You have given me a lot of things to think about in terms of philosophical arguments and concerns over the nature of “Natural Laws”. I am not sure if this is the best answer, but it is a probable answer to a question that is uncertain.
What is “natural law”? There are several ways to interpret the concept and I’ve seen several different perspectives trying to frame the idea.
First, some people assume natural laws mean absolute rules, based on certain facts of nature, i.e. there is
I was browsing Billboard to see what was hot in today's music just out of curiosity as I haven't gone on that site in ages and I want to prove my astrological chart wrong that I can enjoy popular things. To be honest, I don't follow many popular bands anymore outside my small circle of pop, punk, and rock groups, but I saw Linkin Park had a #1 rock song, so I thought why not, they're usually good.
Oh I love it!
So I went to Cafeastrology.com and tried it out. It hit me right now on the mark, sadly.
Look at the quotes:
I actually do feel that way right now about my life and job. Heck, I'd love to be free being able to live my life as I want to and doing what I "feel". Like right now, if not for obligations, I'm feeling like flying South America and traveling down the amazon or going back to school and learning molecular biology.
That was just an attribute according to the chart, my core
Somewhere between the mock up spaceship, the android David, and the gut puncher coming out of someone's belly; I just said been there and done that.
I really tried to like this movie, it has everything the Alien franchise movies had, a good story, a decent cast more or less, and superb sci-fi themes. Problem is that the movie has been done over and over again for so many decades and I have seen enough incarnations to really stop "believing" as the movie holds as its central tenet.
I won'
What is human nature? A complex array of interactions, emotions, and systems of belief that conjures up a myriad of potential outcomes.
I guess for me I look to the future as much as I look to the past. A great thought of the nature of existence is that time is arbitrary, consequences are not. We can measure time based on human terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, and centuries, but how can we measure consequences.
This is just me musing on the nature of existence, we base our
I saw the posting in the Soapbox and I promised not to get involved in any debates in there, but I have to at least correct some people's understanding on how non-profits work.
I hear people say, "You are scamming us and not giving our money to charity." a lot, since I've worked with charities and foundations in the past. I have worked with charities, sat on their boards as an unpaid director, and generally understand why on the accounting side of thing, it's hard to make them functional.
If I were to post this in the open forums it will probably be moved to the soapbox and I have made it my promise not to get involved in a soapbox debate until my novella is done, which is coming along nicely. Also for those waiting on the last two parts of my play from the prior anthology, they are almost done and I am also wondering if my fictional play is actually being mirrored by non-fictional realities in Virginia. I'm not Arthur Miller, but sometimes, I wonder if the crucible that we curre
This might sound strange, but I was on the bus today and I was looking around aimlessly until I spotted a girl, who I thought was a guy. No I am not attracted to trannies and she was definitely not one just really boyish-manly looking, but from just the side of the face, I was really captivated. Maybe, the strong exposed forearm, the muscular legs, and the face was just too cute in a manly type of way. Her hair was cut in a short bowl cut and it was my favorite shade of maroon.
Like any gay
The Episode is titled "Choices", but there are almost no choices in the episode as the final outcome and nature of the characters were already in existence. The writer is probably making a creative shot across the bow about homosexuality, which I appreciate.
Since the moment I saw the scraggly beard, murderous eyes, and heard his snarky remarks, I could sense he was gay. I speak of Micheletto, Cesare Borgia's assassin in the the TV series, the Borgias.
It was a great revelation and he wa
I just read this and it made me think about finance and investment in general
http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/10/news/companies/jp-morgan-losses/index.htm?iid=Lead
I don't like the idea of credit swaps, nor derivatives as I can't see any practical or "real" value in them, except as a complex vehicles that simply inflate the prices of what they hold.
Maybe, it's strange coming from an accountant, or not if you know the blood feud between the disciplines, but why can't finance be simple s
There are so many choices in the world, so why choose choices that you know will end up biting you in the future?
Looking at the world today, you see a lot of people trying to take charge. I think part of the bigger problem is that we as human beings have placed ourselves too far ahead of everything in the world around us.
We have people making "projections" and guesses for the future, but it's all merely one man's guess versus another, but we base our entire civilization on these guesse
I have had to re-evaluate this several times with various short hands: LTR, NSA, FB, and ect.
Some of you probably have used all these along with other short hand expressions, but I just don't know anymore what I am looking for.
Seriously, I really want a long term relationship, but most guys are in it for the quickie. I can't blame them, since I do the same thing, which is a crappy way to live life in my view. It is just a lonely existence without someone to cuddle up with, but it is ev
I was bored and out of the random impulse of my mind, I surfed wikipedia. Yes, It's full of inaccuracies and stuff like that, but whenever I get bored, I go on there to look for something interesting.
