Hmmmm its Saturday night, and I haven't done any writing over the past two days, but I guess that's ok. Reading alot however. Some great journals on here 
, promethea by alan moore (yes its a comic, but come on, alan moore is a writer of the highest quality), and The Trial, by Kafka.
Going out to dinner with M in an hour or so,...
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, promethea by alan moore (yes its a comic, but come on, alan moore is a writer of the highest quality), and The Trial, by Kafka.
Going out to dinner with M in an hour or so,...
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I really don't know what to say except that I'm feeling kind of lucky. "Fate can make a mockery of a man's life" the romans used to say, but that can mean something positive as well. I've recently met the most incredible woman; I hadn't been looking for anything serious in relationships and then totally radomly I met M. We've only been hanging out a...
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niobe:
Congrats! New love is awesome. I had a huge smile on my face while I read your journal. I am such a sap!
legionnaire:
Hey congratulations on meeting M.! That's great. I'm in a similar situation right now with K. 
It's funny, feeling like you're in high school again, thinking about her all the time. It's a nice reminder that you're alive.
Glad you enjoy my writing. I have sick and twisted fantasy of one day being able to write (good) fiction. We'll see if anything ever comes out of it, the problem is that I have basically no training or background in it, since I've taken almost exclusively math and science courses since my senior year in high school.
It's funny, feeling like you're in high school again, thinking about her all the time. It's a nice reminder that you're alive.
Glad you enjoy my writing. I have sick and twisted fantasy of one day being able to write (good) fiction. We'll see if anything ever comes out of it, the problem is that I have basically no training or background in it, since I've taken almost exclusively math and science courses since my senior year in high school.
Its easy to waste a lifetime just looking and waiting A.C.
Im living in the imagination more and more everyday. Things are sparking me to see through them again, to record them, to describe what they are and could be. For years I thought I had lost the creative from my life, even academic prose seemed unbearable to write. But its returned to me again,...
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Im living in the imagination more and more everyday. Things are sparking me to see through them again, to record them, to describe what they are and could be. For years I thought I had lost the creative from my life, even academic prose seemed unbearable to write. But its returned to me again,...
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the_mad_monk:
yeah and I might get paid for it after all!!!
legionnaire:
I totally agree - the journal aspect of SG is my favorite part as well, it's great to come home and see comments from people, and they tend to be fairly positive, cool people (unlike sites like livejournal, that seem to attract bitter trolls.)
As for life choices... I'm a firm adherent to the philosophy that I'd rather regret some of the things that I've done than the things I haven't done. Choices can be tough but that's what makes life interesting and worth living.
As for life choices... I'm a firm adherent to the philosophy that I'd rather regret some of the things that I've done than the things I haven't done. Choices can be tough but that's what makes life interesting and worth living.
To refuse to fulfill any of ones possibilities is a direct negation of the great work A.C.
Today was a day of new beginnings. All of the ordeals necessary to make the new possible, the sacrifices, the loss needed to make the new materialize, to open a path, were present. The past was literally burned off my body, my privacy exposed on a table, objectified...
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Today was a day of new beginnings. All of the ordeals necessary to make the new possible, the sacrifices, the loss needed to make the new materialize, to open a path, were present. The past was literally burned off my body, my privacy exposed on a table, objectified...
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legionnaire:
Thanks, glad you like my entries.
What's your book about? Knowing how difficult it is to get articles published, I can only imagine what it's like for an entire book. So true about politics in publication...
I liked your John Kerry commentary. Maybe I'll check out his website, I don't have a really good feel for his positions on a lot of issues.
What's your book about? Knowing how difficult it is to get articles published, I can only imagine what it's like for an entire book. So true about politics in publication...
I liked your John Kerry commentary. Maybe I'll check out his website, I don't have a really good feel for his positions on a lot of issues.
teclo:
i have decided to nourish the brain in the way of academics, once the possibility allows itself.
i have decided to nourish the brain in the way of academics, once the possibility allows itself.
despite the weather here, all the signs are positive.
the receptive and the creative meet in harmony "the small departs/the great approaches" the light has influence over the darkness
"bearing with the uncultured in gentleness
fording the river with resolution
not neglecting what is distant
not regarding one's companions
thus may one manage to walk in the middle" do not neglect, attend to everything
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the receptive and the creative meet in harmony "the small departs/the great approaches" the light has influence over the darkness
"bearing with the uncultured in gentleness
fording the river with resolution
not neglecting what is distant
not regarding one's companions
thus may one manage to walk in the middle" do not neglect, attend to everything
leads...
