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jeremiadist
| Main blog: | ThisCityShallFall | | Age: | 40 | | Birthday: | July 10th 1968 | | Gender: | Male | | Occupation: | Teacher / Professor | | Education: | Graduate degree, School of life | | Religion: | Other | | Race/lineage: | White / Caucasian | | Location: | Antarctica |
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| Body Size: | Average | | Eyes: | Gray | | Hair Color: | Light Brown | | Hair Style: | Straight - Short | | Facial Hair: | Beard - short | | Skin Tone: | Light | | Undies: | Briefs - Short Leg Boxer |
| Relationship Status: | Single - Involved | | Family Info: | They're all dead. | | Sexual Preference: | Often | | Astrological Sign: | Cancer (June 22 - July 22) | | Existing as: | Extraterrestrial | | Smoking: | No. But not bothered by it | | Liquor: | Social drinker. One or two | | Exercise: | Walking to the car only | | Your Home: | Live with another |
| Books: | History of Luminous Motion - Scott Bradfield, Bliss and Bluster - Janwillem van de Wetering | | Authors: | Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Robert Anton Wilson, Plato, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Your Mom | | Music Genres: | Noise, Jazz, Experimental, Outsider, Indie, Old Soul | | Bands/Artists: | Sonic Youth, Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Boys, Fall, Nurse with Wound, Iving Klaw Trio, Son Gun | | Games: | Go, Bridge, Chess, Dalmuti, Scrabble, 52 Pick-up, Whaddaya Got? | | Sports: | no | | Colors: | Green, Gray. | | Pets/Animals: | Cats, Rats | | Season: | Spring. | | Food: | Thai, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Indian | | Drink: | Port, Bourbon, Absinthe |
The Last Lecture
Or, what I should have said on the last day of my last class: Never stop. Philosophy is a discipline, and it is imperative that you keep it up, and deepen the discipline. Otherwise, as the saying goes, your life, unexamined, will not be truly worth living. Indeed, a life with no philosophy in it is only half-led. Keep studying; and learn some logic, if you dare. It's a hard master, and it will make you harder. Keep reading - with a skeptical eye! - the best authors you can understand; and keep reading the impossible ones until you begin to understand them as well. Above all,...
Rude Pundit 1, Oath Keepers 0.03
A few things worth keeping an eye one: It always cackles the shackles of my puny little heart to see my fellow ordinary Americans getting ready to overthrow the gummint, and, you know, Kill Whitey - or whatever the (overwhelmingly) white equivalent of "Kill Whitey" is. I even like the idea of millions of them being heavily armed and paranoid. At this stage of my life, I favor guns over butter, in a tight spot. I believe that people who are skeptical about the government's motives in limiting the rights of free speech, free assembly, privacy, reproductive...
Dividing By Hero
(Owed to Xaos) The Olympic Games are apparently coming to Vancouver, and since Seattle - presumably due to its putative moral superiority and boundless smugness - seems to consider itself Canadian, there is some buzz on local TV. Mostly, there are amateurish spots hyping local athletes who are bound for parts north in 2010. Inevitably, they are referred to, in climax, as "local heroes". This is an incredibly debased usage.I admit that, for example, to become an excellent skier is difficult, and in some limited sense admirable. It requires hours of diligent practice, improving one's art...
Time Over Overtime
Time is not money. This was, I admit with some embarrassment, an epiphany. I have a job, and I'm earning money, but I want time. We sell our time for money, but whoever has time has more than someone who has traded the same time for any amount of money. So they are not members of the same valuation - contra capitalism. Capitalism exists in many senses - as a legal arrangement, as a form of activity, as an economic or as a political theory, but also, perhaps especially, as a culture, with its particular mores and taboos, and its proper dogmata. The dogma at hand: that all values...
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