Intro
Hello everybody. I think it's bad manners to ask you all to post an intro for your blog without doing the same, so here it is. I'll be posting semi-regularly, and I'll let you know when something important is posted up here. Briefly, what's on my mind? The Super Bowl was exciting for one quarter. It is really really cold, and I'm trying to decide if I've ever experienced lower temperatures. There's something exotic about it, though. I like calling my friends in NY and bragging about -15 (-25 with the windchill). I'm staying inside most of the time. I'm definitely not ice-fishing. I heard an interesting radio show on boredom yesterday, and I'm thinking of writing some more about that. Boredom as existential crisis, as an authentic (ha!) experience of the uncanniness of the world. When I was younger I always kept in mind a quote from Henry Rollins, that "bored people are boring," and I think that still rings true. To the extent that we're bored (like, for example in a dull class - not mine though!) it has as much to do with our inability to actively create something interesting in that environment. Of course, the whole institutional set-up (the lecturing teacher, the formal structure of the lesson, the rows of small uncomfortable desks) tend to reinforce a passive disengagement from the educational experience. But that's not gonna change, it seems. At least one philosopher seems to suggest that boredom is a fundamental characteristic of being human - that in boredom we experience our relationship with the world in a negative way (we can't engage with it) and that this negative relationship is the ground of all possibility, of all becoming. Who knew boredom could be so interesting?
That's all for now. Extra credit for the first person to identify the source of my title for this blog page.
That's all for now. Extra credit for the first person to identify the source of my title for this blog page.
posted by mdl 1550 at
12:32 PM
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that title is from a line in the movie "The Princess Bride"...about the word inconceivable
darn it. i would've had it!! congrats-nicholas j!!!!!
Actually, it's from Plato's "Republic." Thrasymachus is going on about the concept of justice and how it simply refers to the power of the weaker over the stronger and then Socrates goes, "Thrasymachus, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." And then Socrates helps revive the Dread Pirate Roberts and they storm the castle and... no, wait. That is "The Princess Bride." Nice job Nicholas. Half extra credit to Heather for her better-late-than-never attempt.
Hey there, I was just responding to your post on my wall about living a less hectic lifestyle and trying to take time to ourselves. Currently I am without a computer for about a week and that is painful. This makes me have to stop and think about how much technology affects my everyday lifestyle and how much I relay on cell phones, computers, etc. I just wanted to move somewhere where those current necesities are brought to a less significant place in my life. And I'm not saying that I don't want to have a laptop and cell phone because I am totally a huge fan of technology advances and gadgets. But I am trying to find that place in my life where I am not 100% dependent on the television and computer and phone. And this is not going to be an easy process but I think taking the time and going through the process of tranfering to a more cohesive type of college town feel, and being conscious of my lifestyle and everyday stresses will help greatly in slowing the pace of my life and not stressing out over everything. I just wanted to hear what you thought about bring life to a hault for a moment and trying to reconnect with yourself and center your being so that you can actually live your own life and not the life that the media or environment presses upon you?!
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