PLAN A
You've met me at a weird time in my life...Friendships were the focus of the last post and the last few days. I'm making some new friends here at TCU though its still different and I'm not very close with them yet. But I am keeping in touch with my other friends which is good. And I'll see some people this weekend. So yay.
But I have come up with a "plan A" for my friendships dilemnas...I've kind of been battling logic here for the past 48 hours or so. Trying to figure out whether to do nothing, to do something, to open myself up over something that probably won't end well, to go for it, to rely on close friends in the same way, and so on etc. Basically choosing between logic and passion/emotion (the emotional attachments to my friends and the emotional support they provide)...anyway, after
debating for some time between logic and emotion. I choose…neither. I choose the moment and to live in it, abandoning all thought and all emotion and just living. I don’t know what’s going to happen, and frankly...I'm ok with that. Uncertainty is life; I know I just need to live in the moment, in the "is" (thanks heath). I always come back to this idea no matter what the situation, I always manage to find clarity in the chaos; sometimes it just takes me a little while. Thank you to all of those people who have been there for me. Although you didn't directly help me solve my problem (not bc you didn't want to but bc you can't, sorry), you were there for me. So thank you.
Someone asked me today: Do you believe that people are inherently good, or inherently evil? An interesting subject that got me thinking....hmmmmm...
Mr. Golding and Mr. Conrad would of course argue that man is inherently evil and that society is the only thing keeping us from resorting to the savage being with in. Mr Huxley tends to argue the opposite; that society is the problem that poisons mankind. Mr. Rousseau however believes in the “tabula rosa” theory regarding mankind and argues that man is a blank slate with the power for both good and evil inherently with in him; it is society that ultimately determines which will be more pronounced over time. I tend to see things partly from Mr. Rousseau’s “tabula rosa” theory (also called the Natural Man Theory if I’m not mistaken) and also from the Chinese idea of Yin and Yang. I believe that man is neither inherently good nor evil; every single person has the same affinity for either but a combination of society, psychology, and biology determines how each person acts. I think society tends to have an almost 100 percent negative/evil influence and corrupts mankind. The point is that it depends on the strength of, not the nature of the man, as to whether or not he will be “good or evil”. I think society is inherently evil and that man will naturally be drawn more to this because of, as Mr. Conrad says, his “hollowness”; many people do not possess a moral core and therefore are easily corrupted by society. So, to end this blathering, man has the power for both good and evil within him; each individual has the power to choose. Timshel…the downfall of our race
Grendel has been in my head all day so:
“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize” (90)......
posted by kellyisdelightful @ 10:12 PM
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Thou mayest. Yes yes.
We're reading Beowulf in my English class and we had a discussion on Grendel and why you feel sorry for him. For a bit it was like we were discussing the book...except minus all of the existentialist crap.
Did you have to write an essay on that or did you just draw it out of your head? If the latter is true, very good. Tray bong. Tray tray tray bong.
I loaned that book to a friend of mine and told him it changed my life, only half-joking. He told me it better change his life or he'll be disappointed.
I love it when class doesn't begin until eleven.
hahah eleven class...you suck. mine are at 8 MWF and 9:30 (yes!) ON Tues/Thurs. eh. Umm no I didn't have to write an essay on it. But it was asked in an e-mail so my repsonse was written, not verbal and I thought it was rather good. Plus when I have good thoughts on things of that nature I like to write them down.
Yes I do adore Grendel...it can be a life changing book if you understand it. Uuum I hate Beowulf (person and poem)...I la la la love Grendel. Hey do you remember when we acted out Beowulf on the bus from San Anonio using a teddy bear and Adam's hat? HAHAHAH that was sooooo funny!!
Nice WFG allusion by the way; I was just looking at that (not that part but that's not the point).
hey are you coming up to OU for the TCU game this weekend? we should totally hang out.
hey wish i was but im not; sorry, otherwise i would totally take you up on the offer.
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