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Forgot to take pic - 01.05.12 Circa Summer ‘05 No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. — Xenophanes

Forgot to take pic - 01.05.12

Circa Summer ‘05

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

— Xenophanes

14 March 2012 • 01.05.12 wc nd badlands trnp julie

Forgot to take pic - 01.04.12 Circa Summer ‘05 Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going. —Hunter S Thompson

Forgot to take pic - 01.04.12

Circa Summer ‘05

Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

—Hunter S Thompson

14 March 2012 • 01.04.12 wc nd dad badlands trnp

8/6/10 Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.  If you are afraid, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over—fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution and all.  And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don’t die because you were never born.  You had just forgotten who you are. —Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

8/6/10

Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it’s no help to cling to the rocks falling with you.  If you are afraid, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over—fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution and all.  And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don’t die because you were never born.  You had just forgotten who you are.

—Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

10 August 2010 • 8/6/10 wc parents mom dad nd roadtrip

8/5/10 Taking, therefore, a longer and wider view of things, the entire project of “conquering nature” appears more and more of a mirage—an increase in the pace of living without fundamental change of position, just as the Red Queen suggested.  But technical progress becomes a way of stalling faster and faster because of the basic illusion that  man and nature, the organism and the environment, the controller and the controlled are quite different things.  We might “conquer” nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and “outside” nature are all of a piece.  In the same way, we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled. —Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

8/5/10

Taking, therefore, a longer and wider view of things, the entire project of “conquering nature” appears more and more of a mirage—an increase in the pace of living without fundamental change of position, just as the Red Queen suggested.  But technical progress becomes a way of stalling faster and faster because of the basic illusion that  man and nature, the organism and the environment, the controller and the controlled are quite different things.  We might “conquer” nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and “outside” nature are all of a piece.  In the same way, we do not see that “I” as the knower and controller am the same fellow as “myself” as something to be known and controlled.

—Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

10 August 2010 • 8/5/10 wc nd backyard mom garden

8/4/10 If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise. —Goethe

8/4/10

If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise.

—Goethe

4 August 2010 • 8/4/10 matt nd wc badlands trnp

8/3/10 Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. —John Moffat

8/3/10

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.

—John Moffat

4 August 2010 • 8/3/10 wc nd dad's study

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8/2/10

3 August 2010 • 8/2/10 wc nd mom garden

‘90-‘91 Learning about humanity & history through the news & TV is like observing the Great Wall of China through a microscope.

‘90-‘91

Learning about humanity & history through the news & TV is like observing the Great Wall of China through a microscope.

16 February 2010 • wc family xmas

<forgot my camera> Some days, usually in the winter months, I feel like I’m just biking between computers.

<forgot my camera>

Some days, usually in the winter months, I feel like I’m just biking between computers.

11 January 2010 • high school wc