Feb 14th
We were asked the question what is love? and if it's even a question that has an answer.... well.... I don't know. I think everyone can look back on what they thought was at one time or another "love" but I don't know many people that can do it and say "yes I did love them." Why? Why is love such a strange emotion? Socrates said in the Symposium, that love can never be perfect because love is wanting and you can't want what you already have, you can only want more. I think that this is wrong, I think if you honestly love someone you will want more, but you will want more from them.
That brings us back to what the heck IS love? Is it an emotion? Is it simply a chemical reaction? Is it something just made up because people don't like to be alone? Maybe all of the above... I don't know. I think it involves a longing to make yourself better for someone else, and a longing to help that other person be the best they can be. I think it's the compassion to be effected (affected?) by how the other person feels, and effected so fully and wholey it hurts. I think love is true and honest and that it doesn't have an answer. It just is.
No...that was not a cop out :)
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
I'm CONNECTED!!!
So I moved in Feb and just now have gotten my interent hooked back up :) YEY! I'm so excited! I'm connected again! I can read the Eternities again! And the police reports :) Ahh how I've missed those. You'll be seeing a ton of posts from me coming up now because I've been writing them just on my laptop so now comes the fun of cutting and pasting them onto my ejournal *sigh* no rest for the weary I suppose. I think I'm going to have to get all my back entries up first before I can start with current ones otherwise things will just be a horrible mess so please bear with me :(
Quick De-grumping
Feb 11th
Now that I have de-grumped a bit from the other day. What is it that makes a bad day? I do believe it is your own attitude that makes your day, as I hinted to before. If you are in a good mood it takes a lot to get you down, however if you are in a bad mood, things that wouldn’t normally bother you, can drive you crazy!
Now that I have de-grumped a bit from the other day. What is it that makes a bad day? I do believe it is your own attitude that makes your day, as I hinted to before. If you are in a good mood it takes a lot to get you down, however if you are in a bad mood, things that wouldn’t normally bother you, can drive you crazy!
Grumpy!!!!
Feb 9th
So our assignment was to go out and have a very bad day. Well, assignment completed and then some…
So I woke up sick, I’m attempting to move out of my apartment because my room mate and I are completely incompatible after living with each other for almost two years, I’m trying to pack and organize and he is not helping in any way, shape, or form, he is deliberately getting into my way and hindering any sort of progress I try and make. I went to Student Health and slipped on the ice and bruised my hand. Missed class because I couldn’t get in to see a doctor then had to go back home and be miserable until I had to go to work all night. Yeah yeah, you control your own mood and day and such, blah blah blah. My bloody hand hurts! >:(
So our assignment was to go out and have a very bad day. Well, assignment completed and then some…
So I woke up sick, I’m attempting to move out of my apartment because my room mate and I are completely incompatible after living with each other for almost two years, I’m trying to pack and organize and he is not helping in any way, shape, or form, he is deliberately getting into my way and hindering any sort of progress I try and make. I went to Student Health and slipped on the ice and bruised my hand. Missed class because I couldn’t get in to see a doctor then had to go back home and be miserable until I had to go to work all night. Yeah yeah, you control your own mood and day and such, blah blah blah. My bloody hand hurts! >:(
My bloody valentine
Feb 6th
Ah… the threat of Valentine’s Day is in the air… The play “Whatever” was sadly funny. I say sadly because we all know that it is NORMAL L I don’t understand how we have all these great holidays that stand for these great things, and they get so commercialized that they don’t mean anything anymore. Valentine’s Day. The most dreaded two words – well, no, but definitely dreaded words a man can hear. Why all the pressure on the man? Is it because the God of Love was a man? Hmmm, that’s an interesting thought actually… Is that why men are supposed to do these huge, extravagant things on V Day and why the woman is basically off the hook? Why don’t we make a big deal out of what the woman gets the man? Is it because men aren’t supposed to take gifts from women since they are the bread winners and the head of the house hold? Hmmm! I may be on to something…nothing important mind you, just a good tangent. Sometimes that’s all you need. Herme’s was said to understand the importance of gift giving. So because he understood it we now force all men in this day and age to buy women shiny or smelling things? He was also the God of travelers wasn’t he? Is that why men always have to drive the car whenever you go somewhere? Yes, yes, now I’m stretching it, but it’s still partially true, I know a lot of men that insist that they drive everywhere…
Everything Past Posses the Pressent….
Hmmm…
And because this is a college course, we must learn things as well as ramble so:
Steiner’s 5 Constants Conflicts:
Man and Woman
Age and Youth
Individual and Society
Living and the Dead
Immortals and Mortals
I also liked the quote of “Apollo got his lyre from a liar” J
Ah… the threat of Valentine’s Day is in the air… The play “Whatever” was sadly funny. I say sadly because we all know that it is NORMAL L I don’t understand how we have all these great holidays that stand for these great things, and they get so commercialized that they don’t mean anything anymore. Valentine’s Day. The most dreaded two words – well, no, but definitely dreaded words a man can hear. Why all the pressure on the man? Is it because the God of Love was a man? Hmmm, that’s an interesting thought actually… Is that why men are supposed to do these huge, extravagant things on V Day and why the woman is basically off the hook? Why don’t we make a big deal out of what the woman gets the man? Is it because men aren’t supposed to take gifts from women since they are the bread winners and the head of the house hold? Hmmm! I may be on to something…nothing important mind you, just a good tangent. Sometimes that’s all you need. Herme’s was said to understand the importance of gift giving. So because he understood it we now force all men in this day and age to buy women shiny or smelling things? He was also the God of travelers wasn’t he? Is that why men always have to drive the car whenever you go somewhere? Yes, yes, now I’m stretching it, but it’s still partially true, I know a lot of men that insist that they drive everywhere…
Everything Past Posses the Pressent….