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niobe:
I am happy everything is positive! Everything will be very good here in about a half an hour when I watch the Darkness. So happy I am .
legionnaire:
Are you formally trained in daoist meditation, or is it just something you've been studying on your own? I've read the tiniest bit of buddhist philosophy (siddhartha, the dhamapadda) but don't really know where to start with daoism.
Oh, and based on what I've heard from my thesis advisors, you're right on about politics in academia. It's just as bad (if not worse) as in the corporate world, at least at some institutions. An unfortunate consequence of human nature, I suppose.
Oh, and based on what I've heard from my thesis advisors, you're right on about politics in academia. It's just as bad (if not worse) as in the corporate world, at least at some institutions. An unfortunate consequence of human nature, I suppose.
there is no doubt that during the meditative state, the trance state, which i'm reaching with less and less difficulty, makes you aware of things you normally filter out, signals you ignore...noises, senses, little specks at the edge of vision. but this is also a distraction, something to be explored, but ignored, later on.
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legionnaire:
A fellow academic, eh? Any advice for someone just starting to go down that track? (Of course, I still have to finish grad school and my do my postdoc(s) but I'm starting to think about those things.)
And meditation fascinates me (more from a neurobiological perspective than a practical one) - it's very poorly understood biologically, but is starting to emerge in the scientific literature in topics as diverse as epilepsy, near-death experiences and faith healers. What sort do you practice?
And meditation fascinates me (more from a neurobiological perspective than a practical one) - it's very poorly understood biologically, but is starting to emerge in the scientific literature in topics as diverse as epilepsy, near-death experiences and faith healers. What sort do you practice?
niobe:
Chicken dumpling soup. YUMMMM. Well not yet, but the craving is yummm.
a short entry for me...and something I'm generally against; quick jots of a moment. . but things are moving now; many currents are converging, many paths are no longer up hill. so the only thing to post is the tension before the burst.
lamia1:
there are excellent laxatives for that problem. 
cyber_faust:
lol
A Strange Weekend
Im at Ikes house, 10 pm or so. Im the first of the group to arrive, the first of many ill omens to come. Were planning a small bar crawl around the area, local rock and independent places. Hopes, as they always are before hand, are high; why we dont ever learn is beyond me. We always imagine so much good can...
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Im at Ikes house, 10 pm or so. Im the first of the group to arrive, the first of many ill omens to come. Were planning a small bar crawl around the area, local rock and independent places. Hopes, as they always are before hand, are high; why we dont ever learn is beyond me. We always imagine so much good can...
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starisea:
Why it would be comicbook stari style of course! She's cute and lucsious with lots of curves and purple hair. She's a kung-fu rocker with skateboard styling. Can't catch her unless she wants it! Teehee! (She actually looks a lot like my Tony Hawk's character. My sensual alter ego. )
If I'm feeling really motivated, I may try to do a sketch of her later.
PS- Glad that you dug my "godself" journal entry.
If I'm feeling really motivated, I may try to do a sketch of her later.
PS- Glad that you dug my "godself" journal entry.
starisea:
PS~ I haven't had a chance to read the other 2 essays yet, but I will forward my impressions and perhaps a question or two, if you don't mind of course, as soon as I have had a chance to assimilate and ponder your ideas. Thank you once again for sharing your thoughts and knowledge with me.
I know at times it will seems as if I am the champion of a given writer, repeating the name or link over and over, but that is because when I find writer of quality, I believe they deserve a champion. These decisions are important; the current of prose must also grow, evolve, to stay connected to things, as words ossify all the time, so...
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Perhaps the most important thing to know about the yijing dao is that its conception of the universe is of constant motion; there is NO static state [/]. Life, existence is a constant flux, a true dialectic, but without the Hegelian/Marxist idea of a linear, teleological synthesis. It is much closer to the dialectic of Heraclitus. Existence is change, that is its nature, that is...
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starisea:
Thank you for the link! I would be most honored if you would share your writings with me. I will send you my address through the SG contact, so be on the lookout for a message from me. *a most grateful and appreciative starisea*
zenhell:
hello
thanks for posting your thoughts on the Book of Changes
may i add your name to my friends list?
ZH
thanks for posting your thoughts on the Book of Changes
may i add your name to my friends list?
ZH
I loved The Trial, but like all Kafka, it makes one even more depressed when one looks around and sees that the dehumanizing bureaucratic nightmare Kafka envisioned has, in many ways, become our reality.
I hope your date with M. went well.