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2 Types of Love

Do you believe me, when I say there is two types of love. Well, Love I can categorize into 2 categories, they are:

1) Family Love, and

2) Intense Love

As I’m not a Love-Doc, I can only think of two types of love!!!

Family Love

Love that is between you and your family. Also it is love that you have for your friends and pets. But, I will never love a pet-tarantula!

I’ve a friend! Well, she looks stunning, let me tell you more about her!

She has good looks, she has that look that will make any man want her. She’s absolutely sexy, but...

I will never go out with her, here are the following reasons:

1- She is like a sister to me, what do you expect after knowing her for 7 years. OK, we had fun, but that was in the past. Once me, my ex and her had a threesome, and when my ex fell asleep, we carried on in the guest-room.

2- She is a real bitch sometimes, mostly demanding.

But family love is far more important to me, I don’t know about the rest of you. You can love a friend as a brother or a sister. They will always be there for you, no matter what. You can go out and have some fun, without feeling awkward.

Then you get the other type of love:

Intense Love

Intense Love is a spiritual love as above, but also more physical love, hence the meaning Making Love. There are other words that classify mking love, such as f*ck, shag, riding like a cowboy, etc...

Intense Love is when you spiritually connect your soul with your partner’s soul. This type of love shows more care and love towards another person.

Sure, you can have a quickie with a friend of the opposite sex, some people I know have sex with the same sex, also known as a lesbian or gay sexual relationship!

In internse love you give yourself as a whole to the other partner, showing that you care for them and truly love them!

Intense love is more complicated than family love, as intense love radiates more feelings. The feelings that can be spiritually and psychologically hurt if not being careful.

Sometimes in intense love, this love radiates obsession towards the other partner. Then that love isn’t true love. It might be intense, but it isn’t true love, because that love is more physical than spiritual.

You love that something of that person, but most probably you then love something that he has, may it be physical or financial, etc...

But, you don’t really love a person, if you’re obsessed with them.

What happens if that obsession fades away and you find someone else. In true love, you love that person because of his character and soul and not physical. When you intensly love someone, it’s very hard to become friends after you’ve broken up, unless the break up is mutual and you both prefer to be just friends.

Maybe friends with benefits!

Lee’s Final Words

Intense Love is quite different to Family Love. Where in intense love you’ll enjoy that something, that’s not available in Intense Love.

You decide if you love your friend as a sister or brother, or if your feelings are more complicated. You can decide if you love your friend as family or intensely But never cross them both at the same time!.

2D vs 3D Animations

The history of animation stems from I think of the late 18th Century to the early 19th Century. But, how animation has evolved since the creation of animation!

Decades ago till about a Century ago, people drew animation onto paper overlapping another paper, making the animations not so smart, but hey... they’ve created an animation!

When the first animations came out, it was untidy, you can see the colour shading would differ from one frame to another frame. You can see the picture jumping slightly and you can see the frame overlap!

At first 2D animation was created. (Hey, would you think that the animators would’ve created 3D animation in the late 1800’s!)

In the old 2D animation, each frame had to be redrawn to complement the previous drawn frame. Each frame had to have the "exact" colours to match the previous frame. Each frame had to be carefully drawn, in order to have a smooth non-jumpy animation.

They drawn on semi-transparent paper frame by frame. I.e. In order to make a person walk just one step forward, they had to draw i.e. 10 frames. Or you can do it on 5 frames, but it isn’t as smooth. So, the more frames, the smoother it is, but the more work it is!

In the later version of 2D animations, the animators used layers in order to create an animation.

So, instead of creating each frame from scratch, they used layers of frames!

i.e. Instead of drawing each frame from scratch, they used a background frame i.e. forest and had inserted the animated frames on top of the background frame. Due the background frame being stationary. They thought that instead of drawing the background on each frame, they used a master frame as a background. Thus saving you plenty of time!

You can see the huge difference in the new cartoon from old one. There’s a huge difference!

Nowadays the 2D animations have been digitally created to make a much smoother and cleaner animation. Here the animators used i.e. flash software to create animation and gives the computer an instruction to complete a certain task!

The 2D animations these days are vector generated!

Here also you’ll see there’s a huge difference of the vector 2D animations from the layering 2D animations!

In the late 20th Century and the early 21st Century, 3D animation has been created. Like "Shrek and The Incredibles", how life-like they are, to the fine detail.

Also in the early 21st Century, the 3D animators have combined 3D animation into reality, like "Garfield"!

It just shows you that with the ages, the animations become more life-like.

