conditioning

I was thinking the other day how it's funny that human psychology is similar in many ways to other species of animals on this planet. And most of all,as most animals are, they are formed by being conditioned.
If you have a feeling of being grossed out by anything, it is most likely conditioning. If you don't like something and you know anyone else that might like it, you know it is your tastes which is your psychological affect of a certain taste and how you interpret the taste to be. People have had their tastes changed through other conditionings as well. The point is that tastes are usually limited by our own psychological barriers.
Foods usually come with association. People like things that give them good association and makes them feel happy or comfortable. Even subconciously, the like of a flavor can be linked probably to some association.
Of course, this is nothing new. So I'm just rambling.

dreams and bed

Does anyone else ever have a vivid or emotionally strong dream and wake up with a strong impression or feeling, and then forget about it and go through their day and forget about it, but then when they lay down in bed in the spot in the bed where they were dreaming, that dream comes back to them like a fresh memory? That happens to me sometime. Just wondering. :)

Ducks and Octopi

I love octopus. I love the taste of fresh raw octopus. I even had octopus live once. I loved it. Tastes sooo delicious. And I dont think there's anything gross or bad about it. Eating animals is part of nature's intentions. All animals eat, and carnivores and omnivores eat other animals. We are omnivores. All part of the universe's grand intentions.

The reason I talk about this is because the conversation came up between anostica and I. She doesn't share the same affinity with the natural laws of the universe that I do. :)

I want to experience everything I can and experience them with an open mind. I might like some things that wouldn't seem obvious as enjoyable things. Many taboos in cultures are common practices in other cultures. Having an open mind allows me to see that one taboo isn't necessarily right over the views of another culture. There are a few examples, I have. One would piss many people off and is a common taboo among many cultures. That taboo is incest. Being objective, I see the logic of not wanting incest to be practiced. It has been shown that breeding within a family can cause genetic defects. That's interesting really, and I dont understand how that happens exactly. But the point is, I don't feel any subjective feelings over the matter. Of course if I saw a brother/sister sexual relationship, I would think it was abnormal, which it usually is, but I don't have a judgemental feeling about it. I don't really care. Just like I dont care if people are gay. Some people have judgemental feelings about that too. Anything that people think is wrong that doesn't harm people is usually cultural and often illogical. Nature is chaos. Gay people are attracted to people of the same sex. They just are. That's how the brains are wired. If they're happy, good for them. Ok, I'm going off on a tangent. I was talking about foods. When I went to Korea, I had dog meat at a restaurant. To be honest, it was just ok. A bit too stringy for my tastes. But my point is that it's a taboo in this culture and some others. But to think so judgementally on it is being closed minded and simple. Cows are holy creatures by some, and we eat them like there's no tomorrow. So if we expect to damn people who eat dogs, then we should expect to be damned by eating cows.
Ducks came up in our conversation because she got sick after eating ducks. She thinks she could eat chickens but doesn't have the enzymes to break down duck meat. But I think they have similar enough bodies that the enzymes are so different. I think she just got food poisoning.

Oh well. Enjoy life. Make every day count.

life and goals

Living in san diego is quite a change from minnesota. in minnesota, life is dull, but satisfying. It's not intimidating, but it's not exciting either. It's mild, and fresh in the summer and cold and fresh in the winter. It's really awesome to live in (especially northern minnesota). The only drawback is the lengthy darkness. I got so frustrated during college because I was depressed and could barely keep studying since I had no motivation to try. I enjoyed partying and being with my friends, but I put off my work because I had no drive. I only graduated by luck of my natural talent and intelligence. I would have been among the 60 percent of college dropouts otherwise.
I almost moved to California before I graduated but my grades werent high enough to be accepted into any decent school (namely UCI (university of california, Irvine)). And in the end, I wanted to finish school instead of going another year just so I could transfer half a year early to sunny california.
Long story short, I moved to California, felt better emotionally but didn't get the security of a job. Weird though. I planned on moving to california since high school, and my parents happend to move to california before i graduated college which gave me a perfect platform to move to california without the guarantee of a job. It made it alot easier for me to live here without the intese pressure of having a job. I sometimes wonder how I could have lived her without their support.
But now i have a job. I lost a love which I didn't have before I got out of here and in the grand scheme of things, I'm on a positive level. I feel negative in some ways because I want something that I dont have, but I guess that's how life will always be. Sometimes there are things you want but don't have, and sometimes there are things that you can't believe you don't have and feel like you have to have. in my case it was the second thing. But it will come again. But at least I'm on the platform for the next jump.
This time I talked about abstract life problems which we all may have, but next time, maybe I'll talk about more general philosophical ideas, which seem to be getting closer and closer to political ideals in the 2000+ (AD) years of the world. I think there is sometihng happening that is worth noting on the formation of politics in the world and ideals of human beings. But perhaps I will talk about that another time.
Take care...

new blog

So I just got this blog and the idea from my friend anostica. So this one is a tribute to her. Go anostica! So I live here in San Diego. Plenty of do, plenty to see and nice weather. But it takes 2 to tango. I need another to tango. Oh well. Same old story. Too much to do, and my priorities might be mixed up. It's like that movie family man but not as exciting cuz you can't fast forward 10 years within 2 hours like movies. So I'm living it.
Not much to say, but at least my blog is started. Go team!