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About Me

From Waking Life (Philosophy professor Robert Solomon, at the University of Texas at Austin)The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century. I’m afraid we’re losing the real virtues of living life passionately, sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it’s a philosophy of despair. But I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance of feeling on top of it. It’s like your life is yours to create. I’ve read the postmodernists with some interest, even admiration. But when I read them, I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more that you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he’s not talking about something abstract. He’s not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It’s something very concrete. It’s you and me talking. Making decisions. Doing things and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting. Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are.

My Interests

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, beer in the other, face lookin like a glazed doughnut, body throughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo, Yeah what a ride!!"

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."~ Henry Drummond

Everyone loves fire. That's why they call it "fire"

The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence. -Otto Hofmann

I'd like to meet:

people with passion for something

Want to see my pictures?

What am I listening to?



Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Jack Kerouac

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." ~Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Heroes:

"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny." -Frank Outlaw

My Blog

Where to get Ed updates

I think I'm pretty done updating this blog space.  So for future updates, please see the following:http://edrabbit.livejournal.com - for all the important and not so important stuffhttp://ed.huns...
Posted by rabbit on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:13:00 PST

Time to Catch Up

Wow, haven't posted on here in over two months.  That's what happens when you have the busiest summer of your life.  A quick run down on what happened since getting laid off (with links to p...
Posted by rabbit on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:27:00 PST

Week 4 of Unemployment

It's July, and I'm still unemployed.  I love it. :)  I think I may be convinced to take a job soon, but the temptation to stay unemployed until after Burning Man is enticing. 
Posted by rabbit on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:53:00 PST

I'm on CNET!

'Dance Dance Immolation' Steps up the heatNot my best picture, but oh well.More mainstream articles hereMy photos from the event are here...
Posted by rabbit on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:05:00 PST

Bicycle Day 2007

Last Saturday was Bicycle Day.  A great day had by all and a near-death experience for me and my very old bike tires.  Pictures are here and favorites are below.  A HUGE thank you to Ia...
Posted by rabbit on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:22:00 PST

Hooping at Yuri's Night

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Posted by rabbit on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

Yuri's Night 2007

Yuri's Night 2007-04-13 @ NASA Ames:  (all photos here) ...
Posted by rabbit on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:19:00 PST

Retarded amount of electronics...

You really should click through to view the notes on the image...A pretty typical scene at the Cakebread Castle. Originally uploaded by mooflyfoof....
Posted by rabbit on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:36:00 PST

No posts lately?

I must be slacking!  Just a few things I've been meaning to post:Friday - sucked, I hope noone gets what I had.  It ranked just under food poisoning on my list of illness.  Luckily it l...
Posted by rabbit on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:17:00 PST

Weekend (and week) update

Figure I ought to update last weekend (and week) before this weekend starts.  Heather is so much better at this.  But here we go:Saturday:Didn't get out of the apartment until 5ish, but was ...
Posted by rabbit on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:40:00 PST