Time for a new blog type (Don't worry, game reviews will still be done from time to time, cause I know how much everyone loves them 
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I started my final semester a couple weeks ago and one of the classes I'm taking, Transforming the Self, requires that we keep a sort of philosophical journal, called a Day Book. This week we're supposed to actually start making entries and so I thought I'd share my entries with you since they're such a pain. . . I mean so fun to come up with. These will be copy/pasted straight out of the document I'm writing them in so excuse the odd "this continues on the next page type stuff" that don't make sense in the blog format.
Day 1 - Sunday, September 11, 2011
"14. Even if you're going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have?
Remember two things:
i. That everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred or in an infinite period;
ii. That the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose."
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation, pg. 21-22)
From Neil Gaiman's Sandman vol. 7: Brief Lives (image on next page):
)I started my final semester a couple weeks ago and one of the classes I'm taking, Transforming the Self, requires that we keep a sort of philosophical journal, called a Day Book. This week we're supposed to actually start making entries and so I thought I'd share my entries with you since they're such a pain. . . I mean so fun to come up with. These will be copy/pasted straight out of the document I'm writing them in so excuse the odd "this continues on the next page type stuff" that don't make sense in the blog format.
Day 1 - Sunday, September 11, 2011
"14. Even if you're going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have?
Remember two things:
i. That everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred or in an infinite period;
ii. That the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose."
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation, pg. 21-22)
From Neil Gaiman's Sandman vol. 7: Brief Lives (image on next page):