hmmmm … girls and their emotions. I guess they’re just human. I personally don’t like men lol … or lets just say I don’t like my anime guys lol. When I watch anime and I see girls in it, it puts my heart at peace. On the other hand, there are other aspect of girls I hate … those part of the girls that do not like me or accept me the way I accept/ like them lol. But hey, I’m probably just being selfish lol
This
anime makes me realize that the world of girls is serious. Some girls
change of the better when you defeat them and some girls change for the
worst when you do. Some have pure and some have dark emotions – all are
strong.
Now, this is starting to look like a
proper shoujo anime. You see, if this was a shonen, then you would see
the strength progression of the men. But shingetsu said something, “I
never worked hard to get this power”. Reminds me of how some girls are
beautiful, secy and well endowed with no effort on their part, they just
grow into it. One the other hand, men have to hit the guy to bring out
the best part of themselves. That’s God’s curse on men saying that from
the sweat of our brows, men will achieve their desires.
i rest my case … i have nothing more to rant about nor how to conclude this.
“Give me a moon to suck on with mt straw” – is the crazy thing my mind said after seeing the moon in this plot. This morning, watching anime, I’m a bit off.
This might be a shoujo – shoujos seem to be
going the way of the shonen – why would they have a mecha robot here
then? I mean, come on ladies – it has been repeated through out history
the sexual-cultural appropriation and hence, blur of women on men’s
stuff.
In English old history, men wore wigs, then women started wearing wigs
men used to wear makeup, then women started wearing makeups
(Scottish) men used to wear short skirts (kilts) then women now wear short skirts
men used to wear trousers, not women now want to start wearing trousers
Some
psychologists call this penis-envy. Heck, I’ve even had girlfriends
that want to wear my own clothes. And heck! they looked really
attractive doing that. What is up with women? They always want the best
of men’s world while maintaining theirs leaving men with nothing ut to
further evolve and find, yet another manly sexual (or gender) culture
that women will yet again appropriate to themselves. What is it with
women or the feminine with always trying to blur out men’s gender or
sexuality. Is it because women eat men up? or swallow them whole? I’m
speaking symbolically of that the man’s sexual organ disappears into the
woman’s sexual organ but I’m trying to keep it PG-13 lol. Or is it
because women give birth to both men and women? I dont know.#
I’m
just a bit left apprehended by this one-sided gender priviledge of
women over men – it seems like we do not have a fair level playing
ground here and I dont know if to complain about it or if to find it
attractive as heaven lol. Becasue now, we have this anime which tries to
capture the mecha genre, which is predominately shonen and aapropriate
it into a shoujo. Magical Shoujo girls are suppose to be shoujos but it
seems like more and more girls are less believeing in magic and more in
technology. I don’t know what to think about it – its just my
observation. I’m not saying that women should stay in their lane … im
just making an observation. If I a male/ manly/ shonen anime behaving
in a very girly way – such as making boys transform in sexy ways into
magical boys … kinda like that zombie anime (i cant remember its name)
but it had appeal to men as the guy hated it, was embarrassed by it and
he eventually got all the girls. But if this was made to seem natural
… no guy would want to watch it (except for outright gay guys who like
boku no pico – blot it out of my memory please).
Lastly,
there are those cute girls who will take a little offense to this
saying, “What a man can do, a woman can” and some will add “better” to
the end of that quote; while some thinking “better” will keep silent on
the basis of trying to sound more genderly equal. Well, ok, cool, I’m
not complaining. And I know that men are free to start dressing in drags
– oops, I mean, women’s clothes (lol … why does culture celebratorily
even call it drags, lol – dont blame me, even the drag guys (i mean,
lady-men) celebratorily call it drags too without complaining). I’m just
saying that women have an affinity to appropriate men and manliness and
that is not necessarily such a bad thing. But this toxic femininity
disrespect of men from this normed-gender appropriating Neo-feminists
has to stop. You wont see a drag-man insulting a women. In fact, it is
apparently evident that it is becasue they love, cherish and respect
women that they appropriate women’s clothing and makeups.
We
are all humans, we love one another – it is natural to appropriate as
much as possible, the ones that you love. Most men, if they could
appropriate the preganacies of their loved women into their own wombs,
so that women wouldnt have to go through all that pain (kinda like the
alien man in Doctor who lol), we would.
I don’t know why I wrote all these rants. I guess it just had to come out somehow lol
This anime got me sobbing – especially the words of the ending song. I recently lost a very good friend. Kinda like a best friend and we’re not talking anymore. I feel bad. Our friendship may never happen again … and that music just hit home for me.
but this anime
also made me strangely satisfied with life. There is always justice.
