It isn’t so much about dreaming as it is having the courage
to dream of anything at all
Heroes are accidents; kryptonite is whatever we let become our weakness.
(CUE RANT:)
I can sit here, enjoying a quiet night with my iTunes playing, and just writing about nothing. There’s a nice pile of books next to my hand, capped by Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom, and a pack of Dentyne Ice chewing gum on one of the open pages… evidence of a day spent mainly just writing final papers. This is my last week in university. That’s the fourth time I’ve said that to myself since Monday started. Its quiet, and I wish every night could be like this, without little things out there or in there getting to me. It’s not a feeling of boredom, just gladness for nothing to do. I have more to write tomorrow, but I’m not stressing about it; writing is something I enjoy anyway, and I have something that I want to say, which is a better reason to write than the threat of a deadline. Just watched the new Indiana Jones trailer for the umptieth time, and nothing feels better than the lines "You’re a teacher?" "Part-time."
I was awake the other night, after the senior ball, while the rain was coming down and the power went out when the lightning hit a tree near Silliman farm, thinking about if the answer to the questions of cosmological scale where to be found in explanations of quantum phenomenon. Probably. String theory isn’t exactly scientific yet.
Religion evolves artificially, modified and adapted according to the needs and preferences of people. Even rise in youth-driven evangelical ministry, for example, is a reworking of the social relevance/activist doctrine of the 1970s and 80s. Its not too far off from the comparison made by Daniel Dennet, where the modern domestic cow was artificially selected into a specific animal quite different from its origins as a wild herd creature, the Aurex. But which changes first? Society or religion? In what cases did one happen before the other? At what points did religion drive social change? And at what points did social changes cause changes in religion? How are religious beliefs manifested in cultural artifacts, such as architecture, literature, laws, urban spatial organization etc.? How much of religion is actually a response to geophysical realities of a society?
When you’re dreaming with a broken heart
Waking up is the hardest part
You roll out of bed
and on to your knees
Hrm, yep, John Mayer seems to know what he’s talking about. By the way, what makes a rose interesting isn’t the beauty of the petals, but the thorns on the stem.
Okay, time to go back to writing serious stuff…
