sandpc: February 2010

2/27/10

aha! "a changing faith"... wonderful!

Knowing that I know nothing, I am aware that I do have opinions. But my opinions keep changing. Some people call this "learning." I call it changing faith. Even scientists know they are accepting theories as true based on evidence that convinces them to have faith. Yes, even scientific laws with strong evidence are sustained by faith - until the next level of evidence destroys the faith of past years. Then scientists, students, and lay public rearrange their faith to accommodate the newly observed evidence.

(from an Amazon Review by William McLean)

2/23/10

sounds like good stuff to me

lol, "that's my point"

2/22/10

There's too much love (B&S)

I could hang about and burn my fingers
I've been hanging out here waiting for something to start
You think I'm faultless to a 't'
My manner set impeccably
But underneath I am the same as you
I could dance all night like I'm a soul boy
But I know I'd rather drag myself across the dance floor
I feel like dancing on my own
Where no one knows me, and where I
Can cause offence just by the way I look
And when I come to blows
When I am numbering my foes
Just hope that you are on my side my dear
But it's best to finish as it started
With my face head down just staring at the brown formica
It's safer not to look around
I can't hide my feelings from you now
There's too much love to go around these days
You say I've got another face
That's not a fault of mine these days
I'm honest, brutal and afraid of you

2/21/10

Good article on living a meaningful life...

"How not to feed from the Poison Cake"

2/19/10

Practice requires questions

Shugen Sensei says, “All the practices that we engage in are directed back to the self.” Then it is fair to say that, as a gate of training, art practice is an exploration of the self through artistic expression. And as any other discipline, it requires that we not just passively accept what we see, but that we thoroughly and constantly question.

Why humans make art

Rainer Maria Rilke says in his Letters to Cézanne that a work of art is to the artist, “the ever-returning proof to himself of his unity and genuineness... existing merely as necessity, as reality, as being.” Art seen and created in this way is not merely art for art’s sake, but rather a continuation of humanity’s ongoing attempt to understand itself and the universe.

2/5/10

down with the asses and their masses

Got no time to waste on bullies or bully-followers. Shame, cuz some of them do have a lot of potential. But they'd rather focus on how not to make fools of themselves and judge those who appear to be fools to them all the time. The only way to create and discover is by allowing oneself to be a fool.
I gotta do my own discoveries. Other people have to take care of themselves, unless they ask for help, in which case I might provide it.
For now, I really gotta get out there and be more of a fool. The thought of ending up like some of these bullies or bully-followers wasting their life by looking down on others is really... just... gaahhh! never!