Published April 6th, 2010 by abraham
Even though I don’t use facebook or twitter, I do keep track of it, as far as Hoodturkey is concerned.
Recently I’ve learned that “hoodturkey” is being used as slang (at least among three kids).
Which is interesting.
People often ask what is up with “hoodturkey” and the simple answer is that, when I started this site, I needed a domain name, and wasn’t yet in a position where I felt comfortable putting all of this stuff under abrahamingle.com.
Hoodturkey was unique, it was weird, and for a very brief time was kind of like a pet name.
Now of course it has a completely different meaning that has out-sized it origins, and I’m often surprised when I recall where it came from.
So what happens if the slang takes off, if the definition of your name changes to mean something that belongs in a dirty south hip-hop video.
(then again, I’ve often thought that I belong in a dirty south hip hop video)
Do you wait it out, or do you roll with the fluid nature of associations and find a new name?
Tags: internet, Neo-Luddism, origins, philosophy
Published October 16th, 2009 by abraham
Tags: buddhism, family, Neighborhood Diaries, philosophy, wisdom
Published August 25th, 2009 by abraham
Whoo! Back from Europe, no better way to turn 30, yes? Ok, enough about that… I am a HUGE Mountaing Goats fan, and a big fan of Last Plane to Jakarta, John’s mostly death metal review blog. Why? Because John is awesome, and between posts describing the way something melts your face the way nothing else does, he writes shit like this:
“your attention is more valuable than the present age would have you believe. It’s the one thing you brought to this world that it didn’t have before, and it’s the only thing of consequence that you’ll permanently remove from this world when you leave. You know? So when somebody sort of cavalierly directs your attention someplace without so much as a tossed-off phrase indicating why you should bother, then you ought, in my opinion, to regard such people/sources/tweets as emissaries of the dark Lord. To say that something “has to earn your attention” is false; one of the miracles of attention is that it sometimes yields the biggest dividends when it’s given weightlessly, unmerited, on a one-way street. But that’s not to say that attention is so light a thing that one can afford to shed it like dandruff. Our supply of attention is finite. That’s worth remembering.”
Tags: philosophy, wisdom
Published May 12th, 2009 by abraham
The second on my unintentional series regarding friendship:
Q: What is real friendship, if there is no trust and respect ?
A: Without trust and respect, how can you have friendship ? I really don’t know! But, look, sir, first of all why do you need a friend ? Is it because you want to depend on him, rely on him, have companionship ? Is it out of your loneliness, insufficiency that you depend on another to fill that emptiness and therefore you are using another, exploiting another to cover your own insufficiency, your own emptiness, and so call that person a friend ? Is he a friend in that way – using him for your pleasure, your comfort and so on ? Go into it, sir, don’t accept what I am saying. Most of us are so lonely, and the older we get the more lonely we feel and discover our own emptiness.
When you are young, these things don’t occur to you. But as you grow to maturity – if you ever mature at all- then you discover for yourself what it means to be empty, lonely, to have no friend at all because you have led a superficial life, depended on others, exploited others. You have invested your heart, your feelings in others, and when they die, or go away, you feel so lonely, empty; and out of what emptiness there is self-pity, and you dream of finding somebody to fill that emptiness. That is what is happening all the days of our life.
Now, can you see this and learn about it ? Learn what it means to be lonely and never escape from it. Look at it, live with it, see what it is implied, so that psychologically, inwardly, you depend on nobody. Then you know what it means to love.
Tags: friends, philosophy, wisdom
Published April 6th, 2009 by abraham
“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new”
Word up G.G.
Tags: philosophy, pundits, quotes, thoughts
