It’s messy. Confusing.
You want to see clear but it’s difficult. You can only see the little bit that you can see.
You want to find the truth, what’s solid, so you can build on it.
But the ground is always moving.
So you make your best choice, do what you can, try and get by.
Sometimes you fall over. Sometimes you run.
The truth is in the chaos.
You want to see clear but it isn’t.
It’s messy.
That much is clear.
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
How To Change Your Life
Well, you can’t, of course. What’s done is done.
But you can change its future direction. And you do that every day anyway when you wake up and do whatever you do. Even if it’s the same thing you usually do, because you are not doing something else, you are choosing its direction.
So I’m off in a new direction. An opportunity has come up which I'm taking.
I’m not changing my life, I’m just taking it with me somewhere new. I’m unsettling down.
And I’m taking another digital detox to focus on it. Not sure when I’ll be back. Thanks to those of you who've been reading along so far.
By the way, I hear the timpanist got engaged today.
But you can change its future direction. And you do that every day anyway when you wake up and do whatever you do. Even if it’s the same thing you usually do, because you are not doing something else, you are choosing its direction.
So I’m off in a new direction. An opportunity has come up which I'm taking.
I’m not changing my life, I’m just taking it with me somewhere new. I’m unsettling down.
And I’m taking another digital detox to focus on it. Not sure when I’ll be back. Thanks to those of you who've been reading along so far.
By the way, I hear the timpanist got engaged today.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Where Is My Mind?
I found this on The Onion and it sounded familiar:
Journey Of Self-Discovery Leads Man To Realization He Doesn't Care
FLAGSTAFF, AZ—Three months after setting off down a long spiritual path to find himself, 38-year-old Corey Larson arrived at the conclusion Tuesday that he does not care. "I spent many long hours meditating, studying the works of great thinkers and spiritual leaders, and delving deep within myself for some kind of answer, and then it hit me: I couldn't care less," Larson said of his soul-searching journey. "Fuck it. Fuck it all." Larson briefly considered writing a self-help book to make the journey easier for others, but decided that he also didn't give two shits about whether other people arrived at the same conclusion he did.
(theonion.com)
Journey Of Self-Discovery Leads Man To Realization He Doesn't Care
FLAGSTAFF, AZ—Three months after setting off down a long spiritual path to find himself, 38-year-old Corey Larson arrived at the conclusion Tuesday that he does not care. "I spent many long hours meditating, studying the works of great thinkers and spiritual leaders, and delving deep within myself for some kind of answer, and then it hit me: I couldn't care less," Larson said of his soul-searching journey. "Fuck it. Fuck it all." Larson briefly considered writing a self-help book to make the journey easier for others, but decided that he also didn't give two shits about whether other people arrived at the same conclusion he did.
(theonion.com)
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
On Our Modern World
'The darkening of the world, the flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the transformation of men into a mass, the hatred and suspicion of everything free and creative, have assumed such proportions throughout the earth that such childish categories as pessimism and optimism have long since become absurd.'
- Heidegger
- Heidegger
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Friday, 18 February 2011
How Not To Apply For Backdated Unemployment Benefit
I recently sent the following letter re my request for backdated unemployment benefit:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I recently received a correspondence from you re my appeal for backdated Job Seeker’s Allowance.
I asked the JobCentre in a recent letter what formed ‘good cause’ -as stated by them- for not making this back payment and, in response, they sent me a short novel of 18 pages. English is my mother tongue but I must admit that I was defeated by this document and could not make head or tail of it and certainly did not see any response to my query.
I then received the correspondence from your office saying that my appeal had been forwarded to a Tribunal Service. For the princely sum of £261.80, they are willing to waste an enormous amount of people’s time, including my own, to deliberate on what justifies ‘good cause’. I’m sure this effort will cost more than £261.80 but then perhaps the Department for Work and Pensions needs the amount they are withholding from me to actually pay towards the process of not paying me. That perhaps forms a ‘good cause’ for them but less so for me.
You kindly ask if I need help completing the form but what I really need is help understanding the Department for Work and Pensions. As a tax payer for most of my adult life, I am baffled by their inability to explain what constitutes ‘good cause’. By all means, let us all continue wasting our time with this appeal but I, or any representative, will not be attending the hearing.
Yours etc.,
Needless to say, they turned down my appeal. More annoyingly, they still didn't answer the question re 'good cause'...
Dear Sir/Madam,
I recently received a correspondence from you re my appeal for backdated Job Seeker’s Allowance.
I asked the JobCentre in a recent letter what formed ‘good cause’ -as stated by them- for not making this back payment and, in response, they sent me a short novel of 18 pages. English is my mother tongue but I must admit that I was defeated by this document and could not make head or tail of it and certainly did not see any response to my query.
I then received the correspondence from your office saying that my appeal had been forwarded to a Tribunal Service. For the princely sum of £261.80, they are willing to waste an enormous amount of people’s time, including my own, to deliberate on what justifies ‘good cause’. I’m sure this effort will cost more than £261.80 but then perhaps the Department for Work and Pensions needs the amount they are withholding from me to actually pay towards the process of not paying me. That perhaps forms a ‘good cause’ for them but less so for me.
You kindly ask if I need help completing the form but what I really need is help understanding the Department for Work and Pensions. As a tax payer for most of my adult life, I am baffled by their inability to explain what constitutes ‘good cause’. By all means, let us all continue wasting our time with this appeal but I, or any representative, will not be attending the hearing.
Yours etc.,
Needless to say, they turned down my appeal. More annoyingly, they still didn't answer the question re 'good cause'...
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Subjectivistically Speaking
"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are" said Anais Nin.
Between puzzling over what my next business card will say about me and shaking my head at the commodification of love that is Valentine’s Day, I have also been pondering if one can see things as they really are without the distortions of one’s own views and emotions.
I mean, is it possible to have objective knowledge when the only way to gather knowledge is subjective?
I’m asking myself this because I was chatting to this blonde the other night and objectively she was attractive but she then talked to another guy which subjectively made her a skank.
Between puzzling over what my next business card will say about me and shaking my head at the commodification of love that is Valentine’s Day, I have also been pondering if one can see things as they really are without the distortions of one’s own views and emotions.
I mean, is it possible to have objective knowledge when the only way to gather knowledge is subjective?
I’m asking myself this because I was chatting to this blonde the other night and objectively she was attractive but she then talked to another guy which subjectively made her a skank.
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