And I'm Feelin' Good

		YINLING ♥ \| \| Birds flying high You know how I feel Sun in the sky You know how I feel Reeds driftin' on by You know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me And I'm feeling good

CHATTERBOX DECLARATIONS Let me think for a bit eh WISHFUL hmm ~~hmm~~ more hmmm RUNAWAY In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight REWIND August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 June 2009 CREDITS Desiger/edited by: Milk shakeee Basecode: doughnutcrazy Music: LALALA! Icon: Picture Cbox: Tag		raggedy muse 9:04 PM Pandora, Greek MCPs, and Hope The titan Epimetheus ("hindsight") was responsible for giving a positive trait to each and every animal. However, when it was time to give man a positive trait, there was nothing left. Prometheus ("foresight"), his brother, felt that because man was superior to all other animals, man should have a gift no other animal possessed. So Prometheus set forth to steal fire from Zeus and handed it over to man. Zeus was enraged and decided to punish Prometheus and his creation: mankind. To punish Prometheus, Zeus chained him in unbreakable fetters and set an eagle over him to eat his liver each day, as the eagle is Zeus's sacred animal. Prometheus was an immortal, so the liver grew back every day, but he was still tormented daily from the pain, until he was freed by Hercules during The Twelve Labours.(another reason for Prometheus' torment was because he knew which of Zeus' wife would bear a child who would eventually overthrow Zeus. Zeus commanded that Prometheus reveal the name of the mother, but Prometheus refused, instead choosing to suffer the punishment). To punish mankind, Zeus ordered the other gods to make Pandora as a poisoned gift for man. Pandora was given several traits from the different gods: Hephaestus molded her out of clay and gave her form; Athena clothed her and the Charites adorned her with necklaces made by Hephaestus; Aphrodite? gave her beauty; Apollo gave her musical talent and a gift for healing; Demeter taught her to tend a garden; Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and the ability to never drown; Zeus made her idle, mischievous, and foolish; Hera gave her curiosity; Hermes gave her cunning, boldness and charm. Thus the name Pandora?"all gifts"?in Hesiod's version derives from the fact that she received gifts from all deities. The most significant of these gifts, however, was a pithos or storage jar, given to Pandora either by Hermes or Zeus. Before he was chained to the rock, Prometheus had warned Epimetheus not to take any gifts from the gods. Epimetheus did not listen to his brother, however, and when Pandora arrived, he fell in love with her. Hermes told him that Pandora was a gift to the titan from Zeus, and he warned Epimetheus not to open the jar, which was Pandora's dowry. Pandora was created to ruin mankind. Until then, mankind had lived a life in a paradise without worry. Epimetheus told Pandora never to open the jar she had received from Zeus. However, Pandora's curiosity got the better of her and she opened it, releasing all the misfortunes of mankind (plague, sorrow, poverty, crime, despair, greed, vice, old age, sickness, insanity, spite, passion, famine, etc.). Once opened, she shut it in time to keep one thing in the jar: hope. The world remained extremely bleak for an unspecified interval, until Pandora "chanced" to revisit the box again, at which point Hope fluttered out. Thus, mankind always has hope in times of evil. In another, more philosophical version of the myth, hope is considered the worst of the potential evils, because it is equated with terrifying foreknowledge. By preventing hope from escaping the jar, Pandora in a sense saves the world from the worst damage. Most scholars contend that Pandora's "box" is a mistranslation, and her "box" may have been a large jar or vase, forged from the earth, perhaps because of similarities in shape between a jar and a woman's uterus. There is also evidence to suggest that Pandora herself was the "jar". Women according to myth makers, of which most probably were made of MEN, as most historians are, were created as punishment to mankind. Doesn't this say something about the eh hem male complex of the time, and the world view of the greeks. HISTORY WAS CREATED BY MEN. LITERALLY. something to wonder about now... what are we learning in class? an account written by a mere half of our species. Gaea collaborated with youngest son Cronos to castrate and depose of Uranus, Cronos swallowed all his children to prevent this 'over-throwing', but was thwarted by wife Rhea, and Zeus the youngest son, overthrew Cronos, and was ever afraid of being overthrown by his sons. Again, the fear of women (Gaea, Rhea) is potrayed. At the start, it was potrayed that men were the only humans roaming earth. Goddesses were given domestic domains, such as agriculture, the hearth, marriage and childbirth. the SUN being MASCULINE, the MOON being feminine, the brightness of each, and which being a reflection of which. decipher for yourself. Envy of women, their ability to give birth, to carry on the line, THE POWER OF THE WOMB. (reminds me of handmaids!) Women are the vessels, the containers, the