mistergraves

thanks!

watch out for sensory overload hehe

feel free to add me to your lj friends list

I often feel the same. I have good intentions to change the world, but neither the skill nor the capacity. I do however have the ability to change the lives of the few people in my corner of the world. I guess that's my contribution - the "mothering" of my friends and the support of my lover. It's normal and speaks well of you that you care.

We're doomed, aren't we.

Sweet, Portland is so much better than wherever you were before. I need to call Alanna and hang out with you guys soon. It's been too long. As for smoke-free places...I'll have to get back to you on that one.

I saw your name on the SGPDX group hopefuls, so I vouched for you.

I need to get that game...

so what were kerry's and lisa's talking points that prompted you to write this? I mean I agree with what you're saying, but that's all I can really write in response to what you're saying.

I was reading this post, and was thinking about two books i read in grad school. The first is the _Forgotten Truth_, by Huston Smith. It tries to delineate between science as a discipline and what Smith calls "scientism", or science as its own religion.

The second is _Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander_, a journal collection by Thomas Merton. Merton at one point says that complete and utter dependence on technology or science "renders the world spiritually unlivable."

I think both authors are trying to get at the point that both science and religion provide modes of knowledge, but in different realms. Science cannot assist people in providing meaning to the observations they make.

This sounds like an interesting conversation you were engaged in...

eh, wish i looked like you.

kinda, i can see it.

but i'm afraid she has better boobs than you.

Interesting that I am not alone. I can't think of a distinction without sound classist.

I have to disagree with you on Rand. Great books though.

That I am.

Frivolous purchase is sometimes a good thing. Personally, when I do that, I like to buy stuff that's groundwork for a stupid hopelessly long-term project I'm probably never going to get round to; because then I'm a little more likely to actually do it. Gives me a spurious sense of progress.

Whooo...
I am very glad I never had to do that calculation. I probably should have had to, since I wasted my university time. But equally, I'd never have survived it if I had.

Holy CRAP! Well its not so bad...when you become a millionare in whatever your majoring in, 69k will be pocket money.

powells rocks

enjoy yer time in pdx

thanks for the gesture, what with the thread and all. my post in the other thread was more of an observation rather than a call for a thread about the subject.

weren't you living in houston? now portland? must be a big change between the two. i grew up in beaumont. small, hickish, boring and comforting in a simple way.

-pb

ah! and safe trip. good luck. etc. how far are you moving?

I hope it all goes well. Cheers!