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So it
At lunch Bugoy/Angela managed, between mouthfuls of Ruby's cheeseburgers, a comment about how something about time going by faster in the states. We all know Einstein threw absolute space and time out the window with his goings-on about relativity, but that stuff isn't something I ever saw in third-grade, even senior year science labs. Nothing ( Read more... ) -
one of those moments
American Political Discourse Through History:
"We hold these truths to be self evident..."
"Four score and twenty years ago..."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."
"Ask not what your country can do for you..."
"I'm the commander guy."
Now's a good time to go cry. -
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So, I finally have spring break plans ( Read more... ) -
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One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
We'll remember -
Forever...
Goodbye, Thomas. I know you're somewhere better now. -
Ouroboros
OneThe idea of the eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify ( Read more... ) -
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Do not tell me that there is no such thing as akrasia, you vapid husk of a memory! To say that my will does not falter is to deny that I have will at all - as if I seek goodness with the visceral hunger of a brackish beast, as if we all are evil insofar as we seek goodness in manners ignorant ( Read more... ) -
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So CNN has a panel discussing discrimination against Atheists in America. Would be interesting, except for the fact that, uh, there isn't a single atheist on the panel. That's some pretty fair and balanced stuff right there ( Read more... ) -
Long gone
Really, it was my desk strewn with the trappings of wage slavery but in my imagination it was Camellia's room. The Florentine carpet laid on the floor was thick enough to almost remove the effort from walking, yet fine enough to not feel like overgrown brush. The walls papered with subtle flecks of gold rose into a high ceiling, its palatial ( Read more... ) -
Searchlight Souls
I wanted to talk about Tufts' Naked Quad run in this entry, but the words aren't going to come out right if I don't talk about something else first ( Read more... )
