i am sick

praying mantis

i found this creature today

i think it's pretty cool

shoes at bard

i have a new and awesome system for shoes at bard

i have hidden my flip-flops outside the dinning hall

i now don't have to carry them

ydw

ydw here i come

conference at bard

The Burden of Our Times: The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis will be at bard on october 16th and 17th

it looks amazing

i hope to get to as much of it as i can

fresh air

Karen Armstrong was on fresh air yesterday

here is the transcript

she makes it her spiritual path to study the religions of the world

if i start a religion it will be something like that

texts from last night

a dorm mate of mine showed me this website

isn't it amazing where the great minds of the people in this world are

sleep

i went to sleep last night at 8:45

it was amazing

i felt fully awake the whole day

quote from an elder in greenland

"Every day we in the north see what you in the south are doing to the Earth. We have seen what it takes to melt the Arctic ice. What will it take to melt the ice in the human heart?"

the Symposium

i finished the Symposium last night

it was definitely worth the read

it calls cultural norms into question both how they are created and wether they are valid

thirty year old men having sex with fourteen year old boys sounds disgusting to us now

they would have found hookup culture equally disgusting

the celestial form of love described in the Symposium is very attractive to me

i think that it is perfectly feasible to have that kind of love with someone of the opposite sex

i hope that i go back and reread this in a few years