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About Me Member Mad Scientist SharkandHeronCanada Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Years
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Sun Oct 4, 2009, 2:20 PM
  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: Gorillaz Feel Good, Inc.
  • Reading: Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
  • Watching: Nothing
  • Playing: Spore a lot
  • Eating: Extreme Pita
  • Drinking: Beers
I thought I ought to update this.
My current obligations are a career in sandwich-craft, an honourable profession in most nations that is looked-down upon this one. Also, the study of l'histoire. I find history perplexing. Every time I talk to my teacher or one of my parents they try to explain that people thought differently in the past.
"Why didn't Montcalm fight a guerrilla war? Fighting the English in the open was idiotic!"
"That's just the way they did it, Sean."
"But it's so DUMB. If they'd waited a couple of hours they would have had reinforcements!"
"You have the advantage of retrospect, Sean."
"But anyone with the advantage of a modicum of common sense would have waited! The English were on desperate ground!"
"Be quiet, Sean."
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Also, in beauty, I recently finished, "Escape from Evil" by Ernest Becker. The writer had a series of interesting theses in the book. Here are some of my favourite thoughts:
-"Power is the power to affirm or deny life."
-"Evil stems from people seeking to attain eternal life."
-"Each day, every organism raises its head above a field of corpses, turns its face to the sun and declares, 'Life is Good.'"
-"' Primitive' religions, in their societies, were the equivalent of science. Religion, science, art, warfare, politics, etc. are all devices by which mankind tries to gain some cosmic significance."
They explain a tonne of dumb things which have never made sense to me. I didn't phrase them too well or put them in the context of their surrounding body of evidence. But I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to sort of get a grasp on the psychological forces that propell societies to tyranny and autocracy.

I hope everyone is well.

-Sean

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  • Current Residence: Superland
  • Interests: Writing, science, snails
  • Favourite movie: The Remains of the Day,
  • Favourite band or musician: The Bad Plus, Dave Brubeck, George Gershwin
  • Favourite genre of music: Jazz
  • Favourite artist: Vermeer, Max Ernst
  • Favourite poet or writer: Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, Italo Calvino
  • Favourite style of art: Um... doodles?
  • MP3 player of choice: Zen Micro
  • Favourite game: Darwinia AND Red Alert 2
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: Samurai Jack
  • Personal Quote: Cuttlefish are cooler.
  • Tools of the Trade: Ballpoint pen and the GIMP.

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:iconthomastapir:
Thanks for the watch, very kind of you!
:iconlightbringer321:
Hey, sorry, but you've been tagged... again, see my journal for details.
:iconlightbringer321:
You've been tagged. See my journal for details.
:iconlevelgreensquidlord:
H.P. Lovecraft is awesome (or was), Half-life's a pretty good series, and jazz is awesome to the max.

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