The way we would just, drive around Southern Germany!

I didn't do much more than read books; but that's OK. There were a lot of them.

That was a drag. I went in there with an ill-formed intention on writing on political mereology in Plato and Aristotle. It was an absurd project, which grew bigger by the day; draft precises of the project included chapters on Plato's Statesman and Laws. The former is obscure and difficult, lacking any charm, wit, levity; the latter replicates ( Read more... )

Who is still here?

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paranoid. apparently we are going to run out of oil very quickly in the next few years and return to a medieval mode of existence. this is the best news i have heard all day.

i'll be gone for a few days

Put your name down here, and I shall ask you questions 5. Then you can ask me 5, if you really want to.

i decided to read a newspaper today. the guardian. but my god, i realised why i stopped reading the bastard things. the world is a horrible, horrible place. one of the articles in it demonstrated why capitalism is inimical to freedom. apparently, the boss, the people who get to the top, demonstrate a far higher degree of narcissistic and histrionic ( Read more... )

i explained mctaggart's proof of the nonexistence of time to my 6-year-old brother today. and he understood it! he believes in santa but not in time. how now is that?

he still believes in god however. he thinks i'm an atheist as i don't go to sunday school. but i have convinced him that the pope was a jerk. hmm!