March 2010
45 posts
I am scared as hell that I’m going to lose my edge, and that everything is going to get so nice and safe that I’m eventually going to get bored as hell and like fall asleep. I’m scared of falling asleep because I don’t want to end up a typical American zombie, which is more or less the state of 95% of the people that I meet. The fact that I fall in love with people...
I am sitting at the dining room table tonight, wondering: am I the feeling in my fingers, the uncomfortable feeling in my stomach that tells me I ate something bad tonight, or the aching in my toe which I stubbed black and blue on a stair this afternoon?
I can’t be these things — if my finger, or toe were cut off, I would still be me without them.
Am I my moods and and likes and...
Health care, fuck yeah!
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The effect that we have on one another is filtered through our perception system — through our eyes, ears, minds, histories, tendencies, etc. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it is just as it is.
Bernadette Roberts says (and I believe) that we cannot experience reality as it is as long as we have a “self”, which is to say as long as we have something in ourselves that we identify as ourself....
Or maybe our lives are just like one of those jokes, “A morman, a Jew, and a communist are marooned on a desert Island…”
“If we want to be totally honest, all we immediately know in our experiences is...”
– Bernadette Roberts
