Matt Carland
- user since
- Mon Jan 28 2008 at 05:34:44 (9.7 months ago )
- last seen
- Sun Nov 9 2008 at 22:05:17 (1.3 weeks ago )
- number of write-ups
- 2 - View Matt Carland's writeups (feed)
- level / experience
- 0 (Initiate) / 33
- specialties
- Psychology, Literature, Philosophy, Religion / Theology, Cognitive Science, Gnosticism
- school/company
- University of Toronto
- motto
- There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- most recent writeup
- Small things amuse large minds
I am a twenty-three-year-old youngish man from Toronto. I spend eight hours a day reading and about forty bucks a week on coffee. I study the Psychology of Personality Change through Literature and Aesthetic Experience, as well as the Psychology of Religion. These are actually at bottom the same thing -- but that bit's complicated. It is a very strange area. This is essentially my academic career you're voting on here (or attempts to improve my writing to that end), so if you are going to downvote my nodes then kindly let me know why so that this can be a fruitful endeavor.
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User Bookmarks:
- Genesis
- Lolita
- Who is the third who walks always beside you?
- London is not a place
- Grow right out of your own body
- lost in the noise
- Beware of finding a Jesus entirely congenial to you
- You will know your action. You are present there, not thinking of somewhere else you ought to be.
- Small gifts from the universe
- Work is worship
- In Watermelon Sugar
- Matthew 7
- Repetition is the death of the soul
- Reflections of yourself
- Behave as if there were a God
- The truth and who I am when I look at it
- illuminating poison
- All the dead artists
- A great big ugly man came up and tied his horse to me
- It's nice to share a Universe with you
- What doesn't kill you can only fuck you up for a really, really long time
- Time is the fire in which we burn
- Your Body's Weapons
- Song for All Seas, All Ships
- English As She Is Spoke
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
- Holding up a mirror to a little bird is mean
- Honesty is not the best policy. It is the only policy.
- If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him
- absorbing your mind into an object. safer.
- There is neither mastery nor slavery except as it exists in the attitude of the soul toward the world
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
- Belief is nothing more than looking
- Hedonism as a Basis for Ethics
- The whole idea of having a close personal relationship with God is rather new
- Subud
- I am still so lost, I am
- How to listen to the stories that cats tell us (idea)
- A better life through lying
- we lose weeks like buttons, like pencils
- We are starstuff
- How your brain works
- Knots I have known and loved
- Well? Which way to the light?
- I once had a cavity (idea)
- Winning back your girlfriend
- We all live for the small triumphs
- Art has an actual purpose
- Slack vampire
- Books made me a person
- Lifetimes are catching up with me
- The greatest paper ever written
- My words are the only gift I have for you
- Why should we trust our conscience?
- Why I hate anime
- Nick Cave's Letter to MTV
- Watch out now, that rain is wet
- How to be happy for a certain period of time
- Why is it that the alien mortal enemies of humanity always have some fatal flaw?
- I was a father for a few days
- I only dance when my feet are on fire
- Through this warm electricity I will give you bark branches and leaves curling upward into a safe sky (person)
- The Boat Metaphor
- There's nothing noble about being a soldier
- This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
- Deep inside, you know that some things are boundless
- Suicide is a permanent solution to a permanent problem (idea)
- Zen in the Art of Archery
- The erotic nature of storms
- I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about
- We are starstuff, billion year-old carbon; got to get ourselves back into The Garden
- Art is the lie that tells the truth
- Zen morning laugh
- Right Where You Are Sitting Now
- She is in the heartbeat you hear around you, listen
- Souls in the Great Machine
- A once noble nation reduced to a corpse in armor
- I never seek shelter, just wait for the storm
- you are magic trapped in a laugh
- This thunderstorm intimacy
- The tragedy of finding the love of your life at 22
- I don't have a postmodern condition; I've always been like this
- The sort who hides away
- vebelfetzer
- My zen life with coffee
- There are a million girls like me out there
- false step (thing)
- A Sea Symphony
- there's a spider in my keyboard (idea)
- twin souls (fiction)
- Now I am become grey, the creator of worlds
- The power of art
- twunt (thing)
- An enemy is one who reacts
- I could grow up to become the soft ineffectual synthesis of untold compromises that I am today
- Skin hunger
- Completely implausible circumstances, even by comic book standards
- Inventors have one hand in the junk drawer
- Beethoven's autopsy (thing)
- At Sea The Gods Have No Names
- He is honest and forthright with strangers. He reserves his lies for his family
- Listen, we ended up ruined. I find my answers where I can. (fiction)
- Nature conspires to keep us ignorant
- It is true, we are robbers, but we always rob in the glare of the day and in the teeth of the multitude (person)
- pearls before swine (idea)
- All the gold you can eat (person)
- crop circles in my mind
- Something she sees in men, sometimes
- Soon I Will Be Invincible
- no, it's your fate to never reach that understanding
- Phenomenology of Religion