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| Trivia weekend is upon us and i am participating for the first time ever, and yes that is why i am writing this so early in the morning. It is the worlds largest trivia contest. I have to be involved. So the rest of you can die, or ignore it, i am trying to write a piece of me into history. hahaha what a ridiculous concept, the world can forget about me now. If they happen to remember i will be utterly dumbfounded.
"Every man gets what he wants; i wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one." -Captain Willard
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| Here is an actual converstaion that i had 2 years ago with some fellow philosophy students.
"Is having sex with a clone of yourself incest or masturbation?"
"I
say masturbation, I mean until the clone start having defining memories
of its own, you are pretty much just extensions of one another"
"No
way, you and the clone are going to be experiencing different
sensations, which will make you two different minds right away. No
matter what you do, at the very least you will be looking in one
direction and the clone in the other. It would be two seperate
experiences."
"What if you were both blind? Would it work then?"
"You would still have different sensations of what you are feeling."
"What about if you and the clone didn't have any feeling, or didn't feel any sensation?"
"Why would you and your clone have sex if you couldn't experience any sensation from it?
"What about if you both just had the sense of smell?"
"Alright,
it was one thing when we were just talking about whether having sex
with your clone was masturbation or incest, but talking about you and
your clone only have the sense of smell? Now you are just being absurd."
Such is my life, why this makes me laugh everytime i read it i don't know.
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| Well i have been told that i need to make a new entry so i figured that i could sit down with my bowl of rice and glass of water and tell you about what is going on in my life. I finished sending my applications into grad schools recently so now the waiting begins. people constantly ask me if i am really anxious to hear back from them. And to be honest, i'm not. I dont really care whether or not i get in, i will still be alive and i will still be happy. I would be excited if i got in, but it is out of my control so i dont worry about it.
The first phil cllub meeting was today to decide what time would work best, i didnt go and not many others did, so we will talk about it more at a later date. I also had the first Phi Sgima Tau meeting today, we decided that we are going to try to put a panel together to discuss reasons to study philosophy and publish a little journal that has some student papers and GSR list (good shit to read).
I havent played any CS since november and i think that part of my life is over. It was fun, 7 years was a long time to play a particular game. I hope that i dont lose touch with the people that i played with, but i have a connection with them that i dont share with anyone else, so my fears are probably infounded.
I had over 300 pages of reading assigned this week, so it has been a mad rush to see if i can accomplish the task and understand/criticize everything that i have read. I have to write 2 small papers tonight, which wont be a problem and go play an intramural basketball game at 7:45.
I dont really have that much else to discuss, I have been thinking about human development lately and trying to figure out if being self-absorbed is a bad thing. I am trying to figure out how to balance friends, family, and my personal desires. I guess i will just sort of make it up as a go along since plans invariably fail. I had a really great conversations with a friend from my first year as a philosophy student and it was enlightening. Some of the topics we covered were benign hypocrisy, accepting responsibility (in politics), war, and failure. If any of these topics seem interesting or need definition, just let me know and i will try to give an explanation.
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| OK first off i totally agree with you Marie, these people that go around protesting funerals are assholes, plain and simple, they could get their message across without barging into people's personal time to grieve. But i have to disagree and say that they are still christian, while we may not find their ideology particularily appealing or even "christian" they read the bible and fimrly beleive that Jesus Christ is their savior. They might be a bit confused on the whole "do unto others" thing but i think we still have to classify them as christian. What do we think about Muslim extremists much like Bin Laden or other members of Al Queda, granted they do not fit into the mainstream of Islamic thought, they are still considered Muslims.
On the point about God and his wrath, i dont think i can answer that question nor do i think most people can. Granted there are those that have had experiences of God talking to them, but i have not even though I leave myself open to his message everyday. If you are asking me what kind of God i would want, well i think a God that is all-forgiving would be a good point. But lets define this a little further. I surely dont want a God that would say, it doesnt matter what you do, you still get to go to heaven and nothing bad will happen to you. What i would like is a God that is understanding and offers his forgiveness to those that believe and accept him as real. Now currently i cannot accept his reality because i have no proof. Someone might say "well craig, thats where faith comes in." I understand this point, but as Marie said, we are made in God's image, therefore i must believe that all of the capabilities i have have been instilled in me by God. I am agnostic, this means that i don't know whether God exists, furthermore, i believe that we, as humans, have access to that type of information. So i cannot believe that a God that would give me reason, and an ability to question would punish me for it. Were God to present himself to me in a credible and experiential way, i would choose to believe. Where does punishment come in? Well lets say that Hitler, after killing himself, is put in the prescence of God. He experiences the truth of his actions and decides that instead of apologizing he gives God the finger and says screw off, I'm doing just fine. In this case my God would say, sorry buddy but you gotta go, A.) Either God will cause his existence to end, no more Hitler soul, or B.) he would punish Hitler in some way. I leave the ingenuity of this punishment to God, since he is probably smarter than I and can figure out the best punishment.
What about love? Hmm love between two people is a very interesting thing and probably has more variables than our own DNA. What is it to love someone? I think that is for each person to decide. We need to make sure that the relationship is loving instead of abusive, that i am sure of. But what about the loving wife that gets beat every night. She loves him and he loves her. But something doesnt seems to be right. We have to be careful with love because it can lead us into harmful relationships with other people. Does that mean we shouldn't love? No, just because drinking can be potentially dangerous doesnt mean that we shouldnt. Just beacuse rollercoasters could be dangerous doesnt mean we should refuse to go on them. We just need to be aware of ourselves in relationships. If it seems like it isnt working it is probably for the best that you end it. Number one, you wont hurt yourself, and number two, if it is bad for you, it is probably bad for the other person. I think we all need to be more adult about love.
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| Two news updates. First of all Joe Lally is a cool motherfucker, totally relaxed and absolutely wise. He is quiet but sociable. I went out to japanese with him on friday night, had a great time talking and hearing about all his ins with The chili peppers and metting the mars volta was pretty cool. obviously there is a sort of wierd things that happen when you become famous where people get to meet others on a regular basis. Then friday morning i awoke to joe doing the dishes downstairs. had a great time with him went out for a drink after his show and we talked a lot about life.
Then saturday we went to the volta show. it was of course great and exciting, it always gets me excited. they played the track frances the mute which was awesome and i felt really lucky that we got to see that live.
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