Sunday, December 23, 2012

12/22

thankful for

1)  no rain.
forecast had today as rainy,
but not a single drop.
it's getting cold,
so rain is not welcome.

2) holiday market.
despite living close to it,
I haven't gone there this year.
I happened to get off the union square station today,
which got me right in the middle of it.
just looked around.
despite my bad memory,
I was able to notice some things I had seen from last year.

3) random dig into philosophy.
one of the things that happen when I end up just surfing the internet.
read about Descarte and dualism (a soul is non-material)
and some modern thoughts that tries to believe it is wrong
(mind is not independent from the physical body).
not that I'm starting to question my stance on it,
just happened to stumble across it.
this led to a look into interesting paradox
called the ship of theseus.
the question is that if an object has all of its components replaced,
is it still the original object,
or a new object?
interesting.