Monday, January 19, 2009

Monday is gonna be the death of me.

Now that I know what it's like to have an almost 9am-9pm day, I need to strategize if I am to survive.
Seriously.

208. Ethics. Makes my head spin. Why can't things be simply black and white? But who gets to define what's black or what's white? Standards of definition mushes the two colors together and thus we get the ambivalent gray. No wonder there is still an open philosophical debate about Absolute Truth - a debate I cannot engage in as of the moment.

205. I said I wanted to become the President of the Philippines. The hilarity of it all. How do you appear sincere and convincing when your bladder demands attention?

GV 11. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We create our own meanings, so I guess in that sense we'll never know reality as it is because we look through the lenses of our own interpretations.
We analyzed the poster below in class today. The 'proper interpretation' of it would be:

  • Godzilla represents Japan while King Kong, USA
  • It signifies peace between the two nations where they look beyond the atrocities of WW2 (Especially the bombing of Hiroshima). So the two characters, hold hands together (cooperation) and walk towards a better future (into the sunrise)
But I saw it all too differently. The fact that they were represented by such characters implied that both countries were monsters (at that time). And instead of the caption PEACE, Ginger and I morbidly thought it better as "Together, we can do more damage" *Check out their calculated grins.*






I'm scared that I'm getting a pseudo-education: a student of breadth with not much depth.
Now that I've acknowledged it, I feel obliged to work on it. This I owe to myself.

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