I haven't really been doing much. Just been going through paperwork, handing in essays, and mailing things in regard to attending college this fall. I only applied to one school, SUNY Purchase, and seeing as how I got accepted LAST summer, I should have it in the bag. I would just feel like shit if I got rejected, mostly due to the fact that I applied for the WTC Scholarship, and was awarded full tuition plus room&board, supplies, books, food and etc. So if I didn't get accepted to Purchase, it would pretty much just be a kick in the shins for me. I just want to go there and stop stressing about things.
In other news... well, there really isn't much other news.
My dad and I were talking the other day, as we were driving down the road to get back home, how Jesus and Buddha wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes where we live, right now. Their love for humanity would pretty much disintegrate and they would realize how terrible the human race is. Once you think about it, anyone could have love for the human race if they did what they did. Just take off into the wilderness/desert and not see anyone for a long time, and then maybe you'll feel like you love everyone a little more. But, hell, if you stick them on Long Island in present day, I highly doubt they'd still have those ideals they had a while back.
And you know, times aren't terrible. Compared to 500 years ago with serfdom and child labor(among other things), we've really evolved positively as a species. I'm proud of us.
But times aren't hard, no, when they're compared with the past. Just people still generally suck.
Things are okay.
We also conversed about the events of 2012, and all the different people having something to say about it thousands of years back.
And you know, something probably WILL happen.
But I think rather than have the human race be completely destroyed, I just think it will be some sort of awakening. The people left, after some sort of natural/unnatural disaster, will wake up in some way; spiritually or otherwise. I don't doubt something will happen.
You can't prove anything exists, either. Solipsism is interesting in that way, but I'm not quite talking about Solipsism. I'm just talking about the plain fact that you really don't know what's real and what's not. I used to be dead-set against anything metaphysical, or the belief in any kind of sense that the norm of humanity can't necessarily feel or experience.
Who's to say these things exist/do not exist?
The universe is simply a big circle of recycling energy that passes in and out of things, through things, under things and over things. We're all giant masses of energy.
And I think this image of energy is often perceived as this all-knowing being, known as a 'god'. I think this image of a god makes it easier for people to understand the constant flow of energy; it makes it easier for people to explain strange occurrences, or 'sixth senses'.
There are so many things that exist that we, speaking as a regular human 'know to exist, but can't sense it'. Such as electromagnetic fields and different gases.
Humans might just be made, molecularly, not to be able to pick up these things. But think about how many different types of things there are in the universe that we may not be able to sense.
There are endless possibilities and endless suggestions for what kind of unknown things are out there, but you still can't prove that anything is 'real'.
I guess I could say, if I wanted to identify myself with a certain 'belief', that I would be Solipsist or something along those lines. That the only thing you know that exists is your self. But you know, even then, you can't be too sure about that either.
I don't really think much matters, really. I'm just here to be happy. Genuinely happy. And I think I'm going in the general direction.
I don't know what I'm getting at, I promise I'll post something of 'significance' sooner or later. I just don't have much to say.
In other news... well, there really isn't much other news.
My dad and I were talking the other day, as we were driving down the road to get back home, how Jesus and Buddha wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes where we live, right now. Their love for humanity would pretty much disintegrate and they would realize how terrible the human race is. Once you think about it, anyone could have love for the human race if they did what they did. Just take off into the wilderness/desert and not see anyone for a long time, and then maybe you'll feel like you love everyone a little more. But, hell, if you stick them on Long Island in present day, I highly doubt they'd still have those ideals they had a while back.
And you know, times aren't terrible. Compared to 500 years ago with serfdom and child labor(among other things), we've really evolved positively as a species. I'm proud of us.
But times aren't hard, no, when they're compared with the past. Just people still generally suck.
Things are okay.
We also conversed about the events of 2012, and all the different people having something to say about it thousands of years back.
And you know, something probably WILL happen.
But I think rather than have the human race be completely destroyed, I just think it will be some sort of awakening. The people left, after some sort of natural/unnatural disaster, will wake up in some way; spiritually or otherwise. I don't doubt something will happen.
You can't prove anything exists, either. Solipsism is interesting in that way, but I'm not quite talking about Solipsism. I'm just talking about the plain fact that you really don't know what's real and what's not. I used to be dead-set against anything metaphysical, or the belief in any kind of sense that the norm of humanity can't necessarily feel or experience.
Who's to say these things exist/do not exist?
The universe is simply a big circle of recycling energy that passes in and out of things, through things, under things and over things. We're all giant masses of energy.
And I think this image of energy is often perceived as this all-knowing being, known as a 'god'. I think this image of a god makes it easier for people to understand the constant flow of energy; it makes it easier for people to explain strange occurrences, or 'sixth senses'.
There are so many things that exist that we, speaking as a regular human 'know to exist, but can't sense it'. Such as electromagnetic fields and different gases.
Humans might just be made, molecularly, not to be able to pick up these things. But think about how many different types of things there are in the universe that we may not be able to sense.
There are endless possibilities and endless suggestions for what kind of unknown things are out there, but you still can't prove that anything is 'real'.
I guess I could say, if I wanted to identify myself with a certain 'belief', that I would be Solipsist or something along those lines. That the only thing you know that exists is your self. But you know, even then, you can't be too sure about that either.
I don't really think much matters, really. I'm just here to be happy. Genuinely happy. And I think I'm going in the general direction.
I don't know what I'm getting at, I promise I'll post something of 'significance' sooner or later. I just don't have much to say.