Musings of a Timid observer

This is a brief story of a boy and his encounters with love  All quotes used are by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek Love as an event    "Love is a disturbance of the existing order, the intrusion of the impossible into the possible, the subversion of the symbolic order. It disturbs the reality we take for granted, and reveals that reality is not all there is, that there is always something more." Isn't it true that many of us fall in love and it is a complete disaster? You are moving along enjoying your life, hanging out with friends, playing sports, reading questionable books, and wondering where exactly your life is going but you are too busy enjoying the ride to ruin it with questions.  For the boy, it was in the way he was coming into his own, from nerdy to well still nerdy but able to fool most of the people some of the time that he had some cool aspects!! Women were starting to pay attention to this lad who'd just survived puberty but retained the earnestness

There are known knowns — there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns — that is to say, there are some things we do not know. But there are also  unknown  unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know Donald Rumsfeld  I turned 38 today and of all the quotes I could pick to give narrative force to this occasion, why am I going with Donald Rumsfield talking about the catastrophe that was the Iraq invasion?  It's because while he stumbled upon a tremendous epistemological truth, Donald was one configuration shy of making a whole quadrant of knowledge Everyone is fairly familiar with the things that they know- for instance that they're alive, that they need to stop drinking so much at parties etc. They also know the things that are unknown -but this knowledge is twofold. they know that they could know but currently don't know -something like how many cars are brought into the country every day, or how the universe came to be they know that they lack

An epilogue on the D-conversion of Anthony   When I begun this series, I wanted to explain why I was no longer a Christian. I was almost angry that I’d spent so much time in a fantasy, a coping mechanism that simplified the universe into something a Heavenly Father had created.  

   As you read the series, it’s probably the case that you sensed this anger amidst the rhetoric and logical argumentation. Anger is not always rage, but can be an ember of passion that begins to change the temperature of everything around it.  
   
 Anger is also usually a less embarrassing face that we put on emotions we don’t want to admit to having-fear, envy, abandonment. 10 years on from when I first started the draft of the first entry into this   series -I  think that anger is gone because I have finally accepted it.  

   My perspectives have changed on faith and religion. Auguste Comte(see image below) wrote about the three stages of development being the theological, the metaphysical and then the p

' When a Being beyond Time and Space touches you, you also become beyond Time and Space-the privilege of knowing "The Only Solution Is Dissolution".' These are the words of Sadhguru, a living yogi who tells us about the very first yogi-Shiva as the tale is woven about how we must essentially embrace nothingness to become who we really are. source: https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1427264/sadhguru-school-africa-uganda/ Tradition and beyond Shiva is old Hindu lore and in this work, it appears that Sadhguru goes beyond the enigmatic, mystical(though that remains in it), to present a figure that can also be intellectually and almost scientifically engaged with. To be fair I haven't read a lot of the Shaivite literature and remain less than a novice so this take is rooted mostly in the bare minimum of my familiarity with the subject. One of the stories of Shiva goes like “Shiva once returned from a long absence. He came to Parvati’s cottage and found the d