More on general theories

I think I have by mistake come to create the theory that Albert Einstein struggled all his life to come with, "The general theory of everything." First of all, I think it was a fundamental mistake in Einstein's part to try to explain everything using a mathematical stand point. Second of all, I think he totally violated my general theory of assumptions, by assuming that a single theory could possibly explain everything. Moving on, the "General theory of everything" can be described in the most GENERAL (ha haha) form as follows:

Human beings can only interpret so much. That is, humans can only describe the world as it relates to them. Therefore, attempting to explain it all is IMPOSSIBLE since the nature of everything is fundamentally infinite and temporal. As Sartre well said it "we are always yet to be." In retrospect we are better off understanding and interpreting our life circumstances than trying to impose a general stand point. Awareness is priceless.

-Le Mismo

...and I quote

"When theory and practice ain't the same, it is so hard to do something and so easy to have a say"
-Mismo 09/01/08

Afraid, uncomfortable, skeptical

For more that I hate to pity myself, those three words pretty much sum up my current state of mind. Afraid I guess because it is my last academic year at Augsburg and my future isn't very clear. Uncomfortable, because reasons I will rather not disclose here (but feel free to ask...not). Skeptical, because I have not getting done as much as I was expecting regarding preparation for grad school. Which if you connect the dots feeds my fear and my comfort. But all of this does not matter when I remember the wise words of my ultimate hero JPS "humans are a temporal being. Therefore we are always yet to be."

Until then...may the peace be with you.

First Years

Oh those good days! I remember when I was a first year. Everything was different, everyone tried to be cool, or at least pretend to be cool. I analyzed freshman's attitude this past Saturday during their move in day they are actually annoying me. I felt that this year it the way they exteriorized their coolness was too much. I was sat down for a few hours telling people what an RCR is and where to get their access cards. It was frustrating to tell 100+ students to go to the desk down the hallway to pick up their fobs, because the vast majority did not get that they had to walk to the next desk. No sir, they rather walked to the person next to me to ask them where should I go. So my point can be stated in the most general form as follows: how can they be so cool when they can't listen-process information. In other words how come you want to give a good impression when you are acting stupid. I mean being stupid is of course not cool. Anyway, please not that I am abiding by the general theory of assumptions. That is, I am not saying all freshman acted (act and will act) in a dualistic(dumb and cool) manner there are ones whose vibe was very retrospective and rather inspiring... out of ideas...

Assumptions, general theories, and more apologies

Ok! I take portions of the last post back. I committed the big mistake of assuming something. I think it was partially because I heard what I wanted to hear, ha haha. It is true it is not the very first account they have... but it is their very first big one. Therefore, I expect to see a lot of trial an error.
Moving on I have created the general theory of assumptions. It can be stated in the most general form as follows:
One can always assume that any assumptions are wrong. That is,assuming always leaves outlaying information, data, phenomena, etc out of the assumption. Under those premises this very general theory about assumption is in itself a beautiful fucking illustration of the flaw it criticizes. It is simply wrong to assume... ha haha

The new era

To be honest I am a little skeptical of the new food services provider, which name I am not writing because I do not know hot to spell because I cannot find it in the Augsburg website. Anyway, the point being is that I think bad for known is sometimes better than new for unknown. That is we knew Sodexo's low points but what are the low points of the new provider going to be. I just found out a week ago that Augsburg is their very first account and that there is a lot of stress within new management. I rather think that their success or failure will be noticeable within a week or two once school starts.

Let the satire begin

... So who told the IT department that was a good idea to install vista in computers that are not suitable for the program? It takes forever to log in, which is really annoying in when I am in a hurry. Anyway, I guess being nonsense is in lately... ha haha

Breath

Oh yes! Yeah! Oh Yeah!

To do what is correct

You know what really sucks? When doing the right thing causes distress to yourself and a third party. Sometimes there isn't other way around, and we are to bear the burden of doing the correct thing and make the damage. But life carries on and someday in the future this will be meaningless words. Until then lets try to bring the beat back...

