The past week or so has really grounded me and I finally feel as though I’ve moved back into my apartment. I’ve reconstructed my tsuboniwa complete with koi. I’ve made more time for tea and meditation and I had an itch to paint again. This time I used a rather large canvas. It is kinda […]
I’ve tinkered with my tsuboniwa a bit today and finished a painting I was working on. I posted the first painting in my last blog. Here is the one I finished up today: Another painting for my office 🙂
I like movies like the Millennium Man, The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell because they toy with these questions. Blade Runner was, I think, one of the first movies to explicitly try to raise these ethical and religious questions.
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 […]