The characters had complex roles and there was mercy for the “savior”
who was acting like a pansy. He was indecisive, yet kind. There have
been times I have been indecisive and I’ve just being insulted for being
less than an alpha male. I mean, it wasn’t said straight to my face,
but now, in retrospect, I can confidently define the situation as that.
There was Grace and mercy in this anime for the pansy kid. He was free
to fight or to not-fight, even in the heat of battle – not one was
relying on him, yet everyone was relying on him to pick a side. He took
his time until his moral judgements were sure.
There
were times when this was not afforded me, I thank God. And there were
times when this was afforded me – i still thank God nonetheless.
This music has too much rebellion in it hahahaha … I don’t know what to think or even if I can start breaking this down. For one, Maheeda should be praised for being brave to go against many social norms in mainstream social media … I think she went too far because as a poet or artist, she’s missing the point in expressing many (Nigerian) human experiences – she is getting somewhere and I hope to see more truer human experience music from her in the future.
This music only seemed to glorify her … well… im sure she’s humble in person as she is beautiful … but the normal emotional person trying to connect with the emotions of this music will not look at the real-Maheeda who may be humble in real-life … i personally don’t see that. But what I want to see is Maheeda connect to the normal Nigerian person’s experience. Now… do Nigerian girls from lagos who are in other countries also harbor the feelings in this video? Well… yes, they might. Those Nigerian girls in UK and USA? sure they might. But they want to be sang about … not Maheeda turning herself into an archetype.
But Maheeda carries a different spirit in this video. A spirit to make a statement. To glorify herself (and yes, I have to use this language to express what I see) while trying to break down the already crumbing wall of traditional sexual decency in Nigeria – probably the last thing on many Nigerian minds. I’m sure men don’t care … they want women to show us what they’ve been hiding between their two legs all this time – its just the way men are. But by doing this, women loose their only bargaining chip to keep men accountable and responsible (because women are finding themselves in a new age of exposure where promiscuity is almost promoted – our women need prayers). It is a mistake to say that Maheeda cares for men … she doesn’t. It is the attention that she wants. If she cared for men, she would go the extra mile by taking responsibility for making thousands of men horny and let them have sex with her … well … she has been there and done that. But that is not enough … men need more. If she cannot take responsibility, then she has to stop being sexually liberal. Well, if not, the sexual frustration turns in to norm, the norm turns into sexual desensitization. Sexual desensitization turns into low birth rates … and a host of many other problems and baggage that come with the fire called sex.
Stay blessed Maheeda. I know you had your flare about you but I see the hand of God upon you. I know that God is still going to use you for great things but you’ve got to find a God fearing mentor and let God make you Holy-by-faith. I’m praying for you beautiful beloved. The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you. Stay blessed
Its not about not-liking your sexuality … its about knowing your market. Nigeria is not ready for mainstream sexual liberation. Nigeria is not a developed country. You’ll be dealing with people who at the most part are developed in their IQ like most people in developed countries like the USA. Nigerians have plenty of EQ – emotional quotient – and and are not processing your distabilisation of the etiquette of the okness of social norms maheeda; even the developed countries, in history past had an era of the hush-hush of sexual liberations. It stayed as a ticking time bomb until now, developed countries are the worlds number 1 creators or porn and nobody cares that much about porn in developed countries. The number 1 consumers of porn are Arab and Developing countires.
Plus, add to the fact that Nigeria is still religious for the most part. It would take a huge Mircale for you to be sexually liberal and for Nigerians to accept it as a social norm Maheeda. And Miracles only come from God – and I don’t think God wants to help you in this case.
Any way, sexual liberation is killing developed countries Maheeda. We’re having lower birth-rates here because men have seen everything that has to be seen in a woman’s body and there is no spark of charm any more. If you want future generations of Nigerians to end up like this – being infertile or just not caring anymore … then please continue. Well, whether you continue or not, this is the normal flow of the world … Nigeria is getting there. But for you to force it rather than allow it to organically flow … i believe, its a big mistakes – it is a hard thing to kick against the pricks (Acts 9:5).
The democrats have left the intellectual realm. Sadly, we may have to find new chains of “feelings” to enslave them since they refuse to change their attitude. Enslaving democrats with our feelings is evil. We can control their feelings because they are so predictable and let them choose to enslave themselves. Look at the socialist convention lol – “Point of Personal Privileged! I have sensory overload!” hahahahahahaha … its about time we stopped trying to show these people the light and let them continue in the darkness of “sensory overload” or any other enslaving emotions they may be “feeling”.
