Sometimes I whisper these things to myself, just to Keep Moving Forward
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April 30th, 2012
February 29th, 2012
Taken from http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=6958, though citation of another tumblr is not the photograph itself.
February 28th, 2012
Death and God
Our class began with the tale - the tale of a king of a vast kingdom dying and how the news didn’t reach all the corners of the kingdom until years upon years later.
Does that change anything? Did that change anything? If we think about the world - even the modern world - and a leader dies (let us ignore the existence of twitter/ or all immediate cyber news outlets) and entire people don’t find out for 50 years… Did those people that lived for 50 years thinking their leader was alive change? Did they continue to behave the same way? Did they somehow know that their leader had died? Would anarchy rage? Or would rules live on because of ignorance?
So here we apply our story to the knowledge of God - to the idea that God might as Nietzsche declared so brazenly be dead…
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
Albert Camus in the Myth of Sisyphus.
God is Dead!
Nietzsche
February 27th, 2012
Chivalry
The definition…
1.the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms.2.the rules and customs of medieval knighthood.3.the medieval system or institution of knighthood.4.a group of knights.
Taken from dictionary.com on 2/26/2012.
Romantic Love
Let us discuss love - romantic love in our world.
Back in the day there existed a code - a code that still exists on some level today - the chivalry code. It existed as an attachment to love, thus making love a class obtainable emotion. But today the chivalry code exists as a cultural additive - or flare. A nostalgic device for society to wearily wist after a level of conduct that might have never existed in the name of manners or etiquette.
Interestingly there was also a discussion of platonic love. A love that transcends perfection. Because fixed love can not exist in this world, because this world is ever changing… right?
The conversation on love focused on the social restraints placed upon an emotion. As we blazed through the idea of marriage being disenfranchised from love. As culture makes room for the subculture of disagreeing and difference.
Is there an importance of higherachy to relationships? From romantic love to parental family love to familial love? Is this why individuals seek to recreate familial love…
Is it possible that friendship is to mild in our world? That because our thoughts on love have changed that love has become what we feel about all close relationships that friends become family?
And these were just the highlights…
Taken from notes 2/11/ 2012.
Just like during the actual class/ program… there are moments where time moves so fast I lose entire weeks.. but fear not a blaze of updates is about to descend…
February 3rd, 2012
Happiness…
Happiness involves a degree of self-awareness.
Aristotle* believed happiness was a state of completeness. Something that once you have it there is nothing lacking in life. Which thus makes it unable to be a matter of pleasure, satisfaction or desire because these are never complete.
Happiness must be within one self or under one’s control.
What do you think Happiness is….
*Note our conversational gravitation towards the Greeks, the Greeks formed our foundation for all our humanities conversations. Though it might be interesting to try the conversation from a different platform… .
Taken from notes, 1/28/2010
February 2nd, 2012
Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the earth unharmed, cloaked only in the words “Civis Romanis” - I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens.
-President Bartlet, The West Wing from Season 1, Episode 3: A Proportional Response
Do we still use our Polis to protect ourselves? Are we as dependent upon our idea of home in our globalized society that identification is founded on a location?
