As I leave Calgary for adventures in the US of A, I have the usual philosophical (or pseudo-philosophical) questions I ask myself.
This idea of change, of entropy, has been buzzing through my head. Everything changes, constantly and in all aspects. There is nothing constant in the physical world, the universe thrives on change. Even human constructions, the idea of Science, mathematics, any of the liberal or fine arts, are constantly changing. Nothing escapes time, and with time comes change. So, what happens when I myself change? I must be myself at all times, but if I'm not the same as who I was or who I will be, who are they? The same goes for relationships. If our past selves were friends, what are we now? Does it matter? Probably not. I suppose what I'm getting after in all this nonsense is a live for the moment mentality. Obviously, you have to think of the consequences of your actions, but taking the risk, jumping in, can be fruitful. Nothing sucks more than regret in my mind, because there's nothing worse than a "What if..." question going through your head.
The second idea is another aspect of self. How do your relationships define you? In that, how much does each person know about you and how much of it overlaps. Venn diagram style, right? If anyone has read "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk, it paints a nice example of the this problem. The main character tricks people into saving his life, and by manipulation gets them to get his money. That's his thing. In the end, these thousands of people see him in trouble and come to help, all running into each other, you could imagine what happens, all their experiences are exactly the same. Where is this going? Well, lemme tell you! What about the opposite situation, where everybody gets a completely different picture of you, as to whom you are. This is an interesting thought experiment, what does that imply about what this person is, or what does their different personalities play in their overall personhood? So, once again, sliding scale argument, you want to be somewhere in the middle, extremes produce problems. But how important is it how you are to yourself? The way I think is not the way I speak necessarily all the time, not necessarily lying, but from a different perspective. So you got that to consider as well. It's all a big jumble, but somehow it works. All these supposed metaphsical questions are either answered or not really questions in reference to reality itself. Whoa...dude.
So yup, I leave in 19 hours or so, should be a party, if not warmer anyways. My UFC predictions for 68? Well, Sylvia is going to either decision or KO Randy Couture, Hughes is going to get a ref stoppage in the 2nd with Chris Lytle, and Rich Franklin (my personal favourite fighter) going to get a 2nd Rnd TKO over Jason MacDonald, Babalu will take it by sub too. And anyone needing to see an amazing MMA event, find i.e. download PRIDE 33, because it's redonkulous. Nick Diaz is so slick but unfortunately an arm puncher, Wanderlei lost his belt to the wrong guy, and Shogun really popped Allistair Overeem.
So to everybody, please keep in touch with me. E-mail me, I'm sure you can figure it out from this site. I will be posting here as often as I can, letting you know how it goes. Party on Wayne.
This idea of change, of entropy, has been buzzing through my head. Everything changes, constantly and in all aspects. There is nothing constant in the physical world, the universe thrives on change. Even human constructions, the idea of Science, mathematics, any of the liberal or fine arts, are constantly changing. Nothing escapes time, and with time comes change. So, what happens when I myself change? I must be myself at all times, but if I'm not the same as who I was or who I will be, who are they? The same goes for relationships. If our past selves were friends, what are we now? Does it matter? Probably not. I suppose what I'm getting after in all this nonsense is a live for the moment mentality. Obviously, you have to think of the consequences of your actions, but taking the risk, jumping in, can be fruitful. Nothing sucks more than regret in my mind, because there's nothing worse than a "What if..." question going through your head.
The second idea is another aspect of self. How do your relationships define you? In that, how much does each person know about you and how much of it overlaps. Venn diagram style, right? If anyone has read "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk, it paints a nice example of the this problem. The main character tricks people into saving his life, and by manipulation gets them to get his money. That's his thing. In the end, these thousands of people see him in trouble and come to help, all running into each other, you could imagine what happens, all their experiences are exactly the same. Where is this going? Well, lemme tell you! What about the opposite situation, where everybody gets a completely different picture of you, as to whom you are. This is an interesting thought experiment, what does that imply about what this person is, or what does their different personalities play in their overall personhood? So, once again, sliding scale argument, you want to be somewhere in the middle, extremes produce problems. But how important is it how you are to yourself? The way I think is not the way I speak necessarily all the time, not necessarily lying, but from a different perspective. So you got that to consider as well. It's all a big jumble, but somehow it works. All these supposed metaphsical questions are either answered or not really questions in reference to reality itself. Whoa...dude.
So yup, I leave in 19 hours or so, should be a party, if not warmer anyways. My UFC predictions for 68? Well, Sylvia is going to either decision or KO Randy Couture, Hughes is going to get a ref stoppage in the 2nd with Chris Lytle, and Rich Franklin (my personal favourite fighter) going to get a 2nd Rnd TKO over Jason MacDonald, Babalu will take it by sub too. And anyone needing to see an amazing MMA event, find i.e. download PRIDE 33, because it's redonkulous. Nick Diaz is so slick but unfortunately an arm puncher, Wanderlei lost his belt to the wrong guy, and Shogun really popped Allistair Overeem.
So to everybody, please keep in touch with me. E-mail me, I'm sure you can figure it out from this site. I will be posting here as often as I can, letting you know how it goes. Party on Wayne.
posted by Poshy at 12:24 PM
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Congrats. My brain is fried thanks to that schpiel about relationships, hehe.
Well, I hope all has gone well so far despite any uncertainty you may have felt. I can't wait for you to tell me something new, and I'll be sure to cook something good up for you.
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