October 2010
70 posts
“I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of...
Rest in Peace
ordinarykorean:
Tyler Clementi.
I saw him every Wednesday at BYO (orchaestra) last year
it is surreal to see that this has just happened
Even though I have really never had a conversation with him , he was always smiling as soon as he picked up his violin.
To BYO’s ex-principal violinist,
Rest In Peace Tyler.
September 2010
81 posts
fuckyeahcoolquotes:
Atheists Outdo Believers in Survey on Religion is the least surprising thing I’ve read today. We atheists and Jews - I’m both - are notoriously and annoyingly obsessed with God.
I found this to be a bit obvious…
¶ Fifty-three percent of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the man who started the Protestant Reformation.
¶ Forty-five percent of Catholics...
“Most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal....”
– J. Krishnamurti
“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust...”
– Dostoevsky, Fyodor. White Nights and Other Stories. (via dearestgirl)
“I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them....
Junior year is so busy -.-
and most of my classes haven’t gotten hard yet
“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a...
“There are moments of sentimental and mystical experience … that carry an enormous sense of inner authority and illumination with them when they come. But they come seldom, and they do not come to everyone; and the rest of life makes either no connection with them, or tends to contradict them more than it confirms them. Some persons follow more the voice of the moment in these...
“A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean. Of a person who has limited life experience and hence world view.”
- Zhuangzi
(ignore Julie’s comment, she was talking about something else haha)
“The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can...”
– William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience. Elsewhere in the lectures, James touches on a central idea of most religions: not only that they “minimize the darker aspects of the objective sphere” of the world, but also that religious theories recontextualize them so that they are no...
Shark tank is having a second season, which took 6 months….
I now have a reason to blow my weekend :P
“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
- Bertrand Russell
“Aim at being loved without being admired.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Christ said “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” and when asked “who is my neighbour?” went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute “German” or “Japanese” for Samaritan. I fear many present-day Christians would resent such a...
Procrastination, an addiction….
I’m screwed today -.-
I miss Hobbema
… conversation with Sonnie gave me back those memories with the kids
It’s been a while that I felt burden about what my life is to become and whether different ideals are true. I’m going back to my despairing self again.
I sometimes think Wittgenstein was right ironically when he said that philosophy is a sickness to be cured
I read a document my mom deleted but forgot to remove from the recycle bin. It was a list of explanations written to the lawyer we’re living with right now of incidents of when my dad did abuse this year. Most of them were about me, but there was another incident this summer when my dad abused my mother too. I can’t say what happened on tumblr, but what the freak…
“I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love. It was not given to the mother to know what her children needed for their life. Nor was it given to the rich man to know what he himself needed. Nor is it given to any man to know whether, when evening comes, he will need boots for his body or slippers for his corpse. I remained alive when I was a man, not by care of myself,...
53 Koreans get arrested on broad avenue, Pal Park
Over 200 FBI investigators came to Pal Park during the daylight and arrested frauds during their work time. Apparently, after the murder case in Tenafly, the FBI tracked it down to an argument about a bank fraud. Both Koreans who entered America legally/illegally bought social security numbers from people living in Guatamala or Hawaii, they open up a fake credit card number and spend wrecklessly...
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“I tell you: one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Still at hotel
3rd day sleeping at hotel to avoid my father…. he found me at church and started stalking me so I had to sneak out at the back of the church with clay. Yesterday I slept downstairs at the office where there was a lot of space and good computers. The owner said we couldn’t sleep there again, for no practical reason. -_-
I spent the last hour sitting on my chair thinking about conformity…. been reading Krishnamurti (cause his essays are short and I’m too lazy to read anything long on my nook) and I got a lot of recalls from too many quotes. I would say more but I need to get started on my english essay. Procrastination -_-;
“Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid. Again and again their will-to-live becomes, as it were, intoxicated: spring sunshine, opening flowers moving clouds, waving fields of grain — all affect it. The...
davidchoimusic:
This is My Story. This is what I had to do.
This is the answer to every question.
http://davidchoimusic.com/davidchoistory
The album’s titled genetic world, genetic ...
This computer sucks
My family had to leave the house again cause my father got into another fit, so we’re staying at a hotel before he calms down. … I’m doing my history hw on the computer down at the lobby and I keep getting distracted.
“Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhaeur’s saying, that “Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,” has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others’. This feeling mercifully...
Suffering and Compassion ... 2
Recapping tumblr post from yesterday.. found stuff interesting
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Kierkegaard became acquainted with Arthur Schopenhauer writings quite late in his life. Kierkegaard felt Schopenhauer was an important writer, but disagreed on almost every point Schopenhauer made. In...
My father was getting into his monthly irrational outfits and I wasn’t going to let it slide this time, letting him hurt the rest of the family and do whatever he wants. I ended up punching my father several times in the face, for the first time in 10 years doing so without fear. I got beat up of course, but without pain. I no longer felt weak and my pride was only uplifted. Im sick and...
“Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things...
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I realized for the last few days on how much work I actually have to do everyday in junior year….
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
“Got an email today from a 12yr old wanting to get surgery, desperate to look and feel “better”. Its so sad that someone at that age has to worry about that. Everyone is unique. You dont have to conform to what society says is appropriate. You were made that way for a reason. You are amazing just the way you are. If …people are giving you a hard time for being you,...
mills:
I’m an agnostic, in the strict sense of the word, although I’m a functional atheist as it’s casually meant. I don’t believe in any god. I also really like religion, which places me in an unusual position: both the religious and the irreligious disagree with me.
I was impressed with one element of this offering by the Catholic Church, however: the pope (who is not...
“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as...
