Jun
2
“We’re all the same people we were when we were children, we’re just bigger, and pretend that we’re not.”
Rob Ryan
All Kinds of Minds
Hadley. I have some sort of disease which gives me a chronic need to understand everyone. I take a lot of pictures and sometimes I decorate them with funny colors and nice words. I let a great many things inspire me, like fluidly spoken words and sunsets, and sometimes I share those too in hopes someone else will feel inspired like me. This is a simple compilation of what speaks to me.
One Party System
TRUTH!
(via azuremae)
“‘Atheism’ (in the sense of deciding
not to believe in God) is a miserable pathetic stance of those who long for God but cannot find
him (or who ‘rebel against God’…). A true atheist does not choose atheism: for him, the question
itself is irrelevant.” Zizek
not to believe in God) is a miserable pathetic stance of those who long for God but cannot find
him (or who ‘rebel against God’…). A true atheist does not choose atheism: for him, the question
itself is irrelevant.” Zizek
“‘I advise you to think about how your
behavior would change with regard to the answer to this question. If it would not change, then
we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can help you at least insofar as I can tell
you: You already decided: You need a God’” Herr Keuner
behavior would change with regard to the answer to this question. If it would not change, then
we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can help you at least insofar as I can tell
you: You already decided: You need a God’” Herr Keuner
i had forgotten how true Nietzsche makes me feel.
sum it up
A big town masquerading as a big city that is, in reality, a vortex of cheap housing and pleasant streets designed to lure in men when they are kings and release them when they are invalids.
“The global village is deteriorating at a rapid pace, and in the children of the world the result is rage. It is the rage I saw in the eyes of the teenage Interahamwe militiamen in Rwanda, it is the rage I sensed in the hearts of the children of Sierra Leone, it is the rage I felt in crowds of ordinary civilians in Rwanda, and it is the rage that resulted in September 11. Human beings who have no rights, no security, no future, no hope, and no means to survive are a desperate group who will do desperate things to take what they believe they need and deserve.”
Shake Hands with the Devil - Romeo Dallaire (via aritheboomkin)
Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways
This week I went to see The Head and the Heart, Blind Pilot, and The Shins at Red Rocks in Denver, CO. I had never been to a concert at Red Rocks before and it was beautiful to be listening to some of my favorite music out in nature.
The problem for me is that all of those bands are from the North West which is where my heart will always live. This concert was supposed to give me some hometown energy to last me through finals but instead it just made my heart ten times more homesick. I am so close to being done but still have so far to go.
All I could do was listen To Head and the Heart sing about Coeur D’Alene and remember riding in the car with the windows down. I miss miss miss miss miss you. This is the first time this year that just being me hasn’t been enough. I am fighting with the phone because I don’t know what I would say if I called you but I just need you to know that I am hear.
Why now? I am never going to finish these 30 pages by monday…
May
28
In Response to someone asking me why I don’t believe in Evil.
Most of my personal philosophy on good and evil follows Plato very closely. But I don’t believe that there are forces of good and evil battling it out in every human soul or anywhere in the universe really, I think the idea of abstract evil was invented to give humans an excuse for their own negative behavior, or to create a way to disassociate from bad things. I define good as anything which imparts knowledge or helps us to gain knowledge. I believe that because all humans have an internal struggle to progress and ask and find answers to questions, there has to be some sort of abstract place we are all trying to get to. Or if we know we are missing something (think of that black hole every human has inside them which makes them ask questions about the universe and ourselves we will probably never get the answers to) we have to have some understanding of what it means to be whole. Somewhere out floating in the universe is an abstract concept of Good which all humans have barely touched but know exist. Everything on earth and all of our experiences have varying degrees of good, corrupted by all the other messy stuff. The stuff that takes away from our Good can be evil, but it is more because we label it as evil because it complicates our growth, not because it is a real tangible thing. I don’t think that there is an abstract force out there in the universe trying to corrupt humans or trying to tempt us into doing bad things and tripping up. There is no force trying to move us backwards, and no human really wants to go backwards. Even in the darkest times, like someone contemplating suicide, they are trying to move forward, thinking that taking their own life will make everything better. So I don’t believe people are ‘Evil’ because I think evil is just a concept or a label but not a really thing. I do believe that people can be and are trying to be good.
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