Temet Nosce

E pluribus unum

Panem et circenses

Mental illness is a perfectly rational response to our insane society.


Quotes of the Weeks
22 April 2010 Mental illness is a perfectly rational response to our insane society. --archanglrobriel

03 March 2010 I don't understand. Doesn't it take more time and energy to write like you have a pickle up your ass, than to just speak clearly? --peskyaura

07 July 2008 The paper said today that some general refused to apologize for saying that McCain's experience as a fighter pilot does not make him suited to be president, because this was not considered fact already leads me to think that this country should not operate without strong adult supervision. --jp7

06 February 2008 Besides, the last time I gave something up for Lent was in 1977, and what I gave up for Lent was Christianity.--madknits

05 Nov 2007 "I truly am post-gay in the sense that I don't care what anybody's Kinsey scores really are - go screw like Bonobos for all of me - whatever gets you there. Men, women, both, neither, and/or, groups of ten - enjoy!" --archanglrobriel

28 May 2007 A solemn polyglot is the cantaloupe. --illian

05 February 2007 The sense of inclusion and belonging overrode any right/wrong processing that I may have otherwise been conditioned to experience.
--redarius


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"I think most people mistake David's folkloristic background, methodology, and application of his findings towards his chosen family for a humanist philosophy. I would use the term "humanist" to describe David only in the most elitest sense of the word. David employs humanist/folkloristic techniques in an effort to understand himself and his relationship with the people he cares about. No one else really matters. The bulk of human beings are just process variables at best, and badly written code with unhandled exception errors at worst." --kendwoods


Testimony
tikimama: David is tall, smart and hot. He has no idea that he is, though (hot, that is, I'm pretty sure he knows he's tall and smart). He is happy to discuss nearly everything forever, delving deeper and deeper into a subject until you come out on the other side of it, in China. This is his best quality, you'll end up perceiving things in a way you never have before, which is a wonderful gift. He's also very mischevious and loves horrid puns and practical jokes.

southernpm: Smart, funny, an amazing insight into human psyche and hot on top of everything.

byrne: David is smart and funny, despite his job. He bakes bread, loves his sisters even though they are scary to each other, and is a champion flirter. He's been known to make straight women beg for penises. He is happy to explain the big words to those who need it, although he keeps a file of those who ask. He's not Zen. He is hot. He speaks for the Universe.

markormarky: i suspect he somehow hypnotises - i feel a strong need to strip down to only a jockstrap when i come across his entries.

Quotes I think are Significant
I change this list from time-to-time.

"Forcing uniformity only forces us to face the human condition head on." sublimevisions

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."
--Jonathan Davis

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
--Isaac Asimov

"If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." --Henry Ford

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations of human misunderstanding." --Ambrose Bierce

"The truth is what happens to you." --The Buddha

"A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing." --Kenneth Burke

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change." --Max Planck

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
--Carl G. Jung

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely" --Carl G. Jung

"When the flower arranger arranges the flowers, he also arranges his mind and the mind of the person who looks at the flowers."
--Zen saying

"The only consistent feature of all of your dissatisfying relationships is you."
--despair.com

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits." --George Orwell

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)


Books I Think are Significant
I change this list from time-to-time.

Als, Hilton, et al. Lynching Photography in America.

Berger, Peter, Thomas Luckman The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge.

Brady, Erica, ed. Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems.

Coyne, Richard. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor.

Coyne, Richard. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real.

Jackall, Robert. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers.

Lakoff, George, Mark Johnson. Metaphors we Live By.

Lioni, Leo. Fish is Fish.

Schwartzberg, Natalie, Kathy Berliner, DeMarris Jacob. Single in a Married World: A Life Cycle Framework for Working With the Unmarried Adult.

Seigel, Bernie. Love, Medicine, and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients.

Sidanius, Jim, and Felicia Pratto. Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression.

Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.

Toelken, Barre. The Dynamics of Folklore 2d. ed.

Woods, Tim. Beginning Postmodernism.



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