some random musings

"...What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction, and even the greatest good is small. The whole span of life is a dream, and dreams themselves are nothing more than dreams."
- Calderon "life is a dream"

I've been reading for my spanish baroque class and it's been interesing so far. We've talked about skepticism and the role it played in Spain in the 1600s and how we can see its affect on the arts etc. Skepticism is basically pointing out the fact that man knows nothing because all that we "know" is attained through our senses which do not always show or display reality as it really is and so we can't trust it. For example they always use the sun to illustrate this point: how the sun looks like a small sphere in the sky but we know that is not reality-that it's actually gigantic etc. Thus we can't trust our eyes to show us reality and if we don't know reality how can we gain knowledge etc. I even read about another movement that branched off of the skeptics that went as far as to point out that we can't even say that man knows nothing because that implies knowledge-us knowing that we know nothing. They later go on to point out that in order to receive any knowledge from our senses we have to apply reason to the things that we are sensing.
anywho, it's just interesting to think about.
Last night was the perfect night. GREAT dinner-carrabba's caeser salad, delicious jamba, watched pirates of penzance on a niiice system with my fav spaz, and some great conversation.
and it's on to tonight's activities which will be just as amazing- route 22, F6 (well not everyone but a lot of us), cody and some werewolves played as it should be played!