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Well gosh. WIth the end of Friendly Hostility, I don't really have much of any reason to come around here anymore. My LJ friends page is still set as my homepage for Firefox, but I don't ever use it like I used to. Oh well, it happens...

BID DAY '09 FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I do sometimes think that the distinction between pantheism and atheism is semantic. So, my own personal version of ignosticism is, at its more developed moments, an expression of the non-duality of atheism and pantheism.

"Avoiding either extreme, the Truth is taught via the Middle Way..."

If anybody reading this has not yet figured this out, my name is Adam. We should all be familiar with the story in Genesis where YHWH (translated in many Christian bibles as The LORD) creates Adam by breathing life into the dust of the Earth. Adam is Biblical Hebrew, and not only the personal name of the first man in that story, but also for Man in ( Read more... )

What do you do when you want something so bad that your desire/craving prevents it from happening ( Read more... )

Something interesting I found while reading about psychology. It is one possible psyspeak explanation of why some people are liked more than others. (I don't even want to deal with the orthographic question of whether or not to drop the final -e of "like" in the word "likeability ( Read more... )

AHHHHHHHHH! It's so hard to be serene and peaceful when it's 95 degrees out with over 50% humidity and full sun! For all you people who live in places with low humidity and need to see the heat index, that means that it feels like it's 107 Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) in the shade. When the sun is shining directly on you and you don't own any shorts so ( Read more... )

Sandrita, you are severely testing my serenity. You're going to end another comic with main characters who aren't mature enough to really make their lives work and get what they want. I know it's "realistic" because it's a situation that happens all the time. I know that because plenty of my friends are not mature enough to create the relationships ( Read more... )

( Caffeinated philosophical brain-dump )

Oww. My vocal cords. As much as I like it when I sing a G sharp, THEY certainly don't like it, and they're making me pay. Thanks, universe, for making my voice low ( Read more... )