Imaging, the animations far in the future, i.e. hundred years or maybe a thousand in the future!

But, I like 3D animations and also the 2D animations!

Lee’s Final Words

In the future and the distant future, there will be a majority of 3D animation with high details images, smoother animation, most probably real 3D, but I guess that 2D animation will never phase out. 2D animations is there for the young children to enjoy!

3 Types of Pain

We all know that Pain is painful, don’t we! Sure some types of pain is painful for a short time and some pain is painful for a long time! The type of pain I know of are:

1) Emotional Pain

2) Long-lasting physical pain

3) The ‘Jackass’ Pain

Now, let me define the three types of pain in detail:

Emotional Pain

This is the type of pain, that can have a long-lasting effect on a person or group of people, i.e. If your loved one died all of a sudden, or you caught your lover cheating on you, this pain will have a huge impact on your life, a pain so strong that sometimes you need a psychiatrist, or also belonging to the " Long-lasting physical pain " is when you lover abuses you, a person that you love hurts you, making you scared of him/her. That lover is abusing you physically, yet also hurting you emotionally (I should know!)...

Long-lasting Physical Pain

This type of pain will affect the poor subject in many ways. This is the pain I do not like.

This pain, the nerve-messages are being transmitted to your brain, telling your brain to stop on whatever you’re doing that hurts you.

Your brain foreknows on what’s happening, thus hurting you, in a way to stop, before worse damage is being done. I.e.:

You slowly bend your arm, it sends messages to your brain for you to stop, those messages are painful. This pain wants to prevent you from doing worst harm to your body.

The ‘Jackass’ Pain

Have you ever watched on MTV the series Jackass! I love watching this program, as the people on this series act so stupid, even though sometimes it’s nasty and disgusting, it makes you laugh!

I can categorize the pain witnessed in Jackass as the Jackass Pain, you want to know why!

Even though it’s sore, probably your brain won’t get the nerves signals at the moment it happens. Like... If you break your arm without even knowing it, your brain won’t get nerve message at the moment, but only after it’s being done and once you touch the ‘wound’.

That pain will eventually go away after some time! But...

I love ‘ Jackass ‘

Lee’s Final Words

Pain can be seen in so many aspects, may it be physical, spiritual or emotional pain. The longest pain to endure is emotional pain, where that pain will take longer to come over!

8 Legged Freaks

Otherwise better known as our hairy friends... The Spiders! Me personally have a huge fear of spiders, it’s so bad that I scream like a girl when I see one close to me!

Once, when I was having my annual shower and I was going to get my bar of soap, I noticed a spider behind the soap.

Being cautious, I tried to move the soap out of the way, but the spider attached part of his web onto the soap and the spider moved.

I jumped and nearly fell out of the shower!

But what makes the spiders "fearsome"?

Ok, you get 100’s or 1000’s of species of spiders in this world. Some spiders are harmless while some spiders are dangerous!

I think the only time a spider attacks any living species is when it’s threatened, thus defending themselves!

Some spiders are silent yet very poisonous and some attack the attacker or any species that are a threat to them!

There are some type of spiders that stand on their hind-legs and run towards you making a hissing sound. Now, ain’t that scary!

I think the fear of spiders is over a couple of centuries old!

But why 8 and not 2 or 4 legs, but 8 or more legs?

I think that 2 or 4 legs is the norm to humans. But more than 4 is freaky. A dog has 4 legs, so has a cat or donkey or my girlfriend!

Then you get animals with two legs, or let’s make it safer, otherwise I’m in sh*t, I mean mammals, mammals are warm-blooded!!

Humans and Apes are mammals. You get mammals with 4 legs or with fins, but I’m now talking about 2-legged mammals, such as you and me. We see in everyday life mammals with 2 legs and we got used to it approx. millions of years ago!

So 2 and 4 for legs is a standard rule, that we’ve gotten used to!

But more than 4 is freaky or even 3 legs, but I’m talking about more than 4 now.

Ok, so you get some insects with more than 4 legs, possibly 8 or 10 legs or even more such as a centipede or millipede. I guess that a centipede has +- 100 legs, while a millipede has +- 1,000 legs. They are so small that it doesn’t bother me. Unless you go into the tropics where the standard size of them are huge, then that would freak me out!

Talking about sizes now, even a minute spider of just 10mm in diameter scares me!

The origin of the universal fear of the spider is centuries old, the fear has been carried over soul to soul, in other words the initial fear has been transferred into a new body, still being the same soul, as the soul never dies!

