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    March 23rd, 2009 by zaf08

    So i definitely struggled at times with this assignment even though it has in fact been my favorite one of the whole year in any class i am taking so far. I mean what other assignment do you actually learn something while enjoying yourself and messing around with teachers and getting to know them better. I especially liked the assignment because i had the right to ask teachers and staff members if they were the Guardians of such and such.

    Now im going to be honest (because this is the only class the teacher wont deduct points for being honest and it is a rare luxury i partake in with my other teachers) when i say i just attacked the list mentally right when i got the paper and i attacked it the scavenger hunt physically right when class ended. In the light of the recent fact that there was no method to my mad dash to collect as many talismans and such before i got ADD and stopped caring im going to go ahead and just jump into the adventure (in short seeing as im totaly horrid at scavenger hunts and all the attempts and encounter would take too long to het into). My favorite one on the list was insight. It topok forever for me to find it and im fairly sure i personally assaulted every single councelor for college and high school. I mean i totaly thought it meant the advising center because i dont think in genious loops that lead me to artys and or sassy conclusions. So after the scourge of the advising center i came after Ms. Haffdizzle herself because i was like (oh this is some extuhreeeemly sassy trick and she is the guardian of insight. After that epic fail i just randomly asked people in the halls like some madman preaching the end of the world. It was really funny when i went to mr FW and i was like “are you the guardian of insight” after a quizzical look and a “its been a long time since ive been called that *chuckle chuckle chuckle* i knew i was wrong. So after i assaulted Haffdizzle again she was like “who is the only person that can give you insight” and it snapped (BTW Ms Haffdizz ur my SA, very albus dumbledore of you) in my mind and i knew it. I really liked how it was a go get it for yourself one and that you got a pretty piece of glass/ mirror thing. In all honest now that i look back on it i really dont like how i have to got to myself to for insight because of the fact that there are so many lifechanging decisions coming up and i dont want to be the one to have to say, O! that was my choice and i relyed on my insight and now i have no one to blame for becoming a hobo meth addict with no family. (wow sorry)

    Another one that i really like was compassion. I mean g-d knows that im not the most open minded peresonin the world and i think that compassion would help that. I liked how Mr. Mensel was the guardian because of the fact that he might be the most compassionate person i know. I mean the clue was pretty easy but i got attacked by Clauser because Mr. Mensel wasnt there so she asked me a bunch of questions and then she let me have it (out of buddhas head) yay.

    Another thing im in sever lack of is humility. Im a big showoff when i do something really awesome (like kill a buhjillion Bobis AP Euro tests, or do good in model UN, or rock Kelaghans math tests) and i know i should not be so gloaty because its not classy so i think that humility would be helpful. I really dont get why it was incense so im not gunna try and guess.

    Joy, something that is extremely lacking in my life when i can barely get through my HW in time for a 5 hour sleeping schedual. I mean i guess how i could see it being in the COMM SERV office but they have been giving me hell lately so I dont know how much joy i can contract from that even there talisman was  a little too edible.

    Courage, this is the thing i need most. It fits through all of these virtues that i have supposedly found. I need the courage to challenge myself to have humility, i need to have courage to think outside of my normal mindset and let compassion rule my actions as opposed to reason, i need courage to act on the insight i will most likely never come to conclusion about, and i need courage be to happy. I feel like it would be courageous to just be like … screw school for a day i dont feel good about myself i need a day off. Courage just ties through everything and Golly do i need some of that. First of all i love Mr. Hicks had crayons on his personal body, that made me laugh. Second, i can see how Mr. Hicks has courage. I mean public speaking is some scary business. I mean i got rocked in debate and i barely dealt with it. I think the crayon meant we should write outside the lines

    im out i got 1 and a half hours of sleep i cant type nemore

    Farahan

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    The dangers of anthropomorphism…

    March 8th, 2009 by zaf08

    For those of you that dont know, anthropomorphism is a literary device to makes an animal or natural phenomena seem human or have human qualities. This is so gosh darn dangerous because of the tendency to do so in children books and television shows. Why is this dangerous? you may ask. Puh! This is so dangerous because putting such incorrect information in front of the malleable minds of our nations youth is a bad idea. Like when a book talks about how an angry tornado came in some children book, the poor child reading thinks he can try and reason with the bloody tornado and in effect he is kind of screwed. He thinks he will solve a crisis with all this “love is the answer” bull shit we pack our childrens books with and in reality he is going to get rocked by that tornado. Talk about a one way flight from Kansas to the mortuary… And the worst offender of them all is Dora the bloody satanistic hellchild Explora’. Swiper no swiping my rear end. Explain to that poor little girl that got mauled in the face by a fox, trying to berate a fox and tell him to not steal that the fox doesnt really talk. Screw our flawed healthcare system, or the fact that 200 million $ were spent on bloody governmental golf-carts in the stimulus package, who cares about the fact that we dont have bin Laden???, we are a nation of sick bastards! Diego’s best friend is a god danm panther! What are we trying to get our kids into? AHHHHHHHH!!! My kids are growing up in a 3rd world country where TV is not affordable and there is no educational system where they can learn to read these lies about animals…

