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9:04am: i've gotten to the point where i listen to lynyrd skynyrd. actually, i got to that point a while ago ( Read more... )

hmm. if seeing is the function of eyes, then the virtue in respect to eyes is seeing well. if living is the function of the soul, then living well is its virtue. socrates argues that justice is a virtue of the soul, and therefore, justice is part of living well. but doesn't justice necessitate an interaction between people, or does the socratic ( Read more... )

i think my brain just stopped working in every analytical capacity.

i keep trying to read over my paper, but it just doesn't register.

and yet i'm analyzing my particular disfunction of the moment as i type... must be something else going on.

we are the cruel people who stay up all sunday night/monday morning, writing papers, making coffee, talking in the social room and smoking cigarettes on the balcony ( Read more... )

artartart's philosophy question thingie, answered by me:

1. What do you value?

interaction, respect

2. Where do/did your values come from?

my take on reality.

3. Should other people share your values?

only if they truly share them.

4. Is there free will? Determinism? Both? How? And how does this affect the way you live your life?the ( Read more... )

so, i was reading back in my journal, which documents my existence starting four years ago but has a big gaping hole where the past year and a half of my life supposedly happened... yeah, anyway, and i realized that i have been in a perpetual existensial crisis since 1996.

i wonder if that's a record?

but i found a funny quote from about two ( Read more... )

so, i just spent at least two hours hunting down pictures from fraggle rock, my little pony, and teenage mutant ninja turtles.

can anyone relate to this? is this a typical response to having to write a paper? i mean really, that's a lot of hours...

i know it seems silly ( Read more... )

so, i just spent the past three hours making communal junk art sculptures, drinking out of 40's of pabst and hamms, playing pool and smoking cigarettes... stress on the MAKING COMMUNAL JUNK ART SCULPTURES. they're attached to ashtrays and trees... we made them out of scrap metal, which i always have plenty of, and things from the free shelves ( Read more... )