red wine. The spa claims that this wine spa has health benefits such as "relieving fatigue, moisturizing action and anti-aging". It must be true! Look at that huge wine bottle! Also, wine is given to the bathers several times a day as you can see in the picture.
But wait, there's more...
Introducing the green tea spa! Yum! If you thought green tea was just good for drinking, try bathing in it! This spa can be used for "preventing rough dry skin, whitening or effects for cold constitution". Remind me to buy a crapload of green tea so I can bathe in it at home.
This one is my favourite, the "let's get our toes nibbled on by small carp fish" spa! Bathers are to keep their feet in the water for about three minutes to have small carp nibble away at cornified layers of the skin. That must tickle.
Credits to UPI
What else can I say? If you look at the picture thoroughly you would first notice there's a bunch of people gathered in a spa that is filled with red wine. The spa claims that this wine spa has health benefits such as "relieving fatigue, moisturizing action and anti-aging". It must be true! Look at that huge wine bottle! Also, wine is given to the bathers several times a day as you can see in the picture.
But wait, there's more...
Introducing the green tea spa! Yum! If you thought green tea was just good for drinking, try bathing in it! This spa can be used for "preventing rough dry skin, whitening or effects for cold constitution". Remind me to buy a crapload of green tea so I can bathe in it at home.
This one is my favourite, the "let's get our toes nibbled on by small carp fish" spa! Bathers are to keep their feet in the water for about three minutes to have small carp nibble away at cornified layers of the skin. That must tickle.
Credits to UPI
Ovaltine Biscuits
I remember eating these as a kid. I don't really think it tastes like the drink, but it's still hella good! Damn I wish I had some right now...
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