A little unethical

I guess this is somewhat unethical but since auggie days are coming up soon I want to repost this:

There is a marketing campaign which was launched by the school. As you can imagine it is regarding the different personalities you can turn into by being an Auggie. However, they make use of conventional, in my opinion overrated, ways of describing an Auggie. For example: The Achiever, The Athletic, The Musical, blah blah blah.

Here is my version of the Auggie you can be when you come here (or back here(right here is the idea basically)):

The Hippie
The invisible
The Quiet
The friendly
The know it all (aka air hog)
The nerd
The fashionable
The artistic
The creative
The screw it all
The melodramatic
The slacker
The polygamist
The monogamist
The yellow house hater
The yellow house lover
The Writer (like me who only writes crap)
The Intellectual (we need more of those)
The Spiritual
The Adventurous
The party animal
The party pooper
... you name it

What then?

I was listening this song which lyrics say "you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need." At first I agreed, I thought it ti be a good relief to the economic ideal of more being better. After giving it a second thought what if what I want is also what I need... what then? Should I strive to get it or rather give up and die... ha haha ok I would not die, but what is the course of action in a situation where you can't get something which is both a need and a desire...

Insomnia

These are the words of the song "Insomnia" by Faithless. You should look it up!

"Deep in the bosom of the gentle night

Is when I search for the light

Pick up my pen and start to write

I struggle, I fight dark forces in the clear moonlight

Without fear

Insomnia

I can't get no sleep

I used to worry

Thought I was going mad in a hurry

Getting stressed, making excess mess in darkness

No electricity, something's all over me, greasy

Insomnia please release me

And let me dream of making mad love to my girl on the heath

Tearing off tights with my teeth

But there's no release, no peace

I toss and turn without cease

Like a curse, open my eyes and rise like yeast

At least a couple of weeks since I last slept, kept taking sleepers

But now I keep myself pepped

Deeper still, that night

I write by candlelight, I find insight

Fundamental movement, huh, so when it's black

This insomniac, take an original tack

Keep the beast in my nature

Under ceaseless attack

I gets no sleep

I can't get no sleep

I can't get no sleep

I can't get no sleep

I need to sleep, I can't get no sleep

I need to sleep, I can't get no sleep"

Time takes too much time.

"Don't play with time because time is deceiving, and when you turn your head and look back you will realize that time has passed you by and that there is no time left to play"

Mismo.

It seemed like a good idea

Highlights

I find very interesting what people have to say about their summer highlights. It is always appropriate to ask this question at the beginning of the Fall semester. It just makes me laugh that lots of people's highlights are actually not theirs but some other person's highlights. A typical answer is, oh my sister in law step brother had a baby... wait a second that is not your highlight, ha haha. Anyway, yesterday I was asked that question and I said "my summer sucked, I had no highlights whatsoever." I deeply knew I was lying because I think I did get lots of things done, but I guess is the kind of thing everyone finds rather boring...

Who am I?

I hope you found the introspective exercise of the last post related to the question who am I?
Now I am going to share my answer to the rather controversial question. I will do this in an interview format.

Interviewer: Please Mismo, could you tell us Who are you?

Mismo: Who am I? Sure! There is two ways to answer this. The first one is a quote of Jean Paul Sartre that says "I am my liberty, you scarcely created me when I stopped belonging to you... no one is to give me orders. You can not punish me or reprimand me, and that's why I make you afraid"
The second one, is rather simple. I am my actions and its consequences. Is that clear enough?

Interviewer: Remarkable!

The New Deal

...last post continues


Maquio an old politician said that Intellectuals needs time to come up with ideas and their respective back up. As right now I am to busy to dedicate the right amount of time to my philosophical ideas. Therefore, I take back my auto proclamation as an intellectual and I change my status to that of a WIP intellectual. That is I ain't offering any unfinished work, because the bits and pieces just make sense in my head. I am still open for discussion. However, I wont be pursuing the existential circumstantialism topic until I have a robust argument with appropriate references to back it up. I guess I got too exited... oops...

