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Philosophy

Relationships, Isolation and Balance

January 6, 2011

In the early pages of The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee’s notes are quoted thus: Understanding oneself happens through a process of relationships and not through isolation. While I see some truth in that, I think I also need a balance of relationships and isolation.  Solitude is really what I mean:  I need [...]

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Actionable Feelings and Weird Dreams

October 12, 2010

So I’ve been re-reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for the last couple of weeks.  I’ve been reading John Galt’s speech to the world for the past few days – it’s like forever long, just like I remember it.  I think the book would be much better if it were maybe 20% as long as it [...]

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Changes

August 15, 2010

Yes, yes, I know, dear reader:  it’s been quite a long time since my last post. A lot’s been going on lately and I’ve mostly been keeping to myself.  Oh, I’ve been talking to people here and there about things, and it’s not that I didn’t feel comfortable talking to you about them, dear reader, [...]

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Speech From The American President

August 3, 2010

I recently posted a link to this speech on my facebook page, but I think the Andy Shepherd (Michael Douglas) speech from The American President is definitely something worth posting in its entirety. I scraped it from here, and if you follow that linq, I believe you can actually watch the video from the movie [...]

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Being Present in the Moment

July 20, 2010

On the ride up to RI at the beginning of my MINIs on Top trip, I popped into my CD player a series of CDs my friend Jason loaned to me two or three years ago:  it was a talk by Eckhart Tolle called The Flowering of Human Consciousness.  It was pretty good – both [...]

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Eat It, Monday

May 17, 2010

Some days I feel like this: Two waster kids stopped in front of Quinn, who grinned in welcome. “I haven’t had sex for ages,” Quinn said. He looked straight at the one wearing the T-shirt. “So I think I’ll fuck you first tonight.” The waster kid snarled, and threw a punch with all the strength [...]

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Ego Check

May 6, 2010

Today I spent a little bit of time checking on my ego.  My head can get blown up pretty quickly if I’m not careful.  Egomania has caused me a lot of problems in the past (in retrospect – it’s not something I really noticed at the time), and I’ve expended a lot of effort trying [...]

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Zen of the Day

May 4, 2010

As you may or may not know, my daily morning reading/meditation comes from my Zen-a-Day calendar.  I’ve ripped off plenty of those pages on plenty of these here pages already.  Yesterday’s reading was as follows: A tea master asked his son to rake the leaves in the temple garden.  When the boy was finished, the [...]

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Gratitude and the Void

April 12, 2010

My plan was to test out this new plugin with a post this afternoon – er, yesterday afternoon, as it’s now 13 minutes into tomorrow.  But I didn’t get a chance to.  Work was crazy busy today and I left feeling like I still have a million things to do.  Which isn’t true:  I only [...]

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On Becoming Less of an Asshole

March 21, 2010

I finished my peaks today for my Catskill 3500 Club winter patch.  A total of 28 mountains climbed this winter.  I met three guys as I was just about to the summit of Eagle and we shot the shit for a bit before I headed out ahead of them.  After I hit the summit and [...]

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