3/30/07 - Morning Musings on Flatulence and Love

Session Start (Hemillsy:mtraceboston): Fri Mar 30 09:23:25 2007

[09:23] mtraceboston: i'm gassy
[09:23] hemillsy: ... I'm sorry?
[09:26] mtraceboston: not as sorry as you'd be if you were sitting in my car right now!
[09:27] hemillsy: gosh nick. your flatulence makes me so hot
[09:27] hemillsy: i'm totally touching myself right now
[09:27] hemillsy: and by touching myself I mean not. touching myself.
[09:27] mtraceboston: oh snap.
[09:27] mtraceboston: your sarcasm totally turns me on
[09:27] mtraceboston: and that's not a joke
[09:27] hemillsy: hehe


[09:37] mtraceboston: It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
[09:37] mtraceboston: :)
[09:38] hemillsy: that's far-sighted
[09:38] mtraceboston: how so?
[09:38] hemillsy: volatile spirits prefer what 'patient domestic-types' perceive as unhappiness
[09:39] hemillsy: volatile spirits prefer volatility
[09:39] hemillsy: clearly
[09:39] hemillsy: the only constant is change
[09:40] hemillsy: in buddhism, recognizing that and embracing it releases you from samsara, the cycle of pain
[09:41] hemillsy: I just call it 'loving the feeling of the sand as it slips through your fingers, resigning itself to gravity'
[09:42] mtraceboston: volatility=passion. should love be floating on a calm sea or riding the crest of a wave?
[09:43] hemillsy: it would have to do both, don't you think?
[09:43] hemillsy: it's hard to stay balanced with such unpredictability
[09:44] hemillsy: in chemistry and biology, volatile means reactive


[09:47] mtraceboston: hmm i like throwing out literary skeets for you to shoot down :)
[09:47] mtraceboston: i like the way your brain works
[09:48] hemillsy: heh, what do you mean by that
[09:49] mtraceboston: i just think you're a skeptic and you don't take anything at face value. and that is a good trait.
[09:49] mtraceboston: however ... you're also kind of an idealist
[09:49] hemillsy: that is correct


[09:50] mtraceboston: Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
[09:50] mtraceboston: - Woody Allen
[09:54] hemillsy: woody allen was born on my birthday
[09:54] mtraceboston: really? do you like woody allen?
[09:54] hemillsy: a skeptic and an idealist...
[09:55] mtraceboston: you don't look nearly as old as him ...
[09:55] hemillsy: i like to call myself a realist who knows a little bit about what the Truth looks like
[09:55] hemillsy: not a big fan of woody allen


[09:56] mtraceboston: how bout Jean Baudrillard?
[09:56] mtraceboston: here's another one to take apart ...
[09:56] mtraceboston: If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
[10:00] hemillsy: I agree
[10:01] hemillsy: you can fall in love with language
[10:01] hemillsy: and in a way that is a betrayal
[10:02] hemillsy: but language can add richness to a situation just as much as it can add confusion
[10:02] hemillsy: love has no words,
[10:02] hemillsy: but you can't have romance without symbolic gestures and metaphors and other such non-absolute things
[10:03] hemillsy: and we like romance. and to stumble and fall.
[10:03] hemillsy: we can do both. we can love without words, because we can't help that kind of love
[10:03] hemillsy: and we can love with romance and symbolism. that's passion.
[10:10] mtraceboston: :)