zysahn

So I've decided to stay here on SG since it's kinda like other social networking sites only with an erotic twist. Hopefully I can make some lasting friendships on here, even if it is just net-friends. It seems my hometown has gotten so much more dull over the past few years and there is somehow even less to do than originally (unless you're into the whole 'clubbing' thing, which I am not).

Since I still have a few weeks until I start college again (and hopefully find some decent people to rebuild my social life with), I've decided to stock up on philosophy books once more and to continue reading and studying them intricately. A guy I played WoW with asked me if I am an existentialist, and I replied yes, though it'd be a good idea to have a fully thought out synopsis of what that term means to me. I don't wanna sound like a pretentious buffoon, after all.

I intended on getting the original 'Scary Stories' omnibus at Barnes and Noble but sadly they no longer had any left, so I just grabbed 'Twilight of the Idols' by Nietzsche, 'Nicomachean Ethics' by Aristotle, 'The Prince and Other Writings' by Machiavelli, and a non-philosophy book in 'The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane' by Robert E. Howard. Once I finish with Thomas Paines 'Common Sense', I'll start on 'Twilight...' since thats always been one of the books by Freddy I've yearned to read. He was ever so good at dismantling the church and the more dogmatic forms of Christianity. Sure, he was a wordy bastard and a bit of a weirdo, but what genius isn't? And while I am certainly no Atheist, I find his works very inspiring. Sometimes, reading something we disagree with can lead us down roads no one intended. In fact, that sort of view is at the heart of my own spiritual and philisophical pathway. Maybe someday I'll expand on it, too.

Anyhoo, off to read more of Paine, though I swear the Solomon Kane book is screaming to be read as well. I want to save that for later, though.