Thoughts on atheism

...both shows and both characters, although I feel like slapping House upside the head at least once per episode. While I'd like to see television atheists who aren't angry, antisocial, emotionally stunted, or over-intellectualized, I'll take House and Brennan over nothing any old day. And as for my personal life - I have way too many friends and loved ones to whom my atheism is a complete non-issue ...

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... sucks because: 1) women of a certain social rank already expect to get their asses kissed 2) women of the class that don't aren't actually invited to the heavily intellectualized and college-ified "discourse" on gender and sex 3) violence against women has economic components that are ignored quite nicely when college-educated women are lecturing college-educated men about "male privilege", ...

Livejournal, the Lost Episdoes: Steely Dan - "Rose Darling"

...parties involved. (After all, callous intellectuals are deeply suspicious of love, and especially distrustful of their own). In fact, the narrator is trying to coach his feelings in abstract intellectualized discourse, in a (doomed) attempt to prevent himself from falling apart and melting down and generally coming across as a creepy stalker type. On the other extreme likes the mysterious Snake...

Lauren Brick is a good artist, and a good person. I sincerely like her work; I don't see her following a trend, but rather responding to the world. Her work is smart, but not over intellectualized. It's not about hanging out with the good artist, though. She makes it not about that. She is humble. I like her.

[email log] - October 10 - the boy has interesting holes

...'t use magic on people anyway. If he needed to stop a human there were much more efficient ways than magic. Firepower, if words didn't work. "Exactly." And for the purposes of that cost (nicely intellectualized turn of phrase, that) the intent of the caster didn't matter at all. For other purposes, it could, but not that. And there were times when it was a fair trade, of course, but saying ...

An Esquire article, and Russell's amusing annotations

... somewhere, on his ass. (Yes, agreed, which goes with self-confidence.) He does not rely on rationalizations or explanations. He doesn't winnow, winnow, winnow until truths can be humbly categorized, or intellectualized, until behavior can be written off with an explanation. He doesn't see himself lost in some great maw of humanity, some grand sweep. That's the liberal thread; it's why men won'...

SCREENING LOG FOR JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 2009

..., and revealing at the same time. Film of McDowell's interactions with rough trade, with narration on top that occasionally violates what we see on screen. What it amounts to, it seems, is a sort of intellectualized eroticism, that I found pretty hot. 2300 - Fuego - Armando Bo The theme song for this was brilliant, and I really wanted to like this, but mostly it was just boring. It concerns a ...

words of wisdom.

... needs to get hit on the head by something huge and heavy. Note to yourself: Get an elephant, make like Willy E. Coyote, and stake out at the cliff nearest him. Rationalization is intellectualized repression compounded by denial. Stop telling yourself it's better than just pushing everything in. Again, tell Shadow Voice to STFU. The day you give up writing will be the day you vanquish your ...

wrolriccomon

.... You're very much alive. You are in the laboratory,blundering about. And the way, putting the thingas compactly as possible, is to reject and set aside all abstract,refined, and intellectualized ideas as starting propositions, suchideas as Right, Liberty, Happiness, Duty or Beauty, and to hold fast tothe assertion of the fundamental nature of life as a tissue andsuccession of births. He hung ...

trboeleltb

... He could be intensely kind and yet he didn't seem to care foryou. And the way, putting the thingas compactly as possible, is to reject and set aside all abstract,refined, and intellectualized ideas as starting propositions, suchideas as Right, Liberty, Happiness, Duty or Beauty, and to hold fast tothe assertion of the fundamental nature of life as a tissue andsuccession of births. Through the...