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About Lux:Age
27
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Spent most of my life under the thumb of Fundamental Christianity until a chance encounter with a plant teacher radically changed the course of my life. I'm currently a student of Ethnobotany and soon will be transfering to the University of Hawaii to study it further. I also enjoy visual and performing arts.
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My drawing of the Monkey-Fish, a creature from Southeast Asian mythology.
Nearly the Now
Thoughts on Gandhi
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I recently read a speech that Gandhi in response to the continual unrest between India and Pakistan in 1947. The speech was given soon after India had gained its independence from Brittan. Gandhi makes some very good points in this speech, conce...
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Rants, Raves & Riddles
I recently read a speech that Gandhi in response to the continual unrest between India and Pakistan in 1947. The speech was given soon after India had gained its independence from Brittan. Gandhi makes some very good points in this speech, concerning how politicians would rather ignore problems as they begin to rise, and favor letting them get to a tipping point before action is taken. If no true politically-driven peace efforts are made, then war is inevitable, Gandhi says.
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 8:26 PM
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On one level, the claim that humans have freewill seems bizarre. If the physical world operates with iron laws that determine everything that happens, are humans also governed by those same laws? On the other hand, we all think we’re free. We take it for granted that it is up to us to choose our actions. The issue of freewill is one of the most complicated in philosophy. Some argue that if our actions are causally predetermined we can’t be free. Such people are called incompatiblists. ...
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Sun, May 18, 2008 - 1:31 PM
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I have always had a relationship with nature that I took for granted. Perhaps my relationship was more intense and somewhat unique compared to others. Most young boys collect baseball cards and stamps, but early on I had an obsession for collecting stones, butterflies, and other natural objects. Nature has always been a cradle for my soul, a place of solace, and a means of inspiring creativity of all sorts.
Sun, May 18, 2008 - 1:29 PM
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As I ventured through the fields and the forest’s edge today I felt compelled... read more 
I finished reading the Republic in through book X, and I’ve arrived at some interesting conclusions about Plato’s ideal government. My main concern is how closely related Plato’s idea government is to totalitarianism. Although this isn’t the first time Plato’s Republic has been accused of being totalitarianistic.
Sun, May 18, 2008 - 1:28 PM
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Plato believed that there we basically two government systems. One was a democracy, where even the poor had an equal voice in government. And, the other was an aristocracy, c... read more 
"I must, I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet, a thing that is not love or hare or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the fearful passionless force of nonhuman things... I want to stand at the rim of the world, and peer into the darkness beyond, and see a little more than others have seen of the strange shapes of mystery that inhabit that unknown night...”
Sun, May 18, 2008 - 1:27 PM
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It is strange how people miss things that once annoyed them. Lately I've been thinking about Bangkok, and how much I miss my friends and life there. I have enjoyed being back in college again, but I often think about what my friends in Thailand are doing. I imagine them out in R.C.A., an upscale nightlife district for Bangkok’s international crowd, or hanging in Bed Supperclub. Hanging out with Thai movie stars and pop-music idols. While I lived in Thailand I had some notoriety, free drinks, ...
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