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Luck or Suffering: Homer’s Enemy
Last night I was told a poignant parable listing the pitfalls inherent to martyrdom. The noble martyr and the clueless buffoon face off in a fight to the death. The martyr sacrifices himself to destroy the buffoon’s, and the buffoon wins without ever lifting a hand in defense. It had all the nuance of an…
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Math in America
When I was a child learning math, I felt like I was walking through fog. Each step would present itself, smoky and hazy out of the mist, with the rest of the path obscured. My teacher would say “Today we learn addition, everyone repeat after me.” I would listen for a few days, and then…
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Low-Budget Remake of The Birds
This morning we woke up after sleeping from about 4-11:00 AM. I might have been a little hypomanic. We went over to my parents house, and had lovely collards and black eyed peas and sausage and corn bread. After lunch we went for a walk. The weather was overcast and a pleasant 70 degrees. We…
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Perspective: Suffering is Optional
So today I heard of Camus’s theory of absurdism and I loved it. It fits well with Gilbert’s view of Tricksters and trickster energy. I had no idea someone had laid out my philosophy before. The meaning of life, the eventual necessity of death, creates a conflict within us all. Not only is our own…