I talked with my dad about politics tonight after dinner. It was the first conversation we've had where we didn't fight since January. I didn't say it, but I finally realized that I'm basically an anarchist or at the most a socialist when it comes to State authority. I think the institution of the State is a joke. What pretended authority could it have? I actually think … [Read more...]
Essays, Sartre, and looking in the Mirror
I have 3 essays due in the next lil while. Today I skipped class to write one so that I could finish it. I have 1 page so far (double spaced)... that was the result of 20 minutes of actually forcing myself to write. Then I went to go see New Moon, and now I'm back. ... The last 2 weeks I've been going crazy because I'm not able to force myself to work. Colbert once said in … [Read more...]
Idiocy of Human Limitations ; Fall ; Time
Time is a strange thing, in St. Augustine's Confessions he basically envisions walking out onto a plain and imagines that in the open air around him etc is all time (ie. somehow not linear but 3 dimensional). I just butchered that insight.Anyway, I have a 2000 word essay due tomorrow that I've barely started and I'm a bit worried. I don't WANT to do it, and I have to work … [Read more...]
Three Good Things
Yesterday after class I didn't want to get home earlier because I would have to study for Latin, so I drove her home. It was the first time I'd been in her little area during the day time and it looked alot nicer. (It was the strangest thing though, it was the first town I've seen without a Church). Anyway it was a nice drive home and I was listening to Weezer's Red Album. I … [Read more...]
Music as a Cure
When I get depressed certain songs help. I've already posted a ton of zelda songs I like listening to, so there's no use in posting more of that.A song that I've savoured for the last bit is the blue danube waltz by Strauss:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTYymbbEL4One of my favourite games from childhood was called Earthbound for SNES and this is a theme from it that I played … [Read more...]