By popular request, another journal entry.
I don't keep a proper journal anymore. I think it was making me crazy. Some people think that crazy or iffeminate people keep journals, but I think that keeping a journal perpetuates those qualities in people. Getting in touch with your emotions and being retrospective in excrutiating detail is a feminine thing to do. It's not bad, but it's not necessarily good either. It makes you moody or too self conscious, meaning not only that you are anxious about yourself, but that you are simply more self-aware.
Self awareness can be a good thing if you're aiming to improve yourself, but if you're only going to cry about why you're the way you are (happens all too often) then I recommend you spend less time thinking, more time doing.
Nowadays, I just have a book next to the bed filled with blank pages so that if I get some kind of brilliant idea in the middle of the night, or I establish a train of thought I can't afford to derail, I can jot it down. Of course, I'm self conscious about this too - so I only write down things I'd want other people to read. I always address my readers, not myself. I think I have a huge ego.
I write a lot about the soul, because there's something about self-awareness (not of being knowledgeable about what or who you are, so much as being knowledgeable THAT YOU ARE) that miffs me. I'm very much a proponent of scientific determinism, but then I wonder how an automoton like a human can be self aware? What is it about the mind that gives you a sense of indiviiduality? Is the soul a projection of an immutable reality, or does the soul help shape reality?
ANSWER ME THIS:
1. Do you believe in the soul?
2. If yes, can you describe what it is?
3. If no, why not? What do you define it as?
I don't keep a proper journal anymore. I think it was making me crazy. Some people think that crazy or iffeminate people keep journals, but I think that keeping a journal perpetuates those qualities in people. Getting in touch with your emotions and being retrospective in excrutiating detail is a feminine thing to do. It's not bad, but it's not necessarily good either. It makes you moody or too self conscious, meaning not only that you are anxious about yourself, but that you are simply more self-aware.
Self awareness can be a good thing if you're aiming to improve yourself, but if you're only going to cry about why you're the way you are (happens all too often) then I recommend you spend less time thinking, more time doing.
Nowadays, I just have a book next to the bed filled with blank pages so that if I get some kind of brilliant idea in the middle of the night, or I establish a train of thought I can't afford to derail, I can jot it down. Of course, I'm self conscious about this too - so I only write down things I'd want other people to read. I always address my readers, not myself. I think I have a huge ego.
I write a lot about the soul, because there's something about self-awareness (not of being knowledgeable about what or who you are, so much as being knowledgeable THAT YOU ARE) that miffs me. I'm very much a proponent of scientific determinism, but then I wonder how an automoton like a human can be self aware? What is it about the mind that gives you a sense of indiviiduality? Is the soul a projection of an immutable reality, or does the soul help shape reality?
ANSWER ME THIS:
1. Do you believe in the soul?
2. If yes, can you describe what it is?
3. If no, why not? What do you define it as?
i believe in soul food. fucking delicious, betch
(1) No Soul.
(2) See above.
(3) The "soul" is about as real as "santa claus" is... What individuals perceive as the soul is merely a consequence of the innumerable neurons and synapses that are firing and re-firing in the cerebral cortex, corpus callosum and other various parts that make up the human brain.