Comments for Morning Musings

Comment on The Karma Question by nobodyknowsme

nobodyknowsme — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:43:42 +0000

Changing the way you act, the way you react, the way you think will have a wonderful effect on ‘Karma’ or the universe..whatever you like.

Comment on Hegelian Hipsters by Lis

Lis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:17:09 +0000

You’re not being naive. Cultural critics are quick to point out hipster homogeneity. What fascinates me is that the development of this subculture, almost global in reach I might add, is the epitome of the shallowness inherent in capitalist culture. It’s a social movement based solely not on a fight for fair labor practices or a living wage, but on “fashionably” embracing an idealized version of working class culture.

Marx would be so proud of his lil’ Hegelian hipsters

Comment on Hegelian Hipsters by mcs

mcs — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:39:11 +0000

damn hipsters! ha! i still don’t see their “individuality” in all of this. maybe it’s me being naïve. dunno.

Comment on The Karma Question by mylucidkarma

mylucidkarma — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:08:29 +0000

you can change the karma of your relationship with loved ones by acting differently.

If you are “acting” you aren’t really changing anything, as it is purely an attempt to manipulate Karma and that is impossible, Karma cannot be deceived.

Comment on The Karma Question by andrealudwig

andrealudwig — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:18:13 +0000

I have a post on karma, too, with quite a different take on it. You can check out my blog at http://www.phenomenaltruths.wordpress.com. Have a great week!

Comment on The Poeticness of Experience by mcs

mcs — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:25:38 +0000

Hey cricket! Okay, we can compare, but lately I underline and comment for various reasons, mostly personal thoughts on poetic prose that I like or hope to return to later to understand the structure in order to imitate the style. But I’d be happy to compare notes.

Thank you, sir!

Comment on The Poeticness of Experience by lisbis

lisbis — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:44:17 +0000

I am enjoying it – very good choice for the first read of the M&L bookclub

I love stream of consciousness writing too, that’s why I got so engrossed in Hopscotch and why it made me think to read Ulysses next.

We’ll have to compare notes later, meaning I’d like to see what other passages you found moving.

Comment on The Poeticness of Experience by mcs

mcs — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:19:16 +0000

Ironically, as always, I underlined that section of Ulysses this afternoon. I liked vivid picture it painted. There were many more that just seemed to move me because of their obscure meaning(s). Joyce’s writing in this book, especially early on, is extremely stream-of-consciousness, but in a way that makes you want to know more and understand the connections and emotions tied to those connections. It’s addicting, to say the least.

Hope you’re enjoying it, love.

Comment on In response to Mirbir by Lis

Lis — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:53:37 +0000

I agree with you 100%. I probably didn’t make this one point clear. I think that part of fixing this change in our thought process is to have a quiet mind, but this necessitates also slowing down how we take in our information. For me, part of this slowing down is to do so by acquiring the information in more “real” ways – whether it’s through reading a whole book, whole article, or through sitting quietly and listening to someone else for a sustained period of time or standing in front of a work of art and taking it all in for a period longer than one minute. So, yes, an element of it is social, but the social is important primarily for the reason of slowing down, how we think, interact, and communicate.

Comment on In response to Mirbir by mcs

mcs — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:43:35 +0000

You make a good point, Lis. I think slowing down is important and vital in our quest for “silence,” as you say. But keep in mind, the internet problem I (and others apparently) am facing is in a change of thought-process. It sounds crazy and possibly absurd, but because of the way we’re “forced” to read and access information, it changes the way you think—basically, you don’t think; the thinking “process” is gone and we now expect information to be given to us immediately, and if not, we’re not interested or want to move on to the next activity.

But you’re absolutely right: to alleviate these problems, one needs to mingle with others as a way to get away from the internet manipulation in thought. Absolutely. I’ll bring the hard-copy article over later.