hunter s thompson can just go unshoot himself for all i care

[sulphuroxide]

this is a new filter

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[bel_ebat]

no one is going to FEEL like a writer or philosopher alllll of the time-and really, i don't know if one should/can!

i have this (not supported by anyone as far as i know) theory that people with extreme inner lives, can often cycle through two phases: extreme action, extreme reflection. i think a lot of people live a life of combined action and reflection, but for some people (these people who live in their heads), you largely are doing one or the other. and you are always uncomfortable if you are not in the thick of one of the extremes.

[makimonster]

I agree with this, it's similar to what I do. To survive we have to be able to filter out some noise. But it's hard being content with one's limitations. Or figuring out the cause and effect of things. I just saw Red Cliff the other day. Why is war so intrinsic to human nature? If I heard the radio correctly, the people the US deems responsible for the 9/11 attacks have been put on trial only THIS YEAR--years after the attack. This should have happened before the war in Iraq. I don't understand why people do the things they do. I feel like half the time I'm just trying to untangle myself from this mess, but it's our environment, and it's inevitable to escape.

[sulphuroxide]

i liked red cliff. well i love the romance of the three kingdoms story. read so many translations of them! =D i think part of the problem is that society isn't rational. people aren't rational. you think society operates in a manner that is consistent and logical but it doesn't... i mean the whole of a movie like magnolia is to give the illusion that there is a 'rational' if inexplicable connection between strangers in a microcosm... that things can be explained and made sense of (even if frogs come from the sky) we have a place in the universe.

or fight club where you can magically interconnect with humanity as a whole and DO SHIT. naw, it's more like ghost in the shell: stand alone complex where you try and make sense of it and it doesn't. it has its own will and properties and events emerge with continuity but without any kind of grasp of where these events come from or how they will change everything that comes afterwards... alain badiou's event.

[sulphuroxide]

you think i have an extreme inner life? i find my best and most wonderful times in my life are when action and thought intermix to such a degree that everything has signify-ance. it was like i would eat and breathe networking, or eat and breathe programming or philosophy or whatever. i mean that the two are really the same and what's inside and what's outside are so conflated that the distinction disappears; my skin and the world are gone and there is only the vastness of being-there in the heideggerian sense.

[bel_ebat]

i do think so. i think we all do, to have these sorts of journals. i agree with the idea that the best times in life are when action and thought intermix to that degree-but i find that's not always a combination that comes about at will, necessarily.

[yitz]

i like that theory bel, it explains a lot.. it's a slightly different perspective.. I always called it an intense desire to create and then an intense need to consume.

[sulphuroxide]

could you please elaborate on this?

[yitz]

I find that I swing from periods of tremendous creativity and productive energy, ('output' ) to periods of intense need for information, learning, and growth. ('input

[sulphuroxide]

i think that i go through something simliar.