one of my bass strings broke, D. This makes me sad

 Looking at the earth from a purey empirical perspective, I can imagine how it might be easy to be very pessimistic. but I think it's very hopeful, to say the least, that after Burma's governmnet shoots its own citizens in the center of a crowded city square, eyewitnesses can go home or to the office and blog about it. That people living in third ( Read more... )

I have a vision of the way I want to act, characteristic of a person who doesn't exist. Although the tao te ching tells us that one should live according to their nature, other people's nature, and the nature of one's environment, in order to truly prosper. If you just do the things that come naturally to you, does that necessarily mean that you're ( Read more... )

 I'm in a car with Zachary Taylor driving in Atlanta, in front of my old high school. He says to me "remember that scene from Blues Brothers?"
"Which one?"
He turns left sharply and the car speeds towards the front door. "This one," he says. I start to let out a scream before he stops the car an inch before collision.

Some subjects are innately difficult to research, especially over internet resources. For instance: the phenomenon of "sleeping in." I know it may seem silly, but given the fact that there are an infinite number of things to complete that prepositional phrase, finding information pertaining to "sleeping" plus "in" plus nothing proves to be rather ( Read more... )

George Orwell was a genius, of course. He said that when you're poor, your biggest motivation and your biggest problem is a boredom. Hardships occur and you deal with them as effeciently as you are able, but even if you survive them they take everything that you may have had to occupy your time, and you are left with yourself and your mind in an ( Read more... )

Attrition: When you repent your sins, but not because you love God ( Read more... )

Here's something I've never understood about psychology: When sociologists try and conduct surveys to see how happiness relates to various other factors, they do it by merely asking people to rate their happiness with their life on a scale from 0 to 10 ( Read more... )

if you were counting steps, would seven take longer to step than six or eight?

Dream analysis is a very interesting field, albeit a very complicated one ( Read more... )