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On dealing with the death of a parent
One of my friends on livejournal (as well as a friend in real life), posted what I took in some ways to be a scathing attack on her own friend who left for some island paradise with the wrong type of boyfriend, while her mother was dying of cancer ( Read more... ) -
On Holy Writ
I dip into the Atheist-intellectuals (Sartre, Camus) every once in a while to pull from their works the dignity of man as master of his own fate. And at the same time, as the sterility of their ideas enters me, I long for more. And so it is that I view the Atheist-intellectuals' writings as valid scriptures for me. -
I wrote this at three thirty in the morninig and posted it in my philosophy class's forum.
Does one's choice, one's choosing perhaps depend upon some sense of "the immediate"? Part of the confusion in thinking on the matter raised by Spade may be due to the standard interpretation of Kierkegaard having some trouble here in trying to separate the notion of immediacy from the aesthetical perspective.
The two concepts are very plainly ( Read more... ) -
An Aesthetical Preliminary Invocation
The few precious hours I'm not at school or working are ones I've stolen from one project or another. -
I practice hands.
taking a break to work on my Hannibal Lecter styled handwriting. -
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This Journal is friends only. I'm not too discriminating about my friends, though, so this is more a measure to force people to disclose their own journal information so that I can paw through their personal lives, even as they do the same to me ( Read more... )