Open Me Up!..Here was a paper box that Leslie and I found on a library table on the first floor. After we saw the mysterious box, we decided to open it up (just as it had indicated for us to do on its outside cover). To our surprise, inside the box was a small note written on a magenta-colored piece of paper. The writing appeared to be written by a female and, with a lot of flair, the writer of the note simply wrote the words Your Gay! on the paper.
Leslie and I made two very acute observations about this paper. (1) Point in fact, the writer of the note made a serious grammatical error in using the word Your instead of the word You're. The second mistake, error number (2), was that the author ignored the context of the situation. Whoever, by chance, would open the box would unlikely be homosexual. In this case, neither Leslie nor I are homosexual -- therefore refuting the author's claim of our gayness.
Anyway...
It was a nice day in general today :) Slept in with Caitlin out at Lake Hope and then got a delicious breakfast at the Village Bakery and Café. We then went to Perks and waited until the library opened at noon (me at least). The rest of the day has been mostly work -- getting ready for a music theory midterm, Spanish class presentation, and also a presentation outlining postmodernism. The postmodernism project is especially great; I am excited about what I am learning. Here are a few quotes that stood out as particularly notable:
"A world view characterized by the belief that truth doesn't exist in any objective sense but is created rather than discovered. Truth is created by specific culture and exists only in that culture. Therefore, any system or statement that tries to communicate truth is a power play, an effort to dominate other cultures."
--Josh McDowel & Bob Hostetler
"What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are: metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power: coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that...Languages are made rather than found, and...truth is a property of linguistic entities, of sentences."
--Richard Rorty
"To see -- to really see -- all that is right with the world. Just as believers in a beneficent deity should be haunted by the problem of natural evil, so Gnostics, atheists, pessimists, and nihilists should be haunted by the problem of friendship, love, beauty, truth, humor, compassion, fun."
--John Horgan
