reassuringly elephants
1. Facial hair
Good example of the different circles i move in perceive things. The people in my department think i look like a sociology professor whilst people at church think i look like a seventies worship leader. I don't think i like either or these analogies
2. Chaos/order
Been thinking a lot recently about whether things are fundamentally chaotic and it's amazing that we have any continuity or things are the same and never change as it links into my course. The one about things never change shouldn't be true given the ability of humans to act with free will and every interaction with numerous possible outcomes (see Run Lola Run) etc but in actual fact evidence suggests that we seldom have much impact as we are so confined by the institutional norms and environment around us. As Lol was saying the other night, 98% of human action is normal and if anyone goes to 99% they're considered boring and 97%ers crazy. This notion has kind of depressed me...
3. Films
mysterious skin- will haunt me (a few people walked out) probably in a good way. Also good trailer for Dear Wendy
kung-fu hustle- hilarious, an excellent film and properly wierd. Also the base humour appealed
4. Stretching
Beginning to think there is an optimum number of people that you can feasibly be friends with as i simply don't have time to see everyone that in an ideal world i would like to and unfortunately the opposite seems true.
5. a perpetual state of befuddlement
Also wondering how to balance the idea of being honest and true to yourself with the consequences that this has on those around you and risks causing offence. At what point do you be assertive and when do you not?
6. Huey
i like the idea of being called huey not hugh
Good example of the different circles i move in perceive things. The people in my department think i look like a sociology professor whilst people at church think i look like a seventies worship leader. I don't think i like either or these analogies
2. Chaos/order
Been thinking a lot recently about whether things are fundamentally chaotic and it's amazing that we have any continuity or things are the same and never change as it links into my course. The one about things never change shouldn't be true given the ability of humans to act with free will and every interaction with numerous possible outcomes (see Run Lola Run) etc but in actual fact evidence suggests that we seldom have much impact as we are so confined by the institutional norms and environment around us. As Lol was saying the other night, 98% of human action is normal and if anyone goes to 99% they're considered boring and 97%ers crazy. This notion has kind of depressed me...
3. Films
mysterious skin- will haunt me (a few people walked out) probably in a good way. Also good trailer for Dear Wendy
kung-fu hustle- hilarious, an excellent film and properly wierd. Also the base humour appealed
4. Stretching
Beginning to think there is an optimum number of people that you can feasibly be friends with as i simply don't have time to see everyone that in an ideal world i would like to and unfortunately the opposite seems true.
5. a perpetual state of befuddlement
Also wondering how to balance the idea of being honest and true to yourself with the consequences that this has on those around you and risks causing offence. At what point do you be assertive and when do you not?
6. Huey
i like the idea of being called huey not hugh
posted by hugh at
2:30 PM
3 Comments:
re point 2 - what do you mean by 'things', and on what scale? while we do have free will, doesn't history tend to repeat itself? & we still respond to the same basic pratical/emotional needs, so i spose the only truly chaotic things are those we don't have control over - if we make the bus in time, if the toast falls butter side down - which may affect how we pursue our needs, but not the fact that we still respond to our needs. or is that a bit simplistic?
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dan, at 3:55 PM
how many vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
don't know?
that's cos you weren't f***ing there man!
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dan, at 8:30 PM
It's interesting (or at least I think so) that the generally accepted notion of "free will" pretty much asserts the existence of the supernatural. It demands in some way that we have some non-material (but very real) existence, which is not just able to be conscious as a by-product of our brains "processing", but actually able to assert it's will over the physical action of the brain, overriding any "path of least resistance".
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Si, at 9:09 AM
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