Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
I came across 3 ghost towns today. I also got way too close to a brown bear for a pic (which wasn’t a bright thing to do). All in all the trip has been enjoyable even if the hotel that I made a reservation at “lost” it and I’m subsequently staying in a motel that reminds me of several psycho-killer movies.
I discovered a label to use for the way I view consciousness and self and it is called “Bundle Theory”! For Western Society, a Scottish philosopher from the 1700s came up with the idea. This is the idea that there is phenomena and then there is the interpolation of phenomena by other phenomena with the ability to frame such phenomena as being differential due to the brain’s ability to retain memories. The observer creates the perception of the observed.
Annise Parker! I wanted to say that I’m personally overjoyed to have Annise elected! Imagine… to hear the Mayor of Houston say, “This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.” What an amazing turn of events. In the 80s, we had mayoral candidate publically stating that their approach to HIV reduction would be […]
Annise Parker! I wanted to say that I’m personally overjoyed to have Annise elected! Imagine… to hear the Mayor of Houston say, “This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.” What an amazing turn of events. In the 80s, we had mayoral candidate publically stating that their approach to HIV reduction would be […]
I don’t know why I work myself up. Last week I was facing some fairly high uncertainties and I scared myself by thinking about “what-if scenarios”. While I used to torture myself thinking about what if – and still do from time to time – I have gotten a bit better about it. Aikido For the past 3 […]
As I was driving down the road to meet with the inspectors, I found an apparently abandoned and seemingly forgotten graveyard. It is actually a surreal. Many new townhomes are built around the graveyard and all of their neatly manicured backyards abruptly end to become something out of a horror movie. Strangely, there way little in the way of garbage or vandalism. It is as if everyone has simply decided to pretend that this place just does not exist.
I got the the HTGA meeting late tonight because I was at Aikido practice. I’m really enjoying it a lot. While we’ve done a little punching, we’ve mostly focused on safely redirecting the energy of an attack in a way that protects both me and my attacker. I also like all of the protocols, tradition, […]
