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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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2:44 am
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Friends only. Comment to be added plz.
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| Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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10:30 pm
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ALSO OWEEK WAS LAST WEEK AND MY TEAM TOTALLY FREAKING WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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7:15 pm
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I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and it is glorious. i heart macbook pro.
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| Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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6:59 pm
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aw yeah.
book reading: 1/5
midterm studying: 0/1
papers written: 0/3
BUT HOT DAMN IT IS A START!!!!!
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| Friday, December 5th, 2008
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9:01 pm
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BLAST FROM THE PAST DOTG STYLEZ!
Saxton: I. Did. Not. Kill. Her. You can't prove it! You can't prove anything! I DIDN'T KILL ANYONE!
Kohle: Fiona is a demon.
Fiona: No I'm not.
Liret: SAXTON SET DAKARA ON FIRE!
Saxton: NO I DIDN'T!!!
Kohle: Fiona probably did it. She's a demon.
Fiona: No I'm not.
Liret: NO SAXTON DID IT!
kohle: no, fiona. she's a demon
Saxton: *backs away and tries to be dramatic* I. Didn't. Kill. Anyone.
fiona: *turns red and hides under a rock*
hisashi: lalalalala im an evil eeevil man but i cant kill an 11 year old midget
Everett: My sister is dead but apparently I don't care because I'm going to sit here and read a book and push the limits of sucky characterization itself by being even MORE BORING THAN USUAL.
saxton: you killed everyone! die! *throws fire at everett*
Aiko: *hears the word "demon" and freezes*
Everett: *sits there and is boring* You killed my sister. Prepare to die.
Saxton: I DIDN'T KILL ANYONE!
Kohle: Fiona probably did it
Fiona: *peeks out from under rock* I'm not a demon.
aiko: *hears the word "demon" and freezes*
*fiona returns to her room, changes into a fancy dramatically beautiful dress*
fiona: oh woe is me, i'm ugly and have a bad wardrobe
aiko: *thinks she hears the word "demon" and freezes*
fiona: i'm going to read in the library now
kohle: fiona's a demon
aiko: *dies of a heart attack*
Liret: SAXTON KILLED AIKO TOO!
hisashi:at LAST!
everyone: AT LAST
hisashi: only i didnt deal the final blow so i'll revive her now *revives aiko*
Saxton: I DIDN'T KILL ANYONE!!!!
Saxton: angst angst angst
kohle: fiona the demon killed evereyone
aiko *freezes*
fiona: im not a demon!
aiko: *hears the word demon and dies again*
liret: you killed aiko!
Saxton: No I DIDN'T!!!
Kohle: The demon did it!
fiona: im not a demon!!!
Kohle: Yes you ARE! I SAW you!
liret: you killed aiko!
saxton: i didnt kill anyone!
Hisashi: Dammit! I NEED MONTHS AND MONTHS TO KILL THIS KID AND YOU KEEP DOING IT JUST BY SAYING THE WORD "DEMON"!
kohle: fiona did it! shes a demon!
Liret: You killed Dakara! I SAW you!
fiona: i'm not a demon!
Saxton: *freezes and says really dramatically* I. Didn't. Kill. Anyone.
*saxton burns a booksheld scarily*
*rylly and mina set fire to the building, they all die and everyone is happy*
meanwhile in the dark realms
dead liret: I can't believe you burned down the building and killed us all saxton!
dead saxton: I didn't kill ANYONE!
liret: you killed everyone! i SAW you
kohle: fiona did it, she's a demon
fiona: im not a demon!!!
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| Friday, October 24th, 2008
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10:44 am - Writer's Block: The Final Frontier
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...WTF?! See. I told you they were getting weirder!!!!
However, no Star Trek would probably equal no Firefly, and similarly equal no Mr Sulu on Heroes. And no tribble jokes.
And THAT would suck.
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| Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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6:26 pm
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I don't think I have ever posted a picture before so....this is Zack in April. He is much bigger now.
How cute!
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6:08 pm
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I am getting antsy. I would really like it if all of WLUSU and WLUSP would just get back to me plz because I am impatient and would like to know if I have failed at life already.
Also I want something to distract me from studying from my midterm that i have in an hour. At least the kitty is being cute and cuddly and not crazy and bitey.
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| Monday, September 15th, 2008
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1:48 pm
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oh also i was in toronto this weekend and a puppeteer wrote me a song about sarah palin and how she eventually will be eaten by polar bears. it was glorious.
