Pope Francis named Time Person of the Year 2013 - CNN.com. By now, I think everyone has heard about Pope Francis being Time's Person of the Year. I was raised Catholic and I have to say I like this pope. He seems to embody many of the qualities I was taught in my catechism classes … Continue reading Pope Francis
Day: December 11, 2013
Don’t Live For Your Obituary
I’ve often tried to articulate what Scalzi managed in the title, “Don’t Live For Your Obituary.” I would also add not to worry about those death bed regrets we always hear warnings about. We’ll spend a limited time on our death bed and a lot more time in our life. We should spend it doing what gives us satisfaction.
And, of course, even for those whom history does end up remembering, it will likely be history’s creation of a figure that meet’s future people’s needs, with only a hazy resemblance to the reality.
Via Nick Mamatas,this article about writer Colin Wilson, who passed away in the last week, which begins:
How dismayed the late Colin Wilson would have been if, through some of the occult powers in which he believed, he had been able to read his own obituaries.
The man whose first book The Outsider caused him to be lionised in 1956 by the literary greats of the day has been remembered in several blogs for his later novel Space Vampires, which inspired a famously trashy Hollywood film. In the broadsheets, the life of a self-proclaimed genius has been given the faintly amused treatment favoured by obituarists when dealing with a life of eccentricity or failed promise.
Yet there is sort of heroism in the way that Wilson, having been abandoned by those who once praised him, remained loyal to his own talent, living a life of writing, reading…
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. This seemed tangentially related to my post about HuffPost's new commenting policy and subsequent discussion. If you're not already reading Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, you're missing out on a lot of awesome philosophical insight with an often hilarious bent. Click through to read the rest. Related articles Zach Weiner makes his … Continue reading Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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