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May 6, 2012
April 18, 2012
Ten-Minute Art School Bullshit
“There is no one right answer. Reality is ambiguous. Aristotle said it is either A or not-A. It cannot be both. The sky is either blue or not blue. This is black and white thinking as the sky is a billion different shades of blue. A beam of light is either a wave or not a wave (A or not-A). Physicists discovered that light can be either a wave or particle depending on the viewpoint of the observer. The only certainty in life is uncertainty. When trying to get ideas, do not censor or evaluate them as they occur. Nothing kills creativity faster than self-censorship of ideas while generating them. Think of all your ideas as possibilities and generate as many as you can before you decide which ones to select. The world is not black or white. It is grey.”
This except is from Ten-Minute Art School Course (Tumblr link) which has close to a thousand reblogs/likes whatever. It has some nice open-mindedness concept for people who’ve never had an original thought in their entire life, but at least half of this article is almost entirely hogwash. Garbage. Complete nonsense. It basically says how everyone is right because there is no wrong answer to anything because everything is subjective.This type of thinking is the destruction of civilization. When we eliminate right and wrong, I’m not talking about eliminating ethics here (which is quite important on it’s own), but ELIMINATING LOGIC. There IS such thing as correct and incorrect, and not everyone’s opinion is valid.
How the article reveals it’s own self-contradiction SO badly is by this excerpt I removed. It quotes Aristotle, and one of his biggest key principles: “A is A”. The summation of this principle is that logic is the only real truth. Logic is the discerning of reality by objective means: that up is up, down is down, we are humans, we are mortal, death is irreversible and if you try to earn something without working for it, the world will balance itself out and you’ll fall right off the edge, which is my own paraphrasing (albiet not a very a good one).
So here it is, quoting Aristotle, and thenusing his quoteto display the exact opposite of what it’s meaning is, by going ahead and saying “A is A, or A is not A. There is no both. But everything is ambigious.”What the flying fuck.
Please Tumblr, smarten up, and don’t buy this bullshit which is a disgrace to human intelligence.
March 20, 2012
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus (via annarsquotebook)
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February 4, 2012
"All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies."
February 3, 2012
Success and Elitism are not synonmous
I used to have a great contempt for those who take pride in being poor and pathetic. Those who praise the victims, and damn the strong. I used to also feel this way, but I feel like it could never be more wrong. They say everyone deserves a fair share, when the reality is we all have to earn our fair share. I think it all goes without saying that some of us are dealt shitty hands and others get really great cards, but the truth I believe is that it goes how we play them.
But then I got sucked into the idea that playing cards right, and being successful despite the circumstances was the only right answer. But I find lately that this is only a very skewed version of the truth. Because success often leads to unearned and poorly-founded beliefs, that wealth is success and success is wealth. Wealth is often attributed to Elitism, the belief that anything of higher status is better than anything else. But “status” is a false sense of value that’s attributed to where something is and nothow it got there.
The cause of something is the important thing to remember, not the effect. Wealth is not the thing of concern, it’sability, whichcanbe the cause of wealth, but is not always. It’s truly ability that needs to garnish ones respect.
But then we must remember the other side as well: ability without execution and utility is wasted effort, and that person turns into a victim, a unique and capable individual who was not *given* the opportunity to prove it, but this is not a thing to praise. No one gives you a chance, you have to take chances.
Play the cards your dealt in the best way you know how, but only those who make risky moves will ever see themselves beat the odds.
December 10, 2011
"Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not."
— Paulo Coelho (via thelittlephilosopher)
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December 1, 2011
“I, Samael, am not in need of henchmen or followers, but only imitators of my doctrine: Gnosis. I do not follow anyone, nor do I want anyone to follow me. What I want is for each one of you to follow his own Self. I am only a lighthouse in the sea of existence, and I do not need clientele in order to subsist. Since I am against the slavery of souls, I do not want to enslave any soul, nor do I agree with executioners of ideals. Masters exists in abundance, and I am only one of many; thus, those who want to find the Masters will find them inside, within the profundities of their own inner consciousness.
—Samael Aun Weor
September 25, 2011
My life is very good, but…
Very frequently I get these urges to drive for a week. Live out of my car, and just walk around cities unseen before. Not to like, “get away from it all”, but more as a “what else is there to see?” To be really honest, to meet people I’ve never met before, and maybe find a way to fill this empty feeling that curls up every night I’m laying by my self, waiting for the night to end [loneliness]. I don’t need to get away from anything, except for myself. And I’m a glutton for loneliness when I have the freedom to sit in my house all day in complete safety and comfort.
Problem is I would need to buy a car to do that. Maybe if I work hard enough, and save up a few thousand, I can buy a nice fuel-efficient used car in good condition and get the fuck out of here. Maybe for a month, when there’s no school. Or maybe just fuck school. I really want to know if there is more to life than adjusting, adjusting, adjusting…
I do so much good where I am and my career and life progresses with almost every single day. I can’t explain how lucky I am. But it’s just not quite enough. Money is not everything I want, to buy nicer crap to put in my box of a home. My stuff is nice enough. I need to be outside, to grow as a human being, and an individual soul. I wouldn’t work on my career forever even if I had the choice. At some point I would retire and live “how I wanted”. But what does that mean? Why can’t I do that now?
Philosophy is no longer the answer. I’ve been reading books and absorbing art and culture for months on end now, and I feel it’s all tied into the same truths. I understand these truths. But I don’t live them: and philosophy cannot change that. It’s now up to me. It’s up to me to go outside, drive far away, and just look at the town square of some beautiful place in San Fransisco, a place I’ve never been, in a state I’ve never been. Be so far away from home the air smells different, and everyone looks different. I don’t know where I am and I have nothing to my name. No one knows me or anything I’ve done, and that’s the best part. I have only my face and my gestures to make someone want to talk to me, and somehow I could find out what makes us tick, as people. What we want to see in others. Then maybe I can find some people that want to talk to me, who I haven’t met or am approved by some pre-determined standard of being in the same class, the same job, the same friends. Then, maybe…
August 1, 2011
"What surprises me most about humanity? Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
— The Dalai Lama
June 29, 2011
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