Even when I’m in a box of harmless spiders, just to overcome my fear, I would scream, possibly get a heart attack.

The spiders are brilliant arcitects, spinning a web in no time.

But, I’ll never overcome my fear for spiders, like millions of other people.

Perhaps I’m a girl in a man’s body!

Lee’s Final Words

Even though spiders are very freaky, they play an utmost part in our life. Think of this... If there were no spiders, our homes would have been infested by thousands of flies!

A Bird’s Life

A Bird - Our flappy friend in the sky that chirps in your ear, where some chirping sounds are sweet and gentle, while some chirps are vicious and low and some horrible chirps are like growling and hissing...

And some birds even talk back to you! Mind you, those birds are house trained, possibly even potty trained. They learn words that are either exchanged between owners and other people and some owners even talk to birds.

Imagine you cheat on your wife with her best friend and she has a talkative parrot and one day you and your wife are visiting her best friend. You and her best friend try to act all innocent. The room’s quiet, then all of a sudden you hear...

Mikey (Imagine your name’s Mickey)... SQAWK... and Angelina... SQAWK... Humping in Bedroom ... SQAWK... Faster and faster SQAWK ... Thar she blows SQAWK!!!

Then that Mickey is in deep s**t... Poor Bastard!

Those are house bound birds that don’t fly south for the winter, because they are trained and warm and cozy at home during winter. But, I’m talking about the wild birds that you find outside the house!

Those birds are in my mind like an automatic line, whereas the start of the line, stuff are performed and goes towards the end of the line, then new stuff is being manufactured doing the same, then it goes on like that... Like birds each year!

But, imagine being a bird and fly high, that sense of freedom must be quite nice!

But going back to the reality now, each year birds fly either south or north for the winter (depending if they live on the southern or northern hemisphere, where winter is in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere and visa versa)

Birds must do this each year to escape the cold of winter.

I’m not a bird scientist, but flapping wings at a enough force for liftment and flapping for 1000’s of kilometers must be quite excruciating. I can’t even run 1000 meters none stop, maybe I’m lazy for running!

Even though they crap all over, I take my hat off to birds for their work!

Lee’s Final Words

Coming to think of it, Bird like many other animals have a routine that they stick to. It’s in their blood to travel thousands of kilometers each year to a warmer climate.

A Child; A Gift from God

A child is a gift from God and from nothing else. You can’t manufacture your own child. But with modern techonolgy you sort of can choose on how your kid looks like, i.e. if you want him or her to be tall, dark and sexy, you should be able to in the near future.

But, you then can only change and modify the physical appearance of a person. In fact you can change the physical appearance now, even when you’re much older nowadays. It’s called plastic surgery!

In plastic surgery, you can practically modify anything to your heart’s desire. You can have botox injection, eye lift, a face lift, in fact, you can even have a body lift. In my friend’s case, she had a boob lift!

Let me come back to this article!

We’ve learned that we all can have physical changes. But now I want to talk about something different. In the spiritual case that is!

A child is the greatest modification to a person, as it’s a gift from God. With a child, the person feels complete and happy!

Some people have a couple of kids, hell, I know of some people who have possibly 10 or more kids. They belong to the "Hillbilly" generation!

But, depending on the person itself, they’ll be awarded with children that’s more suitable to them.

Can you imagine a well-groomed child who has manners and who’s very clever, being born into a family of hillbillies!

Or...

Imagining a hillbilly kid being born by the Queen of England. That will spell immediate chaos to England!

On what I mean is that a child will be born to the right person. A person who takes responsibility of that child and will show love.

Because God foreknows on which family will look after their child, so God will make the woman fertile in order to have children!

A good child whose being brought up the right way is the mirror of God, showing love and everything that’s good!

God can also take a child away from a person, if he sees that the person is not responsible enough to have a child.

God will take the child away only if the parent cannot mend themselves to be better for the child’s sake.

Below are some examples of parents who cannot mend themselves:

Dope-smoking Parents

I’ll have some drags of a Joint, but only very rarely and when my child’s not with. But people who not only smoke a Joint, sometimes even just cigarettes. Remember secondary smoke is very harmful to a child.

But in this case I mean a Joint. A Joint once smoked will release bacteria that are harmful to a child.

When smoking a Joint, it will relaxed the parent, also gives them the giggles. They prefer to be around that Joint and not their child in that case.

A child will see on how their parents behave and see how irresponsible their parent is.

Knowing on how adventurous a child is, they will try in the future. And once on a high at a young age, there’s most probably no turning back and they’ll most probably become dope-heads. Which could make them loose their lives, due to irresponsibility!

