True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. - C.S. Lewis
Year: 2019
All that Jazz
I've been listening to some great jazz music lately, so I decided to share it with my readers in this blog post.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - H. P. Lovecraft
Gombrowicz on me
“Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be a man is to recite humanity.”
― Witold Gombrowicz
All that energy that could be used to work together to improve the human condition, goes to competing for hungry eyeballs.
Yes! I want the whole world to know
I delight more in the kiss you throw
than in {Kim Kardashian's} fellatio
Leading a life that will never be approved of
So there. This is what you have done.
Something inside is waiting until you are gone.
My highest morality is a travesty.
My greatest love, revolting.
My sacred ones, a blemish on your race.
My hatred, the purest thing I know.
How I avoided Depression
The original title of this article was “How I Overcame Depression” because it sounds more spectacular and is more likely to propel me into the realm of fickle yet immensely enjoyable Internet fame. But I didn’t want to lie. I don’t believe my symptoms, burdensome and debilitating as they were, warranted the diagnosis of clinical ...
Mama, I killed a deer
Mama, I killed a deer I saw him come so near in my headlights it is clear and o Mama, I killed a fish snapped him from his stream thought I heard him scream and o Mama, I killed a frog we dissected him in class the teacher let it pass and o Mama, I ...
Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing,
How love that passes is enough.
Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead and how
In the grave all love shall sleep
Love is aweary now
– James Joyce
Was an effort made to create this? Was an effort made to overcome this? Is good art the capitulation of the artist?
Review: Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Seven years after his The Better Angels of our Nature, the book in which he presented abundant statistics and reasons why violence has declined, Steven Pinker has published an even more ambitious tome defending the idea and ideals of Enlightenment. The controversy that arose from the 'cautiously optimist' view he presented in 2011 might have ...
Whatever works (flarf)
Howdy, There's no doubt that your web site could be having internet browser compatibility issues. Raise your arms their own original position and then squeeze the blades of the shoulder. In countries like America where we eat little fish, the obesity rate is sky rocketing. First step is to write several high quality articles but additionally ...
Don't underestimate the power of pretty scientific models! On the catwalk of the universe they are all we have.