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| Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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2:01 pm
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....GEORGE CARLIN DIED?!?!?!?!
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| Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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7:35 pm
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Me: Hi kitten
Zack: Meow*
Me: Oh I see. You are jumping on my shoulder now.
Zack: Meow meow**
Me: Yes, I like it so much when you jump on my shoulder and meow a lot.
Zack: Meow meow meow***
Me: You're licking my ears? What the....I IZ NOT GREEK MYTH!!!!!!
*hello. pay attention to me.
**why are you not paying attention to me? can't you hear?
***you are too stupid to understand me, therefore i shall clean your ears until you understand kitten
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| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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5:29 am
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I love Babyshambles.
I want to go CD shopping. The last one I bought was the new B52s. I want lots more.
I also really want games for my XBOX 360!!!!! As of yesterday, I want:
lost odyssey
mass effect
bioshock
fable 2
rise of the argonauts
eternal sonata
enchanted arms
viking: battle asgard
assasins creed
tales of vespiria (sept 16)
spectral force 3 (may 27)
ninja gaiden 2 (june 3)
operation darkness (june 24)
final fantasy XI
fallout 3
...some of them aren't out yet and have release dates next to them. some of them are not out yet and DON'T have release dates next to them (i'm looking at you, fable 2). I want them all but I am poor.
What are other good 360 games guys? I need to build up a collection. All I have is what boy gave me for my birthday (VIVA VIVA PINATA!)
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| Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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6:51 pm
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fucking packing...i have packed like, four big boxes of stuff and it still doesn't look like i've touched a thing.
this sucks!!!!
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| Monday, April 14th, 2008
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2:42 am
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STUDYING SUCKS.
BUT PHILOSOPHY RULES.
I need to start going to class ALL semester so I am not cramming stuff I actually want to think about for my 8:30 exam. This is tiring.
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| Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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2:01 pm
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scratch that, i have -$18.35 in my account. stupid bank fees. I hate money!!!!!!!
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| Saturday, November 24th, 2007
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1:16 am
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hey guys what are some anime/videogame characters with pink hair? Ones I would know!
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| Monday, November 19th, 2007
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7:26 am
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ow the sos pads they burn
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| Saturday, November 10th, 2007
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1:23 am
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Just got home from work and man I am tired but not sleepy. And I smell like coffee. I am going to go do laundry and watch Veronica Mars and then pass out.
Today I slept until 2pm because I literally could not get out of bed I was so tired. This whole two jobs thing is seriously starting to get to me. Maybe I just need to adjust?
I got paid though! And went to the mall and spent everything that I earned! (Well not everything, but a lot). I bought Veronica Mars season 3 and the new Babyshambles CD and socks and gloves and pajamas. So it was kind of good shopping, kind of splurgey shopping.
Also cause I closed at work, I got all the day old muffins, so we have a house overflowing with muffins now. I love free food so much more than costly food.
Okay. that's kind of it. I had a datelike time with Kat today. She came to work during my break and we had coffee and Cat told me I made her sick.
Now sleep because I have to write a paper before work 5-close tomorrow!
current mood:  tired
current music: deft left hand--babyshambles
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| Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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11:50 am
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Though the presocratics were notable for their studies of the world and how it worked, there was one presocratic philosopher who stands out for his interest in wisdom and the upkeep of the soul. In this way, he was very unusual for his time, and in fact very modern. This was Heraclitus, a philosopher reputed “for both misanthropy and obscurity.” (29). Heraclitus was clearly invested in the search for truth and what makes a good soul: This is made extremely obvious through his obsession with the meaning of what he called “logos”.
I intend to look at Heraclitus’ theories. In his fragments, he speaks of the difference between a wet soul and a dry soul, the implication being that a dry soul is optimal. I will examine what I believe he means when he talks of the “dry soul”, particularly in relation to his concept of logos. This interperetation is intrinsically linked with Heraclitus’ ideas on ignorance and a lack of wisdom. It is my jope that by the end of this paper, the reader will have gained some understanding of Heraclitus’ more modern ideas of the soul.
