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Scrap of paper
I’ve been trying to channel my negative feelings into a more creative outlet. Here’s a scrap of paper that I scribbled down recently. I’ll work on it some more and try to develop the idea a bit, but here’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Writing
Tagged heartbreak, Love, penance, poetry, prose, punishment, romance
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Interesting ideas in the works…
So I know that my last post seems… Well, a lot like shaking a fist at the heavens as opposed to serious philosophical work. If that’s your view, you’re pretty much right on. I was a lot less drunk than … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Philosophy, Questions, Writing
Tagged philosophy, Sidgwick
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Been gone a long time
Sorry for the really fucking long absence, everyone. Shit has been severely, severely fucked up for a while. It’s like a giant shit bomb went off, and every single thing in my life was covered in it. Yeah, I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Philosophy, Questions, Religion
Tagged "Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted upon us by the arbitrary will of another, Arthuer Schopenhauer, Dagny, fucked up shit, God, happiness, i'm drunk, Immanuel Kant, Kant, Kierkegaard, Life, Love, Schopenhauer, Soren Kierkegaard, sorrow, suffering
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Music: Advice from the Universe, God, or just coincidence?
So I was listening to my iTunes collection today, and a song came on that I didn’t recognize. In fact, I doubt that I had even heard the song before that moment. It was by a band that I really … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Music, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Questions, Writing
Tagged 45, 45 lyrics, advice, coincidence, God, Love, The Gaslight Anthem, the Universe
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The emaciated mind
I hate this. I hate the rapid pulse, the lump in my throat, the muted sounds, the shortness of breath, and the burning feeling in my eyes. I truly, fully hate this- in every manifestation of hate that is currently … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Questions, Writing
Tagged hate, heart, lachrymose, Love, mind, soul
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Hope and Grief
How do people deal with grief? More specifically, how does grief ever get “properly” dealt with? We all hear that time heals all wounds, and that God has a plan, but when you’re in the midst of a profound loss, … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Questions, Writing
Tagged Grief, hope, loss, Love, relationships
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Ultimate love
Let’s have a quick thought experiment. Think about love. What makes it profound? What makes it worthwhile? What makes one love more significant, or, dare I say, real, than other kinds of love? People often say, “You can’t love a … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Philosophy, Questions, Writing
Tagged agape, eros, Love, phileo, philosophy, philosophy of love, suffering, thought experiment
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Frederick William Robertson and My Favorite Quote
It is an awful moment when the soul begins to find that the props upon which it has blindly rested are, many of them, rotten, and begins to suspect them all; when it begins to feel the nothingness of many … Continue reading
Convincing? I don’t think so! (There’s irony afoot…)
Music playing at the moment: Moonface (w/Siinai)- “Quickfire, I Tried” – Heartbreaking Bravery – Jagjaguwar (2012). http://moonface.ca/ (Skip ahead to the squiggles to get right to the purpose of the post if you don’t give a shit about all this…) … Continue reading
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Tagged convincing, convincing people, forgiveness, forgiving, guilt, Heartbreaking Bravery, irony, Moonface, redemption, Spencer Krug
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