Archive for the ‘food for thought’ Category

i read an article about a young man in florida committing suicide (by taking a combination of pills) while his webcam was streaming it to a website.  now, have we become so obsessed with the internet that we can not do anything without having other people watch, read and comment ...

Oct

15

now, this may seem a little odd. me (who can not vote) telling you (who can) to go vote. but, yes that is what i am doing. i could say that i do not care who you vote for, but i do. more importantly is that you take the opportunity ...

Oct

06

this morning i woke up at 5am. i lay wondering what i am doing with my life. yes, i pondered my lack of a five year plan. my idea of the future has always been eventually i want to... apparently i need to make more specific plans. ...
Do you remember your first time?  Most people recall an awkward experience between two people who had no idea what they were doing, no proverbial fireworks, the earth moved (but no more than usual).  And that's if you even remember it at all.  Idealistically I could put a price tag ...
perhaps as an explanation to my existential question...Proverbs 18:24, A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. i'll ponder this further as the day tarries on...
for one reason or another I have 197 facebook friends. comparatively, this is not a lot. my problem is that i don't talk to 80% of these people. i get a daily poke from 3 or 4. frequent comments to my posts, notes, and status updates by ...
apparently, the US is not in a recession.  (increased unemployment rates, median salary below living wage levels, record breaking foreclosures, and banks selling out for pennies on the dollar do not a recession make) [caption id="attachment_169" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption="I agree, it makes no sense at all"][/caption] today the government announced that they ...
this morning i asked myself "self, who are you" and self answered "i don't know"... sunday mornings are generally a good time to ponder your existence, your purpose and meaning, but i'm wondering who i am.  do i have an authentic self or am i resigned to only exist in relation ...

Sep

05

this was my email reply to friends who expressed their admiration towards my moving to florida and the circumstances under which i did… ironically, i really don’t find anything admirable about my deciding to come down here.  perhaps it is because i realize i would have hated myself if i had ...
apparently there are those people who believe that somehow they can just get up in a church and somehow "lord jesus, buddha and nem" will channel through to take what is apparently talentless and make it magnificient.  below i prove that terrible logic wrong.  (thank you youtube) children, what have we ...