Adjust Reality

Don’t really buy their stuff, but I like the message, ha.

really excited to be learning to render things in 3D! it’s a blast. heres a sample of what I have been trying:

Keep a look out for some wallpapers soon! woohoo.

Make me a channel of your peace:
where there is hatred let me bring your love,
where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
and where there’s doubt, true faith in you:
O Master grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love with all my soul!
—St Francis of Assisi

Please, do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, it’s just true.—Conan O’Brien

Cruelty only breeds cruelty…hatred only causes hatred…if there is any way of soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil an hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love and understanding. — Clarence Darrow: Leopold and Loeb Trial

Analysis of the verb ‘to use’

The world in which we live is composed of many objects. The word ‘object’ here means more of less the same as ‘entity’. This is not the proper meaning of the word, since an ‘object’, strictly speaking, is something related to a ’subject’. A ’subject’ is also an ‘entity’- an entity which exists and acts in a certain way. It is then possible to say that the world in which we live is composed of may subjects. It would indeed be proper to speak of ’subjects’ before ‘objects’. If the order has been reversed here, the intention was to put the emphasis right at the beginning of this book on its objectivism, its realism, if we begin with a ’subject’ especially when that subject is man, it is easy to treat everything which is outside the subject, i.e. the whole world of objects, in purely subjective way, to deal with it only as it enters into the consciousness of the subject, establishes itself and dwells in that consciousness. We must, then, be clear right from the start that every subject also exists as an object, and objective ’something’ or ’somebody’.

that is the FIRST paragraph of the book “Love and Responsibility by John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). its heavy stuff. he sets up the idea he presents through the first part of the book about how love cannot be fully realized unless it’s understood on a basic level and that a Utilitarian way of seeing love is just flat out wrong. Unfortunately it’s the kind that seems to be prevalent here in the states. Hate to be the nay-sayer but it is true. In fact, it might not be going too far to say that it might be the human inclination to have a utilitarian view of love.

anyway, he goes on, and even that first paragraph has an entire section in the back expanding on just that first section. talk about heavy! But it is so fulfilling when you start to grasp what he is saying. He truly is going to be one of the great Philosophers of our age.

check his book out if you haven’t already its under $12 and worth EVERY penny and more:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Responsibility-Pope-John-Paul/dp/0898704456

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and surpassing itself; if all it does it maintain itself, then living is only not dying.—Simone de Beauvoir

I’ve been trying to learn to write/read better since my speaking is fluent, and yikes has it been harder than I thought. Starting to realize that I hardly know anything other than basic Polish, what I do know is very fluent, but its also very surface level.

was looking at photos from last time I was in Poland, and man talk about big words. and you thought English grammar was hard?

the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are all permitted to remain children all our lives.
—Albert Einstein

le sigh. oh summer how I miss you. some photos from this summer. enjoy.