Alcoholic Parents

Sure, I like to have a drink, even when my child’s with. BUT, I only drink to relax after a hard day’s work, then I’ll either have a coffee or a hot chocolate.

But, I’m talking about parents who constantly drink themselves motherless, even around their children. A child will try and most probably enjoy it, sometimes to such an extent, they’ll become motherless.

Because at that young age, a body is not equipped to handle alcohol. Sometimes, they drink too much and die of alcohol poisoning. They think it’s fine to act like that, because they see their parents doing it!

God, will take the child away, if the parent cannot help themselves!

Outgoing Parents

Parents of a child who always go clubbing, will leave their child behind with a baby sitter. The parent is rarly there to teach the child the dangers and values of life. They prefer to go clubbing, instead of acting like a parent to that child!

God will see that and will most probably will takes the child’s life away from the irresponsible outgoing parent.

It’s nice to be outgoing, but then control your outgoing, or if your child’s old enough, be outgoing with them, but also spend some quality time with them.

Be a proper parent and lead the child to a better and much happier life!

Irresponsible Parents

Irresponsible parents are parents who only think of their lives and their happiness and not of the child.

They don’t teach the child of the rights and wrongs of life. They’ll show irresponsibility to that child!

Once God sees there’s no hope in helping the parent, then God will take the child away from the irresponsible parent and will place the soul of the child into a newborn to a parent who will take care and love the child!

Lee’s Final Words

A child is a God’s gift to a family who will take care of the child. Please show that child proper love and care, for the child is a gift from God.

A child shines love and happiness, for a child is a pure spirit!

A Decade of Cellphones

A decade of cellphones and that’s just +- 10 years since the birth of the cellphone and each year it has improved so drastically that you can’t even compare the new phones to the old phones!

Do you remember when the first cellphones have been created on how big and bulky they were with crappy monotone plain ringtones, mono LCD with very little memory and little functions!

Nowadays cellphones have super VGA screens, MP3 ringontones and other true tones, camera and video recorder, even have WAP and web services, etc...

I think even the ringtones alone have improved a lot.

I tink it first started off with a cheap monotone ringtone. This is how I believe the ringtones have evolved!

1) Monotone

2) Duotone

3) Midi

4) SMAF Midi

5) MP3 Truetone

6) WAV Truetone, etc...

And todays phones can take incredible large amounts of memory like 20 or 40 gigabytes or more and first phones I guess was 100 kilobytes, so the memory of todays phones is approx. 200,000 times larger than the first phones and still improving.

Mind you, now you can even watch TV on your cellphone, providing you pay the licence fee in full!

Now you have Bluetooth on your phones (Maybe your phone can handle a bluemovie!)

The audio on your todays cellular phones have improved so much, that’s now crystal clear.

Todays cellphones are small, compact and have a smart / modern design.

It’s like a computer, when it was first invented, it was the size of a streetblock and now so small, even the cellphone is a computer (imagine carrying a block of flats in your pocket!).

It’s now 10 years since the birth of the cellphone and technology is improving each day.

Now imagine cellphones 100 years in the future, even 10,000’s years in the future (providing that the man hasn’t been wipe off the face of the earth!

Remember that with each year the technology of cellphones have improved to such an extent, that you totally forget about the existence of the original cellphone!

Kind of scary, isn’t it!

Lee’s Final Words

Today’s Cell phones are a major improvement to former and classic cell phones. Although it has been now a decade since the invention of the cell phone, you can see an improvement with each later model from the previous phone. Cell phones far in the future will be out of this world!

A Decade of Movies

I’m just talking about 10 years of movies here, while movies have been in existence for over +- 50 years or even much longer, but I’m talking the time span between 1995 to 2005...

I’ve seen HUGE changes in the movies and films, whereas I thought the movies are brilliant in 1995, but compare those old movies to 2005, a big improvement

I remember when still living in Germany, I love watching the series " Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Green " as it’s modern with spaceships and brilliant special effects. I enjoyed it very much.

But now, only a decade later, The new movie " Battlestar Galactica " is out and WOW a huge improvement to the original with special effects that are out of this world, proper 3D effects.

Apparently about a decade ago, the film producers used model space crafts that hang from the ceiling with an "invisible" string.

Now everything is fully computerized.

10 years ago I don’t think they had proper 3D animation, they used puppets and hands and wires.

But, today we have 3D movies such as "Shrek and Garfield", etc...

The marvel of 3D animation is fantastic.

But, imagine movies 10 or even 100 years in the future!

