{"id":1050,"date":"2011-01-03T10:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/02\/meme-day-three\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:13:15","slug":"meme-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/03\/meme-day-three","title":{"rendered":"Meme &#8211; Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day Three of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/01\/meme-day-one\">10-day meme<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/01\/meme-day-one\">Day One: Ten best things about being alive.<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/02\/meme-day-two\">Day Two: Nine things about yourself that you like.<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Day Three: Eight things you know for sure.<\/strong>  <\/li>\n<li>Day Four: Seven things that make you laugh.  <\/li>\n<li>Day Five: Six things you are thankful for\/appreciate every day.  <\/li>\n<li>Day Six: Five people in whom you perceive Ultimate Goodness.  <\/li>\n<li>Day Seven: Four turn ons.  <\/li>\n<li>Day Eight: Three things you want to do for your community\/ the world.  <\/li>\n<li>Day Nine: Two things you think you need to work on personally.  <\/li>\n<li>Day Ten: One thing you&#8217;d like to change about your life.<!--more--><!-- \/\/ --><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually there&#8217;s one true thing that I know: <strong>that nothing&#8217;s certain.<\/strong> that&#8217;s why I live by my <em>&#8220;hindi ako magsasalita ng tapos&#8221;<\/em> mantra. The fact is, you&#8217;ll really never know. Still, that doesn&#8217;t mean that you can&#8217;t milk life for all its worth despite coming to terms with such a fact.<\/p>\n<p>But of course that defeats the purpose of the list, so instead I&#8217;ll consider this the <em>things-I&#8217;m-quite-ceartain-of-as-of-the-moment<\/em> or <em>things-that-will-take-a-lot-of-contrary-evidence-to-make-me-change-my-tune.<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>These days, religions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/10\/07\/relevance\">do more harm than good.<\/a><br \/>\nIn a nutshell, of course it&#8217;s the people (not the institutions) that are the problem&#8230; but to me, the existence of an institution that allows itself to be (mis)used as a catalyst for misguided deeds, <em>especially when being done by the majority<\/em>&#8230; then that institution, regardless of its purpose, becomes more of a hindrance\/menace than a help to society.<\/li>\n<li>If you want something, don&#8217;t pray for it &#8211; get your lazy ass moving and <strong>work for it<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a rib-eye person. All things being equal, I&#8217;d prefer the flavor of a rib-eye steak over more expensive alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a crybaby when it comes to cheesy flicks&#8230; kahit Filipino movie na baduy iniiyakan ko.<\/li>\n<li>Di ko kaya maging plastic; I can try &#8211; but often fail<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m no angel&#8230; nor do I want to be one. Ironically, I seem to be a more decent human compared to other &#8220;christians&#8221; despite my disposition.<\/li>\n<li>Everything is relative<br \/>\nThere is no black and white &#8211; it&#8217;s always a matter of context. So when it comes to matters of perceived &#8220;good&#8221; and\/or &#8220;evil&#8221; I&#8217;m more inclined to look for a balance instead of trying to just be &#8220;all good&#8221; &#8211; because altruism doesn&#8217;t really work in real life.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m too tolerant for my own good<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day Three of the 10-day meme Day One: Ten best things about being alive. Day Two: Nine things about yourself that you like. Day Three: Eight things you know for sure. Day Four: Seven things that make you laugh. Day Five: Six things you are thankful for\/appreciate every day. Day Six: Five people in whom &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/03\/meme-day-three\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meme &#8211; Day Three&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}