So it's been a loooong time since I posted here. Anyone still home? Everything in my friends feed is from communities.

I'd been wasting my digital hours on and off on a site that is about to go defunct - wis.dm
Very unfortunate. While the site has had it's ups and downs, it's been an important part of my life for several years now and I'm very sad to see it go. I've met a good number of people from the site and it's added a lot of fabric to my life. In fact, because of that site, I went to Europe for the first time with the most beautiful, brilliant young lady I've ever known. I'm rather in it's debt.

Maybe LJ can fill some of the void there... We shall have to see. It's been a long time since I was active here. Kinda sucks to have to get it all started again.

So Buddhists refuse to make "revelatory" statements; that is, nothing that is directly pertaining to metaphysics. But it is popularly known that Buddhists believe in reincarnation. To a Westerner, this seems to be a heavenly, godly, theological kind of idea. So today my monk gave me 2 things to ponder, from a rationalists perspective.

(I meet with a Zen monk every Tues and Thurs from 8 to 9 am)

1) Sarva-Anitya. Nothing is permanent. Everything is conditional

2) Nothing can be created or destroyed, only changed

He used some prettier analogies and anecdotes but that's the Westernized rationalist version.

So I'm pondering.

night is an inconvenient time for insomnia

so tomorrow nightw e get to find out finally how nancy is going to deal with the first good thing that's happened to her all season! fuck yeah! i was starting to worry about the poor lady.

combine silas with an olsen sister to create the most annoying teen romance ever! i'll punch em both!

not that i wouldn't bang mary kate.

because I totally would.

i changed my default pic to one of me playing at the Roxy a couple months ago because i was feeling very uncool after staying at home saturday night.

I went to inland invasion and Cornell totally stole the show. The guy has one of the best voices in rock history.

Current Music: Dear Prudence - The Beatles

is crap. Certainly, many things we constantly judge people for are entirely unimportant - their looks, religion, sexual preference. That doesn't mean there is complete moral subjectivity.
Labels are only a bad thing if they're inaccurate. And certainly the tendency is to generalize, simplify, and stereotype while labeling or judging - that is the sin - not the act of judging or labeling itself.
I encourage you to judge away. It's the only way we can improve ourselves. I'm not a believer in hedonism or nihilism. There certainly is a right and a wrong, and I work hard to keep myself on the right. You can help me!
But it is essential to remember not to be hasty in our judgments and our labeling. If we are unclear about something, we have the obligation to ask for clarification. We should not assume anything.
If I haven't made a concerted, honest, and proficient attempt at understanding another person's perspective, situation, behavior, or beliefs, I certainly am in no position to judge them or to label them. But if I do have as clear an understanding as I am likely to get, and the subject can confirm I see it correctly, then and only then may I pass judgement, or make a label.

Current Music: Hypnotize - Audioslave

but i'd like to kick these blue collar comedy guys in the nads.

maybe collectively they have 2 testicles.

so im going to the dentist for the first time in maybe 5 years today and im utterly terrified.
not really terrified, but aware of my impending doom.

flight of the conchords is freaking amazing. HBO. Watch it. If no premium cable, do what i do and www.thepiratebay.org
its only a little immoral.

i just watched season 1 of entourage again, speaking of downloading tv, and i want to be a rockstar again.

i hope my spotty usage of correct grammar isnt entirely obnoxious. i tend to use it when i think it's particularly important.

meanwhile i'm in my western political theory class, bored out of my mind, although the jesuit that teaches it is fucking hilarious.

Current Mood: anxious

So uuuh it's been a while and I don't really know what I'm doing so fucking feel free to ask me whatever and I'll answer honestly, or not, and you won't know, but that's not the point.

First the two things I'm not allowed to talk about at the bar...
1) Ain't got no qualms with god
You might not guess it based on my opinions about alcohol or weed or sex, but I'm a fairly religious guy. Big time theist, little time Catholic, somewhat time Taoist, barely time Buddhist. I love talking about it; I hate evangelizing so if you wanna talk about it for fun and personal enrichment that's awesome but if you want to convert me or me to convert you, as my good Australian friend Kelii would say, "bugger off".

2) Like it or not, politics is life
I'm a radical. Not really a democrat or a republican. More of a green or a reform. Maybe you could call me a liberal socialist. I got lots of opinions, love to share them, same qualifications as number 1.

So normal stuff. I love to be in nature, especially surfing (just learning) snowboarding (proficient beginner). I'm trying to buy a boat to live on for the next few years, instead of getting an apartment in this town. Dreaming of sailing to patagonia with a few of my HS buddies before we all get real jobs/go to graduate school.

I love South Park, Dirty Jobs, ATHF, Scrubs, Deadliest Catch; ... lots of other stuff but I'm bored of this right now; hopefully I'll update it more in class today (around 3pm PST)

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: I'll Stick Around - Foo Fighters