bearers of life. (the holy grail comes to mind). The men just don't get it, the do not understand what is going on in womens' mind, and this 'not-knowing' is what conjurs the fear and trepidation of the powers and ability of women. GO AWAY MCPs! hahahahahahahahaa. ------ "Pandora rises from the earth; she is the Earth, giver of all gifts," Pan- All, Dora-giver "Hope alone remained within" A saving grace? Terrifying foreknowledge? Pretty ironic the stark contrast in interpretations. The presence of Hope in a jar full of evils for mankind raises questions about whether Hope is a comfort for the evil mankind experiences, or whether the hope for something better must be interpreted as the damnation of mankind. According to Hesiod hope implies the control of the future, and since no one can control the future, to have hope is to be deluded . Others think that Hope being left in the box symbolizes Hope as often being humanity's only comfort. i like to think that Hope is our comfort. For without possesing it, humankind would have no reason to live. And we would all have killed ourselves. If there were no hope in ever getting better grades, no one would be working hard and studying. If there were no hope for success in the future, why would we be slogging here in school. If we did not hold hope for good things and enriching experiences to be ahead of us, we would end our pitiful and measly lives here and now, for there is nothing worth living into the future any longer. In my conclusion, if you are alive, and haven't tried exhaustive means to end your life, you most definitely hold some hope of some kind, in which degree and to what extent you hold it argueable and subjective. But admit it, no matter how we say we cannot trust to hope, hope is the only driving force, our life force in a sense. Is hope delusion? Maybe, in certain cases and to a certain extent in every case. As said above, if hope entails a concept of a certain control over our future, and lets assume the determinist stand and say the the future cannot be controlled, then we are deluding ourselves. If you aspire and hope to become a doctor, and with this hope have chosen the 'correct' or suitable path that most likely leads to this career choice, we are in fact assuming that we have a certain control over our future. Or if we believe in the hope that we will find and marry and live happily forever with the 'right one', but most people will not deny that many of these hopes are dashed as time passes. Even if one were not exactly a determinist, like me, one cannot deny that there are many facets of our future and life that cannot be predicted or is in our control, and to hope, yes, is in a way, deluding ourselves to thinking we can achieve what we likely might not. But, if a certain extent of delusion can fuel a driving force or incentive to living, what the heck is wrong with it? If it is conducive for a positive attitude, to look on the bright side of things, to see the world and our inconsequential existence in a better light, heck i choose to be deluded. If this certain aspect of delusion allows me to live better, happier, in fact it may even be easier to achieve something closer to what we hope to be or are deluded to believe is possible. And it goes full circle. If we believe in the hope of success or love, we will be more driven, more likable, more cheery, and hell, it may just be the factor that helps you gain something closer to your hopes. And even if one doesn't achieve what he or shes hoped for at a point of time, at least all the time leading up to that was passed in bright light. With all that being said, to hope gives rise to the possibility of being let down. And let-downs hurt. But that far from negates the value of hope. For believers in hope, if one goal cannot be achieved at a certain point of time, new hope reignites for the future after that point, and the cycle continues till death, where we can pass on as people who have been optimistic and driven for the whole short life worth. And death is the only certainty in life. And more often than not, optimistic and driven people are happier. I will hope for being hopeful till i reach the day of death. And that is the joy of being mortal. We know that we will one day die. So we try to live each day for all it's worth. And we know that if we sustain hope, we will arrive at the end a happy man. We know there is an end. Unlike immortals. Where might they arrive even if they held hope each day? To see no end. To live day by day. On and on. And we wonder why some people yearn never to die. Its stupid. "Death being Victory in itself" Hope as damnation for mankind? In extreme perhaps. If one never is satisfied and is forever hungry for what he or she deems 'bigger and better', that mad insatiabilty. Maybe that is the downfall of many. Or to think of themselves as invincible and being without doubt able to manipulate and control their future to their liking. To think of themselves as the ultimate prophet and the dictator. And that can only lead to a life of doom. Satisfaction/Acceptance and Hope/Desire. Each of us must find our balance between them, and alot of the time, its freakin hard to locate. And right now i am still conflicted inside.