I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking

I have climbed highest mountain
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I’m still running

You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…

BY U2

REM Sleep

The discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a mentally active period during which dreaming occurs, provided a biological explanation for this phenomenon. It also inspired interest in sleep research by giving scientists a marker for changes in the brain during sleep. From this knowledge, they have begun to understand and develop treatments for major sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea.

Everyone sleeps. This fundamental activity consumes one-third of our lifetimes and can overpower all other needs. But what does sleep do for us? What happens when you are sleep deprived? What are sleep disorders?
Much of what is known about sleep stems from the groundbreaking 1953 discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. This is an active period of sleep marked in humans by intense activity in the brain and rapid bursts of eye movements. At the same time, scientists discovered that REM sleep is when dreaming occurs.
Before the 1950s, most scientists thought of sleep as an unchanging, dormant period of little interest. Hardly anything was known about sleep or dreaming.
The earliest hints that sleep was a changing state came with studies showing that blood pressure, heart rate, and other body functions in humans rise and fall in a pattern during sleep. Because researchers had observed some eye movement during sleep, they recorded these movements by placing electrodes behind the eyes. They also recorded muscle activity and brain waves. They found regular periods of very rapid eye movement and rapidly changing brain waves that alternated with periods of deep, quiet, sleep marked by large, slow brain waves. Later, scientists found that the body is paralyzed during REM sleep.

The REM sleep discovery:

• Suggested that sleep is a complex activity, fundamentally different from waking, but just as active.
• Provided a biological marker for dreaming so that immediate dream reports could be collected.
• Compelled scientists to examine the physiology of sleep.

When researchers woke people up during REM sleep and asked them about their dreams, they found that almost all who awakened during REM sleep could remember their dreams. They realized that people who claim they do not dream really do not remember their dreams the next morning. Also, scientists found that, rather than being fleeting events, dreams vary in length according to the length of REM period.
In later studies, scientists divided non-REM sleep into four stages, accounting for about 75 percent of total sleep. In each stage, brain waves become progressively larger and slower, and sleep becomes deeper. After reaching stage 4, the deepest period, the pattern reverses, and sleep becomes progressively lighter until REM sleep, the most active period, occurs. This cycle typically occurs about once every 90 minutes in humans.
Scientists found that brain activity during REM sleep begins in the pons, a structure in the brainstem, and neighboring midbrain regions. The pons sends signals to the thalamus and to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most thought processes. It also sends signals to turn off motor neurons in the spinal cord, causing a temporary paralysis that prevents movement.
Research on normal sleep led scientists to recognize and study sleep disorders, which afflict up to 70 million Americans. These disorders include insomnia, or difficulty in falling asleep, and sleep apnea, which causes breathing to stop for extended periods during sleep. These can cause behavior problems and accidents related to fatigue.
Once sleep disorders became recognized, scientists began to find treatments for them.
Almost everything known about the physiology of sleep has been learned by studying experimental animals. For example, scientists found that sleep phases are closely related to the activity of certain groups of nerve cells releasing brain chemicals that relay information from one neuron to another. Research on these specialized cell groups is helping scientists to devise specific drug treatments for sleep disorders.
Yet much remains to be uncovered. Exactly what sleep does for humans is unknown. Researchers are just beginning to unravel the mechanisms explaining why and how people nod off and wake up.

From the pyramid above you may interpret my life. This is the story of me, mine, and myself.

SEPERTI INILAH AKU

SAAT AKU JAUH DARI MU

BOSEN

PENAT

PUSING

CAPAI

LELAH

LETIH

SATU PINTAKU

JANGAN PERNAH BIARKAN AKU JAUH DARI MU

MADRID, KAMIS - Alessandro Del Piero benar-benar merasakan kebahagiaan luar biasa, setelah membobol gawang Real Madrid dua kali pada pertandingan Liga Champions Grup H, Rabu atau Kamis (6/11) dini hari. Apalagi, itu mengakhiri rekor tak pernah menang Juventus di Santiago Bernabeu selama 46 tahun, dan membawa kemenangan Juve 2-0 serta lolos ke 16 besar.

Yang tak kalah menyenangkan dirinya, pertandingan itu disaksikan legenda sepakbola yang baru saja diangkat sebagai pelatih nasional Argentina, Diego Armando Maradona, yang juga idolanya. Sempurna bagi Del Piero. Menaklukkan klub sebesar Real Madrid di depan legenda terbesar pula.

“Aku sangat senang sekali bisa mencetak gol di depan Maradona. Aku berharap Maradona akan lebih sering menonton pertandingan kami,” ujar Del Piero berbunga-bunga.

Del Piero memang tampil luar biasa. Dia membuat 80.000 pendukung real Madrid terbungkam, sekaligus terkagum-kagum. Bahkan, ketika dia diganti pada menit ke-90, suporter Madrid malah memberi tepuk tangan hangat sebagai tanda pujian kepadanya. Sebuah pengalaman yang sangat langka. Selama ini baru Maradona, Ronaldinho, dan Del Piero yang mendapat aplaus penonton Madrid di Santiago Bernabeu.

