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| I saw a car with a bumper sticker saying, "Film is TRUTH".
Stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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| I think that you don't believe me. I feel that you are entertaining me and the idea, but that you don't really believe it. That's OK for now. Just promise me you'll open yourself to let me have my chance.
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| Sunday afternoonIt's starting to snow again.
Uh-oh...it's morning time again. Thanks, Kyle.
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| an email i wanted to rememberI've been thinking of family a lot since I've been here. I've begun to realize how little these people know me, what I do, what I enjoy, who my friends are, etc. It's very interesting to look at family this way...as if they were regular people. What if I met a clone of my own mother (without ever knowing my real mother...for the sake of the example)? I'd NEVER want to hang out with her! I'd probably think she was a little weird, to be completely honest. We'd have nothing in common and she'd have absolutely no interest in me and I'd have no interest in her. So I've been asking myself if it makes any reasonable sense to submit myself to things I don't enjoy doing, purely because I'm an extension of her physical being. I'd much rather spend the season with Saayeh, or you, or any of my friends that have proven their interest in my life. My WHOLE life, not the life a mother sees (a distant, diluted, confused and distorted view kept from when we were merely children). It makes little sense, but I suppose the bonds of family are nothing to belittle. They certainly have their place in our lives beyond 18 years of age. I guess I just don't enjoy them as much as some people do. I really should be visiting my Dad this year (things with my parents have not improved).
I'd love to spend at least part of the holiday with you girls in TX. I'll see what I can do. | | |
| This was written by METALLlC BLUE of offtopic.com :
"I think anyone who is truly of sound mind and intelligent, and willing to reject his own perspective in the view of absolutes, would say "I don't know truth, I know only what I experience and observe and that is not truth, thus I do not know. I am not a dog, I do not smell with my nose like one, or see like one. I am not a jelly fish, I do not have tentacles. Nor am I a shark with fins of that sort."
I am not a planet, or a star -- and yet, I am acutely aware that I am me, who is also my environment, as a consequence of my breathing air and eating foods that come from outside of what I consider "My" body.
Therefore, I am of this world and unable to be independent of it, even should I build machines that bring me to space -- I take "apart" of it always, and we know that this world, contains the same elements and "matter" that we've observed and confirmed via asteroids, and other debris from space. Our analysis of material collected on other planets have indicated as well, that the elements that make up our bodies, also exist outside our bodies. Do we know this to be absolute truth? Even so, the answer is no, but it is true from what we've observed and perceived.
Clearly, when I say I am me -- I am apart of a greater power, known as the environment, the world, the planets we've managed to identify and analyze. Even that however is an assumption from a limited perspective.
It is reasonable then to say, I do not know anything more than what I perceive, and my perception is inherently limited as the consciousness which permits me to self-reflect on this truth, is at present only known to my individual self.
Therefore, it is true that a man who says "I don't know even that which I know" -- is wise.
Religions which teach the paradox can all be abused, even those who do not follow religion claim to know, and thus exert their will over others. It is this ignorance, and lack of humility which condemns all." | | |
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