I generally choose to be happy when dealing with other people. It’s an extension of kindness, which I believe to be essential. Moreover, nobody wants to deal with a crab-ass, and even if I am having a shit day, that doesn’t mean I have to make someone else’s day shitty.
Month: September 2024
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When I was a kid, I would pick a random volume from the encyclopedia and flip through until I found something that interested me, and then read all about it. Later in my childhood, I focused on animals and particular flowers and would try to draw pictures I saw in the encyclopedia.
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Don’t invest your energy into anything with a negative ROI.
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I have a new favorite made up word – “figureoutable”. Credit to https://tonysbologna.com/ 😆
I will be incorporating this word into my daily life of random problem solving.
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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Keep it as simple as possible.
This has been a bit of a tough lesson, especially with certain things, but I have learned that simplicity is key. The Occam’s razor principle can and perhaps should almost always be applied.
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When I learned logic tables in school, I would spend hours of my free time trying to create statements that would be tautologies. It was ridiculously satisfying.
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I am beyond exhausted, on so many levels.
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I think I may finally have the inspiration I needed to start designing the sleeve for my right arm. This will change many times before I actually get inked, I’m sure, but the spark is established, and that makes me happy.
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What’s your all-time favorite album?
Aenima by Tool
The answer to this question has not changed since the first time I listened to this album when I was 15.
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Responding to Weekly Prompts – Weekend Challenge
Weekly Prompts – Weekend Challenge – Wrong
Anyone who knows me knows that I am big on the meaning of words and their relationship to one another. Wrong is an interesting word. If you check out the dictionary definition, you will see that most of the definitions are saying that wrong is something that is not something else. Something that is not moral, not just, not successful, not accurate. The list goes on.
I think that “wrong” in many cases is actually a subjective term. Now, if you say 2+2 = 7, that is wrong. It is not a factual statement at all. In any given non-arithmetic situation, you could say, “That person was wrong for doing what they did.” Were they? Perhaps. But the idea of wrongness invokes and necessitates a certain amount of emotion, and therefore, subjectivity.
Something can feel wrong but not be wrong. And, at the same time, something can be wrong and not feel wrong. Allow me to explain. A child who deals with abuse at home will perhaps grow up to be a person who does not stand up for themselves. Doing so feels wrong to them because it is not familiar, but most people will agree that standing up for yourself is right, and it is important. On the flip side, you squish a mosquito or a spider. It doesn’t feel wrong because of the consensus that these creatures are pests, but in a way, it is wrong because you are ending a life.
And that’s the thing, isn’t it? In so many cases, the idea of “wrong” has to do with the societal consensus, with the overall judgements of the culture and the era. Where is it that we can find objective evaluations of what wrong is? I don’t know that we can. I don’t believe that life or the universe or perhaps even god in whatever form, is concerned with right vs wrong. It is concerned with balance. In any system, micro or macro, the net-net of any transaction or interaction is zero – you see this in finance, in physics, in math, in many personal relationships. The system is attempting to maintain homeostasis, to balance both sides of the equation for a net gain of zero so that things continue the way that they were designed to.
“Wrong” is largely a subjective judgement placed on things in a broad way to keep society in line. Perhaps we are on the right track with those judgements, but we have no way of knowing for sure because of our physiological and mental limitations.
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 