PS I also promise to reduce the level of inside gags and auto referential jokes

Apologies #?+1

Welcome to the new post of the apologies series. I really lost count a while ago that's why the ?+1. Anyway, I am going to break this post into two posts for Blogging For a Dream purposes. I have received feedback from two persons and they have told me two things (isn't that funny two people two things). The first one told me that the blog show is kinda confusing. The second one told me I am getting too cocky in my writing...
My response to this comments is the following:

I am aware that must of this blog makes use of inside gags and jokes that maybe a few people would be able to get. So in the regard of being confusing, I find myself guilty. I promise to be more impartial in my writing.

Cocky, yeah I guess I have never felt that I am like that. I was thinking it through while waiting for the light rail, and I concluded I am not only cocky but arrogant. I think I have committed the terrible mistake of mistaken passion for arrogance.


What is the course of action???????............

Going for the gold

Mexico got its first Gold Medal! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
It is actually kinda sad since we are such a big country.

To make things better

Ok that one was not working try this,

This is how I look like right now

Motivational in a strange way

Look at that!

Who am I?

The reason why I find this question annoying is because there is no real answer, or the answer is rather circumstantial. Try this introspective exercise and post back your experience.

Try to answer to the question "who am I?" without describing the following.

-Hobbies
-favorites (movies, songs, etc)
-field of study
-personality
-interests


disclaimer: I kinda borrowed the idea from the movie Anger Management, but I added the introspective reflexion feature.

The big questions

I have always hated this questions:

Why are we here?

What is my purpose in life?

Who am I?


The first two still annoy me because their broadness and naive feeling.

The third one is different though. I finally understood why I don't like this one in specific.

...to be continued

The Conservative Nanny State

In 2006 Dean Baker published "The Conservative Nanny State." I am halfway through and the basic point he is trying to get across is that deregulation in lots of markets (in the US) has been used in the best interest of the wealthy sector of the population. I think the book is very interesting and that the information he shares in it is important for the public to know. I do disagree with some of the solutions he proposes though. For example he says that software like Windows and Office should be free on the internet. My apologies if I misunderstood this, but I think it is very unrealistic for this to happen. Maybe there should be a way of regulating the prices of such essential applications, but to make them completely free... I don't think so.
I have more examples of this but for now I am going to stop there.

Exhausted II

... I am working about twice as long, with no real income coming into my pocket and the time to take the GMAT is coming to me faster than expected.
Going back top the quote posted previously, I think that yes I am trying to do a lot but that does not mean that I can't do quality things. However, I did read somewhere (I really can't remember who said this) that intellectuals need time to think and write. I have not had a consistent time to do it so I guess I am just half intellectual (self proclaimed under JPS definition and supported by ideas of Richard Dawkins).
Any-freaking-way, life is tough so I won't complain because it can only get worse. That was my summer in a nut shell. How was yours?

Exhausted

In my country of origin, Mexico, we have a quote that says "el que mucho abarca poco aprieta." This basically points out that if you try to do a lot of things at the time, the final results are more than likely going to be rather crappy.

I have had that quote on my mind for a while now, and it is affecting my very being. This summer I have been getting done more tasks than I ever expected myself to accomplish in a single summer. AND that is why I found the qoute and my experience in conflict.
Some evidence of this:
During May, June and July, I worked from 8 to 4. Then I went to the cafe from 4:10 to 5:50. At this time I worked either on my philosophical theory, number theory, and or studied for the GMAT. Then I went to work from 6 to 9. finally I went to work out 9 to 10. Sometimes I would go back to my room and enrich my knowledge a little more.
Note to point 1: In order to make the best use of my time I listened to audio books in the morning. It is also remarkable that some days I did not even had time to eat or take a break.
2.- Now I have started Training with reslife for my Facilities coordinator position and the story got a little uglier...

The problem of modern society

I think I have figured what the problem of modern society is fear. People are afraid of taking a course of action that is different from what society dictates as "normal."
What do you think?