    Farahan

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    Reasons why the 2% rule should die…

    February 22nd, 2009 by zaf08

    Im just gunna go ahead and bullet point a bunch of reasons why the 2% rule should take a raging bull horn to the face and I would like your opinion and comment back because i need info and ideas for the rapidly approaching date of March 1, when the position paper is due

    But seriously any other ideas jsut tell me i need them for the paper

    Farahan

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    Cute deities?

    February 8th, 2009 by zaf08

    Well, i am sitting here in my dads office trying to decide what to write about. Before i go ahead and delve into what i was going to say let me give a quick explanation of what my dad;s office looks like. It basically is a really chill home style room with a lot of wood finishing… to me wood finishing = homestyle comfort. On one wall is a picture pictures of my family and on another wall is just some random things that my dad wanted framed. But on the wall straight ahead is basically a huge bookshelf spanning the whole wall filled with every edition of nat geo possible, the shelf under it more random book and pictures and finally on the top shelf a bunch of random statues that my dad has collected in his travels all over nay rug selling country (most of the middle east, india, china, and such). One of the statues that is on the top shelf is this really tiny Buddah. Not the serious skinny Buddha but the really cute chubby smiling Buddah that makes you want to abandon all faith and just become a Buddhist. As im looking at this adorable chubby guy i was thinking… is there a cuter deity/religious icon? I mean Jesus (not just the white one but the black jesus and chinese jesus and such [even though he was a middle eastern fellow]) is definitely not cuter than buddah. THe hindu gods are kind of scary and if they arent the scary ones they still arent cute, moses is not a cute chubby guy and no one knows where the Easter Bunny came from so can that really count. So right now im down to whether Buddah is cuter than the Easter Bunny and i am still deciding if the Easter Bunny should count. For G-ds sake not even devout Catholics no where he came from and you dont think of the Easter Bunny as a religious icon, do you? Well im gunna say that Buddha wins. If anyone can think of a cuter deity/religious icon please tell me.

    PS. this was not mean to offend any one (srry buddhists) and Jesus is just not cute… so deal with it.

    Farahan

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    Paying attention in class…

    February 1st, 2009 by zaf08

    Well as life goes on and your doing more or less the same thing in school for the past sweet baby jesus knows how long it gets hard to give an airborne rats behind. The reason of this post is to delve deeper into the whys and why nots and dos an donts of paying attention in class. Well if you dont pay attention in class or just flat out zone out accidentally you might, MIGHT, just might actually miss something important. Lately ive been thinking that there is very little in my classes that i cant make up on my own from the text book. To be honest English class is not one of the classes that you can just space out all the time and be okay because there just seems to be no method in the madness that one could keep up with on your own time so u better keep your ears perked up. well an example of this happening is one of my very own posts “due Saturday?” in which i went on a full page tirade of the evil and wrongness of having homework due saturday, and alluding to Ms. Haffley as Sauron (i dont think anyone picked that up from the post). Well for those (like me) who werent paying attention in class the posts arent actually due saturday. Who made a total ass of themselves. I DID! well that in itself is a reason to pay attention in class. but for there seems to be so much to gain from doing your own thing in classes that you can make up yourself. let me list a few things

    Reasons to not pay attention in class

    Sure at times you get screwed over for that homework assignments or just missing an important comment in class but i think if we were to count the pros and cons by head not listening in class would win. Physically, emotionally, and mentally its healthier… next time your offered the option of the two just remember my post. 

     

    Farahan

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    Due Saturday?

