Comments on: without a map http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2009/02/without-a-map/ taking dancing lessons from god. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:22:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: stacia fuchsia http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2009/02/without-a-map/comment-page-1/#comment-311 stacia fuchsia Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:40:44 +0000 http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/?p=574#comment-311 hey landon, i have never been as attached to objective truth as you have. maybe i should have added "subjectively" before real and artificial and all that. maybe i am just creating for myself a worldview in which that which is harmful is not real...? hah, i dunno. just exploring my feelings about stuff. and which social rituals are worth it to me. obviously, yes, love is. but love is a lot more active and performative than it used to be, for me, i think. it is itself a creative force... maybe. thanks for sharing your thoughts. hey landon,

i have never been as attached to objective truth as you have. maybe i should have added “subjectively” before real and artificial and all that. maybe i am just creating for myself a worldview in which that which is harmful is not real…? hah, i dunno. just exploring my feelings about stuff. and which social rituals are worth it to me. obviously, yes, love is. but love is a lot more active and performative than it used to be, for me, i think. it is itself a creative force… maybe. thanks for sharing your thoughts.

]]> By: Landon http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2009/02/without-a-map/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Landon Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:37:45 +0000 http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/?p=574#comment-310 It's all artificial. There isn't any 'real' world hiding under the superficial layers like the expectation of frustration. I think I am a lot happier now that I have come to embrace the fact that absolutely everything is socially determined. I both ignore the parts I don't like because they aren't 'real,' and I allow myself to thoroughly enjoy whatever it is I happen to like without shame or concern that it isn't 'authentic enough'. I cut out huge parts of myself with those sorts of thoughts, and I wouldn't recommend it. So feel free to let your frustrations dissipate because of their inauthenticity, but don't stop caring about your core values just because they are inevitably just as flimsy (no matter what they are). I am just starting to care about justice, science, knowledge, and truth again after abandoning them as artificial, and I have finally learned to fully embrace love despite it being obviously social and biological (obviously this has never been a problem for you, but the point about not abandoning the artificial stands). It’s all artificial. There isn’t any ‘real’ world hiding under the superficial layers like the expectation of frustration. I think I am a lot happier now that I have come to embrace the fact that absolutely everything is socially determined. I both ignore the parts I don’t like because they aren’t ‘real,’ and I allow myself to thoroughly enjoy whatever it is I happen to like without shame or concern that it isn’t ‘authentic enough’. I cut out huge parts of myself with those sorts of thoughts, and I wouldn’t recommend it. So feel free to let your frustrations dissipate because of their inauthenticity, but don’t stop caring about your core values just because they are inevitably just as flimsy (no matter what they are). I am just starting to care about justice, science, knowledge, and truth again after abandoning them as artificial, and I have finally learned to fully embrace love despite it being obviously social and biological (obviously this has never been a problem for you, but the point about not abandoning the artificial stands).

]]> By: Andrew Snyder http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2009/02/without-a-map/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Andrew Snyder Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:54:49 +0000 http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/?p=574#comment-308 Enjoyed the omelas story. Sounds absolutely like india, from the clamor, to the unmanned temples, to the chaos, to the simple joyfulness, to the poverty to the wanderers. Except in India, it all takes place at once and nothing is hidden. The skeletons are not in the closet but in your face and you just go about the joy of India. See you soon. Andrew Enjoyed the omelas story. Sounds absolutely like india, from the clamor, to the unmanned temples, to the chaos, to the simple joyfulness, to the poverty to the wanderers. Except in India, it all takes place at once and nothing is hidden. The skeletons are not in the closet but in your face and you just go about the joy of India.

See you soon.
Andrew

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