An appropriate Christmas topic I suppose. I was just pondering why I like Dostoevsky....I think of him as essentially a Christian artist, before Christianity killed art. It's interesting to me that some people think of him (just anecdotally from snippets of conversations I've had) as an atheist artist. I'm confident that anyone who thinks that has ( Read more... )

I had a cool futuristic dream last night. I looked a lot like Michelle Obama, for some reason, and I was in this white flyer in a city that was surrounded by an endless mirror city. I believed that there might be something beyond the endless looking mirror, so I flew out over the mirror. Eventually I reached an edge and saw mountains--something ( Read more... )

I came across a meme today, on facebook ( Read more... )

I love the imagination. It's not so much the escapism that I like, but rather how it changes my perception. It's like waking up from a dream where you were flying, or breathing underwater, or involved in some kind of magical plot....the rest of the waking day contains a beauty that seems to be coming out of things in the world like light. It's the ( Read more... )

"memory of a mood ( Read more... )

that thing that twists our cells from symmetry to asymmetry....

quote from hermann weyl's "symmetry" forthcoming...

what if all of reality were a simulation, an induced dream created by someone in another, "higher" reality? well then by their very creations of torture, massacres, genocides, murder, rape, war, famine, mutilation, cruelty after cruelty, they would have to epitomize absolute evil. then, by the fact that we can and do make moral choices, this can ( Read more... )

i had a dream where i was in high school/college/some kind of large group of students, and obama came to our school, or we were on a field trip or something, and he offered to listen to a short request from every student. so while my friend was complaining that all he's going to hear from the president is "calm down son" i thought up this speech( ( Read more... )

after i lost my virginity, when i was 22, i had this feeling for a while after that i had been initiated, finally, into normal people's world. i guess because sex is such a basic human function, and so the experience of doing it somehow made me feel more intimate with the human condition. it was a feeling that didn't last long. the point is that ( Read more... )

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list about, crabbed
in the corner
family cramped me out
the abrasives
turn me in to
an exoskeleton not a pearl
now it's my dream
to wander in the desert
leave the stew
of this lilty
cartoon city
and find a salty sea
waft on its saline
clam into the
blue sky of water