Saturday, December 30, 2006

JFK And The Nazis

Most Americans are taught to love JFK, but who was this man really? What did he represent? Regardless of what he represents his death was a tragedy but maybe we should take a look at some particulars with regards to what he stood for.

"After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle’s lair on Obersalzberg), you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had bound-less ambitions for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."
-JFK("Prelude To Leadership - The European Diary of J. F. Kennedy, Summer 1945", Regnery Publishing, Washington DC, p. 74)

From this little snippet we can surmise that JFK admired Hitler. Does this mean that JFK was truly like-minded to Hitler though? Well here is another little snippet that may answer that question.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".
-JFK

"The state does not exist to serve the individual, the individual exists to serve the state".
-Hitler

Is JFK worthy of the nations love?

Friday, December 29, 2006

The Deer Exercise

The deer exercise is an exercise devised in China. The deer exercise basically consists of repeating cycles of contracting and relaxing ones anus. The deer exercise is one of a set of five. The five exercises are known as "Frolics of The Five Animals", these animals are: the tiger, deer, bear, ape, and crane. The reason the exercise is known as the deer exercise is because the exercise is based on imitating the way deers will contract and relax their anus's periodically. Learning from animals is something I refer to as pragmatic naturalism. Pragmatic naturalism exists in contrast to Darwinian naturalism. Darwinian naturalism is concerned with the motivations of animal behavior. Darwinian naturalism is basically learning about animals rather than learning from them. Some people recommend doing the deer exercise 100 times a day. I would say that if one wants to start doing the deer exercise one should do it about 25 times day, that is one should contract and relax ones anus 25 times in one sitting or standing(whatever you prefer). As far as Chinese exercises are concerned I don't pay much attention to the chi aspect of them(although I do not believe nor disbelieve in chi), instead I like to focus strictly on the mechanical physical aspect of it. Essentially learning from animals is imitating various aspects of their behavior. I don't want to venture to say what the purpose of the deer exercise. It seems proper that one should just try it if one is curious about it and see for oneself how one feels after doing it.

It Makes You Wonder