May 2012
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raptoravatar asked: That breaking bad essay was excellent. I think you nailed why people love a guy they should hate.
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i had the misfortune of thinking the purpose of going to school was to learn about the world
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a bright wall in a dark room.: TV MONTH: Breaking... →
brightwalldarkroom:
THE EXISTENTIALIST ANTIHERO.
by Justin Langdon
Jesse: “A guy who actually wants to be in prison?” Walter: “There’s more than one type of prison.”
The word “existentialism” seems to strike a perfect balance between nebulous and highbrow, facilitating a wide usage with sparse…
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hey, i wrote this! it’s got breaking bad and philosophy and the erratic...
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“man fucks woman:
subject, verb, object.”
– Catharine MacKinnon (via earlyfrost)
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The Liberating Embrace Of Uncertainty - adam frank →
“My co-blogger Marcelo Gleiser put it beautifully two weeks ago when he wrote, “what is pompous is to think that we can know all the answers. Or that it’s the job of science to find them.” When science as an idea is used to push away the tremulous reality of our lived existential uncertainty then it, too, is degraded. It becomes just another imaginary fixed point in a life...
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i have no clear direction to go with my life
i need someone to just give me the direction, but in such a manner that i believe it is me making the decision
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“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via heartmindawakening)
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values are fundamentally what constitute a character. strip away everything else: physical attributes, mannerisms, intelligence, wit, charisma, etc. to reach one’s core, and there you’ll find nothing left but a bundle of their dearest values.
values dictate action and the degree to one’s conscience. despite my learnings of homo economicus, the economic model of human behavior...
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April 2012
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“In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very...”
– Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via ihatemylifeandsocanyou)
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“‘Oh,’ said Bill, sucking the drumstick, ‘how should we know?...”
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hemingway, “the sun also rises”
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overcoming self-doubt in the realm of creativity is simply coming to trust your own judgment
March 2012
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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter...”
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david foster wallace
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travel or try to become a yuppie
dick around or be serious
write or crunch numbers
risk or stability
happiness or a pursuit of money
make a difference or thrive in the status quo
autonomy or cog in a machine
emptiness or god
think or do
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enough already. i don’t know.
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sometimes i severely doubt my ability to produce original ideas.
which brings me to the question, where does systemic self-doubt come from? why are some people inherently more self assured? reaching one’s potential would surely come simpler with unflinching confidence.
February 2012
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the last 6 months of my life were in many ways spent in purgatory. and for the sake of a strained metaphor, new york city is my “heaven” and (ironically) a southern baptist milieu is my soul’s punishment.
i graduated school with the intention of traveling abroad with my girlfriend, an endeavor that faced subtle yet permeating resistance from my mother. she liked the sound of...
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“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett (via philphys)
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i like to view high school as my dark ages and college as my renaissance. so where does that leave me now?
the industrial revolution of course.
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William Blake - "The Fly"
Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush’d away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing : Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath : And the want Of thought is death ; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die.
January 2012
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“I must study politics and war, so that our sons may have liberty to study...”
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John Adams
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will i be successful?
furthermore, what is success?
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December 2011
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it’s funny how much voluntary thought and reasoning one can undergo without any success at jettisoning an unsavory mood.
the best one can do is hope that when tomorrow morning comes, things feel “good” again.
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i labeled the computer folder where i keep all of my career related documents “the folder of JOB.”
i dunno, i thought it was funnier before writing it out
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November 2011
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my friend is an exceedingly decent human being. he haphazardly buys mcdonalds gift cards just to have on stock for when the homeless approach him
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf (via human-voices)
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the trick with philosophy is to save it for when you’re old and have already made money
October 2011
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i had the realization last night that my parents are a living example of a hackneyed narrative archetype:
the mother who left her creative professional husband and an uncertain life of living paycheck to paycheck for the pragmatic, square doctor and financial security
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“Madeline’s love troubles began when the French theory she was reading...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, on Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)