ive been kind of dislocated recently. i feel like i have an emotional/intellectual phantom itch. you know the kind, im sure: youll go to scratch, but it kind of relocates to somewhere like the small of your back? i feel like by the time im able to catch up with myself, ill be feeling/thinking something altogether different. i need to stop. and ( Read more... )

to kelson: im sorry for all the typing.

truth springs from argument amongst friends. -hume

i want to be able to have conversations for a living, the kind of conversations that make me heady with humanity. i already live for robust conversations, i just wish i could live on them. supposedly this damned philosophy thing is supposed to get me to that place, but it hasnt really been ( Read more... )

you know, i think this is actually affecting me much more than i'd like to let on ( Read more... )

i just realized something interesting about the way we label our relationships... 'symbiotic' is just a really friendly way of saying 'codependent'.while i can understand and respect the West's individualism, i think that we've gone wrong trying to pretend that we should keep secrets to protect ourselves against taking an emotional fall. i try to ( Read more... )

update. forget school, i forget that i can drown right here.

i am a tiny, quiet personality... i'm going to drown at school.

bill o'reilly, while politically reprehensible, can apparently argue the pants off of liberal biased public broadcasting. the 'liberal media' makes a habit of accusing him of being unsportly by exploiting unfair house rules. seeing his show a few times, i always agree with them ( Read more... )

the whole order of things fills me with a sense
of anguish, from the gnat to the mysteries of
incarnation; all is entirely unintelligible to me,
and particularly my own person. great is my
sorrow, without limits. none knows of it, except
God in Heaven, and He cannot have pity.
- kierkegaard, journal

i was reasearching bertrand russell and found this quote:
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

... wow, what a dick.