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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: social responsibility.
THE MORAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY: Chapter 7/Circa 1940 The war-ridden poverty-stricken world of today seems to be struggling essentially with problems of economics and its ills seem to be primarily materialistic. Yet, I believe, that we do not begin to approach a solution of our problems until we acknowledge the fact that they are spiritual…
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GROWING UP: social struggles.
Wednesday, July 12, 2000, Age 19 Baahh! I was doing so well! I suppose I can’t write everyday though. Okay, so I love my JenJen and everything but ya know how you sometimes just get those middle school feelings of jealousy by no fault of your own? Hah….well yeah that’s it. Okay so I read…
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J.D. SALINGER, MY LOVE: words to live by ;0)
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, Chapter 24, Circa 1945 “I don’t want to scare you,” he said, “but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.” He gave me a funny look. “If I write something down for you, will you read it carefully? And keep…
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SOCIAl STRUGGLES: words to live by ;0D
Thursday, July 6, 2000, Age 19 Okay, so I am so pissed. I don’t understand how my mean ass brother can go out and get a fucking $13.50/hour paying job here in like, one try, and this is at the temp agency that told me they couldn’t do shit for me because I had no…
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, MY LOVE: the changing subjectivity of “truth” ;0)
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL – Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. OUR VIRTUES/Aphorism 231. Circa 1886. Learning changes us; it does what all nourishment does which also does not merely “preserve” – as physiologists know. But at the bottom of us, really “deep down,” there is, of course, something unteachable, some granite of spiritual…