January 2011
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Why does theoretical homework involve theoretical...
Why is it that the classes that are supposed to help me learn just make me wonder how bad our teaching really is? I should not have to conceptualize the possibility of blowing myself and everyone around me up in a gigantic, chemical explosion…
So, for an organic chemistry assignment, I am required to hypothesize upon the identity of an unknown compound A. A can be dissolved in alcohol and...
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“The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge [epistemology], reality...”
– Philosophy
Or. Greek
(Philos) Love of (sophia) knowledge.
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Existential Postulate
1. If the underlying mechanics of the physical world (that is, the universe, including all matter) are governed by established laws, then patterns do indeed emerge from a study of the physical world.
a. If those patterns are based on the principles guiding the interactions of subatomic and thus, atomic particles, and those particles make up all reality, then reality itself is governed by...
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...
“who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver
& waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded & loned in
Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver
is lonesome for her heros”
-Howl
for Carl Soloman
1955-1956
Allen Ginsberg
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Academics
Goals:
Tonight: Chemistry and Calculus
Future: 1) Chemistry problems each day.
2) Calculus each day.
3) Philosophy each day.
4) Reading and study of general subjects each day.
5) Writing each day.
6) Enjoying it all and everything in between.
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“College blows. Learning new stuff just makes you feel stupid.”
– Kid in the hallway.
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Op. 2 "Devenir fou," Mov 1.
Freaking out again: need to take a course in which there is no room and which I cannot take at any other time due to needing to pay rent. I need this course to major in Chemistry and I don’t know if I can take another course to fill its position. I also have not declared my two majors yet, nor have I spoke to the advisors for said majors even though I am well aware of the requirements for...
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SMASH FACE INTO WALL
I feel as if my creativity is stifled at the moment. I have been working on an ethics essay for about a month now and I feel as if I have hit a dead end. There are many ways in which I could take my writing, especially in light of certain writings which I have only recently begun to consume. However, there is a sense of stagnation in the final objectives of the essay.
For, instance, I...
Is it impossible to talk about philosophy without... →
via inanebliss:
it is impossible to talk about philosophy (even in the most superficial of regards) without coming off like a haughty highbrow. i sometimes seem to forget the salience of this “pretentious douche” stigma.
maybe a few souls just ruined it for everyone. those nietzsche readertoting elitists who quote foucault in between breathes and come off (god knows how) as perpetually...
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Purchases
I am contemplating the future purchase of three items:
1. Turntable
2. Typewriter
3. Tattoo(s) to formally announce the final evolution of my hipsterism on the coming of the prior two items.
Thoughts?
“It must be obvious… that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly...”
– Alan Watts (via curiositykick)
via earth-boner
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Play The XX. Hope work gets done.
What House Republicans are voting for today
storybook:
mnpublius:
Today, the House representatives will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In so doing, they will vote to:
Allow health insurance companies to refuse coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
Kick millions of young adults off their parents’ insurance.
Stop 32 million Americans from getting health insurance.
Increase the deficit by $230 billion.
Reduce Medicare’s...
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In thoughts of MLK
the great steamrolling colossus
the fret-blue and fester-red
the assault, the barrage
the argument and the shouting afar
the streets in smoke
the people in tatters
the disagreement
the new voices at dawn
the bright and blinding light alone
the shakers, the movers
the head-held-high and the working away
the teeming masses in motion
the people in conversation
the handshake
the...
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Hipsters should never procreate, only copulate. Hipster couple + baby = no.
via teacakes-:
Bon Iver | “Skinny...
NYTimes: After Tucson, Is the Anger Gone?
http://nyti.ms/gcTGYj