Comments on: deth to roses, candy and Hallmark cards http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html making connections where none previously existed Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carlos Alex http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html/comment-page-1#comment-7888 Carlos Alex Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:57:11 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html#comment-7888 Muito legal o seu o seu diario!!! Eu faço Enfermagem na Univercidade Paulista do Brasil- Pretendo fazer mestrado em oncologia em cuba e futuramente trabalhar nos EUA. Pois dizem que mercado de trabalho nesta área e muito boa!! Muito legal o seu o seu diario!!! Eu faço Enfermagem na Univercidade Paulista do Brasil- Pretendo fazer mestrado em oncologia em cuba e futuramente trabalhar nos EUA. Pois dizem que mercado de trabalho nesta área e muito boa!!

]]> By: Erica http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html/comment-page-1#comment-7887 Erica Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:02:56 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html#comment-7887 The real challenge is to learn how to balance the right amount of reason - to deal with the material world, and the right amount of passion/love/magic/mystery to deal with "the rest". One is not taught that, but learns by him/hersefl, everyday, litlle by little. Some even say we never learn until the end. We need science and we need reason, but we also need passion and mystery The real challenge is to learn how to balance the right amount of reason – to deal with the material world, and the right amount of passion/love/magic/mystery to deal with “the rest”. One is not taught that, but learns by him/hersefl, everyday, litlle by little. Some even say we never learn until the end. We need science and we need reason, but we also need passion and mystery

]]> By: Erica http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html/comment-page-1#comment-7886 Erica Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:01:15 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html#comment-7886 The real challenge is to learn how to balance the right amount of reason - to deal with the material world, and the right amount of passion/love/magic/mystery. One is not taught that, but learns by him/hersefl, everyday, litlle by little. Some even say we never learn until the end. We need science and we need reason, but we so need passion and mystery The real challenge is to learn how to balance the right amount of reason – to deal with the material world, and the right amount of passion/love/magic/mystery. One is not taught that, but learns by him/hersefl, everyday, litlle by little. Some even say we never learn until the end. We need science and we need reason, but we so need passion and mystery

]]> By: barb dybwad http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html/comment-page-1#comment-7885 barb dybwad Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:43:38 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/02/14/deth_to_roses_candy_and_hallmark_cards.html#comment-7885 bah. This is exactly why I left science. Certainly there are exceptions to this, but by and large science has a way of turning magical and mysterious things into something - to borrow a phrase from my friend Scott - "slightly less exciting then watching dry paint (not paint dry, but actually looking at paint that is already dry)." Love is not "merely" co-mingling of hormones any more than the universe is "merely" a bunch of quarks. Speaking as a recalcitrant cynic and curmudgeon, one who wholeheartedly subscribes to the andy warhol philosophy of love ("love and sex are business"), and one whose hopes/dreams/fantasies of love have been continually dashed/disappointed/let down (including quite recently!) - somehow, through it all - faith yet remains in love. I can't explain why and it rather confounds me as it would be sort of convenient to just give up on it altogether, but still... I'm open. Don't know why. :) I guess... the world is big, and time is long. If there's anyone else out there who happens to fall into the pragmatic yet spontaneous, intensively immersive yet intensely independent, committed yet non-monogamous, non-clingy yet total hopeless romantic category... surely I might collide with them? If not in this universe, perhaps a parallel one? It shouldn't be a comforting thought, yet it is somehow. YMMV. ;) bah. This is exactly why I left science. Certainly there are exceptions to this, but by and large science has a way of turning magical and mysterious things into something – to borrow a phrase from my friend Scott – “slightly less exciting then watching dry paint (not paint dry, but actually looking at paint that is already dry).”

Love is not “merely” co-mingling of hormones any more than the universe is “merely” a bunch of quarks. Speaking as a recalcitrant cynic and curmudgeon, one who wholeheartedly subscribes to the andy warhol philosophy of love (“love and sex are business”), and one whose hopes/dreams/fantasies of love have been continually dashed/disappointed/let down (including quite recently!) – somehow, through it all – faith yet remains in love. I can’t explain why and it rather confounds me as it would be sort of convenient to just give up on it altogether, but still… I’m open. Don’t know why. :) I guess… the world is big, and time is long. If there’s anyone else out there who happens to fall into the pragmatic yet spontaneous, intensively immersive yet intensely independent, committed yet non-monogamous, non-clingy yet total hopeless romantic category… surely I might collide with them? If not in this universe, perhaps a parallel one? It shouldn’t be a comforting thought, yet it is somehow. YMMV. ;)

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