Because I Can

Here's what I drew just now. This.

They come to snuff the Rooster

so, if you spit on a guy, you're going to get punched. everyone knows this. if you've ever gotten spat on, you know all about this. i guess it's just cultural, but when someone intentionally spits on you it makes you want to hurt them really bad.
of course, there are laws against hurting people really bad, presumably even if they spit on you.

so what do you think? if everyone knows that when X happens, people respond by doing Y, and everyone agrees that when X happens to them, they at least -really- want to do Y, does it make sense for a legal system to overrule that?

Taoism's cool.

Pure in heart, like uncut jade,
he cleared the muddy water
by leaving it alone, stupid.

Science and Mysticism again

so we can't really see reality, we can just see the impressions made by its interaction with our sensory apparatii, right? therefore, no idea is objectively true, but rather has the potential to be practically useful. so an idea is true insofar as it may be utilized to achieve a desired outcome. thus, thought is a tool, to be picked up and set down, reconfigured as deemed necessary and generally dispensed with however you see fit.
compare that to this definition of samadhi I stole from Wikipedia a long time ago and have already posted in the past: "...relinquishing a thought-identified form of mind, where a person identifies with his or her thought narrative, and shifting to a state of Enlightenment, where thoughts are merely a mental tool. In that state the default subjective experience is that of SILENCE. No unprovoked mental chatter whatsoever."

what i wonder is, once thought is just a tool to be wielded by your will, wouldn't that take some of the fun out of it?

First Order of Business:

Xenogears is fucking excellent.

Spring Break is over...

...fuck.

Spring Break is cool

...and our mailman's a goofy bastard. Nice guy, tho.