December 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
November 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
October 2011
25 posts
“Is the sun,
Ever gonna break?
Break on through the clouds;
Shine down in all...”
– Ray LaMontange
“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious...”
– Steve Jobs « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
“How, if some day or night, a demon were to sneak after you into your loneliness...”
– The Gay Science
“To cling to the words, the concepts, and their interrelations is to concern...”
– The Way of Korean Zen Kusan Sunim
“Human experience cannot be analyzed precisely into parts. It rather spills...”
– Stephen Kern in the preface to Culture of Time and Space
The 9-9-9 plan in one (very long) graph - The... →
A picture is worth a few million dollars.
“8. Don’t ask yourself if something is fair. Ask someone else—a stranger in the...”
– by Lemony Snicket | OccupyWriters.com
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures...”
– Coretta Scott King (via caraobrien)
“A trap is for fish: when you’ve got the fish, you can forget the trap. A...”
– Zhuangzi
7 tags
“We need a language now that allows us to reimagine what a flourishing society...”
– thereligiousleft.org: Remaining Human: A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street.
1 tag
“We can learn form the sensitive student of language that language, in its life...”
– Gadamer The Hermeneutical Problem
1 tag
“What [is it] that really makes the productive scholar? That he has learned the...”
– Gadamer The Hermeneutical Problem
“The nature of the hermeneutical experience is not that something is outside and...”
– Gadamer The Hermeneutical Problem
Roommate has a party...
It lasted four days and I spent three of them at Deborah’s place so I could actually sleep. On the fourth day my roommate cleaned up all of the party mess, but then had another one that night and left the apartment in even worse condition than before. She spent Monday & Tuesday recovering (understandable, she’d gone nonstop for four days), and I kinda anticipated her to clean up...
Random insomnia.... GO
I guess I’ll write my paper, since I can’t seem to sleep anyway.
“There is always a world already interpreted, already organized in its basic...”
– Gaddamer The Hermeneutical Problem
And herein is the basic approach of my philosophy vocalized. It is not from our differences we venture, but from the grounds of our commonality.
2 tags
50/50
Made me have allergy problems throughout the second half of the film. My eyes were puffy for a half hour afterward.
September 2011
14 posts
having my apartment invaded by an loud annoying...
sucks
especially right now
“Of course I had feelings for her, I saw her naked!”
– Howard Walowitz “Big Bang Theory”
“We gain nothing by lowering religions, humiliating them and making caricatures...”
– French Grand Rabbi Joseph Sitruk
“If we associate women’s rights with aspects of the West that Muslim women...”
– John L. Esposito & Dalia Mogahed Who Speaks for Islam: What a Bilion Muslims Really Think
“The first step in helping Muslim women improve there situation is to question...”
– John L. Esposito & Dalia Mogahed Who Speaks for Islam: What a Bilion Muslims Really Think
1 tag
“If wealth were something worth pursing, then I would pursue it, even if that...”
– Confucius The Analects
eh
Bon Iver playing in my ears. Whether it feels like it outside on any given day or not, it’s fall to me now.
“If i teach you, therefore, that your nature is evil, that you should go home and...”
– Vivikenanda Jnana Yoga
“Phooey on all white shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazine....”
– Franny and Zooey
“I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you...”
– Franny Glass Franny and Zooey
“People assert that Christianity must be the only true religion of the world,...”
– Jyana-Yogo Vivekananda
“In the same way the various identities that we adopt are useful, but we miss...”
– peterrollins.net » The Trash of the World: Paul and Universalism
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not...”
– Albert Camus (via crookedindifference)
August 2011
38 posts
“A byproduct of our gated communities is that we tend to hear over and over again...”
– Information, Misinformation, and Missed Information: A Decade after 9/11
“The Self desires only what is real, thinks nothing but what is true. Here people...”
– The Chandogya Upanishad ”The City of Brahman”
“As Gandhi said, the training for a satyagrahi, or nonviolent activist, has to be...”
– The Time for Nonviolence Has Come by Michael N. Nagler
Nagler is pretty much my hero. And (to actually say something substantive in light of this quote) to my friends that have asked (or those who haven’t) how I got to the point where I’m able to respond “graciously” to...
Financial Aid Policies
Apparently, you have to be unemployed for 10 weeks before being considered for special circumstance changes to your financial aid awards. Or, to use to the terminology of my case: I likely won’t get the Pell Grant for Ten Weeks.
The office worker told me to go ahead and fill out the paperwork anyway, so there’s a chance I won’t have to wait ten weeks, but I’m not...
Update
I am unemployed. Let the fun begin, eh?
On Drawing Lines
Technically, I quit my job today.
Granted, I was still employed when I left work today, and I remain employed now; but for a period of about an hour, I was no longer an employee of my company.
Why? Because I drew a line.
I work for a man that frequently acts as if employment is ownership. He also frequently loses his temper, leaves plain-nasty or just passive aggressive messages on...