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ashcanprobably

meme

Oct 19, 2005 18:47

LJ Interests meme results

caseation:
If I'm not mistaken, this is the process by which a thing is converted into cheese. When I first read it, I thought of the cheese one relates to flesh, the sagging, the wrinkly dimples and creases, basically the wasteland left behind when one loses a lot of weight, regains it, and loses it again. Words like ( Read more... )

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holla, strange_idols December 8 2005, 17:59:47 UTC

do you mind if I add you?

ashcanprobably December 8 2005, 20:56:54 UTC

I think you've proved that it's not within my power to stop you.

Do you ask a tree if you can climb it?

evrything_but December 9 2005, 02:03:28 UTC

I still request that we discuss this matter over AIM or that you at least reflect upon a detailed response here. I am not offended by your attitude toward mental illness, presuming it also applies to other ailments. I write what can (depending on filters) be an extremely controversial journal, and I write it to diminish anachronistic stigma and allure ( ... )

evrything_but December 9 2005, 02:22:48 UTC

Here is my writing (as in writing that I'm glad belongs to me), since you have made an issue of it:
Expressing the Platonic axiom that the impulse to self-preservation constitutes “a mark of [God’s] profound latent unity from whence [Augustine] derived [his] being,” or an early awareness of God’s grace, Augustine writes that “an inward instinct” bids him to value truth and “take care of the integrity of [his] senses” (Augustine 22) even in childhood. The phrases “profound latent unity,” “inward instinct,” and “take care of the integrity” suggest an intelligence of the origin of being, and its wholeness in the eternal, concealed within the human mind. Affinity for truth and unimpaired judgment is instinctual in that it asserts itself as an “inward” or subjective drive without being willed or understood as such. Augustine suggests that a person’s most private self is something motivated by God and partially understandable in those terms.
In other words, I am bewildered by academics who have the brain power to do both. I am clearly not ( ... )

evrything_but December 9 2005, 23:34:28 UTC

I forgot that I already showed you those photos, and they're from the same party, which is suspect I guess from the I-might-be-enprise standpoint.

So here's a photo of me and other real-life humans in the loverly West Philadelphia:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v407/saffycat/Miscellaneous/meltopherandme2.jpg

Incidentally, enprise lives creepily near my high school. Another local boy with whom I helped solve the mystery suggested we bring him cookies to make amends for all the trouble we caused him.