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Dear Mr. Sampedro,

0 comments | 5.30.2006

new credo #2:
beauty is truth, truth beauty (Yeats)
it was from the beginning a metaphysical argument. for at the base what do you find? Or do you suppose that laws float in a vaccuum, did human rights spring from the ground? You ask for the right to die, you ask for death with dignity. And I sympathize with you, I do, but your argument is a spaghetti strainer. Tell me, name for me a law, a “right” endowed by nature. Tell me, do, which animal observes these rights?

What is stealing what is murder what is rape?

Tell me upon whose authority do you deny me these things?

The state’s authority, you say? Should the state be the defacto moral compass? What is the state but an emblem of power? You know the atrocities of the state. Who is Martin Luther King? Who is Joan of Arc? Who is Jesus Christ? Who is Hitler? Who is Stalin? Who is Saddam? Might does not make right.

Wherefore does moral right arise?
In a person’s subjective conviction? Then let us be done with the fictitious state and live in anarchy.

It is and must be a metaphysical dilemma. No matter your reply.




An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-Camus

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i wanted to tell everyone, but then came the sad realization that so few people really cared

3 comments | 5.27.2006

new credo:
live rightly at the expense of ease

now i have me very own 35mm! i fixed my parent’s old pentax ME this week. it hadn’t worked in 1.5 decades. the repair guy told my dad back in the 80’s it wasn’t plausible to fix it. HA! that’s what i say. 22 hours later and it works like new! Light meter et al. i took the whole thing apart piece by piece figured out how it worked then decided if it still worked, and then put it back together piece by piece. turns out the problem was the top shutter was jammed. i probably could have fixed it in 20 minutes had i know that. ah but the memories.

i think i’ll find another broken camera to fix...

also: i am watching ingmar bergman’s the seventh seal. if you don’t know what that means. it means that i am smarter cooler and more cultured than you. yes it does too.


TrianglesHereAn AbstractSelf Portrait as Dead Flowers

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Reminder to self:

2 comments | 5.23.2006

do more say more learn more clean more read more watch more love more talk more build more believe more love more forget more remember more forgive more believe more search more write more draw more believe more hope more encourage more.

doubt less think less worry less despair less fear less give up less worry less hate less judge less.

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