I was reading up on Greek mythology, which is interesting as it is the origin of many story elements that we hold today.
Well one thing led to another as you know how wikipedia and my asymmetric mind works (strangely enough I've tested for ADHD and my teachers once said that I had a strange
I just realized something today, The au bon pain had completely closed down at Harvard square.
I haven't gone to the harvard bookstore in ages, lot's of things getting mixed up in my life and probably a little too much GA soapbox stuff as well. If I had gone down there like I had in the past, I'd noticed the place had changed as I wanted to grab a sandwich after work.
I also didn't realize that a starbucks had opened right near the train station (seriously, there's a starbucks right at t
If I ever find a good boyfriend, who can live with my eccentricity and political views, he definitely needs to love movies.
This particular movie was interesting, but very out of character for me:
God Bless America
The premise was what drew me towards it: I mean who doesn't have urges sometime after watching MTV to strangle all those reality TV stars for their stupidity?
Or when you hear about Reverend Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptists anti-gay demonstrators, who hasn't ever
I am post dating and timing the release of this blog entry to the exact time the ship struck the iceberg.
If there was one touchstone of my childhood and possibly the last century to the Titanic, it was this movie and song. Simply beautiful and tragic, makes everyone that saw the movie and heard the song in context feel just a little bit emo (heck, I think the movie probably created the emo generation ) :
Just found my old childhood storybook of mother goose rhymes, I didn't know they had so many innuendos and adult meanings until now.
Here's one for folks about a horse shoe nail:
For want of a nail
For want of a nail the shoe was lost
For want of a shoe the horse was lost
For want of a horse the rider was lost
For want of a rider the battle was lost
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost
And all for the want of a horseshoe n
I've wrote a very cold blooded and chilling scene and realize that I can be extremely dark if I choose to be. I've gotten a lot of comments in the past from readers that felt I tend towards darkness a lot in my story, but I never ask you guys, what type of darkness is it? Is it something that you guys like or something you guys fear? or a little bit of both?
Then, I start reading and writing review of stories and find other authors with the same word in their reviews, "it's dark" or somethin
It is truly amazing and spell binding. It also has some really interesting questions about ethics, human nature, and greed on an international and human scale.
Margin Call (2011) was fun, aggressive, and highly entertaining:
Jeremy Irons is such a great actor, plus you got Kevin Spacey and Demi Moore. I think Michael Douglas has good competition for Wall Street versus Jeremy Irons in Margin Call.
I've put off watching this movie for a while, but another benefit of freeing up m
I'm serious about it this time and it has been building up for a while. I mean I love debating, but I love writing stories too. Every moment I spend researching and debating points is a moment I can't write.
I said almost two weeks ago, I'd release my Act 2 and Act 3 this week for my play. Look at my GA stories profile, it's still not up. I've had this happen to me more than once, I start a story with ideas, themes, and concepts, then I get into a heated debate in the Soapbox and I neglect i
Too much hectic stuff happened this week and last weekend to allow me to read the stories. Sorry guys, but thanks to the few who took a chance and read my play.
You know real life stinks and my life in particular is hectic enough with drama and issues from everywhere. I know the job is disheartening, but I can't abandon everything and just leave, I've got obligations to everyone around me: Patients, Doctors, general staff, secretaries...I'm trying not to start a rant, just an update on my li
I have written the first act of a play with a lot of issues, technical and structural, and i am not sure if i should post it or not for the spring anthology. It isn't controversial or experimental like my usual short or long stories. However to me, it is definitely different, I've never done a play or written lines like these. I am picking up the idea and central issues of this play around a handful of news stories that got me thinking.
It's a decent idea for a play, but i know at my curre
Yes, it's not politics or some hot guy, but it is just really fun. I hope I am not the only one into it.
I've been playing the Beta for Sins of the Solar Empire: Rebellion and it is just so addictive.I can't enough of the huge space battles or the new ship classes that they came up with. It's an awesome game on its own, but this new addition makes it even more. I don't know how to describe it.
For those, who don't follow the game, Sins of a Solar Empire is a massive space based strategy
Seriously, he's in my head right now:
I knew I should not have watched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which actually was a good movie that was badly marketed. He's haunting my thoughts now.
It also helps that he's the hottest Canadian alive close to my age, only 1 year younger (I'm not a teenage girl, so Justin Bieber doesn't count )
Yes, I have soft spot for dorky guys.