Lacoste and the ARC

This is one of the an awesome new realizes of a joint effort between Lacoste and ARC of NY





So damn expensive though :(

New Computer

I have recently acquired what will be my third laptop since I got to the US.
I guess, this last one was more of a trade in, but anyway is new and that is the concept. Ha haha, my fist laptop was a Dell which I purchased through a refurbished laptop website. Back in the day laptops were real expensive and I could not afford anything but that Dell Latitude piece of crap. After a year that LT crashed and I bought a Compaq for dirt cheap. A few weeks ago "The Mismo" told me that he (ha haha) needed a new computer so I sold the Compaq to him, and I got myself a brand new HP.
I know is kind of confusing that I made some arbitrage with myself (it is another of those inside gags that no one would get). Anyway, the good news are that it was build way before the expected date I was given at the time of the purchase. I got a new computer, and you?

Bring the idea back

Ok it has been a while since I have touched upon my philosophical proposal.


I was doing some research online and I was mesmerized by the fact that someone already came up with a philosophical school of thought based on circumstances.

Here is an extract:

“Stanley Cavell, Leopoldo Zea, and the Seduction of an ‘American’ Philosophy”

Cavell’s Circumstantialism

What is meant by “circumstantialism”? The Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset is the best known exponent of this doctrine. In his Meditations on Quixote of 1914, Ortega writes (2000): “Man reaches his full capacity when he acquires complete consciousness of his circumstances. Through them he communicates with the universe” (p. 41), thus, “the re-absorption of circumstance is the concrete destiny of man” (p. 45). A circumstantialist approach to philosophical thinking, to philosophy, would thus emphasize the significance of either 1. the circumstances in which a particular thinking takes place, or 2. the manner in which the circumstances are absorbed by the thinking in question. An ancillary claim of this paper is that Cavell is precisely preoccupied with both 1 & 2.
Cavell has been instrumental in the induction of Emerson and Thoreau into America’s philosophical pantheon, one which boasts of such figures as James, Royce, Mead, and Pierce. It has not been an easy task. Because of their un-philosophical credentials, Cavell has had to convince the philosophical establishment that Emerson’s and Thoreau’s thinking is indeed philosophy. To do this, however, he has been “forced” to claim that Emerson and Thoreau were not just philosophers, but “American” philosophers thinking and expressing a uniquely American philosophy. He was forced to make this claim because Emerson and Thoreau themselves forced him into making this claim by being American philosophers. Consequently, in the process, Cavell’s own reflections on Emerson and Thoreau evidence the American philosophy that he has been forced into defending.
Always elusive, Cavell avoids spelling out any criteria for an American Philosophy. In The Senses of Walden, a work dedicated to unearthing the eccentricities of Thoreau’s hermetic text, Cavell (1972) is forced to ask:
Why has America never expressed itself philosophically? Or has it—in the metaphysical riot of its greatest literature? Has the impulse to philosophical speculation been absorbed, or exhausted, by speculation in territory, as in such thoughts as Manifest Destiny? Or are such questions not really intelligible?
(p. 32)

