Oct 21

2013

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Robots

(Paraphrased from the movie Prometheus)

A conversation between a robot and his fellow human.

Human: What we hoped to achieve was to meet our makers.  To get answers.  Why they even made us in the first place.

Robot: Why do you think your people made me?

Human: We made you because we could.

Robot: (pause) Can you imagine how disappointing it would be for you to hear the same thing from your creator?

 

Oct 03

2013

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The irony of beauty

As the great botanist Bichat long ago said, if everyone were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. If all our women were to become as beautiful as the Venus de’ Medici, we should for a time be charmed; but we should soon wish for variety; and as soon as we had obtained variety, we should wish to see certain characteristics in our women a little exaggerated beyond the then existing common standard.

– Charles Darwin

Ah, the irony of beauty.

Aug 12

2013

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Preach

People preach what they themselves need to hear the most.

If this is true, what does my blog say about what I need to hear most?

Jul 25

2013

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Diploma, Money, Marriage, Bible

People don’t want to learn, they want paper that tells them they have learned.
People don’t want to live a life of value, they want paper that tells them they have value.
People don’t want to be in love, they want paper that tells them they are in love.
People don’t want to experience God, they want paper to tell them what God is.

I take it back.  It’s not that people don’t want these things.  Of course, who doesn’t want knowledge, money, love, and (for some) spirituality.  It’s that people tend to get caught up in the illusion of those things.  That somewhere along the line, they lose their way.

And it’s so easy to make that mistake.  It’s so easy to equate knowledge with a diploma, money with value, love with marriage, and God with the Bible.

Or maybe that’s just me projecting myself onto others.  Maybe there’s nothing wrong with living a life of paper.  Who am I to judge?

/ramblings

Jun 20

2013

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California

I think I may be in love with this beautiful state.

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Jun 14

2013

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Batmanning

Bruce Wayne watched his own parents die when he was like.. 10?  Then he was this dark, disturbed high schooler who went to a Gotham private high school and eventually to Gotham State majoring in Criminology and Engineering.

He then treks around the world learning martial arts and making connections he’ll use later in his transformation into the Dark Knight.

Batman wasn’t really Batman until he was 25 according to Frank Miller, and he had been working on this identity since his parents died.

That’s 15 years of working on himself before he even saw the results of his labor.  That’s 15 years of working on yourself before your personal crime fighting project takes flight.

Being awesome takes work.  Being awesome takes time.  Don’t ever lose sight of this.

Jun 03

2013

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Til Death Do Us Part & Divorce

Til Death Do Us Part

Everyone knows that part of the marriage vow– “Til death do us part.” It’s sweet, it’s sentimental, and it conveys that marriage is a commitment for life.  But consider this:

After 30 years of marriage, if you had a heart attack and died on the way to the divorce lawyer, everyone would’ve gone, “Oh wow, 30 years together… what a successful marriage!”  But 30 years and you actually divorce?  Oh no.  That’s a failed marriage.

It’s because we (society) define success in marriage as death.  It doesn’t matter how miserable you were, whether it was an abusive relationship or one of lifelong resentment and misery.  It doesn’t matter if it was fulfilling.  If somebody’s getting buried and you’re still married, success!

The silver lining of divorce

There’s always a stigma surrounding divorce.  But what people don’t realize is that divorce is a deliberate choice by one or both parties.  It’s an opt-out.

It’s not like it’s an unfortunate unforeseen accident that just happens to couples.  “Oh did you hear about poor Jim?  Yeah he was just out walking his dog and fell into a divorce!  What are the chances!”  Hahaha.

But there’s something about realizing that marriage is opt-in/opt-out.  With the possibility of divorce, it’s almost like you have to earn your partner’s presence in your life.  Nothing can be taken for granted.  It forces people to try to be happy with each other (omg) and good to each other.

You can’t take your partner for granted in a way that you could when it was one woman, one man, for life.

And in the wake of failed marriages, it allows for the ones that persevere– the ones that endure– to blossom.