Hmmm…
And because this is a college course, we must learn things as well as ramble so:
Steiner’s 5 Constants Conflicts:
Man and Woman
Age and Youth
Individual and Society
Living and the Dead
Immortals and Mortals
I also liked the quote of “Apollo got his lyre from a liar” J
Did You Ever Steal Anything? And Lied About it?
Feb 4th
Has the statute of limitations expired on these already? Hopefully. I think it’s only human nature to steal things and it’s also human nature to lie about them because it’s not SUPPOSED to be human nature to do these things. The human being is an odd creature, so intent on leaving behind our natural urges and wants for the greater good. Yes, I’ve stolen things, I’ve stolen things deliberately and accidentally and even stolen things in the gray area of maybe it was stealing, maybe not… ever find something that’s not yours somewhere? School, the park, the mall? Ever simply stick it in your pocket? Is that stealing? Yes, but you didn’t actually STEAL it, you found it…. I digress. Yes I have stolen things, hmmmm, but what do I want to admit to the world? Well, since this is an English class I will fess up to something English related J I stole a book… and yes I lied about it, but I was younger and wanted it and so I took it. But I still have it today and take very good care of it so technically I rescued it… So there.
The second question posed was:
Have You Ever Been SO Bored You Fell Asleep? …I accidentally capitalized the “o” in “so” but I think it works nicely so I will keep it as is.
Well, yes and no. I was bored and tired. I had just spent the entire day out at the barn with a girlfriend, doing barn chores, horseback riding, and teaching lessons when I went over to her house for dinner, After dinner we sat down to watch tv for a bit and found out “The Grapes of Wrath” was on… before the opening credits were even over we were both asleep. To this day we still tease each other on the ability to be knocked unconscious by that movie J
Has the statute of limitations expired on these already? Hopefully. I think it’s only human nature to steal things and it’s also human nature to lie about them because it’s not SUPPOSED to be human nature to do these things. The human being is an odd creature, so intent on leaving behind our natural urges and wants for the greater good. Yes, I’ve stolen things, I’ve stolen things deliberately and accidentally and even stolen things in the gray area of maybe it was stealing, maybe not… ever find something that’s not yours somewhere? School, the park, the mall? Ever simply stick it in your pocket? Is that stealing? Yes, but you didn’t actually STEAL it, you found it…. I digress. Yes I have stolen things, hmmmm, but what do I want to admit to the world? Well, since this is an English class I will fess up to something English related J I stole a book… and yes I lied about it, but I was younger and wanted it and so I took it. But I still have it today and take very good care of it so technically I rescued it… So there.
The second question posed was:
Have You Ever Been SO Bored You Fell Asleep? …I accidentally capitalized the “o” in “so” but I think it works nicely so I will keep it as is.
Well, yes and no. I was bored and tired. I had just spent the entire day out at the barn with a girlfriend, doing barn chores, horseback riding, and teaching lessons when I went over to her house for dinner, After dinner we sat down to watch tv for a bit and found out “The Grapes of Wrath” was on… before the opening credits were even over we were both asleep. To this day we still tease each other on the ability to be knocked unconscious by that movie J
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Hermes Griffin
Sadly I never made the connection between Hermes and Stewie until it was brought up today in class. But it's true and it's hilarious! Except for the fact that Stewie wants to kill his mom and I don't think Hermes was that obsessed with that. I read somewhere that Hermes is the God of literature which I think is absolutely perfect! I have Greg Keeler this semester and he just said in class today "people always ask me why I didn't go into computers since that's where all the money is.. well I can't bullshit my way through computers." It was pretty funny in class and it still is but it's true!!! And I think I really like knowing that Hermes is in charge of it all. :) You need a certain brain to read and read like an English major and that brain lets you pull random meanings and facts out of stories that aren't there but it sure does sound good (especially on a test that you didn't study or read anything for). I think all English majors have a little Hermes in us.
So we were asked if we ever stole anything and then lied about it. I was a pretty rotten child, I'll admit it, I've stolen everything from a pack of gum to electronics but for all you cops reading this, don't worry! I've turned over a new leaf! Heck, I'm even dating a Marine! See? No need to come looking for me! And even though I lied back then I've learned it's much easier just to tell the truth since there is indeed less you have to remember that way.
Another question was if I was ever so bored I fell asleep. Yes, although part of the reason was I had worked all day at my riding stable back in Delaware teaching lessons and feeding and training, but my girlfriend and I sat down to watch "Grapes of Wrath" and didn't even make it through the opening credits :) Yes I blame the movie.
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