what does one...

own? what are we able to call ours?

getting past a material object, because are you really able to call that yours? name a material object. anything. that is able to be taken away from you; whether stolen or not, ownership is lost. a legal transgression has taken place; however i'm even moving past that.

what is yours? what do you own?

nietzsche once said that the only real truth is the lived truth.

we make a lot of decisions, or maybe a better word is choices in life. some we regret. some we do not regret. however the fact remains that they are our choices. nobody elses.

quick lesson on twentieth century existentialism...man is condemned to be free.

nobody else made that choice for you. so why not own it? make it yours. all your faults. all your accoplishments. subjectively or objectively perceived. make them yours.

i've know a couple of people in my life who have 'hidden' their choices. i've never fully understood that. friends that would sneak away from the group to go and smoke pot, and come back and not talk about it, or where they were for an hour. why? friends that were dating a girl whom they may not should have been dating; for one reason or another, and not telling anybody about it. these are some things that have puzzled me over the years.

if i'm going to screw up; little or small; i'm going to own it. it's going to be mine. and i'm going to be proud of the mistakes that i've made, because it is only from these mistakes am i able to become a better person. inside, and out.

popper once said that only through the correcting of our mistakes do we gain knowledge.

now what is knowledge? well, that's a whole other wave for a whole other ocean.

one post...three philosophers, but i only named two, can you guest who the third was?

[shalom...]