Sunday, August 28, 2011

3rd Place in the GOP race.

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Ron Paul On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace 8/28/2011


“I’m in it to win it…As president I would reduce the power of government, I wouldn’t seek it. I would never take the power from Congress…The Constitution was written to restrict the government, not to restrict the people, now it’s turned around. We use government to restrict the people in all manner. So I would like to reverse that.”

Amo

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I never understood when my favorite married couple/humans tried to explain to me that they loved everyone as much as they loved each other. This positively did not make any sense to me. How could you love your husband or wife the same as you love your friends or your fellow human beings in general? Isn't romantic love something completely separate and distinct than love for all humanity? I've been thinking about it everyday since they planted the idea in my head. I think I had a breakthrough today.

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When I was wrestling in my head with the way I felt for a certain person and how it seemed absurd to call it love when it was so young and undeveloped, I didn't understand why I wanted to call it love, how it seemed as if it was love I felt for the person, yet it was asinine to call it such after such a short period of time. I kept going back to the fact that I have been telling new friends how much I adore and love them daily, and that didn't seem weird. So what was it that was so forbidding and distinct about this idea of "romantic love" that made it wear a chastity belt until had put in the time to deserve to deflower it?

I have two best friends who recently started dating men, one in which waited almost 6 months to drop the "L" word, and the other who is yet to, because, "it is just too soon." But I don't feel as if it was ever too soon. I think I loved this mystery man and many others for that fact, immediately. Maybe it's different, maybe a lot is to be said of love that has aged properly, but for now, I'm quite comfortable asserting that I'm in love. Not with one certain person, but with many, many things, and I don't believe that I should not be able to proclaim that simply because it isn't "kosher" to admit to deep feelings before you have been through any certain type of process or time limit. Differences in love are distinctions we create to help us organize our thoughts and understand relationships and emotions. If you break them down to raw inclinations and feelings, they aren't quite so different after all.

I'm in love.

The Illusion of Reality

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"In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality."

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Hearts of Gold

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It occurred to me today, how lucky I have been in collecting true "hearts of gold." I have some of the best people I could have ever imagined as my friends and family. It's so beautiful to be able to reflect upon my relationships and realize how truly loving and wonderful some of those I consider my family to be.

Today was a reminder of this fact, when a good friend of mine across the country did a huge favor for me without blinking an eye or expecting anything in return. She's truly one of the most beautiful people I know and she keeps awing me with how giving and kind her heart has proven to be time after time. She's an inspiration to me.

After thinking about how lucky I was to have someone like this in my life, I realized I had collected an assortment of these people; from Ireland, to France and over to Los Angeles. I can't even believe I could be so lucky as to have known these people, let alone be able to call them my family and friends.

The lesson here is, don't stop searching until you find those people with Hearts of Gold. They're out there.



Thursday, August 18, 2011

seeker of truth

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seeker of truth

follow no path
all paths lead where

truth is here


e.e. cummings


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Sigur Ros

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Sigur Rós (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪːɣʏr ˈroːus] ( listen)) is an Icelandic post-rock band with classical[citation needed] and minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound, and frontman Jónsi Birgisson's falsetto vocals and use of bowed guitar.[1] In January 2010, the band announced that they will be on hiatus until further notice in order to pursue solo careers and to spend time with their families. The name "Sigur Rós" is Icelandic for "Victory Rose". The Icelandic band Sigur Rós was named after the band's singer's newborn sister named Sigurrós Elín.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Largest Body of Water found around a BLACK HOLE

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"The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Natural Beauty

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I've really gotten the chance to enjoy some wonderful music recently, but something just struck me as funny a moment ago. I'm sitting, listening to the rain outside my window and I can't help but think it's the most beautiful sound I've ever loved. Why is everything created by nature inherently the most basic and powerful form of beauty? (Makes me think of Plato's "forms") Everyday I step outside and look at the trees, sky and flowers, I can't imagine anything humans could duplicate being as magnificent. How lucky and futile are we in trying to create beauty in a world so abundant with natural sublimity. 

Saturday, August 13, 2011

A DREAM

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Edgar Allan Poe, 1827





    In visions of the dark night
    I have dreamed of joy departed-
    But a waking dream of life and light
    Hath left me broken-hearted.


    Ah! what is not a dream by day
    To him whose eyes are cast
    On things around him with a ray
    Turned back upon the past?


    That holy dream- that holy dream,
    While all the world were chiding,
    Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
    A lonely spirit guiding.


    What though that light, thro' storm and night,
    So trembled from afar-
    What could there be more purely bright
    In Truth's day-star?

Friday, August 12, 2011

The Revolution

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I read "The Revolution" not too long ago by Ron Paul and he continues to impress me in the way he doesn't limit himself in coming up with solutions and insights within the context of our current government and holds true to his Constitutionalist standpoints in a way that is very realistic. I like him.



Thursday, August 11, 2011

Thomas Wesley Stern

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I love these boys so very much.

Intoxication!

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You're always in the place where you belong, whether you choose to make it into that place or happen to have landed there quite by accident. I'm in the odd and wonderful situation where I fell into a place that never felt so right. Life has become an unexplainable mystery masked with limitless potential and an unfathomable gasp of needed fresh air has been breathed into my lungs. Describing it simply seems unreasonable. I have fallen in love with life all over again. If love makes you drunk then I need to get my wits about me fast and have a good bout of grounding before I die from intoxication. I have never been so happy in my life.

The melding of experiences and people recently have made me grow faster than ever before, clinging on to some sort of mundane reality chained to the "real world" seems unreasonable and irresponsible when the potential of life has never been so great. No matter what happens after this summer, I will keep it with me and be a better person because of ever day I spent here, growing and learning.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Best Week Ever LIST.

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I couldn't decide exactly which interesting thing I've seen recently to write about so I'm going to make a list instead:

1. In Defense of the Shadow Scholar
2. Strategic Analysis of the Budget Control Act
3. Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
4. Montaigne's Essays
5. This Week in Music
6. Ebay Garage Sale - Castles in the Air

There's been this whirlwind of growth and activity over the last week or so. I don't know if I've ever been happier, I feel like I've learned more over the past few days then I ever have in such a short period of time. Life seems like this wave, and I built a boat that I felt secure in, and then all of a sudden I came home and the waves ROCKED me. But I feel good, it's like, I'm right where I'm supposed to be. You've got to follow those feelings right? Check out that list!
 

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