All I know about it other than the fact that it's a Muse song (and a good one at that) is that when people have it, they laugh an insane laugh, which might just be in movies...Anyway, for the last week, I've been alone for so long that sometimes I think I'm going crazy and forgetting how to interact with humans. I've been arbitrarily bursting out in disturbing laughter over … [Read more...]
Names
I've been thinking about names recently and what it means to be 'branded' with one. I tried to Latinize mine. Andrus Petrus Cottrillus in the nominative (I made Andrew ; Andru so that it was a 4th declension noun, there's now 'ew' ending nouns in Latin). I was looking up names I saw in the Twilight Saga, and found the meaning of some like "Esme" being the old French for "To … [Read more...]
Some Boethius
Boethius was an early medieval philosopher and was thus heavily into Aristotle and Plato as well as the Church Fathers probably. I really want to read his work "The Consolation of Philosophy" and whilst trying to find a copy online free (I couldn't), I found this beautiful excerpt:"So sinks the mind in deep despairAnd sight grows dim; when the storms of lifeBlow surging up the … [Read more...]
Martin Buber & the Exclusivity of Love/Relation
Martin Buber proposed in his book "I and Thou" that true relations (in common english it would be the word 'love' but I hate to use the word because he defines love as something wholly different, and the english word definately has lost most meaning). ... although after Bill Clinton "relations" became a terrible word as well.Anyway, his theory is that in order to for love to … [Read more...]
A Cold Walk, Twilight/New Moon, Wikihow, and Unfinished Homework
I was home alone tonight and I sat down to watch Top Gear with some Butterscotch ice cream. When I looked down at myself. I was feeling particularly obese, so I threw my ice cream out...all of it. I went through the act in my mind to evaluate it ethically. It was objectively a bad action (wasting food) but the motive (moderation) was good and the situation was good (I'm … [Read more...]