You’ve got a friend in me!
I just read the Gray Lady’s awsome news and I would like to extend my kudos and best wishes.
But my fellows out there in the tubes, this has lit a fire under me to pursue a local meet up. Unfortunately I’ve only been able to track down the existence three other local AVENites (I don’t feel right posting your user names, but I did add you as friend(s) on AVEN) on top of that I haven’t had any corespondance with them.
Consider yourselves called out, I want a meetup. Will do the winnipeg thing: Slurpees, cold wind, and inside jokes about really how you’ve been to the forks once you’ve been enough.
Ciao.
Of philosophy and relationships
I love philosophy, I find enthralling that one can use abstract concepts to guide your life, including (but not limited to) outlook, action, interpretation of action, people, beliefs, and relationships.
After having a philosophical crisis afew years ago I started to craft my own personal amalgam of philosophy combining existentialism; utilitarianism; atheisim, backed on a preference for the Many Worlds Theory over the Copenhagen Interpretation because it allows me to belive that evrything is posible and doesn’t necessitate a sort of ’supreme observer’ that would have had to collapse the initail probability field of the universe; Gödel’s incompleteness theorem; a love of the Oxford comma; loathing of the hyphen; and something that doesn’t quiet have a name yet.
So, to briefly describe how all this culminates into personal method of guidence. Nothing has inherit meaning, no matter what, evrything only has the meaning the you give to it; this gives you a enormus amount of power over happenings in your own life. The ends justifies the means, so long as the means does not make a moot point of the end; this may soud cruel, but ”I must be cruel only to be kind./This bad begins and worse remains behind.” (Hamlet Act 3, scene 4, 178–179), it is our duty to maximize well being and minimze suffering to all of our community. All humans are inherently equal, and deserve equal love, no matter how despicable their acts or how much of a stranger they are. People are not their action; actions cause happiness, and actions cause suffering; these are what need to be maximized and minumized (respectively). Actions can be reviled, praised, emulated, and anything else you want. Relationships are the most important, they are what places one person above another.
I’m not perfect, i try to live buy this befuddling code, simply because this is what makes sense to me now. 5 years, five months, two weeks, tomorrow, I’ll adjust as needed, but right now this makes me a better person.
Jumping back to relationships for a bit. I love what DJ is doing right now (side note: I feel as though we could not have a better leader for the movement right now, both articulate and charasmatic) we need this sort of lingustic rethink, I can’t tell you the times I’ve sheepishly backed away from people I’ve been interested in because I couldn’t find a way to say what I wanted from them without sounding like this creep from out of no where. I’ve never really had any luck with relationships, they’re more foriegn to me then sex, at least you aren’t expected to uderstand sex in a social context until mid teens or older, but relationships is just something that you’re expected to know intrinsically, and I don’t (I mentioned this in “In the beginning“). Not only does this disscusion expand vocabulary in a way it desperately needs but also allows people like me to, effectivly, learn to how act while the actual language is being developed.
I not exatly show how clear this is, hopefully I can clean this up this weekend.
Ciao.
