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It's so easy to find information about the current state and recent past of your friends. Facebook puts it nicely all in one place, updates you constantly, and reminds you of people you might have forgotten. It's much more difficult to find information about the current state and recent past of the government and the world. Something needs to put ( Read more... ) -
hell (poem)
Wrote this at a poetry reading tonight ( Read more... ) -
Lord's Prayer revisited
Back in India, I did quite a bit of thinking about religion. One of the things I thought about was the Lord's Prayer, which I have felt to be a very good, meaningful, humble prayer. I read an analysis of its meaning in the back of one of Alex's Bibles, though, and I realized that it almost certainly means something very different to me than to most ( Read more... ) -
On Sighing
A sigh ( Read more... ) -
Life Experiment
I've been trying to sleep for about an hour, but thoughts about this life experiment are keeping me awake. It's always been a fairly nebulous idea, with certain aspects occasionally coming into focus, but without any real conception of a definite time and place. Now I see it coalescing in a year's time - when my upcoming lease expires - and ( Read more... ) -
Communication
For the past couple of years, the concept of the imprecision of language has been a frequent visitor to my philosophical wanderings. I began by being simply frustrated at the impossibility of using such a blunt tool to communicate anything real, and in fact was truly distraught by this wall that seemed to ensure each of us remains an island. ( Read more... ) -
The Meaning of Life
Last night, I asked Greg what the meaning of life is. After answering, he turned the question on me. I thought for just a second and found the answer fairly ready in my heart: Aligning yourself and the world more closely to God ( Read more... ) -
The Afterlife
Thanks to a long car ride with some pretty neat folks, I was inspired to write down some of my thoughts about the nature of God, spirit, and life after death. To quote from the end of it, "I am rather amused to notice that, while having no conviction of God's existence, I manage to have a detailed set of convictions concerning God's nature ( Read more... ) -
Sketch of a future
I have an idea that I've never explored, never fleshed out, because I've never told anyone about it or written it down. At least, not in more than the one or two sentences in which the idea presented itself to me. This is because it's not an imminently practical idea or even necessarily a good idea; rather, it is simply something that could - ( Read more... ) -
Shoot Shoot Bang Bang
Apparently this game does not have internet presence - at least under this name. Who here knows this game?
Here's how you play:
Someone (who knows the trick) holds their fingers like a gun and, while saying "Shoot! Shoot! Bang! Bang!" points at four people (or the same person twice, then a lamp, then someone else - it doesn't actually matter) then ( Read more... )