I need to pause from the Battle sometimes. There's a scene in 'Michael' where Travolta, the warrior Angel, yells "BATTLE!" and runs into a field to fight with a long horned bull. He's laughing and happy after he smashes into the bull and both are lying in the long grass. I know that feeling. I think every warrior has to love the fight, mostly. But ( Read more... )

Had a great weekend. M and I saw "Spiderman" on Sat. Wow, what a film ( Read more... )

Started the 'Ayn Rand Group' and invited some people to join. I've also contacted some people from the ARF and apologized to them. I'm interested to see what happens next. One possibility is that the ARF is populated mostly by those who feel a loyalty to the "official" wing of Objectivism, the one LP leads, and were never really interested in my ( Read more... )

I wrote a bunch of replies to some people that I was having conversations with on the ARF today, and couldn't post them. I thought that it was just my cable, or some problem which relates to the connectivity problems I've been having lately. But no, to my surprise, I've been banned from the ARF for being "rude", for engaging in "ad hominem" and for ( Read more... )

In Crime and Punishment Raskalnikov has a secret (his crime). I was talking to lovelyslr (what does that name mean?) about honesty and facades, and I was wondering whether Raskalnikov could ever be said to be honest on his LJ if his secret remained untold ( Read more... )

It's funny how we learn new things about ourselves. It can be through enormous upheavals and crises, or it can be someting simple, like the arrival of a letter ( Read more... )

I've been reading "Crime and Punishment" this week. I've been having a negative reaction to the whole thing, but one thing I've noticed is that it's holding me even though the plot is not interesting, the philosophical issues are puerile, the dialog is stiff, and it has other negatives I could recite if I were of a mind ( Read more... )

Blerk

Well, I just wanted to write something to start this thing, but I'm distracted by the fact that LJ doesn't seem to handle Netscape very well. I'm assuming that if I had IE, it would look OK, but since I avoid MS products whenever possible, I use Netscape, and all the text on this page is not displaying properly. Gotta write the owner of the site. ( Read more... )