Changes by way of explanation

[leafofgrass]

So over the past year I've found that I've changed a lot. This is inevitable as we are all constantly shedding our skins and growing them anew, but this time I feel it more than most. I nearly proposed to a woman out of love and subsequently lost that love; became disillusioned with philosophy only to discover what it really means to me; made one

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[picarosado]

Ouch! I’m sorry to hear that you had to suffer such embarrassment and pain, but I’m glad you are (to plagiarize you) ‘embracing my authentic self.’ On the other hand, I wish self-discovery hadn’t come at such a high price. The evolution of Captain Kierkegaard has certainly been a long one. Your earlier posts permeate of the naiveté the young are blessed with. You were indomitable and effervescent. Now you are introspective and much more guarded. Who you are is a reflection of how you’ve dealt with life and its circumstances. I’m glad you handled its pitfalls with dignity and grace. I’m sorry if this sounds rather intimate, considering that you are I are basically strangers. To sound like a fortune cookie, "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakens." Lucky numbers 14 7 28 19 65 38 8 :)

[leafofgrass]

To be honest, I was a bit taken aback at your observations' accuracy. Especially since we are practically strangers. Like I said, I think I am becoming more intimate in my writing, so I think it's time for me to make a decision on who I share that with.

I couldn't agree with you more about life being a result of what we deal with and how we choose to do so. That is precisely why I would not wish away that embarassment, my newfound reservedness that makes soial interaction more strenuous, or the loss of the love of my life so far, for that matter. Well, maybe I'm being a bit extreme on that last one.

I suppose the task now is to take the person who I have become and find a life suitable to it. Thank you for your kind words.

[jimotron]

Those bastard academics.

[leafofgrass]

I know. Let's become "academics" because I never want to be one of them. The ironic part is how great most of our faculty is compared to other places. You'd think the students would follow suit. I guess the academy is what happens when you put together so many people who were traumatized as children and are too fragile to deal with that (e.g. the drunken Deleuzian).

[jimotron]

Basically. You should stop socializing with drunken graduate students. They're miserable people.

[sak_ritmo]

I hope you don't mind a comment from a scattermind vagabond soul!

Your philosophical insights are, without a doubt, a breath of fresh air to this lowly undergrad. You bring a certain air of poesis to your posts that falls neither into the camps of bombast pretentiousness nor analytic pedantry. Would you mind at all adding me back? I think I would be at the losing end of the bargain if I were deprived of your posts (my own posts are a combination of drunken idiocy and random stupidity, but I promise that they're infrequent).

Hello Jaaaames

[leafofgrass]

I so you've unmased the real Heidegger, eh? oh well, just don't tell.

I appreciate your compliment a great deal, thank you! You'll have to forgive me if I wait to get to know you a bit more before I add you back: the stuff behind friends filters at this point is usually a bit too personal.

since the majority of folks who replied to this are not on my list at this point, I will most likely not simply stop posting publically, so if you want to read and comment then perhaps we can establish a rapport.

So how do you find Carbondale?

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[sak_ritmo]

I so you've unmased the real Heidegger, eh? oh well, just don't tell.

These lips are concealed.

I appreciate your compliment a great deal, thank you! You'll have to forgive me if I wait to get to know you a bit more before I add you back: the stuff behind friends filters at this point is usually a bit too personal.

That's perfectly understandable. I can reassure you that I'm not a drunken Deleuzian, though (I'm guessing that substance abuse of some sort is a prerequisite for becoming a Deleuzian. I'm kidding of course; for the most part).

since the majority of folks who replied to this are not on my list at this point, I will most likely not simply stop posting publically, so if you want to read and comment then perhaps we can establish a rapport.

Hooray!

So how do you find Carbondale?I've actually just transfered here from the University of Missouri - Columbia as a junior, but I've actually lived around Carbondale all of my life. Southern Illinois has its fair share of racist dipshits, but Carbondale is and always has been a

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[jimotron]

I abuzed booze and read Deleuze at the same time.

2 AM

[life_as_art]

I think I can pinpoint the moment I became an adult and it was yesterday around 2am.

That was the best sentence that I have read in a long time. If you ever write a novel...include it. Heh.

Okay, yeah, I'm a little crazy.

That is great, I think, that you know yourself well enough not to respond in a merely reactionary manner to things like verbal barbs.

Okay, back to work with me.

Jaimie

hello

[hoppyoccident]

I have never "announced myself," but am a fairly regular reader...and I believe we were in the same astounding session at SPEP last Winter with Ed Casey. I am almost positive you were the one with the question about the use of the photograph. Sorry I didn't say anything, and I had only been reading you for a couple of months at that point (beginning just before the World Series and your bout with the Comps). I'm pretty reserved if not bashful

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[leafofgrass]

And I am nearly positive you are the gentleman who lost his notebook at the registration table! Yes, that was me at that Ed Casey session, I would love to do my dissertation with him were he not at Stoneybrook. Oh well! I find his attempt to overtly move away from time toward space fascinating, but at the end of the day it's all about zeit-raum, right? ;-)

Anyhow, I'm pretty taken aback by your words. In a good way, but nevertheless taken aback. I just assumed that those who did not comment were not reading, let alone actually appreciated my ramblings alternatingly inspired by ecstacy and angst. It's flattering to think that you care for them.

Ah Galen, a truly good human being. He's on sabbatical writing a book right now on beauty. I am very excited for its completion, I'll let you know when it gets published and with whom. I also recognize the discretion exercised on the Memphians comment: and yes, she is awesome (assuming we are speaking of the same person). Merleau-Ponty and Scheler! I hope to read some Scheler over

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[madamebovary]

the one thing i learned from radio is that even if people don't call up (leave comments) it doesn't mean they're not listening (reading)!!

Sometimes, they show up when you least expect it!

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[jimotron]

She said you were too theoretical? That's awesome. I'd have fallen over laughing.