a mix

I'm currently a mix of Nietzsche, evolution, Marilyn Manson, Jacques Lacan, and CoD4. I think it takes some bending and a little rattling to temper the mind. Here's to greater awareness or schizophrenia, whichever should come first.

hypothetically speaking

We live in hypotheticals. I mean our thinking is inextricably bound up with hypotheticals.

The future is hypothetical. We expect that it will come because we are used to this kind of regularity. On a more basic level, we are constantly preoccupied with imagining the consequences of our actions. Furthermore, the only way to have an opinion or belief about something is to imagine the thoughts and feelings we will have when confronted with the object of our opinion. I dislike the color red. I imagine that if I were to see the color red I would have a negative reaction.

This is all very hypothetical.

Similarly, hypothetical situations are just imagined situations. Many situtations in which people find themselves were hypothetical before ever being actual. That is to say we often imagine situations and then make them happen. We may either cause situations to happen or merely anticipate them.

So...

...yesterday I decide that I'm moving on in my life, but then, today, precisely that which I had my mind made up about pops, of its own accord, back into my life. Perfect timing. And by that I mean ridiculously rotten timing. So much for being resolute.

And that paper I have to write for Philosophy of Mind -- on emotion... it promises to be equally as confusing as the real-life phenomenon.

bring it on, all of it.

being yourself and living in accordance with your own will

it's like your being glad is your will showing through (what you want), and same for me

so if another person's being glad takes precedent over your own, then you let their will and what they want take precedent

it's easy for people to consciously and subconsciously use approval-seekers, but a lot of the time approval-seekers are just kind of false and annoying cause they're not really being themselves, they're being who they think others want them to be

that's why I think everyone really want to be a badass, b/c a badass says things like "no" and "fuck that" and "screw you" and are their own person. the trick is to be a badass, but not because you aim to be a badass

a response

If you examine The Downward Spiral, one can easily say he does know about Nietzsche and you can see the same lines drawn from Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson, which TR Produced. I cannot say for certain though since Down In It is PHM era.

"The Becoming" is clearly a Will to Power statement. "Destroy yourself to become what you are."

"Everyday is Exactly the Same" is evident of Nausea towards life.

"Happiness in Slavery" is a mocking of slave morality. "Claims he does what he wants"

That's it, I'm going to read Nietzsche.