new lj: i_eat_bread

just watched 'adaptation'

behind the self-referential recursions and parallels and, at oft time, meanderings (it seems), you yourself inevitably are forced to adapt. the concept of 'change' has never been so profound, so poignant, as it has been offered in this film: its explicit evaluation, its latent reflection, its presentation in particular ( Read more... )

ooh me me me pick me *raises hand*

HAHAHAHAHAH im king of the world ( Read more... )

so a year of aging's gone by. i guess it's time for the usual moment of deep reflection/confession where i sit in the middle of some space-time continuum with the proverbial stage-light-from-no-where shining down overhead. on second thought, i'll do us both a favour and not go through that numbing process. but i have to say somethingso i'll say ( Read more... )

gotta work on my tendency to read superficially. somehow i feel i need more... background info, preparation... and after that some effing insight for a change hahahaha.

p.s. vince is my hero (not)

on science in the name of progress - the scientific theory of evolution has it that selection for the strongest occurs naturally and blindly, without regard to any end, any telos. and how this postulation too has evolved, from theory to fact with telos - to those biologists and to those who seek the evolution of the species, that is progress: why ( Read more... )

they're terrible. it's like watching an instructional video on the topic of turnovers. and the raptors winning is like watching bloopers - oops? how did that happen ( Read more... )

the problem with convictions is that they, in themselves, are viciously circular: man creates his conviction only to become a slave to it, and, it turns out, it is actually he who becomes the creation - stunted, restricted in his form. it is not a dialectical relationship, for man loses his freedom - and with this, his consciousness - once he ( Read more... )

my friend spoke on the topic of hypocrisy and lamented over it, and stated that everyone is diseased by it, and yet it is necessary for life, that we cannot "survive withOUT hypocrisy".

to say that hypocrisy is essential for survival is to refer to hypocrisy as a necessary mechanism for survival, a sprocket in human nature. and to say that it is ( Read more... )