These questions are not rhetorical or by any means unintelligible. Has America been obsessed with wealth, growth, and conquest, and other positive interests, that it has forgone its opportunity to express itself philosophically? The answer is no. In fact, Thoreau’s Walden presents itself as an instance where an American concern, such as building a home by Walden pond, or tending to the soil, gives birth to philosophical speculation. Here is a case of the circumstances being absorbed by philosophical thinking, rather than philosophical thinking being absorbed, or exhausted, by the circumstance, e.g., a concern with nation-building.
Thus Cavell imagines American philosophy as a lived experience, arising from an engagement with a set of uniquely American circumstances, those he finds in Walden. But just as philosophical thinking bursts forth from one’s circumstance, it must necessarily returns to that circumstance so as to vindicate—or emancipate— the thinker, the writer, or the laborer from the guilt of tying philosophical thoughts down to particular (not universal) concerns. Hence, Cavell writes, “All our fields await emancipation—geography and places, literature and neighborhood, epistemology and eyes, anatomy and hands, metaphysics and cities” (1972, p. 80). Why would “all our fields,” including philosophy and medicine, await emancipation”? The simple answer has already been suggested: philosophy and medicine must arise and conform to the American circumstance. Just like a disease native to the American frontier would require an antidote capable of curing that particular disease, the idea is that the American existential condition likewise requires a form of philosophical thinking capable of addressing that particular condition. Hence, to consider the circumstances when thinking of America’s philosophical, medical, or literary future is already the liberating step. American philosophy would thus be a liberating, emancipating, philosophy: liberating the American mind from ancient (European) vices: a preference of the map over the field (place and geography), the novel over its characters (literature and neighborhood), universal structures of experience over what actually experiences (epistemology and eyes), science for practice (anatomy and hands), and abstraction over the everyday (metaphysics and cities). The suggestion here is that philosophy must return to the everyday, to the cities; this is what Cavell realizes “is most offensive to philosophy” (op. cit).
In The Senses of Walden, Cavell is engaged with an American writer whose immersion in the soil and spirit of America represents the undeniable relatedness of being human with that human’s circumstance. And it is, undeniably, philosophy. The reason for rejecting Thoreau’s visions as philosophical could be due to something one could call America’s inferiority complex. Cavell notes: “American culture never really believed in its capacity to produce anything of permanent value—except itself. So it forever overpraises and undervalues its achievements” (pp. 32-33). The suggestion is that—historically—America’s relative newness is to blame for its habit to “over-emphasize” and “devalue” its creations, especially its literature and philosophy. Thus Cavell insists that America take a second hard look—like the hard look taken by Thoreau and Emerson—and hear its own voice, it’s “serious speech” (1972, p. 33), which expresses its most characteristic convictions.
Cavell makes this call again in “An Emerson Mood,” pointing out the American tendency to undervalue our native philosophical insights, what he calls “visions.” He says,
our philosophies, or visions, [‘do not believe in each other’] which is why the ideal of a pluralism of philosophy, however well meant, is so often an empty hope. (2003, p. 26)

Philosophical pluralism is an “empty hope” because we are incapable of measuring our philosophical contribution with our own, so to speak, American measure. His call is to have our philosophical and our nonphilosophical visions “believe in each other.” How can they believe in each other, however, if we ourselves are conflicted as to what mood qualifies as a philosophical mood, especially when compared on an alien (i.e., European) standard? Cavell hints at a resolution to this question by equating philosophy with “vision.” America as “the land of the future,” as Hegel quipped, is a land of visions, of visionaries. These visions are uniquely American, as they relate to the future and destiny of the nations of the “New” continent. Indeed, where else could one find visionaries but in a land lacking a sense of place in the historical stage. Zea, as we will see, shares a similar intuition, proclaiming: “We feel as bastards who profit from goods to which they have no right. We feel as if we are wearing something else’s clothes: they are too big for our size” (Gracia and Zaibert, 2004, p. 222).
Reading Cavell one notes an echo of urgency—or is it desperation?—perhaps grounded on the notion that America has always expressed its “vision” in the process of its discovery and its continual re-invention. But this sense of urgency is also present in Thoreau. Cavell quotes a passage from Walden: “I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as a chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up” (1972, p. 35). Cavell goes on to say that Thoreau’s use of this “archetype of American folklore,” (p. 36) the chanticleer, is meant as an allusion to philosophy’s own archetypes, as in Socrates’ rooster. We could also say that for Thoreau the bothersome crow of the rooster is meant to shock his neighbors into wakefulness. Indeed, Cavell writes: “The purity of the Chanticleer’s prophesy is that he can speak only to waken and to warn” (p. 38). This statement reminds one of Marx, who writes, “So as to give them courage, we must teach the people to be shocked by themselves” (McLellan, 1987, p. 66). Thus the crow of the rooster is philosophy itself, while the rooster is Thoreau. One could argue that Cavell is pointing to a raison d’être of American philosophy, in its native or original version, namely, to instill in its audience a sense of urgency, a need for (internal or external) change. “It is a matter of taking back to yourself an authority [that] you have been compelled to invest elsewhere,” writes Cavell (2003, p. 31). Indeed, we will see how this sentiment is at the core of Zea’s thinking.

