tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post115405844499303375..comments2023-09-22T06:10:30.701-05:00Comments on Overthunk: ConundrumsVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04337883736748271928noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154383778401088572006-07-31T17:09:00.000-05:002006-07-31T17:09:00.000-05:00Thanks for finding the Blake poem, it seemed to ma...Thanks for finding the Blake poem, it seemed to make more sense in the film. Is it that reason supresses desire then takes its place, then you end up doing things unwillingly, living unwillingly, with your ghostly desires moaning in the night? Makes me think my desire comes from my heart (literally). here's another reference. Hume ( the philosopher) said that reason should be slave to desire, or passion since there is no reason to prefer the destruction of the world to snaggin my little finger nail, or vice versa.bloggin the Questionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991456353878889126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154382344649763242006-07-31T16:45:00.000-05:002006-07-31T16:45:00.000-05:00I know, right!! In 2 years of blogging, nothing's ...I know, right!! In 2 years of blogging, nothing's changed. I suspect you're right, Renee. :)Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337883736748271928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154381008751042132006-07-31T16:23:00.000-05:002006-07-31T16:23:00.000-05:00Overthunk indeed. Heehee.My answer to one of your...Overthunk indeed. Heehee.<BR/><BR/>My answer to one of your questions: Welcome relief.Meadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13200771118045164229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154355649462921282006-07-31T09:20:00.000-05:002006-07-31T09:20:00.000-05:00Nice questions. I don't listen to the TV or Radio ...Nice questions. I don't listen to the TV or Radio news for that very reason. They seem to be obsessed with negativity. It is much worse than it use to be years ago. I guess they discovered that it keeps people tuned to their station, but that doesn't work on me.<BR/><BR/>As far as knowing someone from their blog, it works both ways. In some respects, you probably know know a blogger better than his or her friends, neighbors, and coworkers. Sometimes even his or her relatives.Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11104981732733112853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154285823838225692006-07-30T13:57:00.000-05:002006-07-30T13:57:00.000-05:00Read what you WROTE I meant.Read what you WROTE I meant.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337883736748271928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154285793816769472006-07-30T13:56:00.000-05:002006-07-30T13:56:00.000-05:00Thanks, Aza. It means a lot to me that you took th...Thanks, Aza. It means a lot to me that you took the time to read, understand, and help with this crap. It was comforting to read what you read. I know you struggle with these kind of days too sometimes. :)Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337883736748271928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154230615083976172006-07-29T22:36:00.000-05:002006-07-29T22:36:00.000-05:00Ok, get out some wine cause theres Cheese ahead. L...Ok, get out some wine cause theres Cheese ahead. Lets take this one at a time.<BR/><BR/>1. yes being online changes things. Thats because when people arn't face to face we don't have to tell the whole truth. Which sucks a bit, but in someways it's better because you can be the personm you've always wanted to be.<BR/><BR/>2. Of course not. In the end you can't be sure who's reading this and something strangers just shouldn't know.<BR/><BR/>3. That would be flirting with someone you don't know vs. sleeping with everyone you don't know.<BR/><BR/>4. Because people suck. <BR/><BR/>5. A mystery we all get one chance to figure out, and by then it's too late to tell anyone else.<BR/><BR/>6. If you believe, then trust in yourself because your made in God's image, which means the right things to do are already inside you.<BR/><BR/>7.No. well yes, but only if your deaf.<BR/><BR/>8. We tarde the loss of feeling full happiness for the protection against pain by dulling our emotions. Yet it's a false trade because when the pain comes it's still just as bad.<BR/><BR/>9. Which of course means you only get what you wnat when you no longer want it. Life has a sick sense of humor.<BR/><BR/>10. Which trait would you rather have in a friend? I'll take loyal every time.<BR/><BR/>11. Fortunatly, it's possible to be both. Once you get deep you have to smile because if you stop you start thinking like the killers of the world.<BR/><BR/>12. there is no moral law outside of your own mind. But just remember you have to live with whatever you do, so act accordingly and never do something you can't live with.<BR/><BR/>13. Either way it still beats being depressed all the time.<BR/><BR/>14. Both. If you don't live near someone you'll never meet to become friends. But if there isn't something special between you all you'll be is aquaintences.<BR/><BR/>Asta la pasta for now.<BR/><BR/>Too much deep thought is like eating too many baked beans. It causes people to not want to sit too close to you.<BR/>-Phil PrioreAzathoth100https://www.blogger.com/profile/01233687763481969213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154157121277438732006-07-29T02:12:00.000-05:002006-07-29T02:12:00.000-05:00Yeah, Violet, they don't have to be. I was just in...Yeah, Violet, they don't have to be. I was just in a persnickety mood, and implying that women must needs be one or the other sometimes.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337883736748271928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154125069308573312006-07-28T17:17:00.000-05:002006-07-28T17:17:00.000-05:00I'd have to say that some of those 'this or that' ...I'd have to say that some of those 'this or that' questions aren't necessarily trade-offs. I mean, isn't it possible to be both deep AND amusing?...<BR/><BR/>Maybe not... I'll have to think about it...Violethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06258853705075543782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154113562382241482006-07-28T14:06:00.000-05:002006-07-28T14:06:00.000-05:00Found it, Helga:William Blake, The Marriage of Hea...Found it, Helga:<BR/><BR/>William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)<BR/><BR/>"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer of reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire."<BR/><BR/>and more:<BR/><BR/>"Without Contraries is no progression. <BR/>Attraction and Repulsion, <BR/>Reason and Energy, <BR/>Love and Hate, <BR/>are necessary to Human existence.<BR/> <BR/>From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. <BR/>Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy." <BR/><BR/>It makes me feel better just to read Blake. Thank you. :)Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04337883736748271928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881420.post-1154074456422777252006-07-28T03:14:00.000-05:002006-07-28T03:14:00.000-05:00Just off to a meadow to meditate. seems to be a do...Just off to a meadow to meditate. seems to be a don't want what you can't have theme. I wonder if one can disagree with that on Romantic grounds. I think there is a Blake poem that is quoted in an australian film called Two Hands, where it is the burning desire that is all that is worth living for, and to suppress is to turn it into the ghost of a desire.bloggin the Questionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991456353878889126noreply@blogger.com