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Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton...
...who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee
Created on 2007-08-11 10:10:25 (#13573831), last updated 2009-12-04
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Basic Info| Name: | Quinn Merrick |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 11-16 |
| Location: | Long Beach, California, United States |
| Website: | http://www.xanga.com/Quinn_Merrick |
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qmerrick@comcast.net BioIf you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all who claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think everything you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told you should want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.......
Really? You're still here? Fine. My thoughts, his words:
"I started to think for the first time in an adult fashion about life, about time, about reality, about dying, about all of the things that are right there in front of us every day, but that as children and often as adults we take for granted or find some easy explanation for if we can. In my case, I was presented with the totality of things, but with no coherent pattern to put them in. I just suddenly understood that real life was happening.
Friend of mine, soon after, when I got back to school and tried to describe this experience, gave me the most important book I ever read, which was Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea. I really don’t know anything about philosophy. But I did know that this book spoke to what I believe more accurately and totally than anything I had ever read. And what it talked about was the pain of being aware of things and their existence, outside of their meaning. Just the very fact of objects in space. That we cannot stop existence and we cannot stop change, that we have to accept these things. And again, if we see no grand plan in them, we have to accept them as existing completely on their own and existing totally. Part of what that means I can’t really explain. I do know there’s a passage in the book that says "nothing can exist only slightly". And the protagonist is so overwhelmed by this fact, the fact that every piece of paper he picks up off the ground exists so completely, is so much there, it actually makes him nauseous, it makes his stomach hurt, it’s too intense. I find the meaning of the object to be within the object, both in however it’s functional and the fact of its existence. A ball is to be thrown, but it’s also just a round thing." - Joss
Really? You're still here? Fine. My thoughts, his words:
"I started to think for the first time in an adult fashion about life, about time, about reality, about dying, about all of the things that are right there in front of us every day, but that as children and often as adults we take for granted or find some easy explanation for if we can. In my case, I was presented with the totality of things, but with no coherent pattern to put them in. I just suddenly understood that real life was happening.
Friend of mine, soon after, when I got back to school and tried to describe this experience, gave me the most important book I ever read, which was Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea. I really don’t know anything about philosophy. But I did know that this book spoke to what I believe more accurately and totally than anything I had ever read. And what it talked about was the pain of being aware of things and their existence, outside of their meaning. Just the very fact of objects in space. That we cannot stop existence and we cannot stop change, that we have to accept these things. And again, if we see no grand plan in them, we have to accept them as existing completely on their own and existing totally. Part of what that means I can’t really explain. I do know there’s a passage in the book that says "nothing can exist only slightly". And the protagonist is so overwhelmed by this fact, the fact that every piece of paper he picks up off the ground exists so completely, is so much there, it actually makes him nauseous, it makes his stomach hurt, it’s too intense. I find the meaning of the object to be within the object, both in however it’s functional and the fact of its existence. A ball is to be thrown, but it’s also just a round thing." - Joss
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College of the Sequoias - Visalia, CAMount Whitney High School - Visalia, CA
Veva Blunt Elementary School - Visalia, CA
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