Life is tough – i empathize. But if you are taking steps to overcome your own enslaving-emotions such as sensory overload, then you have my respect; I might even keep quiet as I help you as you take progressive steps to overcome the personal demons of your enslaving-emotions. You have my admiration. But to command a society to pamper your mental disability without you making brave statements of your emotional-fight, and progress towards being stronger, better, healthier … i pity you; there is evil people in this world, and evil situations that play out both evil and good people to effectively act evil to you in this world and government will not be there to help you. Your unfathomable demise draws close as these demonic lions come closer and closer to you. I hope to be there for you to fight for you and to help you; i sincerely do… but I’m sorry … there are some life changing battles you have to life on your own one day … and I encourage you to grow stronger, smarter, better and healthier.
Identity Politics is a gateway drug to the kind of racism is creates. Most people do not know how dangerous Identity Politics is. Look at me for example, if I have to tell you that I am a black African man, before you consider the validity of my intellectual stance, and the color of my skin *somehow* convinces you that may argument is valid, whether it is implicitly or explicitly, consciously or unconsciously, then you are an evil racist.
PS: I know you cannot blame people for their unconscious racism, but these are the same people that seem to be seeing racism everywhere. To the evil eye, all is evil. To the racist eye, all is racist.
When a white person looks at me and says,”white people pay more to enter into this conference and black people pay less” OR “I want to apologize for my white privilege”… and they look at me from the core of their hearts, with the sincerest of the sincerest of sincerest of intentions; this is what I hear, “I want to apologize for being so much better than you because of the color of my skin”. As an African Black man, I spit in your face. You can take the sincerest of the stupidest of your heartfelt sincerest intentions and shove it up your posterior end.
– no, you have no privilege higher than me based on your skin color
– no, a whip never touched my back and I was never a slave in this generation
– no, your life has not be far better than mine, being proud of my heritage, I dare to say that *I* have had a better privileged life than you
So I don’t need your heartfelt sincerest intentions cultural handouts. We are both human beings. We have both laughed and cried. We have both been in health and illness. We have both been hungry and full. Our histories has its sins and righteousness. Our countries have their good parts and evil part. Life happens to everyone. This identity politics is an insult of the highest order that I have ever seen in history. Come off your royal high horses! I don’t like being culturally made to be your victim/ subordinate, your brain-dead royal highness. The movie of Black Panther taught us one thing, Black people have their own privileges too (1).
Always fantastic to see Steven Pinker.What is this about? Progress, Despite everything?I know the whole world wants to always only talk about how bad the whole world is? Why is this? Aren’t we trying? Aren’t working hard? Aren’t we being our best? Why is it that some people get off and thrive on telling the world how bad it is in an attempt to derive good from it. Some this tactic works, sometimes, it doesn’t. I believe that the parameters that connote when the stick tactic works are not there. So, we need more people encouraging and celebrating the forward movement we seem to be making.
It’s just dire. I mean, what do we even mean by progress? I think that progress comes from 2 perspectives. The subjective and the objective perspective. These two are inter-dependent on each other. There are those of the cultural political-right … who want to strike a generally-acceptable definition of what is objective; this is a noble venture. But they fail to appreciate the progressive gradation of the human subjectivity into what can be generally-accepted as “objective”.
– Not every human consciousness is the same
– Not every human eye sees the same colour- Not every human cognition is the same – people are different.
There are objective realms of progress and there are subjective realms of progress. Sad to say, especially to my friends on the cultural political right trying to forsake their subjectivity (or in other words, feelings) and adhere to some sort of objectivity (in other words, facts) …. that the objectivity of human progress is dependent on the subjectivity of human progress. The subjective is always fundamental to the human. This is because, you can have the objectivity of- lovely cars- a sexy/ handsome wife/ husband- excellent children- awesome physical health
and yet, still subjectively believe that your life has not progressed; that you are miserable and that would do NOTHING for you than to virtually lead you to suicide despite your life being so objectively great. The cultural political right (CPR) try to avoid this by adhering to objectivity and it works for them. They can slap themselves in the face and say “Johnny! Why are you acting/ feeling like this!? You life is great! You have this, that and everything seems to be going well for you even though you’re faced with certain predicaments but, look, there are children dying here and there due to this and that, why dont you count your blessings and name them one by one!?” … my beautiful friends on the cultural political left (CPL), live closer to their ape brains of emotions – yes, and I know my temperamental leftist friends reading this will feel offended I described their emotional brain like this… even though most rightist will shrug, nod and just read on as though it was some *matter of scientific fact that intellect distinguishes human brains from animal-like instintive emotions* … well, you far-leftists get too offended by virtually anything and everything … i’m using the overwhelming might of my African black privilege (lol hahahahaha) to make sure that no authoritarian tyrant or fascist, never polices my language. … now i’ve rambled about that (because you have to always ramble about stuff when communicating to far-leftist in today’s culture and stand your ground while demanding civilized mutual respect in human dignity … its a sad world with too much emotions and its a grey world with too much facts. Yes, Im a centrist. People like me still exist.