Those movies must be like... your in the movie itself. So super-realistic.

We’ll must wait for that time, but you now can imagine what the future holds for us!!!

Lee’s Final Words

In that last decade, Movies have improved so much, that it’s actually unbelievable, comparing today’s movies to the movies in the past. And that is only a Decade of movies. Now imagine movies ten years from now, in fact 100 or more years from now. It’s very hard to imagine with all the new improvements and technology!

A Drink With Practising Driving

Having a drink when driving is fine, providing you drink your drink responsibly and not like a fish.

Only when you’re an experienced driver that has very little or no accidents and you can drive responsibly, then having a drink is fine, as a drink tends to relax your nerves after a hard day’s work, because the alcohol relaxes your brain, thus making it more efficiently, but don’t drink too much also, as I explained in the article "Drinking and Driving"!

But,

Having a drink while practicing driving is a definite No-No!

You wanna know why?

Because people who are learning to drive have no experience in driving. They can’t control or manage a car or any other vehicle properly, due to nervousness!

Sure, a drink will calm you down and makes you less nervous. But imagine having a drink when practicing driving and all of a sudden you’re in a accident.

Guess what’s to blame? ... Alcohol

And most probably you, even though it wasn’t your fault!

Because people will see you’re driving like an ass, though you’re practicing to drive. All of a sudden, they smell alcohol or even a hint of alcohol, when they approach you to say that you’re driving like an ass.

They’ll blame accident due to you, for drunken driving!

Most probably you’ll get your learner’s license suspended or a driver’s license will be permanently void!

And, do you want that?

Can you imagine living in a beautiful area which you want to explore and also want to be more independent? But you can’t, due to that stupid mistake you did!

Rather practicing to drive, then from all the tension from learning to drive, then have a drink to de-stress and relax you. Providing you have a drink in the evenings, knowing you won’t drive that night!

Only once you’re experienced enough and have more confidence in driving on our roads, then it’s fine. Then you can enjoy life!

Lee’s Final Words

To avoid getting your license banned, rather have a drink only once finished practicing driving. Otherwise, you’ll get your license banned or permanently cancelled.

When you’re confident enough and have a license, the a drink is fine! But, before having the official driver’s license, then having a drink when driving is a definite no-no!

A Free World

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a free World?

I mean to live in a World where everything is absolutely free. Where you don’t pay a cent for anything.

In a free World, where cigarettes are free. Even cars, houses, computers, women, in fact everything you see is free!

But when everything is free, there would be HUGE problems upon that. You’ll see everyone will get greedy, wanting more and more.

Greed is when a person doesn’t know when to stop, wanting more and more and most probably won’t even share their material stuff!

You’ll then see a poor person, who can’t afford anything driving a flashy sports car, has a condo by the beach.

Most probably they want a private jet to cruise around the world, adding to that, they want a speed boat, a nine bed roomed mansion in the mountains, a Jacuzzi the size of a soccer field, etc...!

Me personally would get an up market mansion in the Cape Town, bordering the sea and mountains, will have a holiday house that’s the size of a castle in Bahamas and also in Mauritius.

I’ll get a Learjet for traveling and also a Jumbo Jet for me and my friends. I’ll have a yacht, a submarine, a race track, etc... You know where I’m going at with this. Even I would be greedy and I’m not a greedy person, rather a giving person who loves to help!

Also imagine this:

"You’re a wealthy businessman, who loves to travel, who has a large house. You’re quite successful in your line of business! But, the next person is a begger and has a even larger mansion or mansions, one in Cape Town, one in Beverly Hills and owns Castle Lichtenstein (I mean the one genuine one in Europe and not the one in Cape Town). He drives ten sports cars and has a fleet of Jets!"

You see, when everything is free, everyone will get greedy!

You’ll see that the World would be permanently messed up and very hard for the World’s economic side to stand on it’s own feet and most probably it will never stand on it’s own feet, due to greed and corruption!

That is why there’s cost and value involved. Everything has a price, may it be products or services. Everything has a cost. Costs may vary on products and services, due to the cost of raw materials and specialization of the services.

In specialization of services the cost of i.e. designing may vary to another design company. That’s based upon experience and qualification. You see, even further studying costs money, as it’s more specialized than school. School will tutor you the general lessons of life, while Universities teach to specialized subjects!

The monetary currency teaches you to be responsible with goods and sell and purchase with care and control.

Lee’s Final Words

If living in a free World, greed and corruption will be visibly evident, Even the loyal people will show greed. In order to live in a controlled World, currency is needed