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Friday, December 02, 2005
song of the day -- "blue" - a perfect circle
hello guys! i want to show you pictures of my sanctuary, tali beach, batangas. i went there last year together with my buddies at sophia. it's a very serene place. imagine boracay as a private resort - this is tali. i'm glad that they did not open it for the public because most tourists will only destroy the beauty of the place. how sad. since i went to tali, i became a real beach buff myself. my mom usually take us to our private place at puerto azul almost every summer vacation if we're not going to baguio. but then i didn't like the beach. if it wasn't for the good company i will never go on a vacation in that place. both resorts are private but tali has a different atmosphere. i i want myself to experience a few moments of ataraxia, i'd imagine myself there.what i will never forget about tali is our initiation rites to become a "real" member of the organization. this initiation rite was not be spoken inside campus unless with philosophy faculty members and philosophy majors or else our organization is dead for good! they named the initiation rite, the leap of faith from soren kierkegaard's philosophy. the whole ritual captures our lives as philosophy majors. we study loads of contradicting ideas that we don't know what to believe anymore. we still have beliefs of course however unlike other people, we really thought hard about the things we believe. we don't believe in things blindly because we know it will only destroy us. in a sense, the initiation interprets our life in a very literal way.
what happens in our initiation? well, we jump off the cliff... 30-foot-jump and we land on open sea. however, there's a catch. near the area where we are supposed to land is a huge rock formation. if we chose to act stupidly and jump right away, we're going to die. see the connections?
"will to power!"
russ and and yves sacrificing their lives for our safety nyahahaha
when i get filthy fucking rich, i'm going to buy my own resthouse at tali and take some special friends of mine there ^__^ i really hope tali will still exist in the future. ^__^