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My computer broke and got it to PC Express Gilmore branch for repair. My bro threw away the mobo warranty, so I felt doomed to pay for a new mobo, because I thought that was the problem.

Turns out, the PC was just full of dust and that we can get a new reprint of the warranty for P100. So, after the technician brushed the PC for FREE, it worked and I just used the extra money to buy 2 Kingston 2GB PC-800 RAM, and got both installed for the price of 1 after asking them if it's possible, and I also got a discount just by asking for one.

My PC got repaired and upgraded in one day, It's great.

Me and my bro also saw Andrew E., the artist over there which must mean it's a really good shop for celebrities to go there personally.

OMG! This is so in accordance with my direct personal experience.

You might not want to hear this ...

It seems some scientist's had way too much time on their hands ... and some extra dollars to spend in their research budgets.

The effects of masturbation and over masturbation upon a mans body was recently looked at.

And what exactly did they find?

Frequent masturbation and ejaculation stimulate acetylcholine/parasympathetic nervous functions. Excessive stimulation can result in over production of sex hormones and neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine, dopamine and serotonin.

Abundant and unusually large amount of these hormones and neurotransmitters can cause the brain and adrenal glands to perform excessive dopamine-norepinephrine-epinephrine conversion and turn the brain and body functions to be extremely sympathetic. In other words, there is a big change of body chemistry when one excessively masturbates.

Note: Masturbation is a healthy sexual behavior. Like other behaviors, when over practiced or addicted it can lead to both psychological and physiological imbalances.

Side-effects of Masturbation

Other than an immediate need for a towel or tissue, the effects of masturbation upon the male body were:
 

• Fatigue. Feeling tired all the time
• Lower back pain
• Thinning hair / Hair Loss
• Soft / Weak Erections
• Premature Ejaculation
• Eye floaters or fuzzy vision
• Groin / Testicular Pain
• Pain or cramp in the pelvic cavity or/and tail bone

When to say when

How much is too much masturbation (and sex for that matter)? That depends but it's suggested men keep their ejaculation frequency down to 2-3 times a week. However, sexual activity can be experienced more often if men learn how to orgasm without ejaculation. Doing so can actually store bioenergy into your system and make your penis firmer, your erections last longer, and your ejaculate volume bigger.

Over masturbation participants experience problems with concentration and memory. This is a dangerous side effect of over masturbation and signals that the brain is being over drained of acetycholine. Over masturbation drains motor neurons and neuro-muscular endings of acetycholine, which is eventually replaced. Over masturbation can lead to absentmindedness, memory loss, lack of concentration, and eye floaters. To fight these symptoms, the chemical levels in your body needs to be balanced.

Notice a pattern yet?

The plethora of problems associated with over masturbation come from the fact that your body is drained of important nutrients and hormones from over masturbation.

So I've got to learn tantra ejaculation control or lessen masturbation. I'm going to try to learn tantra via the net XD.

But then I'll still have to lessen/stop it due to spiritual and time management reasons anyway, so learning tantra won't be in my to-do-list any time soon.

I wonder if females also have this problem, since they don't need to regenerate much of anything when doing it, maybe they can do it without much side effects? If that is so, life is totally unfair since they can also do it almost indefinitely without refractory period. Any personal experiences on this? Please comment.

the zeitgest 2 movie was released last october. i only watched it now, i'm so out of date...

Let yourself breathe and trust.
It is only by a courageous letting go
that the heart becomes free.
This is called the wisdom of insecurity.

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do children as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing.

-- Helen Keller

"More than two thousand Christian priests and nuns have taken the meditation course. One nun, a mother superior who was over 75 years old, told me, "You are teaching Christianity in the name of Buddhism. I should have learned this technique fifty years ago."
- S.N. Goenka

It has been days since I finished the 10-day Vipassana retreat on Sico Farm, Cavite, Philippines.

It was a great experience, actually I would recommend vipassana to everyone, especially those having trouble with the ups and downs of life as it would help you gain more control, freedom, the equanimity and the wisdom to face them. It is free, free food, free lodging and free beddings. Anyone who wants to join the next course on April 1, 2009 would do well to go to this website.

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I found a wholesome web comic, finally! http://www.dharmathecatcartoons.com/15blog/

With different comments on each strip from different religious backgrounds(christian, hindu, taoist etc. the new posts don't have some yet though)!

My last favorite webcomic, sinfest.net isn't very wholesome.

by Matthai Kuruvila, San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2008

- 57 percent of evangelical Christians say that multiple religions can lead to salvation, though nary an evangelical theologian or minister would say that.

- 58 percent of Catholics believe society should accept homosexuality, a view that is greatly at odds with U.S. Catholic bishops, including the Bay Area.

- 12 percent of Eastern Orthodox Christians say they speak in tongues once a week, even though it is a Pentecostal practice that is not in Orthodox liturgy.

- 21 percent of self-defined atheists believe in God.
- Source

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Wait, what? 21 percent of ATHEISTS believe in GOD?

There is an atheist guy i met at the hope foundation. Actually, we already met before at uwf.

