i think nietzsche adopts stendahl's aesthetic philosophy of beauty promising happiness. i think that nietzsche misinterprets schopenhauer's philosophy that a "disinterestedness" is what happens when art/beauty meets the audience. also that it is a nihilism. i think that schopenhauer misinterprets kant by assuming that disinterestedness stands alone ( Read more... )

some play games because the games are fun or the people that play them are having fun. if a game player's goal is to have fun, the question exists about winning and losing both being fun. when one has fun playing a game, one wins in winning and losing. if one doesn't have fun while losing, then winning can't be all that great either. if the game ( Read more... )

i just zipped through my lj calendar to find i haven't been active here since 2005. 7 years almost, that whole cell change. and i tapered off in 2010. crazy. i'll have to go back to my 2005-2006 self to see where/why i lost the steam. i don't even know what friends read this. except for a few maybe. it's a plan to read all i've written. i'm ( Read more... )

one thing i like about myself is my no black and white, but perspective. observe the following to catch my drift.

i cannot understand in any (or most)capacity(ies) why someone would try and find a parking space close to the destination. these people which i'll call "closerpakers" will circle and square and rectangle a space (a space) more than ( Read more... )

i got on the N Judah and swung around to one of those seats that makes you look forward into a wall. i remembered for a split second my past attraction to fitting myself into small dark tight warm and womblike places. for a split second i understood why cats end up under blankets.

in san francisco,california there is an intersection at church and duboce. bicycles travel north on church and take a left on duboce. it is rare that they come from or go to any other direction. this particular left turn happens 7 days a week, twenty-one hours a day. and if that wasn't strange enough, people on these bicycles are dressed in clothes ( Read more... )

a good percentage of my livejournal friends are saying that they're getting old. the thirties starts this but don't tell a 60 or 70 year old as they'll laugh in your face. all this at a time when i am feeling that way myself and reading a book called "what i talk about when i talk about running" by murakami. dude runs 1 to 4 marathons a year and ( Read more... )

sometimes i'll be thinking and looking at the ground as i walk and not realizing i was looking at the ground until i look up and see someone smiling at me walking past ( Read more... )

the door man the parts man the dull man and the woman.

the door man goes to the door to find what the ruckus is about. problem the parts man follows with parts.fix the dull man arrives with the bag (euthanasia?).solve the woman brings her compassion.resolvesmoke lingers and heads upstairs look down upon the foursome of firefighters help ( Read more... )

read my horrorscope this morning to find out i should listen to my inner voice and it will tell me what i need to know much like the stars. mmm, what stars have we fallen from that we should land and meet here ( Read more... )