Ego Disidentification November 30, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Psycho/Spirit , add a commentSometimes it falls away in the night. Sometimes you have to nudge it aside. Maybe sometimes it’s a struggle, and you have to do it and yourself and possible even others some violence to free yourself.
It never stops happening, really. It’s more obvious and evident and socially blessed in childhood. We are expected to grow and change and go through phases and grow out of things.
It slows down in adults because by them we have constructed something very elaborate, very heavy, and plugged it into a social nexus — our identification as worker, citizen, father, mother, etc. all demand constancy and continuity which is not conducive to frequent dramatic personality or ego iterations.
The hardest things to grow out of or to disidentify with are those which work so well and receive much social reinforcement.
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Feverish November 29, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Info, Irrelevant , add a commentOh, and the “Foo of Phineas” becomes “The Fever of Phineas” because my brain hurts a lot.
On To Plutarch
Posted by Phineas in : Reading , add a commentFinished reading Paul Cartledge’s Alexander The Great. On to ’s lives. Will go back to and before coming forward to and .
After that back to Plato (Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn) (ca. May 21? 427 BC – ca. 347 BC), born Aristocles, was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. In countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, Persian, or Urdu, he is called Eflatun, which means a spring of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge. and Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs; 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology.
Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, are generally considered as the three most influential ancient Greek philosophers in Western thought. Among them they transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of Ancient philosophy., , , and then forward to the .
Its’a all rather ambitious, part of my plan to educate myself in western philosophy all the way down to the present. Then I’ll hope to finally understand what the hell is going on.
Audubon Zoo Reopens November 26, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Info, Irrelevant , 1 comment so farAudubon Zoo Reopens This Weekend
Yay!
Worthless November 24, 2005
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My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?
Just ported the Foo to Moveable Type November 23, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Info, Irrelevant , 1 comment so farI just completed installing Moveable Type to my kimbo.org server, and migrating my blog from blogger.com. Still have some work to do to get Pomer working, and tweaking the UI/styles, but anyway.
ALIEN PERFORMANCE ART - zefrank.com November 21, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant , add a commentALIEN PERFORMANCE ART - zefrank.com
Hat with Chestnuts November 20, 2005
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My hat filled with wild chestnuts found in Donner Canyon (Mt. Diablo)
Mt Diablo Hike November 19, 2005
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Hiked up from Clayton to Prospector’s Gap, the little crook between the Diablo Summit and North Peak. The Bald Ridge Trail I took was excellent. Saw a hawk and Eagle close up with binoculars. Saw a bunny rabbit.
Cool, sunny weather.
Chestnuts were all over. Gathered some up for roasting tonight.
Bean soup on the stove.
My legs hurt, so I will watch TV now. Thank you.