I gave him my number, he gave me his and we talked a lot and i learned alot about him.

One day, he sms me a lot of anti catholic messages. Saying the bad things catholicism did in the past, today, etc.

I told him. Hey why do you hate catholicism so much did they cut your dick off or something?

After that things got a bit heated and more anti catholicism messages followed.

So i told him thats great, but you know hate can never appease hate. Only love can. This is a universal law.

He now messages me good quotes from the bible now, and messages about god.

I didnt know one message could re channel all that hate and turn it into love.

Here is one of the new sms he sends to me:

Spread love & PEACE evrywher u go...
Let no 1 ever come 2 u
& leave w/out feeling
better or happier..
U r d expression
of God's kindness..

Awesome. That.

Yay! I made a new program for Windows. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention.

This program assigns the hotkeys
WINKEY+Z to set on top the current foreground window.
WINKEY+P destroys the current window FORCIBLY without questions, akin to xkill. (May cause loss of data, Author not liable for damages for using this feature)
WINKEY+O enables/disables the ALT+TAB shortcut. So now you can stop worrying about accidentally pressing the two while playing Warcraft or D2.
WINKEY+X lets you move a window without clicking on the title bar, now you can drag windows even if they go outside the top of the screen! There's a .4 second delay before the function activates, so wait half a sec. for more accurate moving.
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+P closes the program and unregisters hotkeys.

Really useful window management tool and has very small footprint. It doesn't even display a tray icon!
Also, it's 100% free and open-source! (Creative Commons License)
<10kb file size!

Put it on your startup directory to keep the extensions up all the time or use the installer to automate it for you.

If you find the program useful, please Donate.
Even just $1 could brighten the author's day! ;D

If there are any problems, suggestions, code contributions, etc. feel free to post them here.

I'm also going to post updates here: http://marxchan.livejournal.com/tag/wse

Download Installer
Download
Download Source

Thanks goes to GooglePages for hosting the files. :)

B:  Talk to the point
R:  Talk around the circle, especially if different opinions

Way of Life


B: individualism, think of himself or herself.
R:  enjoy gathering with family and friends, solving their problems, and know each other's business (keh poh).
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via email from Chela Sanchez

i didn't have internet since the beginning of the first sem. :(

the area im in is blacklisted on pldt mydsl and no globelines broadband either, and no celphone signal so no gprs/3g/hsdpa combo.

life is suffering... :(

i'm experiencing withdrawal.

and netopia's sufr2sawa fixed rate 2hrs(php45) is gone, now i have to pay the same amount for 1 hour.

Enlightenment without morality is not yet enlightenment. Morality without enlightenment is not yet morality.
- Dogen

Today I got an email from someone dismissing the usefulness of Zen practice, saying that instead of "just" practicing, he wants to "help others." Here is part of my response:

There is no one more obnoxious than a person who says, "I want to help people."

Such a statement is motivated by arrogance, by ego, not by compassion. It shows a dualistic and hierarchical attitude. When you say, "I want to help people," you are not only setting yourself apart from other people - in your mind, you are making other people less than you. In this view, there are victims, people who need to be helped, and there is you, their superior, who is going to help them.

This is not compassion. It is elitist, obnoxious and cruel.

There is a big difference between someone who says, "I want to help people," and someone who just decides to do what is helpful, to respond to whatever needs to be done. To be compassionate, you have to close the gap between yourself and others, between yourself and the entire phenomenal universe. When you do that, you will naturally do what is helpful in any situation. You will respond skillfully to whatever the present moment brings, without telling yourself a story - a story with you as the noble protagonist who "wants to help people."

In the Bodhisattva Vows, we vow to save all sentient beings - but that includes the sentient being who takes the vow. In order to save all sentient beings, we must be willing to be saved by all sentient beings. Most of all, we need to deal, first and always, with our own shit, or else we'll just cause harm.

- The Urban Monk

Wow. Hit the nail right on the head for me.

Walking on the street
Two boys fighting over
a bottle of thinner

There is nothing to gain in this world.
You only sacrifice what you have,
and whatever the result,
be it better or worse,
is the fruit of your sacrifice.

What will you sacrifice today?
What will you sacrifice it for?
Where will you sacrifice your time?
Into anger or into love?

Where will you sacrifice your health?
Into Virtue or into Vice?
How about your position?
Will you abuse it or not?

The decisions are up to you.
Whether you get a fair trade,
only time will tell.

But whatever you get,
always remember.
Even the most treasured memories you have,
even the things you think cannot be taken away from you
They too, will pass away someday
And thus there is nothing to gain in this world.

There is nothing to gain in this world, but there are many you can give to it.
Whether you are helping it become a heaven,
or a hell realm.
A world of abundance or a world of lack.
A happy world, or a miserable one.
You vote with your actions.
Vote wisely.

It sucks that there is no MHT support even in firefox 3. Fuck you Mozilla developers!

Anyway, good thing there's unmhtt!

http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html

Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."
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Charlie Chaplin as the Jewish Barber in The Great Dictator. 1940.
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