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Short story long II

I think the sad thing about the story is that I saw at least 5 people walking by the crime scene and NO ONE took a closer look to the guy and what he was really doing. I mean the guy was not at all stupid. He pretended to be unlocking the bike while I passed by, but as soon as I was out of sight he pulled some tools too steal the bike. I did not take a long time to conclude that people don't give a shit about what is going on... at least that is how I percieve it. For God's sake can't you realize that the guy looks like a complete bum; he does not look like he belongs to the dorm. Moral of the story, be on the look of suspicous activity. If you feel something is not right call DPS they are here to kick ass.

Short story long

I was coming back to my crib in Luther Hall (also known as NEW HALl) when I noticed this guy by the bike racks. The dude looked completely out of place. I mean he was old dirty and somewhat shady. When I saw him I though "whatever" he is just chillin, but then I gave it a second thought and this time I though "I bet that is not your bike." I pretended I did not know what he was doing (like every one else that walked by). As soon as he saw me going into the building he started to unscrew the front tire of a red bike. I was like "Fuck that shit, he was probably the one who stole my bike a few months ago." I pulled out my piece (ok my mobil) and called DPS. Fortunatelly DPS showed up within 2 minutes and arrested the shit out of the bum.



THE EVIDENCE

He also blows!

Ha haha... He did blow a few things in the Quad.
I found this video in youtube an I thought it would be fun to put it here.

Enjoy















PS I hope I don't get sued by the ACS

This is a good one

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Infinite wisdom + some more

Check this web site! It will expand your understanding of life... hopefully

http://free-university-in-internet.blogspot.com/

Move around Day!

Well today my room mate and I have to move to our new home for next year. I hate moving around but I guess this time is absolutely needed since our current room is in a poor sanitary condition because no one is ever there to pick up the mess. I was recently introduced to a theory that says that the costs of no compliance are easy to avoid if a zero defect policy is put in place. It is simply matter of doing the things right at the first time as instead of leaving everything for TOMORROW or LATER. So listen up and you like me stop procrastinating.

Violence Iin Georgia

I think it is really sad that big countries abuse their power. Today Russia invaded Georgia, in my opinion, for illegitimate reasons. I understand Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia, which is a de-facto country within Georgia. Long story short, Georgia is trying to consolidate its territory and Russia is using that as an excuse to reoccupy the helpless country again.

An incredible insight from a staff member

I think this song pretty much sums up what the experience of College is at Augsburg.

Summer nostalgia

For the ones that the summer has come to an end in regards to free time.

Choices

Here is a video of a lecture by Barry Schwartz, which in my opinion, explains why is the society less happy than a number of years ago.





Enjoi

Blogging for a dream!

You might have noticed that I posted like a million times (including this). There is an explanation for that. I have started my training with reslife, which is something close to sell your soul to the devil. Ok I exaggerated, they got a lot better in terms of flexibility this year. However, the tasks that I am performing are really time demanding. As a result of this I have stopped working for an income, because reslife takes all my day, and they pay with benefits. I am going to Europe next December so I need all the money in the world to get myself around over there and that's why I am blogging like crazy! So if you want to help my cause, throw me some rocks so I can talk (write) about lots of different things.

Well I guess that kinda explains the title and the many posts

Good people good times

I just finished talking with Timothy Dougherty a minute ago and he gave me some good news, he is going to grad school to the U of M. Tim has been really proactive in pushing what I call green awareness on campus, so he hill be very much missed around here. This inspired me to borrow a phrase from Kennedy "And so, my fellow [Auggies], ask not what [Augsburg] can do for you; ask what you can do for [Augsburg]." This is mainly but not only for first year students to become more active in Augsburg's development. There is so much you can do to put the world's spot lights on our community.

Olympics quick comment

I was looking at the formation of athletes that are going to the Olympics from a few countries (Georgia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, and the US) and I could not help to notices the following:

Nicaragua has only 1 competitor (ha haha, arriba!)
Georgia surprisingly has 24
Mexico: quite a few but their pictures look like the wanted list of the FBI
The rich countries of course have 50+ with nice profiles


Anyway we'll see how many bronzes Mexico gets this time.

