I was thinking about yin and yang, the opposing forces of being and nothingness.  what is always interesting about it, is that when being is at its height, there is always a certain aspect of nothingness inherent within it, because all things that exist will eventually and cyclically fall away into nothingness.  The same is true of something that ( Read more... )

Cower mortals, and behold!  Lord Thinal L'Revenant has returned, sowing the seeds of fear and despair once more, giving the men and women of steelhaven something to fear other than their government, their society, and their own ignorance.  He will show them the true meaning of suffering, and they will band together to stop the terror - giving them ( Read more... )

"6:00 on a christmas morning ( Read more... )

Dear Vanya ( Read more... )

I reached that point today - a breakthrough - when the mind is aware only of itself - in a realm that is niether conscious or unconscious.  It took jordan's table saw downstairs to provide me with the concentration needed to break through that wall - and it was an intense feeling of pure mindfulness ( Read more... )

I have a definite love/hate relationship with utilitarianism.  There's a call that Obama is redistributing wealth, and a cry from the left [edit: originally i wrote "west" instead of left, apparently i was thinking of left side of the map unconsiously]  that socialism is an governmental pestilence that needs to be eliminated.  We've already ( Read more... )

Insomnia grips me, and the long night looms ahead of me.  I should, by all rights, be fast asleep, given that I had so much trouble sleeping last night.  I slept for roughly 3 hours after work, and woke up to what might be considered a mild panic attack.  There is a lot of undue stress hovering around me right now, and i cant seem to get rid of it ( Read more... )

 The span of human history, since the onset of agriculture, and the formation of permanent, governed societies, can be summed up as a tension between the intellectual sovereignty of the individual and the greater interest of the state - the happiness of one vs. the happiness of many.  it has been suggested that the greatest virtue is a sacrifice of ( Read more... )

"As irrigators direct water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters sculpt wood - the wise shape their minds."

I have tried many times to post something, and have been unsuccessful.  I lose interest in whatever I'm trying to write, knowing full well that it will reach the eyes of very few, and I know that anything i write in my real journals is going to be of much more use, and no one will read it, which is even better because typically it contains a ( Read more... )