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Through hundreds of mesmerizing paradoxs and mazes of metaphors,  the Tao Te Ching conveys messages focusing on morality and the stability of mental health, as well as the stability of health spiritually. The Tao unfolds throughout as a mystical book that could quite easily revile the teachings of any priest in Catholicism, but at the same time leaving the open ended questions for your own internal spirit to question.

Chapter 2 TAO!

The Chapter's message is about how the idea or "label" of something leads to the creation of its opposite. For there to be beautiful there must be ugliness, Short to long, high to low, difficult to easy- the congruent message is how man creates this idea of something and based of that creation only then do we see its opposite.
This can be linked to many things throughout-

1. How people are presivied
2. How religion is seen (Battle between what is good comapred to what is evil)
3. Social Standings
4. What makes a(n) object(s) worth

Metamorphosis Part III

As Leslie awoke in the damp alley, soaked in his own fear, desperation, and feces, looking for the tunnel out back into the city. His first two steps suddle, but he was then stopped by the ajointed wall of a homeless man. Leslie looked up at the man, standing his grown in false pride, reading the lips of the homeless man saying "Breakfest!" Leslie ran as fast as he could down the alley, but dead ends were his only way out; he howled with fear as his nails filed down apon the bricks, clawing for hope and aspirations of freedom, but all was soon shattered by the swings of the homeless man's blackjack to Leslie's rib cage. Leslie's mind was still functioning through the pain of every bite and the rip of every flesh. His blood poored into the drains of the alley, as his soul was eaten by the man for survival.

Metamorphosis Part II.

Leslie awoke with a strange sensation to bite himself, so he did, as he was able to reach his nether-regions, he spasmed with fear and confusion. His blotchy hair, his long snout, his elongated canines', and his loss of the English language forced Leslie to react accordingly. Leslie, soaked in a sensation of an enigma, cryptically ran down the abandoned stairs; as his nails clicked and clacked down, he was greeted by two homeless men with only one word leaving their chapped fungicide coated lips, "FOOD." Leslie, trying to explain, told his fellow hobos that was him, but his cries were muffled by his new language "WOOF WOOF WOOF." As they dragged closer and closer, Leslie had no choice but to run. As Leslie barreled down the streets of Detroit, begging whom ever he crossed for help, he was just simply kicked and occasionally spat on by the common folk of the streets. Leslie then went after food, and the only thing available to him for his lack of thumbs was the same as when he had thumbs: garbage. After feasting on the left overs of P.F Chang's, Leslie curled down in the alley next to the trash cans and slept.

Metamorphosis Part I.

There once was a dude, and he was a bad dude. He beat up little puppies and burnt down orphanages! His name was Carlito Hulio Estaban or Leslie for short; he was an evil, evil man who had no family and no friends. Leslie lived in an abandoned house with seven other homeless people, but Leslie's life would soon change and everything he knew would be different. One day Leslie saw a dog in an alley, the dog was starving, beaten, and abandoned, and instead of helping or leaving the animal alone: HE KILLED HIM AND ATE HIM! As Leslie finished the meal, he calmly left and headed back to the home with the homeless people. That night Leslie said the hobo goodnight of, "PISS OFF!" and went to bed, but as he awoke everything had changed...

Avant-Garde "Splattered paint on a puppy in a zoo by a canvas"

Avante-Garde: The advanced group in any field epically in visual, literary, or musical. Mainly through un-orthodox methods and experimental styles.

Two of my favorite styles in the Avant-Garde movement our as follows...

Performance- performance started around the 20th century (Avant-Garde wise) and pushed many different aspects of the theatre on to the audience. Mainly breaking the "forth wall," and interacting with the audience by asking questions and involving them into what is called "Guerrilla Theatre." Two major artist that were involved in this movement are: Brecht, who asked his audience questions but would not give them answers, and Boal, who would scream at his audience.

 Abstract Expressionism- Started in 1946 by an art critic Robert Coater. The movement was post WWII and it was mainly American best, placing New York at the center of the art world.

Jackson Pollock-

Barnett Newman-

Sources- Google and Preston

America has eating disorder? ZOMG!

Does America have an eating disorder? Many people would say indeed America does have an eating disorder, and I would have to agree with them. The definition of an eating disorder is "when a person eats, or refuses to eat, in order to satisfy a psychic need and not a physical need. The person doesn't listen to bodily signals or perhaps is not even aware of them. A normal person eats when hungry and stops eating when the body doesn't need more, when he feels the signal of satisfaction." 
(Says: http://web4health.info/it/ed-dia-ed-def.htm) And in many ways this is all true; from obesity to anorexia. It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder: 7 million woman and 1 million men. Nearly half of the American population know someone in America who has an eating disorder. So America as a whole has an eating disorder? Defiantly. Because not only do the 8 million Americans, out of the total population of 310 million, have eating disorders, but things such as McDonald's, Burger King and any other fast food place do not help the rest of America from over indulging on greasy trans fats. So yes I believe that America has an eating disorder, but from the stand point of not obesity or anorexia; more or less that America is growing fat and the bar for what is obesity has risen.

Information gathered from: http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm

Opening statement

Hello, my name is Matthew Mark Rittner Aindrias Banther, but you may call me Matthew or Matt. I am a strong believer in spiritual awakenings outside of organized religion, but that is neither here nor there. I speak three languages (Two of which I am not perfectly fluent) and I play many instruments: guitar, bass, piano, drums, etc. My future goal is to become a famous musician and actor, whichever comes first. I am fascinated by super natural and paranoia in many religions, and I like to study the different cultures of all religions. I would like to get my BFA in acting and possibly a major in Theology or Literature. My favorite bands include Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Coheed and Cambria, Kyo, A day to remember, and many others. I will listen to anything except country, but my favorite genre is metal(core). I have written many songs and many scripts, but my favorite thing to do is change popular pop and rap songs into acoustic of metal songs. I have done such as "Bad Romance," "Poker Face," "I Gotta Feeling," and I am working on "Your Love is my Drug." That's basically me, and I cannot wait to start blogging with all of my followers.