A Dead Man's Undergarments
Originally uploaded here by [Meme]
The existence of pre and post-world war idealism and regional versus class identity in the United Kingdom. The validity of revisionary feminism in Judaism, with supporting evidence from the rabbinic and cabbalist traditions. Community, the cult of individuality, and polygamy as it applies to taxation, North America, and Islam. Intent versus outcome, and differential versus qualitative methods of decision making, and the importance of legislation and education on ethics. Conspiratorial glances punctuated by kissing. God, I love you.
I am wearing a dead man's underwear. He was a good man, and while it doesn't follow from it that wearing them is good, it feels positive. Very my family.
I finally get my bottom two wisdom teeth removed on Thursday. They fit, but they're rotten. For this and other reasons I will not be attending class this week. This sounds much more serious than it is.
Responsible Consumption Week has been going frustratingly. I will be working on it today in an attempt to fix things.
I love wine and cheese parties. I just wish people would stop buying either of those products that are conventionally farmed, the absence of such boycotting means an activity that, in principle, I love dearly ends up being a bountiful source of monetary support for suffering. This makes me sad, sometimes.
Ah! my dear, after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctor on his body, what can we say we really know about man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.
-- Lawrence Durrell, as Balthazar in "Justine"
Written On: Home Computer
Currently Eating: Tillie's Shepard's Pie, probably with a desert of plain yoghurt with some of my mother's preserves
Currently Listening: Canon in D
Comments
... what did he die of?
Posted by: Nicholas | January 17, 2006 10:07 PM
As Prophet-ess I predict a brief period of angst -free -christophers. ;) my gods I am a cow sometimes!
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January 17, 2006 10:53 PM
Yes, yes you are, megs.
My uncle died because of a major heart attack while driving. Amazingly, he managed to stop his car and not get into an accident. He died two days later in the hospital.
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January 18, 2006 8:52 AM
"But Chris," says the curious and well-meaning but less knowledgeable person (one of many), "what's wrong with conventional farming? Are pesticides really that harmful? If so, why hasn't this issue received the same attention as, say, sweatshops or conflict diamonds? Also if so, why are they legal? If it's because of big agribusiness, why do they have so much influence? What's better about organic standards? Isn't the natural vs. synthetic distinction pretty arbitrary and not very scientific? Can't genetically modified organisms be beneficial, like vitamin-A-rich golden rice in Africa for example? Organic food is more expensive and therefore a luxury that is unavailable to some. What if you can't afford it? You have found satisfactory answers to many of these questions after years of hard study, research, and deep thought. But as an average Joe, I don't have time to do the same research; besides which, it's probably very hard to find an unbiased, reliable opinion! I would like to have a positive impact, but I would like to base my decision about how to do that on a solid, scientific foundation, rather than on hearsay and trusting the opinions of people like you who are seemingly more knowledgeable (or at least who hold stronger convictions). I realize this is a very big question, but where should I start learning about all this?"
Posted by: Andrew G | January 18, 2006 7:01 PM