I'm going to circumvent the poll limitation on my free account with this very ghetto creation of my own. I have allowed anonymous comments for this, and they'll be screened, in case you're not comfortable with publicly displaying these things. You can post anonymously if you want.

1. How often do you find yourself in "bad moods" for at least an hour ( Read more... )

After an extremely rigorous couple of months studying some of my favorite theorists, I'm totally burnt out on academia, at least for the time being. I've spent a long while in solitude, contemplating solitude, and I've come to a couple possible insights that I thought I'd share.

My preference for solitude is a symptom: As Lacan points out, the ( Read more... )

Another day of agonizing myself over a religion's universal validity (or lack thereof) and the consequences thereof. Do they all possess a piece of the truth? Comparative religion. Sociology. Maybe if I just keep on repeating myself the answer will become obvious.

An earthy, 'post'-Christianity is the only thing that seems to me to escape the twin ( Read more... )

Joseph Chilton Pearce is visiting Fort Lauderdale. This is very exciting to me. Not because I enjoy his work; on the contrary, now I would probably dismiss his stuff as suspicious New Age crap and toss it aside with a snort. However, I read The Biology of Transcendence in 10th grade, and I haven't been able to stop thinking since. It's the book ( Read more... )

So it's finally summer. I'm not sure what to think. I shook the dust off my feet at the outskirts of Tampa and now I'm living with my mom in Lakeland for a couple months. I'll be working at the USF bookstore for the majority of the break, and then I'm taking a math class the last month before Fall semester begins.

I recently received a letter from ( Read more... )

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Hey, it's signicure. The assholes suspended my journal for some reason. I'll be using this from now on.