    January 25th, 2009 by zaf08

    So i woke up today and i was like ooo im going to do my post earlier today and not do it late at night so Ms. Haffley will be able to read mine earlier. Well i take a gander at the calender to make sure one is due today and not next week. I look at todays date and i see nothing on the date. At this point im thinking Im going to do one any way so i can go the extra mile! Ya… about that, i for some reason flipped to the other month and saw saturday’s assignments and saw the blog post due then. I have to say at first i felt really stupid and frustrated because i talked to a few friends and they told me that it was due the next night if it was due, and after a little thought i realized that this post being due saturday is the biggest epic fail possible. All that will happen is people will forget that its due because they are caught up with the joy of it being saturday. Saturday to me represents a haven from the harsh week, its my sabbath and even though i may not follow all the rules of sabbath i follow one, and that is to do jack sh*t on saturday. I sleep in until one, mess around on my x box, get my brunchish lunchish thing, then i hang out with friends. Tainting saturdays with any sort of assignment is just downright wrong. I know that just about everyone would agree with me one this (if you dont please correct my hasty generalization). So as i type this i prostrate myself to Ms. Haffley, i bend my knee in recognition that she has the power to dictate whether or not we must do homework on saturday, but i also plea to her in her infinite wisdom to revoke this unjust deed which could only have been made with malicious intent. Dear Ms. Haffley free us from enslavement in saturday as well as the rest of the week, and return to us our pure and what used to be untainted day of the week… the holiest of days… Saturday!

    Farahan…

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    Rue… or Roux

    January 19th, 2009 by zaf08

    The word Rue is quite an amazing word. The first time I heard it was when Prince Charming said in Shrek 2 that Shrek would rue the day he stole princess Fiona from him. At least thats the gist of it. Since then i have always felt a connection to the word, its just so funny sounding and it made me laugh. This weekend as I was chilling with laura Sunday night we returned from the Fresh Market with a bunch of weird cheeses and odd drinks (like Choclatemint Water… which is surprisingly good) and really cool twisty noodles. You see we decided that we were going to make Mac and Cheese from scratch. As we started cooking (really laura was doing the work cuz i didnt really know what to do) she put a bunch of butter in a pot. I was like “ok that makes sense”, but then she kept on ading butter and then she added flour to the butter and milk to the flour and butter and was like WHAT THA EFF! She explained to me that she was making something called a roux, which was a base for the mac and cheese, where you mix all the cheeses into a sauce for the mac. Basically i thought it was the coolest thing in the world because i have tried several times to make mac and cheese from scratch but i just melted cheese onto my mac and it never came out good. O ya and i was talking about the word rue earlier because thats how roux sounds.

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    My Call… and some rants thrown in there… cuz thats how i do

    January 11th, 2009 by zaf08

    For once i really like these questions that we have to answer for class. When I read the first segment of questions and it asks if i feel called to anything I have to say, how can I not be called to anything? I feel like the essence of me is trying to follow too many calls. In fact a lot of the things in life that call to me conflict quite severly. Thats where most of my problems lie…

    One of the several calls I feel i have is that i simply want to help the world and as many of its inhabitants as possible. I think thats something thats for the greater good right? But how am I supposed to do this? Do i just become a doctor so I can live that call and obtain an affluent lifestyle in the process. Im pretty darn sure thats what my parents want. Sure my dad may say, “I will never make the mistake of trying to turn you into something you dont want to be…” but that dot dot dot at the end of the statement says it all. It says “But you really are my retirement plan so sure i guess your within your freedoms to do as you wish but in the end it would be nice if you could scrape in some dough.” But when I look at the become a doctor aspect I have issues. I mean sure you will be helping a small community of people, perhaps save a few lives here or there (and that seriously is awesome im not disrespecting any doctors I mean kudos to you) but i feel like making a larger impact than a few lives here and there.

    So with this train of thought I came to the idea that I love the sciences maybe I can go into a medical field of medical engineering. You help millions of people if you go into medical research and do something! I decided that that was a way I would be able to help millions, do what I love, and hey.. why not be rich too? i am also enamoured with the idea of becoming an energy efficiency engineer. That way I can help all the little furry things and so much nature that is threatened that I love so much. But i just dont know if Im cut out for it.

    My last things that I feel called to are zionism and history. I love history and learning about ancient civs and reading about all those European wars, and great kings and queens and leaders, and learning about the revolutions that brought the life we live in today possible. To me knowing your past is just as important as looking ahead. With the zionistic cause its something i have always supported and loved. I have been to israel several times and have relatives there. The idea of the Jewish people having one safe haven in a world where anti semitism is known to strike at the most unexpected times in history is what keeps me feeling safe at night. To know that my mothers family had a place to flee to when the Ayatollah came to power and that because of this havens existence I am where I am today I am forever thankful. My feelings towards the zionistic cause have done nothing but grown stronger as Israel is showing itself in the headlines more and more. When I look at a map and see one of the smallest countries in the world surrounded by countries who hate them I wonder how israel will last. By the end of whatever path I choose i see myself moving to israel and running for political office there. I intend to volunteer in the in the IDF for two years after college and attain my Israeli citizenship. After this is over i wouldnt mind pursuin my career in Israel even though it will probably end up in the US and then when the time comes I will move to israel and try and become prime minster. Ambitious right? I feel like no matter what path i choose my life will end up building towards zionism. I would prefer this the most because then i coould feel like im satisfying that call and the call to my religion by keeping the one jewish homeland safe (0ther than Brooklyn and Chicago and Beverly Hills and LA). So ya, i guess i do feel like im a hero on an adventure in an extremly cheesy and cliche way, even though this adventure will probably end up in an epic fail :(

