Posted in Existentialism and Authenticity, People and Psychology, tagged angst, boyfriends, Caitlin, Denial of Death, Earnest Becker, girlfriends, gorwing up, hormones, lonely, marriage, partialization, pyschological, relationships, teen angst, teenagers, transference, universe, worldview on 8 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I think relationships can be wonderful; indeed, I know from personal experience how wonderful it is to have someone special in one’s life. Let us make no bones about this.
But there is something dangerous, I have come to find, in this.
People have explained the strong inclination of teenagers [...]
Posted in Ethics, Society and Culture, tagged Against, atheism, Buddhism, Caitlin, California, Christianity, deductive, define, gadfly, Gay Marriage, homosexuality, illogical, Islam, Judaism, logic, Nihilism, Prop 8, Proposition 8, question, reasonable, right and wrong, rights on 2 October, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As many of you probably already know, there is a measure coming up on the ballots to define what constitutes a marriage in the state of California. Naturally, when these sorts of things happen, the usual tiresome group of loud people presume to make a lot of fuss, argue badly, and waste everyone’s time with [...]
Posted in Existentialism and Authenticity, People and Psychology, tagged ?, Caitlin, in love, love, nature, of, reason, romantic, what is on 22 July, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A while back, Caitlin asked me to write about love and trust, but the two seem different enough to me to justify separate articles. First I’d like to deal with love, specifically, romantic love. When I refer to “love” in the rest of this article, I will mean strictly “romantic” love.
For this entry, I have [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged Adagio sostenuto, Alexander Pope, Allegretto, Caitlin, can't sleep, Jordan, Moonlight, Moonlight Sonata, Presto agitato, restlessness, sleepless, Sonata on 17 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I should be asleep. Barring that, I should at least be doing something productive. Homework perhaps.
Instead I mixed a fair portion of the Bacardi into orange juice and put on the Moonlight sonata.
Adagio sostenuto
I wonder, right now, if there is anyone who also should be asleep, who has things to do tomorrow, but who might [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged absurd, absurdity, Caitlin, Camus, Denial of Death, Earnest Becker, Existential, Existential crisis, existentialism, Jordan, Kierkegaard, Otto Rank, Sartre, Zac on 7 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All is in vain.
I realize that I set this up to be a more or less “serious” blog with entries to be carefully crafted articles or essays, but consistency by damned!
All is in vain.
Existential metaphysics is terrible. Absurdity is absurd. It is all so beautifully terrible. It PAINS.
And no one who has not felt [...]
