dont read this
today i discovered that i can actually feel smart if i do the reading required to participate in class the next morning. i also discovered that i am actually a good student when i put my mind to it. i also wanted to conclude that english really is a bunch of bull shit. at the end of class the professor had an extra required text book, brand new, and said that if someone could answer a question from the text correctly you could have the book for free. i was in luck because this was the book i hadnt bought yet! thirty dollar book! however, i hadnt done the reading nor had i even brought the book with me. two people ahead of me tried to answer what opinionated writing was next to policy writing. i just bullshitted and i got the fucking book. how about that, i have never won anything. yet this book was that one that i needed. i was happy but felt like i didnt deserve it because i hadnt even done the reading. had the others?
note: im also adding this to my myspace because i love it and find it interesting. it is from one of my philosophy books:
If you do not want what i want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them.
Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than i do.
Or if i act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design of action, please let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself to the possibility that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear as right-for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And one day, perhaps, in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences, and, far from seeking to change me, might preserve and even cherish those differenes.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, you colleague. But whatever our relation, this i know: You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drum.
speaking of philosophy and thinking of what luna wrote about the movie v for vendetta and coincidence.
"there is not such thing as coincidence but only the illusion of it" on that here is this story (short and sweet):
last quarter jeff told me to take philosophy, he said it was great. i am taking it this quarter because there was nothing left to take, oh yea, and my TA's name is Jeff.
peace out ya'll
note: im also adding this to my myspace because i love it and find it interesting. it is from one of my philosophy books:
If you do not want what i want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them.
Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than i do.
Or if i act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design of action, please let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself to the possibility that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear as right-for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And one day, perhaps, in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences, and, far from seeking to change me, might preserve and even cherish those differenes.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, you colleague. But whatever our relation, this i know: You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drum.
speaking of philosophy and thinking of what luna wrote about the movie v for vendetta and coincidence.
"there is not such thing as coincidence but only the illusion of it" on that here is this story (short and sweet):
last quarter jeff told me to take philosophy, he said it was great. i am taking it this quarter because there was nothing left to take, oh yea, and my TA's name is Jeff.
peace out ya'll