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OK so you know Andrew Hajjar, right. He taught me a valuable lesson (well, several. Incidentally, he, along with Meg and Jorge Lugo, is also responsible for most of the vulgar terms or weird facts relating to sex I know). But I digress. The lesson I want to talk about here is that he taught me that logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. Seriously. Andrew Hajjar is an absurdly intelligent human being in his own weird way, and he is amazing at arguing logically. But I have seen him win arguments where he and the other person (sometimes me) both knew he was essentially wrong. He was wrong, but he quite clearly won; he out-logicked the other person. This happens a lot. You can construct fairly sound logic proofs for just about anything you want to if you try long and hard enough. It doesn't keep it from being bullshit. This is interesting because it suggests we must rely on something else to decide what truth is; that is to say, what assumptions and ideologies we want to base our behavior on (which obviously isn't absolute truth but for all practical purposes to individuals might as well be). This is a difficult thing for me to cope with, instinctively reliant as I am on logic to tell me how to behave.
This is so weird but last night I couldn't breathe properly from about 11 pm to 5 am. I have no idea why. I read or watched a weird foreign film and a half or just lay there, controlling my breathing the whole time, 10 seconds in, 10 seconds out. I even tried yoga breathing and pilates breathing, but to no avail. I was a little bit gasping and short of breath for about 6 hours. At one point it got bad enough that I almost called Claire and made her take me somewhere but decided it was probably just psychosomatic anyway so sucked it up and today I can mostly breathe so go figure.
"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency." -infinite jest
On a significantly more frivilous note:
1. Jimi Bear Hendrix
2. Andrew Bird
3. Ramses Emerson (Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters)
4. Lymond (Lymond books by Dorothy Dunnet)
5. Ben Harper
6. Buster Keaton
7. Wayne Coyne
8. House
9. Jack from Newsies
10. Hunter S. Thompson
11. Jonathan Safran Foer
12. Tupac
13. Johnny Depp as a roving gypsy in Chocolat
14. Mr. Darcy (obligatory)
15. My film professor
16. Jack White
17. Matisyahu
Interestingly, there is really no characteristic that these men have in common. And some of them are really downright worrisome.
This is so weird but last night I couldn't breathe properly from about 11 pm to 5 am. I have no idea why. I read or watched a weird foreign film and a half or just lay there, controlling my breathing the whole time, 10 seconds in, 10 seconds out. I even tried yoga breathing and pilates breathing, but to no avail. I was a little bit gasping and short of breath for about 6 hours. At one point it got bad enough that I almost called Claire and made her take me somewhere but decided it was probably just psychosomatic anyway so sucked it up and today I can mostly breathe so go figure.
"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency." -infinite jest
On a significantly more frivilous note:
1. Jimi Bear Hendrix
2. Andrew Bird
3. Ramses Emerson (Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters)
4. Lymond (Lymond books by Dorothy Dunnet)
5. Ben Harper
6. Buster Keaton
7. Wayne Coyne
8. House
9. Jack from Newsies
10. Hunter S. Thompson
11. Jonathan Safran Foer
12. Tupac
13. Johnny Depp as a roving gypsy in Chocolat
14. Mr. Darcy (obligatory)
15. My film professor
16. Jack White
17. Matisyahu
Interestingly, there is really no characteristic that these men have in common. And some of them are really downright worrisome.