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 22.12.01
Or not.
I've got lots of free time. Heck, that's pretty much all I have now, as I'm not working this break (the store doesn't need anyone, and I wouldn't be able to work many days anyway between getting my wisdom teeth out and going on vacation). Yet the few things I need to get done haven't gotten done. I'm going to try making a list here. Maybe if I publicly declare the things I need to do, I'll be motivated to do them:
posted by Stentor Danielson at 01:41 -- link -- comment
20.12.01katou matehine means "your mom" in Moriori. The Moriori were a small society, related to the Maori of New Zealand but altered culturally by hundreds of years of isolation on what are now known as the Chatham Islands south of New Zealand. In general, they were more egalitarian and hunter-gatherer, and far less warlike, than the Maori. A combination of European diseases, overhunting of seals (their main food) by European hunters, and an invasion by the Maori very nearly eliminated them, though some people of mixed Moriori and Maori or European ancestry survive today. A longstanding myth holds that the Morioiri inhabited New Zealand and were driven out by the Maori. This story is used by Pakeha (non-Maori New Zealanders) to justify Europeans' similar treatment of the Maori.
19.12.01
But what moral relativism really is is a tool to allow us to make the philosophical distinction between what people should do and what people do do. By allowing us to set aside moral judgements (which tend to stop investigation -- "that's wrong, end of story"), relativism permits us to dig deeper into the causes and motivations of things that have happened. The purpose of this is not to excuse things, but rather to understand why they happened and therefore allow us to project the consequences of our future actions. Just because something's wrong doesn't mean people won't do it again. You should be able to walk through a dark alley with $100 bills hanging out of your pockets. But I'd rather avoid dark alleys than get mugged in one and take self-righteous solace in the fact that the mugger is to blame.
Some segue involving my mom's observation that if we lived in Afghanistan, I could smack my sister around for being annoying. Mom: Well, if we lived in Afghanistan, you'd be dead or hiding in a cave. Me: So I'd be a member of al-Qaida? Mom: Sure. They recruited pretty much all the men your age. Me: Or, I could have joined the Northern Alliance. You know, the good guys. Mom: Well, I guess. Me: You just assumed I'd be one of the bad guys. Mom: Well, your political beliefs are so different from ours. Me: You know, the Taliban is the more conservative movement.
18.12.01
I have nothing else of value to say about today. So I'll throw out a few observations from the past few days: I need a haircut. Grand Buffet seems to have taken "Find the Cat" off their new website, but they put up "Candy Bars" and "You're On Fire". Now if only they'd put up "Jesus can't save me, Allah can't save me, George Bush can't save me..." The home computer is very screwed up. Explorer keeps randomly crashing. And as soon as I connect to people.colgate.edu, my ftp program crashes. So there go my plans to update the Geography Department webpage.
17.12.01
I wonder if his girlfriend's bad musical taste includes "Final Countdown." |
I think muttonchops need to come back in style. If they did, I would seriously consider facial hair. I think it would be cool to compliment my George W. Bush hair with Chester A. Arthur cheeks.