    To me being called is the willingness to devote your whole life the the cause. From the books of several zionist leaders such as Dayan, Meir, and Gurion, I can tell they devoted their selves, physical and emotional, for the cause. Anything shy of absolute devotion to the cause in my eyes would be like (in hero journey terms) not watering your golden seed. Sure you may leave this fake and material world but in the end you will fall flat on your face and not bring back your “boon” to the fake world. (By the by if anyone wished to know why i laugh when i hear boon there are several reasons, on is it sounds like boob, haha, and its noob backwards [and the reasons i laugh at the word boon are probably why i will epicly fail the journey... cuz im extremely ADD at times {also why this post is so all over the place (even though i apparently dnt have ADD)}])

    Farahan

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    Destiny Reflection

    September 28th, 2008 by zaf08

    1 Are you afraid to dream?

    Most definitely not. Most of my life I’m just daydreaming about things. I dont know if that is what Ms. Haffley wanted so to go in depth when I daydream (most of the time) I am thinking about how I can help people and what job can help people most and how I can change so many wrongs in society. I can understand the dreamaphobes who think that if they dream they will have to go on obscure paths and do dangerous things in their lives, yet that is what I want to do. I dont think that any safe and solid path will lead to the betterment of mankind, I think the person has to take the less used path to find something to help the world.

                    1a Do you believe in the concept of destiny? Why or why not?

    Destiny is a somewhat abstract idea that I oftentimes grapple with in my mind and an issue so many books I read try to tackle. If the concept of destiny that I’m supposed to be reflecting on is the one where no matter what path someone chooses in their lives they will achieve their lives puropose… then no. I just dont think that someone can do evil things his whole life then something called destiny can intervene, change him, and create some sort of angelic being to help others. Or if someone is aboslutely and in every way a good person yet somehow his destiny is to stab his mom to death or something. Maybe its just fear of having no control but I dont think that that would be likely. I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and that the way you live your life and the paths you decide to take impact how you are to reach and achieve this purpose.

                    1b Do you believe that you have a purpose in life?

    I believe that I have a purpose in life, but like the song “through heavens eyes” insinuates I don’t think that we in our mortal state of beings possibly know what it is.

    2 What would be the benefits and costs of opening the envelope?

    I think that a benefit would be that on my hero journey it would be reassuring and a lot easier to go on if I knew that the end result would be success. However, if I read it before reaching the end of the journey I would lose several stages of my transformation because I think a lot of this journey is faith without reason, just going on a whim, not knowing the end.

                  2a   Would you in real life discover your destiny if you had the chance?

    Under no conditions would I ever look at the envelope. I think that if it could be anything in that envelope then i wouldnt want to know. I mean what if it said that I would get hit by a car to make someone that saw it want to pass the threshold of society and become a car engineer to make cars safer. I dont want to live my life knowing something like that.

    3 What was your reaction to your destiny?

    I thought that my destiny wat tight. Lead millions in a revolution (even thogh no one dies and i guess i can live with that)? I mean spending my time in jail most of my life sounds kind of annoying but as long as i dont drop my soap i think i can deal with it. I wouldnt mind doing it if it was for millions of people. On the selfish of things I wouldnt mind people seeing me as a hero and a “martyr” (most of my life in jail) for a cause and maybe even seeing me as a hero.

     

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    My Mandala

    September 19th, 2008 by zaf08

    Overall, I enjoyed the Mandala activity. For some reason I have this inbred fear to perform exeptionally in the activity because I think its for a grade and then I sort of turned around and looked at Kaplan’s mandala and saw a smiley face and realized I could chill and relax. At that point I could really get into just having fun and expressing myself. When I started to make the mandala I was just going for looks but now that I look back at the symbolism page and take a different view on the mandala as symbolism instead of just art at face value I could see a lot of really cool things. For instance my mandala consisted of three interconnected circles which symbolizes independent thinking and doings and I thought of how that makes my mandala unique in its own right.  Along with the three circles four little petals came out inside the mandala and four symbolizes balance wholeness and completion, which should be at the center of life. It was interesting how in the petals that symbolized to me wholeness and completion were such conflicting colors which stand for such conflicting things. For instance I had red which symbolizes burning or surging emotions and blue which symbolizes relaxation and calmness. It seems that my mandala turned out to be paradoxical because of the way the most basic emotions clashed in the harmonious four. I liked how yellow and purple just added and brought diversity to my mandala bringing life, warmth, and excitement.

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