“Oh, emosiku sulit dijelaskan karena mencetak dua gol itu. Apalagi, suporter Madrid memberi aplaus yang hangat kepadaku ketika aku keluar dari lapangan. Ini stadion yang benar-benar gila dan itu merupakan pertandingan penting buat kami. Inilah momen indah buatku,” tambah Del Piero dengan wajah berbinar. Kompas.

Fatalism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fatalism is a philosophical doctrine emphasizing the subjugation of all events or actions to fate or inevitable predetermination.

Fatalism generally refers to several of the following ideas:

1. That free will does not exist, meaning therefore that history has progressed in the only manner possible. ^[1] This belief is very similar to determinism.
2. That actions are free, but nevertheless work toward an inevitable end. ^[2] This belief is very similar to compatibilist predestination.
3. That acceptance is appropriate, rather than resistance against inevitability. This belief is very similar to defeatism.

[edit] Determinism, fatalism and predestination

While the terms are often used interchangeably, fatalism, determinism, and predestination are discrete in emphasizing different aspects of the futility of human will or the foreordination of destiny. However, all these doctrines share common ground.

Determinists generally agree that human actions affect the future, although that future is predetermined. Their view does not accentuate a “submission” to fate, whereas fatalists stress an acceptance of all events as inevitable. In other words, determinists believe the future is fixed because of action and causality, whereas fatalists and many predestinarians think the future is ineluctable despite causality.

Therefore, in determinism, if the past were different, the present and future would differ also. For fatalists, such a question is negligible, since no other present/future/past could exist except what exists now.

Fatalism is a broader term than determinism. The presence of history indeterminisms/chances, i.e. events that could not be predicted by sole knowledge of other events, does not exclude fatalism. Necessity (such as a law of nature) will happen just as inevitably as a chance – both can be imagined as sovereign.

[edit] The idle argument

One ancient argument for fatalism, called the idle argument,^[3] went like this:

• If it is fated for you to recover from your illness, then you will recover whether you call a doctor or not.
• Likewise, if you are fated not to recover, you will not do so even if you call a doctor.
• It is either fated that you will recover from your illness, or that you will not recover from your illness.

While the idle argument applies fatalism on the effect side (i.e., the recovery from illness), it does not apply fatalism to the cause side. Strictly speaking fatalists apply it to both sides of the cause and effect. While the fact that you will recover or not is left to fate, fatalists believe it is also pre-determined whether or not you will call the doctor.

[edit] The logical argument

The logical argument for fatalism is one that depends not on causation or physical circumstances but rather argues based on logical necessity. There are numerous versions of this argument, but the most famous are by Aristotle^[4] and Richard Taylor^[5]. These have been objected to and elaborated on^[6] but very few people accept them.

The key idea of logical fatalism is that there is a body of true propositions (statements) about what is going to happen, and these are true regardless of when they are made. So, for example, if it is true today that tomorrow there will be a sea battle, then there cannot fail to be a sea battle tomorrow, since otherwise it would be not be true today that such a battle will take place.

The argument relies heavily on the principle of bivalence, the idea that any proposition is either true or false. As a result of this principle, if it is not false that there will be a sea battle, then it is true; there is no in-between. However, rejecting the principle of bivalance—perhaps by saying that the truth of a proposition about the future is indeterminate—is a controversial view, since the principle is an accepted part of classical logic.

Another problem with logical fatalism is that first you must accept there is a timeless set of all propositions which exist without being proposed by anyone in particular. Constructivists (a school of thought in logic and maths) would argue that this is not the case, and that propositions only exist when they are constructed, or expressed.

CINTA DAN BENCI ITU TIPIS SEKATNYA. ATI2 JA

How do you define friendship? Here, a person who truly believes in friendship and is destined to be with it all life long, will never have a definition for this. Probably he would say that the person writing this post, is a complete fool. Agreed, but from my experiences on friendship, i also will not be able to actually define it. But, there are some postulates or rules that are to be followed in such a decent and blessed relationships.

Be a true friend in which there should not be any misunderstandings. Now misunderstandings would actually take place when you are quite open to talk about any particular topic with your friend. If you find your friend doing something wrong, then you should be able to say whatever is the fault straight on the face.

Other protocol which should be maintained in the relationship is a belief. If you have such a thing that you actually can believe your friend more than yourself then this should be understandable from both the ends. The more you get tied in the relationship, the more stronger would be the tie. But due to some reasons when the sought start becoming loose, then it keeps on loosening and a day comes when actually there would not be a point of contact. Both the ends will be totally apart from each-other and will never come close again.

Friendship, my friends stands on two pillars, trust and belief. If you have it with your friends and are able to make these pillars strong, then you are actually a lucky person, love and trusted by someone (MANY SOURCES).

To me Life begins with controversies….