Comments | greatmib: Not knowing anymore...

greatmib

Not knowing anymore...

Oct 09, 2005 16:12

On Friday I finished reading "Rules of Attraction". Closing that book was intensely profound and frightening. It's been years since a book has effected me the way this one has. It is so honest, so brutal, so right on a multitude of levels that it distrubs me and yet that is exactly the reason I loved it so much, the reason I couldn't put it down ( Read more... )

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elctrcmyhm79 October 10 2005, 00:06:28 UTC

Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm so glad you liked the book (I'm sure you can see why it isn't one most people would probably have on their top 10... though they should). And yes, one of the most starkly dark notions I got from it was the fact that you can never truly know another person; hell half the time I don't really know myself. At first that thought scared me, but I actually found comfort in it eventually because I had always had that inkling, but at least now I've been able to anaylze it and feel secure in the thought that I have some actual knowledge about the world, even if the knowledge is of the lonely variety. To quote John Stuart Mill,
"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."

eomsam October 10 2005, 00:59:28 UTC

If poisoning myself with alcohol is wrong, well frankly, I don't want to be right. CHEERS!

greatmib October 10 2005, 03:46:21 UTC

Haha, that't not what I mean. I enjoy drinking, sometimes too much even, and I still will. What I'm questioning is that often we feel that we NEED to get drunk in order to feel comfortable with ourselves. This insecurity with who we are is what bothers me, not the act of drinking itself.

eomsam October 10 2005, 07:01:06 UTC

Well don't ever feel insecure with yourself around me. :P Regardless of how much you succeed, or more likely, fail, you can always count on the fact that I will make fun of you just as much as I always have. *GROUP HUG*

greatmib October 10 2005, 22:55:06 UTC

Awww...I can always cound on you to call me "ho" and make me feel all warm and fuzzy...hehe

reninrome October 11 2005, 18:08:34 UTC

guess what?? im going to sign up for poli sci 118AC "Jazz, Hollywood, and Border Music" for next semester... unless you advise me otherwise

much love

ps if elliot is reading this film studies 151 "Almodovar and Lynch" taking that also

elctrcmyhm79 October 11 2005, 20:21:27 UTC

Oooh... sounds like quite the interesting one.

However, I just checked it out, and it conflicts in time (both the lecture and screenings) to other classes I need to take. Plus, I have to be very careful with units (I'll fill you in on the whole ordeal L&S is putting me through when you get back).

But... if I ever have free time I'll definitely join you so I can be an annoying distraction.

greatmib October 12 2005, 03:58:21 UTC

I'm considering that class too...hehe. Maybe we'll actually spend a whole semester in a class together!