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'Menstruating' boy stuns doctors

(The discussion in feminist is here.)

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Have I mentioned that people really suck? They do. Just in general.

everyday journal, 5/4/05

9:19 p.m.

To know and to believe are two different things.

I live this life, knowing that it is a fiction.* But I am in this life nonetheless. I believe all of the things around me. I believe I exist. Do I know I exist? I don't know. But I believe I do, because my sense organs tell me I do! Because I have a cognitive process, because I can interpret the world. Because I have a consciousness. (So does consciousness believe itself into being?)



* I'm referencing Wallace Stevens' quote: "The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly." from Adagia.

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I've been rather busy at work lately. I don't have as much time to webcrawl. :(

But sarahmichigan alerted me to this interesting story (I'd heard of it on the Bob & Tom Show as well): Ethiopian girl reportedly guarded by lions: Authorities: Cats chased off men trying to force her to marry