Just spent over 14 hours on campus today, studying, class, internship application. I have a midterm next week and two more midterms the week after.
... I've never loved it more.
October 10, 2013
October 5, 2013
Oh, the absurdity
One of my favorite topics to talk about is the Absurd, a specific part of the Existentialism.
The Absurd is a powerfully humbling thought in its own right. It basically states that humans have a deep longing to find answers to the hardest questions of life, but are incapable of finding the answers because of our nature as human beings. Again, it's a powerful, sobering, and humble thought... I've spent countless hours ruminating and reflecting on it... absurd thinking channels the same feelings as looking in helpless-awe at the night sky. Absurdism came to be from the depths of a person who has hit rock-bottom, one who has been hallowed and helled, on the knees in surrender, eyes flowing of rivers, wrung and devoid.
This blog comes with a caution though, because absurdity in and of itself as one's only worldview can become completely depressing, even anarchic.
There's nothing more solacing, nothing more invigorating, nothing more full of hope than answering the problem absurdity poses with the truth of Christ. It's the beautiful answer. More full than existentialism, romanticism, impermanence, transcendentalism, realism, etc... in all their applications is Christendom.
But don't take my word for it, instead allow yourself to be open to the realization, the beautiful epiphany. It's a journey worth taking, and to do your best while on this earth is only goal.
The Absurd is a powerfully humbling thought in its own right. It basically states that humans have a deep longing to find answers to the hardest questions of life, but are incapable of finding the answers because of our nature as human beings. Again, it's a powerful, sobering, and humble thought... I've spent countless hours ruminating and reflecting on it... absurd thinking channels the same feelings as looking in helpless-awe at the night sky. Absurdism came to be from the depths of a person who has hit rock-bottom, one who has been hallowed and helled, on the knees in surrender, eyes flowing of rivers, wrung and devoid.
This blog comes with a caution though, because absurdity in and of itself as one's only worldview can become completely depressing, even anarchic.
There's nothing more solacing, nothing more invigorating, nothing more full of hope than answering the problem absurdity poses with the truth of Christ. It's the beautiful answer. More full than existentialism, romanticism, impermanence, transcendentalism, realism, etc... in all their applications is Christendom.
But don't take my word for it, instead allow yourself to be open to the realization, the beautiful epiphany. It's a journey worth taking, and to do your best while on this earth is only goal.
October 4, 2013
A little Emerson
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where was this in Nature and "The American Scholar"? lol
October 3, 2013
It got real, real quick
Quarter system is so fast. Each lecture we cover one chapter...in each class. And I'm taking the lower end of full time, so three classes... I'm piling up 3 chapters in a two days spread between rotating classes... that is fast. But I'm game so game... stressed a bit... but game.
October 2, 2013
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