Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
An Unfamous Quote
Dear Other:
Q: Where shall Self turn to? --------------------> Ans: To Hope.
In a world of evermore modern secularization and computerized automatons employment is shifting to the machine. Talk to a taxi toward your destination is under development, jobs being filled by e-ployments.
Machines have become common peripherals to existence. Thus the role of the local neighborhood has diminished as our community goes online or to a favorite channel. Real time interpersonal communications are on the intermediary of a transistor?
"Believe in yourself. Nobody else will."
ARTICLE:
Markoff, John. (July 25, 2009). Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man. New York Times. Retrieved July 19, 2009 from
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=1&hp
Self
Q: Where shall Self turn to? --------------------> Ans: To Hope.
In a world of evermore modern secularization and computerized automatons employment is shifting to the machine. Talk to a taxi toward your destination is under development, jobs being filled by e-ployments.
Machines have become common peripherals to existence. Thus the role of the local neighborhood has diminished as our community goes online or to a favorite channel. Real time interpersonal communications are on the intermediary of a transistor?
"Believe in yourself. Nobody else will."
ARTICLE:
Markoff, John. (July 25, 2009). Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man. New York Times. Retrieved July 19, 2009 from
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=1&hp
Self
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Pizza Construction
Dear Other:
Q: What is Existentialism? - - - - - - - - - -> Ans: A pepperoni pizza!
The pepperoni is where one can stand on a hard surface, confident and sure of oneself. Here one can reason logically to find meaning in life. Plato and Descartes stand tall there. Once, I got up on the pepperoni studying at the University. Trying very hard to stay atop on my hands and knees, the turbulence soon became too much. I fell back into the pie.
Fell into the cheese. Once in the cheese, I found flaws in logic, irrationalism and a struggle in the thick ooze of life. Stuck I almost drowned, almost. Now, I manage to stay afloat. How? One grabs a handful of cheese and forms this into a shape one finds meaning in. I hold onto this shape, stay afloat and survive.
This task is difficult as I bob up and down, bumping my head against the pepperoni. Another swims by and points out the absurdity of my creation. I must agree but stay alive.
Let us not forget the final ingredient, the crust. This is the most important because the crust is love. Love surrounds the whole and gives structure and support to our cheese and pepperoni. The crust is a place where we find each other.
I will wait for you there.
Self
Q: What is Existentialism? - - - - - - - - - -> Ans: A pepperoni pizza!
The pepperoni is where one can stand on a hard surface, confident and sure of oneself. Here one can reason logically to find meaning in life. Plato and Descartes stand tall there. Once, I got up on the pepperoni studying at the University. Trying very hard to stay atop on my hands and knees, the turbulence soon became too much. I fell back into the pie.
Fell into the cheese. Once in the cheese, I found flaws in logic, irrationalism and a struggle in the thick ooze of life. Stuck I almost drowned, almost. Now, I manage to stay afloat. How? One grabs a handful of cheese and forms this into a shape one finds meaning in. I hold onto this shape, stay afloat and survive.
This task is difficult as I bob up and down, bumping my head against the pepperoni. Another swims by and points out the absurdity of my creation. I must agree but stay alive.
Let us not forget the final ingredient, the crust. This is the most important because the crust is love. Love surrounds the whole and gives structure and support to our cheese and pepperoni. The crust is a place where we find each other.
I will wait for you there.
Self
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Blogger
Dear Other:
Monday night walking through the park on Madison and 25th street, a man sitting on a bench was yelling, loudly and psychotically about unfulfilled wants or needs. I did not ask. I continued on.
In these difficult economic times many people are in, one might ask, was he homeless, mentally ill, a man in difficult financial situations?
Looking upon myself as blogger there appeared similarities. Ready to cry to the abyss of cyperspace, receiving no ping or knowing who cares not, others are busy to their destination.
The role of organizer of the Existential Reading Circle came unexpectedly. A blooger? Who me? This man on the bench and me, in a situation not planned or imagined. A destination arrived by choices, a responsibility too.
I am the blogger on a bench, screaming in anguish!
Self.
Monday night walking through the park on Madison and 25th street, a man sitting on a bench was yelling, loudly and psychotically about unfulfilled wants or needs. I did not ask. I continued on.
In these difficult economic times many people are in, one might ask, was he homeless, mentally ill, a man in difficult financial situations?
Looking upon myself as blogger there appeared similarities. Ready to cry to the abyss of cyperspace, receiving no ping or knowing who cares not, others are busy to their destination.
The role of organizer of the Existential Reading Circle came unexpectedly. A blooger? Who me? This man on the bench and me, in a situation not planned or imagined. A destination arrived by choices, a responsibility too.
I am the blogger on a bench, screaming in anguish!
Self.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Day One
Dear Other:
I want to introduce myself. I am the organizer of the Existentiali Reading Circle. Please follow this link for more information: http://www.meetup.com/existentialreading/.
I am only a reader. I am not an existentialist or a philosopher. I am somebody like you. This means I have been moved by recent events in our world.
This blog will be about those events and what I learn from reading existentialist material. I hope together we can share our experiences here in this place, a place we call home.
Self
I want to introduce myself. I am the organizer of the Existentiali Reading Circle. Please follow this link for more information: http://www.meetup.com/existentialreading/.
I am only a reader. I am not an existentialist or a philosopher. I am somebody like you. This means I have been moved by recent events in our world.
This blog will be about those events and what I learn from reading existentialist material. I hope together we can share our experiences here in this place, a place we call home.
Self
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