Charity in MSP

Since Augsburg is committed to community service I thought I’d share about one volunteer opportunity I recently heard about. It’s called the Mother Bear Project and was started about 5 years ago. The goal of the project is to collect hand-made bears that are then shipped to children in various countries in Africa. There are many ways to participate in the project, starting from actually making the bears to helping pack the boxes for shipping. If you are interested, you should check out their website at http://www.motherbearproject.org/ Any time or money you donate will make a difference!



THE MISMO!!!

e-mail quotes

You might have noticed that many people have quotes at the end of their sent e-mails. In making use of my radical freedom I decided that I wanted to put something that meant more than words but that at the same time would be simple and complex. The result was that my e-mail signature is a drawing by Picasso (the dog). It is funny because so far no one has acknowledge that I had god taste in putting that image in my e-mail signature. So far the only comments I have gotten are: what's that? why are you sending me a dog? you should delete that? that looks unprofessional?

Ha haha, I guess all I can do is laugh at them for their ignorance... I mean ok you might not be acquainted with art, but you can still read that the drawing has Picasso's signature. Oh well like I said people are afraid to be different... me I'm just striving to stay creative.

Apologies #?

I know... I know this is about the 1000th time I post apologizing. A number of weeks ago I promised that I was going to go around campus rating the restrooms. Because of chaos and uncertainty in my days, I have not been able to do such a thing. For the ones (0) that are dying to see the results... All I have to say is oops.

Something Fun

More on circumstancialism

I want to share some more of the philosophical work I have been creating.


Circustancialism is not a Humanism.

The making of circumstancialism started thanks to the inspiration from the work of a handful of philosophers, economists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs. As you might guess Sartre caused the greatest impact on my life and my way of thinking. I retook Sartre's work because I have found deep similarities in our way of assessing life situations. I am not at all suggesting I can come even close to him, rather I am just saying my way of seeing life is similar to JPS. Long before I started studying Sartre I believed that we can best learn how life works by understanding the circumstances of our life at a given time. This is remarkable because Sartre said during an interview (in the 70's I believe) that life taught him the force of circumstances. That is, he believed in what I believe only that it took him a while to realize that. which after reflexion and work motivated me to reassess his work, but adding on the circumstantial factor. There was yet another thing that pushed me to pursue the philosophical direction. People, analyzing people the way we act and live our "every day life's" revealed me something rather terrifying. We live a systematic life, only a few people have the courage to go against main stream. The way society acts nowadays makes it impossible for people with no credentials to come up with with good stuff. I also noticed that people project themselves onto others. With that I mean that people are afraid to try to be proactive in their best personal interest (here we have to be careful in defining our personal interest and what society dictates), because THEY ARE AFRAID to be judged. I have to phenomenal examples to proove my point:

1.- Well the first has to deal with academia (obviously). I have also happen to work on some mathematics this summer. I have been working on an aspect of the theory of numbers, but I have been turned down because I am just a student whose primary interest is not even math. In addition, I was quickly underestimated by someone who is known to be critical. It took this person about two minutes to figure that I was not good material for grad school because two reasons, my GPA, and my lack of involvement(ha haha). I think it was hilarious because I did not even had time to share more of myself and what motivates me and so on and so forth. No! the person cut me and also had the decency to say "I don't want to make you feel bad" (more ha haha).


2.-The example of "real" life and "best" personal interest pursue. I was over a friends house for BBQ, sometime in July I think. Everything was going great until his dad again negatively impacted me with his very personal views of what to do to succeed in life. This person is setting his kid in the most comfortable and systematic situations. They both believe that getting an internship is the ultimate goal in life and after that getting a job in order to get married, get insurance, open a 401 k, and wait until a miserable age to retire. When I said I was looking to go to grad school their first reaction was "good luck paying for it." They think because my friend is a conformist I am too, ha haha. Well no, I am sorry to disappoint everyone. FUCK being like every one else I am not YOU so stop FUCKING being such a champion of sincerity and take care of your miserable ranged life...

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