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Because It's Easy
I'll just tell everyone to read riceboy. Probably one of my favorite recent webcomic discoveries (thanks to Ryan North's blog and Erik Honor ( Read more... ) -
Goddamn
If you want to witness an act of sheer intellectual brutality, read Kant's response to the 'Ontological,' 'Physchotheological' and 'Cosmological' proofs of God (to say 'God's existence' adds nothing to the subject 'God' since 'existence' can't be predicated of something, being already present in the subject, according to Kant, who's picking up the ( Read more... ) -
Pretension
It's odd how much driving through fairfax station/Clifton with the windows down blaring Avalanches mix albums with Chris Kilbourne can do to improve my mood. Maybe it isn't. Perhaps my whole approach to living in the world as it is as a kind of insoluble, but really interesting, problem is just a sort of intellectual pretension of the same sort ( Read more... ) -
Topography
It's definately a great virtue of Rachel that she has a sense of place, a sense of home. She's from Berkeley County, West Virginia in a way I don't think people are from places much these days--she's related to folks, she knows their names, she has been looking at the houses and trees and roads for 19 years ( Read more... ) -
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Man, Persecution and the Art of Writing rules. The last chapter makes me want to make my Junior Essay a head-on collision with Spinoza rather than a 'me too' piece about Self and God in Pascal ( Read more... )
