The Uneducated Academic

Always make sure when you're entering debates or arguments that you have definitions on hand. Too many times I've seen people fight in a roundabout way because their understanding of the topic is different. Make sure there's a clear battlefield before you flex your intellectual might.

I think I’m going to just start learning about 200 of the most common words in a language and try to get fluency from there.

How weird is it to feel alone while you have people surrounding you? Almost like a gnawing that everything is empty and fake, like there's no real connections between you and the real world? These are signs of depression or just everyday melancholy. While this is a specific situation, these emotions can arise under almost any circumstance. Saddening yes but they open up your world of experience to new corners. You understand why people are social and can piece together the dynamics of relationships with the self. Do I love myself? What am I struggling with and where are these emotions coming from? All good places to start to get to know yourself better. The relationship with yourself is the most important because it effects every aspect of your life. How you feel and express yourself can all be direct responses to the level of comfort you have in your own skin. A normally positive conversation might not go so well if you're heckling your self-worth. The problem for most people usually lies on trying to steer themselves back to the happy side of life. And while there is no one answer, there are tips and guides you can seek out to help you. Obviously the Internet is a good place or counciling but most of the blockage is pent up around 2 things. Number one. Am I truly ready to change and get help. This may seem obvious from a hypothetical standpoint but on a personal level it may be very different. There's no guarantee that this option is going to help me. If this route to help hinders me in any way one almost has to take a leap of faith with no certain outcome. And this can be tiring after several tries. To be open to help may constitute a lifeong endeavor of adjusting your life, and you need to be truly open and committed to that. Number Two is saying goodbye. Once you've started to move through your life changes you have to be willing to say goodbye. Goodbye to a chapter of your life or some aspect that you might not want to end; Whether it's people, activities or habits. To say goodbye, to truly be done is the hardest part of change. So you need to want it bad. To bring those two together is something you need to take responsibility for should you need change in your life. No one but you can take care of yourself in the long run. Hopefully by the time you're out of your slump you'll have gotten meet yourself just a little bit better. This ends today's sporadic ramble.

Islamaphobes irritate the hell out of me. The current Canadian election has turned into the same kind of a joke that U.S politics are known to be. It’d be nice to have political parties discuss real problems that Canada faces rather than find a scape goat and convince voters based on that topic. The Fear epidemic has found Canadians and who knows if it’s here to stay?

It seems like you have to fight to clear the noise and do what you want in life. Like you have to get “sober” from society to wake up. Let’s hope I can do that again too. That’d be nice

Where did the use of arbitrary age dates come into use in society and why do they differ so much. Age for legal alcohol consumption ranges from 16-21, cultural aspects aside you'd think in today's society we'd find better consensus and congruity for these things. It blows my mind that this happens in between states and provinces to. Like you could have sex with a 16 year old in one state and get arrested for it and right over the border it's no big deal.

Like how fucking weird is it that slavery exists in today's world and you can do nothing about it. Like one day someone can just be like I own you and if your country turns a blind eye no one is gonna help you. There is something seriously wrong with this planet. I say we go on strike, Mars is nice this time of year right?

Trap Wire, Occupy, Anonymous, Hacktivist. What do these terms mean to your average person? Probably anything ranging from 15 year old kid to Terrorist. I’ve followed the digital warfare for a while now and I think this best describes why I’d sooner trust an anarchist than the NSA. For anyone who knows anything this is a recap of Weev and Barrett Brown’s stories and about the general movement. If you don’t know why the internet is a risky place you need to watch this.

It’s been a Ted day for me, and I came across something rather enlightening on the nature of how the brain works. It also led me to a few insights on how my life should be better lived. It also led me to question the “RAW” diet movement. In short the theory behind it is to get back to natural eating the way the rest of the planet does, it is supposed to remove all toxins and ailments from your diet by only ingesting organic unprocessed food. It turns out though that cooking has a lot of benefits (one of which help you extract nutrients easier from food). It’s going to be a long day of questioning some preconceptions we have

     So I happened to find this page and It’s upsetting to see how far consumerism has become integrated into people’s value systems? When did money become the value of a person and when did we stop seeing idiots for idiots. A rich colleague of mine once told me about his experiences at private school in Switzerland and how the culture privilege was expressed during his childhood. Maybe I’ll go into detail another time but the reoccurring theme was that money made you a different class of person. Anyways I challenge you to have a class blind view of the world when you meet someone and get to genuinely know people. Rich, poor, or homeless you might be surprised to find out that there’s a lot more to a person than the image they have. Check out the site for yourself, laugh or cry at humanity but this is the state we’re in.