I keep a journal on me at all times. It’s a ‘moleskin’ and I use it religiously — for thoughts, reminders, quick stories, quotes I hear, quotes I write — whatever. Often, I find myself paging through the things I’ve written and, simply, remember. Here are one-sentence entries I’ve made recently:
“the unexamined life is not worth living” ~Socrates
And so, it seems that the more you examine your life, the more you become an exemplary human being (specifically to Socrates’ standards, but, perhaps to all of ours).
At the same time, it seems as if our culture offers a whole lot of distraction and not a lot of opportunity to examine life.
I’m taking a class on “Charity,” although the topic is likened specifically to “love”, which was later described as a possible combination of three things: commitment, passion and intimacy. I wondered, “are these right? Is this a healthy, holistic understanding of love?”
Do we have good reason for thinking that we will never have good reasons for thinking there’s a God?
What does “tongue and cheek” mean?
On the first day of my ‘Philosophy of Religion’ class my professor posed the question, “what is philosophy.” To be honest, I don’t enjoy these types of questions. But somehow we got on the topic that “some say there’s no answers in philosophy”, to which our professor replied, “In reality, there’s TOO MANY answers — philosophy tries, in so far as it’s possible, not to take things for granted.” I liked that response.
I’m taking a class on “justice” and on the first day of class my professor asked us what our thoughts were about this frase:
“treat equals equally, and unequals unequally.” (SIDE NOTE: At some point in the near future, I’d like to speak about whether or not I think Animals have rights.)
I was spinning a frisbee the other day and this woman says to me, “you must play basketball!”
I saw the Ultimate Samurai again in Costa Rica, and the last sentence stuck out in my mind. It was something to the effect of, “… that he may have found some small sliver of peace that we all seek, but few of us ever find.” I wonder, is this true?
Posted by bell at February 10, 2004 10:03 AM | TrackBackHmm, my Moleskines's first entry in the inside cover is a Richard Brautigan quote:
"At least we never saw any frogs in the pond with rocks tied to their back. That would have been too much."
Posted by: 1e at February 10, 2004 08:09 PMOh, and don't foget the pun from when the Columbia shuttle disintegrated with the Israeli on board...
"Israeli a tragedy that the shuttle blew up"
And when I went to see Brazil on the big screen I was able to read the poster on the wall when the bug flew into the typewriter
"Loose talk in noose talk"
hmmm...
"Cell phone in one hand. Cigarette and steering wheel in the other, ick."
"Sleeveless Hoodie -- Word!!"
and from just the other night, a quote
"I may have to pay something... if I don't pay something"
-- talking about car registration and that kina stuff.
glad the moleskin is getting a work out! Keep up the good work thinking and writing.
It's "tongue IN cheek" I guess people did that once upon a time as a gesture to mean something else than we think of today....
mama matranga
Posted by: vicki matranga at February 12, 2004 03:17 AM