I have an extensive experience with the concept of the "beginner's mind", and I've slowly come to decide that it's being overemphasized. Hartman describes Fayan's response as "not knowing", but I think it would be wiser to describe it as, "Not knowing yet ( Read more... )

Creepy. I'm in the last stages of dealing with my own personal issues and a friend walks up and describes virtually the exact same situation and asks for my advice ( Read more... )

Montaigne via Bloom:There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.
Bloom, himself:All of us have known and still must know those hours when we despise our being. ( Read more... )

The weirdest thing about the night of February 2nd was that I've never actually had someone apply my philosophy against me before. I've espoused my viewpoint for so long and to so many people, and found so much resistance, that the very idea that I would one day run into someone who actually lived it practically wasn't something I thought could ( Read more... )

I am looking for a metric ( Read more... )

I've been going off on truth and reality for a while now, despite the break, and now here's the next step for you ( Read more... )

So, I didn't get very far with my first draft. I mean, I wrote up the first one, and then I kept wanting to add more stuff and I basically lost the flow of the paper. The style I seem to have gravitated towards is "religious tract", and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that ( Read more... )

Because nettika so kindly called my description of this terrorism (yeah, you know it's post-2001! Thbtbtbtbt.), I've decided to redact all the names and URLs from the email I was looking at and write up a step-by-step explanation of what I see.Hi Uncle [Receiver ( Read more... )

"It's not about what I want! It's about what's fair! You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time! But you were wrong. The world is cruel. And the only morality in a cruel world... is chance: unbiased, unprejudiced, fair." -- Harvey Dent, in The Dark KnightIronically, it is fairness itself that causes cruelty in the world. Fairness is as ( Read more... )

A couple nights ago, someone asked me how I studied "character ( Read more... )