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| After i wrote that last entry, I tried to go to bed but couldn't sleep because I knew that I didn't really believe what I had just written. I don't want to live without music, or literature, or dance, or architecture. So here's what I came up with, although I still couldn't fully justify, for example, a career in art, because though I acknowledge that the need for art is part of the human nature, it doesn't seem like a dire need for survival. anyway, here's what I came up with, and maybe I'll be able to sleep now:
Science is art and art is science. Much science, social and physical alike, works (or should) to rebuild or create the natural beauty of the world and its life. If art is creating that which its creator deems beautiful, and I hold that it is, and if science is the restoration or recreation of what is natural, and I hold that it should be, and if true beauty is the world and life as it was originally meant to be in all aspects, and I know that it is, then science is the ultimate art. And I suppose that’s where man-made art such as music or paintings fits in as well. I have to believe that God intended for humans to enjoy art because he gave us the urge make art and love beauty, therefore humans making art is part of Gods original creation, and if art is creating beauty, and if science is restoring creation (which it should be), and original creation is true beauty, than art is the ultimate science.
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| I’ve decided to renounce art and embrace science. Science is way more important for humanity and for life in general and I’ve been a fool not to have studied it more. Science is crucial for understanding our world and everything in it and for understanding ourselves and our relation to everything else and how we are supposed to work together. That is not to say that I am denying the world of beauty. Science and the natural order is beautiful. Man-made art is self-serving. Why do people make art? To please themselves and so other people will praise them. Why decorate a world that is already beautiful? | | |
| Happy first day of spring (or was it yesterday?) All of you in the philadelphia area, I know what it means for you. thats right, free Ritas water ice, baby. I can't say I'm not envious... I hope you all took advantage of it. Ya know, you can't get that stuff out here in the midwest. But, in few short weeks, I'll be able to get a cup of my own. Thats right, you heard me, I'm comin to Philly. Get ready to ppaaar tay. I'm very excited. Because I work at a school, I get a spring break, and because I work for a school program that goes all summer long, but still can't work longer than a normal school teacher in the year, I get lots of long and weird breaks, so I'll be in Pennsylvania for the first two weeks of April. Things here in GR are going pretty well, one of the highlights so far was a few weeks ago when I took a weekend trip "up north" as they say here in Michigan to a place called Kalkaska, also known as the middle of nowhere, which is where my dear friend Emily was living and working at the time. It was a lovely snowy weekend, we had some good winter adventures, including snowshoeing, skiing, reading Edna St Vincent Millay poetry to eachother on the couch while sipping tea, and having beer and pizza with her friends there. Needless to say, it was a good time. And then, I got to see her a week later when she spent the night here at my house on her way back to PA. She's a good one, that Em. Well, I don't want to bore you people, and I have nothing very poignant or observant to say. I just mainly wanted to let you know I was still alive. And that my new ambition is to live on a farm. More on that later though. | | |
| hey Mark, guess what. Studio 28 got a liquer license! haha. | | |
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