The search for cain madhouse comes here in episode 5 … kinda like halfway through the anime, that is, if the anime is going to be 12 to 13 episodes long. So i’m guessing that this guy fails miserably only to come back in like episode 12 or 13 to kickass.
I’m
also noticing that this is one of those anime I watch that is going to
make me depressed for like weeks – opening my eyes to the sadness of the
nature of life and how unfortunate things can get for me and for other
people around me. Sometimes, the reward for the sacrifice for your
country is for your friend, your comrad, to kill you. It’s so sad. But
also noticing that this is a shonen – an anime genre meant for men/
boys. I was thinking initially what the necessity of Liza’s oppai was
and even got offended that it was thrusted upon us for not particular
reason in this anime. But I think I’m unto something here regarding the
psychology of the anime creators. I can’t remember which anime I heard
this from but I heard this quote: “Oppai are filled with men’s hopes and
dreams” hahahahahahahahaha . Taking this into consideration, the anime
creators may have the agenda of making us sad and depressed but
appealing to the primal nature of men with Liza’s oppai. I need to do a
quick google check what the name “Liza” means. I’m guessing ti has
something to do with Elizabeth. I think there might be a connection
between her name the hope-filled oppai she has lol. Like seriously, i’m
surprised she’s not an incarnate hahahahahahahahaah
In
symbolisms, the oppai is supposed to represent “generosity” … the
giving woman that almost never takes back since oppai are used to grace
defenseless children and nourish them. I wonder how far the anime
creators thought these through or am I just thinking too much? lol
Welcome to 2016. As it would happen, I have made new year resolution to reply to as many people as possible. So, I was going through my facebook messenger list and I found out that I had not replied a very beautiful and intelligent muslim friend of mine – Zein. She raised some very importat points and I thought that it would be fun to populate my blog with replies to her since she raised some very good and wonderful suggestions. So… here we go.
Figure 1: Zein’s Facebook Profile Picture
Zein and I were having a wonderful discussion full of mutual respect, kindness, in the spirit of friendship and it was all civilised. I want to use this time to honour Zein and not leave her hanging as I have done for 2 years plus. I do apologise Zein. And if you do not have anything to say due to the bad timing of this blog… feel free to take your time and reply anytime that you want to.
Here is a Copy and Paste of the comment raised by Zein that I want to rpley to in this blog post:
Hello Ernest smile emoticon
I promised I would reply after my exams were over I didnt forget wink emoticon I really find our conversations thrilling, as you might have noticed I’m very interested to learn more and more about this field “religion” because its the essence of our life, our purpose to be here although in the shadow of our mundane activities, deams, jobs etc. wink emoticon I hope your exams have been going well btw!
