The first horn of Phaedrus’ dilemma was, If Quality exists in the object, why can’t scientific instruments detect it?

This horn was the mean one. From the start he saw how deadly it was. If he was going to presume to be some superscientist who could see in objects Quality that no scientist could detect, he was just proving himself ( Read more... )

An important part of hardship, suffering or heartbreak is realising that it is actually not your fault. I know that like me, everyone tends to fall into self-loathing sometime or other. Realising that maybe you're not to blame is like a huge weight off your shoulder. Sometimes, it makes it all right ( Read more... )

I am spending the majority of the summer, that is from early January to the first of March, living in a beach 45 kilometres down the south road. It's called La Quebrada and it's a little piece of paradise, fallen straight off heaven. The propaganda is just because I love going there so ha-ha! I'll come around every few weekdays to check up on stuff ( Read more... )

"I cried when I saw those buildings collapse upon themselves like broken hearts. I have never owned pain that needs to spread like that. There is no poetry in this. Causes and effects, symbols and ideologies, mad conspiracy hear, information we'll never know. There is death here, and promises of more. There is life here, anyone hearing this is ( Read more... )

Congratulations! You have come to realize an extremely important fact about our Universe: it completely lacks meaning, purpose and direction ( Read more... )

"The rules are easy, just post 6 things that recently made you happy!
Then tag 6 people to post this meme on their LJs.
Everyone needs a little happiness once in awhile."

RE-EDIT:

1.) All the little details. Her telling me she actually felt jealous seeing me having fun with someone else, or asking me to trust her when I actually get jealous. Things ( Read more... )

Went trekking from Río Blanco to Laguna Rapagna, two places in northern Lima which you shouldn't be aware of. It was between 3500 and 4500 metres above sea level, all in all, so we had to deal with altitude sickness and all sorts of shit. It was just five other students and two teachers, particularly Sandro, who's the school drama guy.
So anyway, ( Read more... )

Went down to Chincha last sunday with other guys from school. It's a three hour bus ride, so my sister and I had to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to get there at about 9 am. My school was organising the building of provisional wooden classrooms for a local school which had been destroyed by the earthquake, and most of the panels had been put up by ( Read more... )

Since winter isn't really over yet, I'm going to consider the last three months of my life as my "winter summer" for this thing.

1. Kissed your ex?
Don't have one lol

2. Told someone I love you?
Yes.

3. Someone told you they loved you?
Yes.

4. Wanted someone you couldn't have?
Of course.

5. Been to the beach?
Yes.

6. Got drunk?
Fuck yes.

7. Smoked?
Nope.

8. ( Read more... )

Yesterday at school, I spent a lot of time helping around with the donations and shit. We had huge boxes filled with clothes, canned tunna, beans, bags of pasta and tensils and sugar and salt and all kinds of shit. We were making little personal bags with a few bottles of water, a bag of each essential, toilet paper, matches, a torch, all these ( Read more... )