...or at least in relation to this site. I seem to be not updating it at a rate I should be ( Read more... )

“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces [disdain] of mankind”-Giacomo Leopardi ( Read more... )

Highlights

-Giardino di Boboli

-Randomly running across a communist party (rifondazione communisti italiani) rally thinking it was just a concert (but it did have a concert…bella ciao!)

-Talking Italian

-Being mistaken for Italian (although this was sometimes annoying; and sometimes funny. Spaniards speaking to me in Italian when I’m fluent in ( Read more... )

My rational mind tells me that of course there's no such thing as individual fate or destiny...that everything that seems to be fate is only mere coincident or something of that sort and nothing more: That such coincidences are not the set-up towards something bigger, towards a big pay-off, etc ( Read more... )

Basically, I sometimes just write about random stuff when I'm bored. Now I'm going to make it more into a habit and post it here.

I wish to write something with a philosophical "ring" to it...but I find it hard for some reason. (Maybe it's because I always have the feeling that its been discussed before.)

I actually prefer if people asked ( Read more... )

The rest of my family left to Pensacola for my sisters' college orientation leaving the house all to myself (and all that entails). I got to text message Anya again today so I suppose it could become something common. We decided on watching the Get Smart movie although, due to not receiving a reply afterwards asking this question, I don't know what ( Read more... )