So let me start by saying I understand your point of view as a Faithful Christian raised individual wink emoticon I am not trying to convince you but on the contrary you might have noticed that I am not very “religious” as you picture other conventional muslims to be tongue emoticon In fact, I am still on my way to understanding, I am reading and studying whats out there. I have studied in Paris about all 3 monotheist religions and compared and still doing so smile emoticon During my quest you might find it hard to believe considering all the bad media coverage on the news tongue emoticon But whatever question I have on my mind, be it: why do we fast? why not eat pork? why women are advised to wear a veil? and all others…All those questions have a very logical answer in the Islamic religion, all aimed at healthy and peaceful living. Not to mention Science & knowledge thrill me and we often think that religion “catholics” in particular if you study history .. was completely against scientific developments. However you will be shocked to know… Islam has encouraged science … and it has actually lead to many of the scientific discoveries of today. No wonder they are called “arab numerals” tongue emoticon Also in one of my lectures inTissue Engineering this year, the lecturer was covering the matter of ethical issues regarding Embryonic Stem Cells… you might be shocked to hear: Islam allows Embryonic testing whereas Christians dont… I would have thought that they got over scientific curiosity/developments but thats just the scientist in me talking wink emoticon I believe science and religion should help alleviate one another. Religion provides the purpose and science provides the mechanism/the reasoning behind different concepts to help us live in a more efficient and hence peaceful way as religion wants it to be wink emoticon I can refer you to several interesting books regarding science and Islam if you are interested wink emoticon
Now regarding the matter you raise, I regard Jesus as a messenger of god, a prophet. In Islam, Jesus has not died yet. In fact if you are familiar with the stories, I am sure you are.. Juda wanted revenge.. God did not allow Jesus to die but he actually changed the face of Juda to look like Jesus. So it is not Jesus on the cross but Juda. Which seems like a more logical story. Jesus shall be back on judgement day to instruct us all and to deliver the final message. This is what Islam believe and this is what I believe. The Quran has never been changed whereas the bible has been rewritten countless times. I find it hard to believe a religion that has several big interpretations/sects/divisions in it .. soo much misconception. I believe Christianity was very logical and I respect it like any other religion however it has diverged on several paths.
Now if I were to agree with you regarding Jesus, and I dont say I do, It is simply not logical. We all agree God wants us to be good. Perfect is not a possibility because we are human, that is how he created us. He created us as beings have his soul, free spirited individuals with imagination, emotions etc. We are unlike any other creatures God created. I am also sure you are aware of the other creatures. We are all different. If God wanted us to be perfect, he would have created one person or just the same people many times. But we are all unique, we have different personalities, different colors, different sex, different origins. Life is a test for us, he wants us to have the free will to follow good. He has given us the choice and this is the best way to submit anyone to good by giving them free will, imagination “a brain”. If we do wrong he promises that he is most forgiving and gives us the chance to apologize and try again, in other words this is called “HOPE”. I love Jesus as much as you do Ernest but we dont believe the same. But please read more regarding Islam and also regarding the history of religions wink emoticon I will continue to do the same smile emoticon I look forward to your reply! My message turned out very long too!!! smile emoticon tc
Juda did not want revenge sorry but betrayal
*Judah did not want revenge sorry but he betrayed Jesus
I would like to get straight into this blog because if Zein is reading this; I want her to kow that I am going straight to the points rather than wasting her time reading through all this 🙂
Not Very Religious?
As you noticed, I am curious as to why Zein is not so very religious as I do not know what this means. Is it that she undermines the activity of God with regards to all the fatwas (1) (especially the Obligatory Fatwas) as depicted in the Quran? Mind to say that there are many Fatwas I do no tagree with. Such as:
In 2012, Sheikh Murgan Salem al-Gohary of Egypt, a former Taliban, issued a fatwa calling for “the destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” because “God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols.” (2)
In 2011-2012, Abdel-Bari Zamzami of Morocco issued a series of religious edicts that a man has the right to engage in sexual intercourse with his wife up to six hours after her death despite recognizing that such an action is despicable in mainstream society, Zamzami persisted in backing his original fatwa, claiming marriage does not end in death. (3)
Yusuf al-Qaradawi released a fatwā on April 14, 2004, stating that the boycott of American and Israeli products was an obligation for all who are able. (4)
Sheik Sadeq Abdallah bin Al-Majed, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, issued a fatwā that prohibits vaccination of children claiming it is a conspiracy of the Jews and Freemasons. (5) (6)
In 2013, the grand mufti in Kashmir issued a fatwa terming singing as un-Islamic. forcing Kashmir’s only all-girls rock band to abandon it. (7)
What shall we say about these few examples? Zein will probably know that Fatwas can span ranging from Obligatory to Permissible. Fatwas are always issued on the reasoning and logic. What could be the reasoning and logic of these muftis? I do not know. But many muslims such as Zein will disagree with them on many things. This has made islam to be more of a personal matter on one hand and then a communal matter on the other. It seems to me that Islam works as a cooperate unit. Hence, this is why I believe that Zein can distingush herself from the communal-norms by pointing to the communual-norms and say, “Hey, look. This is how islams is supposed to be practiced; I am not up the par with them even though I am part of them.”
I believe that if you have a religion, then you should take your God very seriously in what HE demands from you. But this is just me talking, I do not know much about Zein; of where she’s coming from cultural wise or her specified aspirations in life. Being in a religion is all about self-signifying. And yes, I agree that there are many Christians who as for example, practicing homosexuality, and they do no follow the teachings of Christ to the letter.
