the cable guy finally came today. I now have internet in my room. It is 2am. I am doing laundry and cleaning my apartment.
it has now occured to me while chatting online, that I have little interactions with people. In madison, I went in my room to avoid interacting with people. now, i have so few conversations with people that i feel i have to tell every detail of my life to anyone that asks. this is not normal. i think that's why i've been blogging pretty regularly.
Right before I left on my plane for Japan, I bought a book entitled The Closing of the Western Mind. It's about how western thought changed from facts to faith. As a Catholic, I love the book. The book starts with Plato and now I'm through Constantine. It's very interesting to read the history of reason with many books like Angels and Demons on the market. I love history and it has filled many voids of my knowledge about the many covered facts about the history of Catholicism. It's a little weird for me to read about the history and the stories about some of the famous men in Christian and Catholic dogma. I have been intrigued by religion since I was young and I have heard many people recount stories and beliefs of these people. Now I wonder if they even knew what the hell they were talking about. I just watched Dogma (again) and it reiterated the fact that Catholicism is shrouded in tradition and authority; neither of which, you can question. I guess it still amazes me how violently people can act in the name of an organization their leaders don't even understand.
I ramble a lot. Hence I need to do more social activities.
it has now occured to me while chatting online, that I have little interactions with people. In madison, I went in my room to avoid interacting with people. now, i have so few conversations with people that i feel i have to tell every detail of my life to anyone that asks. this is not normal. i think that's why i've been blogging pretty regularly.
Right before I left on my plane for Japan, I bought a book entitled The Closing of the Western Mind. It's about how western thought changed from facts to faith. As a Catholic, I love the book. The book starts with Plato and now I'm through Constantine. It's very interesting to read the history of reason with many books like Angels and Demons on the market. I love history and it has filled many voids of my knowledge about the many covered facts about the history of Catholicism. It's a little weird for me to read about the history and the stories about some of the famous men in Christian and Catholic dogma. I have been intrigued by religion since I was young and I have heard many people recount stories and beliefs of these people. Now I wonder if they even knew what the hell they were talking about. I just watched Dogma (again) and it reiterated the fact that Catholicism is shrouded in tradition and authority; neither of which, you can question. I guess it still amazes me how violently people can act in the name of an organization their leaders don't even understand.
I ramble a lot. Hence I need to do more social activities.
posted by Bruhaha at 9:48 AM
2 Comments:
speaking of which, will you be here for nomadfest: cairo?
A couple beautiful babies from Madison already have tickets in hand.
P.S. When do you return to home soil?
I was planning on attending nomadfest, although tickets from japan are over 1500 bones and I would have to then buy another one from japan to the us for at lesast another 600.
I'm working in J-town till at least 14 January. No set date yet, as I have not bought my return ticket.
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