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- If it can be spoken, then it is not the true snaars. Snaars should not be mistaken for his mortal alter-ego, snaars. This earthly manifestation of snaars - or snaarsissistic prophet, if you will - is a rather unambitious thirtysomething recent college graduate with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a minor in religious studies. A devoted husband, and father of three beautiful snaars daughters, Snaars blogs about his life, his times, his family, favorite song lyrics, nonsense, wisdom, atheism, metaphysics, science, rationality, and the snaars. Snaars likes to remove old words from the back of the cupboard, polish them up, and display them in fresh ways. Feel free to expand the horizons of discourse, because snaars has ever-unplumbed depths of mutifacetedness. And humility. (If only the world knew the perplexity of my condition, for Snaars could be so easily consumed by vanity!)
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8 comments:
I only got six out of eight. But they don't tell you the correct answers! Now I'm doomed to spend the rest of my life ignorant, and not knowing which two questions I'm ignorant about!
Come to think of it, that's always how it is. We know we're wrong about things, we just aren't sure which things.
Q - LOL re: being wrong about things. You have a strong philosophical streak.
I got 7/8 the first time. I suspected I knew which one I got wrong, and what the correct answer was, so I took the test again in order to test my hypothesis.
Too bad there are no do-overs for the more important things in life ....
Too bad there are no do-overs for the more important things in life ....
I'm on my second marriage, and I made a much better choice this time around!
But there are some other moments in my past I'd like to do over again, I ruefully admit.
Hah! I got 8/8 first time round. Clever me.
ummm, what's 8th grade? is that leaving school?
Maybe I don't actually know everything;-)
I know this isn't necessarily the best place to put this but i thought all of you should know this specifically due to several conversations regarding to identity.
Apparently the Supreme Court ruled that you can effectively be both a citzen and something less then a citizen within the united states of america.
It is an interesting read, and could lead to serious complications down the road, academic considerations and all.
here is the origional opinion
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=04-473
Blogged about it also.
p.s. i got 8/8 the first time i did it, but i have a feeling it was caused directly by snaars post of 8/8. I made certain to read the questions carefully. I didn't want to get to lower then him.
Funny that eh?
i got 8/8 on the first try. can i join the popular kid club now?
heard you got a job! can i have my lexus now or later? i would prefer now, since i really need to hit the grocery store. fully loaded of course. haha. but seriously, i wanted to stop in and say hello and congratulate you on finding something you'll want to keep long term.
thank you for posting the hippie homebirth baby girl ultrasound pictures. saadia is a lovely name. when is michelle due? very soon?
finally, regarding the post on identity and grief - really interesting. lewis thomas, an essayist popularly taught in the NYU EWP department (whom i teach myself), writes a lot about how interconnected people are in his collection THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL. the title essay explores the symbiotic relationship between the above creatures, and that relationship is used as a metaphor throughout the collection for man's relationship with other men, and man's relationship with nature. in another essay he posits that to truly clone someone you'd have to clone all her acquaintances, and their acquaintances, and so forth, which, i admit, is a somewhat pop sci-fi concept, but if you think about it theoretically, it can be interesting, especially in how it relates to your comment about grief. why do we get such an empty feeling when someone close to us passes away?
to build on what you said, i think that emptiness only occurs when the deceased was close enough to you to be pivotal in shaping your own identity. which is why the feeling of grief is not limited to death - you don't just feel it when people die - you can also feel it when, for example, a longtime friend or significant other passes out of your life, forcing your perception of yourself to change. still, my most poignant experience with this is with my father, to whom i was very close. i think it makes the most sense from a lacanian perspective; we do not truly know who we are without an Other to differentiate ourselves from, and the feeling of grief is (rather gut-wrenching) supporting evidence. a big part of love, i think, is sharing yourself, and the simple act of sharing yourself changes that self based on the filter. this all sounds rather namby pamby but what it amounts to is, i will always carry my father around in my head, because he was/is so much of how i see myself. and i think that's a lovely idea. even more lovely is the fact that you ended your post on the subject as a tribute to michelle - i think it's beautiful that the two of you for have become - and stayed - so important to one another over the years.
Hi Mayfly!
Lexus!!!???? Girlfriend, you need an Infiniti G35 coupe!
What you said does not sound namby-pamby to me at all.
i will always carry my father around in my head, because he was/is so much of how i see myself.
That's a beautiful sentiment. I feel the same way about my grandfather.
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