Posts tagged “philosophy”

Enlightened Male

A response to a web questionnaire

To expand on this just a bit:
I know a million things. There are many more things that I do not know. One of the things I don’t know is: How many of the things I think I know do I really know? It gets worse. There are things that I do know that I don’t think I know. There are things that I don’t think I know that I do know. Included in the things that I think I know that I really don’t, are a number of things that I don’t even know I don’t know. This, now, is where it gets tricky. What do I not know that I really do know but won’t admit? And of those things that I won’t admit I know, what do I really know? Because there are a lot of things that I think I know that it turns out that not only did I not know them, I didn’t even know that I didn’t know them. I don’t know if I can handle any more of this sort of introspection. Really not much can come of it. All I know is that there is a whole bunch that I don’t know and even more that I don’t know I don’t know. What gets me though, are the things that I know I know that I wish I didn’t know. Those are the worst.

deal with it

The longer I’m here – here being Earth, not the ‘net – the more I realize that being funny, laughing, is about the best thing there is. There are some people out there that get this and many people that don’t. I spend a huge hunka buncha time every day being funny. And not just

Something Totally Sketchy

And then, something totally sketchy happens and what you thought you didn’t know you think you might have known and some other things you thought you didn’t know you think that you might know for sure but some other things that you don’t know if you know or don’t know you realize you might know.

What Do I Know?

Did you ever think you totally knew something and then – suddenly – felt like possibly you had absolutely no clue about whatever it was that you thought you knew? Yeah. I feel like that sometimes. Like now for instance.

Jealousy

While driving to work this morning I decided – no, not really … I realized – that I am not jealous of anyone else on the planet. I’ve never seriously wanted to be anyone but me. (Well except for that period when I totally wanted to be Captain Caveman. But that doesn’t count.)

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
Lyall Watson, from the July 2000 issue of Discover

I am Jack’s fractured world view.

Sometimes… it’s just awesome to be living. And that’s enough.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.