Before we go into Heraclitus’ soul theory, it is essential that we have an understanding of what he means when he describes logos. His most cophrehensive definition of logos appears in a fragment translated by Sextus Empiricus:
This logos holds always but humans always prove unable to understand it, both before hearing it and when they have first heard it. For though all things come to be [or, happen] in accordance with this logos, humans are like the inexperienced when they experience such words and deeds as I set out, distinguishing each in accordance with its nature and saying how it is. But other people fail to notice what they do when awake, just as they forget what they do while asleep. (f1)
That is to say, to Heraclitus, logos is a binding principle that holds the universe together. However, logos is much more than cosmic glue, so to speak. It is also a concept that humanity is constantly in search of, and forever trying to understand. It is my belief that Heraclitus’ conceptual logos is very much like Socrates’ theory on wisdom and truth: They are both binding principles essential to mankind, as well as ideas that we spend our lives on a proverbial quest to find.
So how does this relate to Heraclitus’ ideas about the soul? This all begins to make more sense when we examine what Heraclitus believes to be a “wet soul”. Thales, an early presocratic, once suggested that everything was made of water. Heraclitus elaborates on this when he says, “It is death to souls to becomes wet, death to water to become earth, but from earth comes water, and from water soul.” (f71). Essentially, what he is saying is that the soul is borne from water. Ergo, a wet soul would be a new soul, and therefore also an ignorant soul. Heraclitus furthers this point (and stresses that a wet soul, or ignorant self, is not a good thing) when he states that, “It is death for souls to become wet.” (f95).
It is important to note at this point that when Heraclitus spoke of “death”, he often did not mean literal death. For him, death was interchangeable as a metaphor for ignorance. This assumption can be drawn from fragments such as those translated by Clement: “A man in the night kindles a light for himself when his sight is extinguished; living he touches the dead while asleep, when aake he touches the sleeper.” (f23)
And so, if Heraclitus condemns the wet soul as ignorant, it is can be inferred that the optimal state according to him would be a dry soul. he confirms this when he explains that, “A gleam of light is a dry soul, wisest and best.” (f96). Now, because all we have left of Heraclitus are his fragments, it is nearly impossible to confirm exactly what he meant. However, his use of affirmative words such as “wisest and best” allow for certain plausable inferences. It is plausable to assume that Heraclitus believed that every man ought to work towards a dry soul, just as it is equally plausable to parallel his quest for a dry soul to Socrates’ search for perfect knowledge. And since to Heraclitus, the equivelent of perfect knowledge would be understanding of logos, one could conclude that the life’s work of drying out the soul is working towards the end goal of knowing logos. This is further confirmed by his assumption that, “A man when drunk is led by a boy, stumbling and not knowing where he goes, having his soul moist.” (f97). Here Heraclitus implicates that when drunk, a man loses his wisdom, and his soul returns to a wetter state (moist), thus taking him further from the realization of logos.
Of course, it can be argued that Heraclitus never intended or expected anybody to achieve logos, as he often cited it as unattainable in his fragments: “For this reason it is necessary to follow what is common. But although the logos is common, most people live as they had their own private understanding.” (f2). This fragment suggests that although logos is everywhere, the common man is too wrapped up in his own ideas of what he thinks logos is to ever truly know logos. Whether it be due to his disdain for humanity or his reverence of logos, Heraclitus seems to suggest that logos is not possible to achieve, and if this is so, how could he ever condone the idea that one must dry out their soul and realize logos? Is this not an impossible task? That he finds the search for logos to fruitless is further understood in the fragment, “Those who seek up gold dig up much earth but find little.” (f37) In other words, those who attempt to seek out logos will come up with nothing but dirt.
This can easily be defended if we look at Heraclitus as an early influence of Socrates. Socrates famously said that the only thing he truly knew was that he knew nothing. This was because he was well aware of the fact that once he thought he has learned everything, more ideas would be born. The same can be said of logos. Heraclitus was a firm believer that the universe is in constant flux, and since logos holds the universe together, it is fair to assume that he also thought logos was in constant flux. Although the soul can never be perfectly dry, so to say, Heraclitus believed that the attempt was still important. To be moist is still better than to be completely wet.
Heraclitus was an incredibly modern thinker for his time, and perhaps this is why he was so often labelled a misanthrope. His ideas regarding the soul had little place in a time where philosophy was focused on understanding why the word worked, rather than why mankind continues to persist. However, his theories are essential to the foundations of epistemology, and were likely extremely influential to those who followed after.
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| Thursday, October 11th, 2007
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7:19 pm - Writer's Block: Celebrity Hits & Misses
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Britney Spears and....Britney Spears.
I hate it when my integrity and my love for a downward spiral clash like this.
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