Hong’s Cave

On a message board I frequent, someone mentioned about “loneliness” and how to deal with it. Here is something I wrote in response although it seems a bit too obvious…
It’s a feeling that you get when you have nothing to occupy your mind and realized that there is no one, physically or emotionally, next [...]

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Well, my progress with the Nash biography seems pretty slow. Basically a couple of pages everyday is about it (while taking a dump :p). I think I’ve gotten about two thirds, though. It is definitely much interesting than the movie.
It seems things do come in waves, big waves sometimes. Most of the times, my life [...]

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Well, this is really not something new. I have been thinking about this for several years now, but in a recent email exchange, the subject came up again and I decided to scribble something about it here.
I think that the western romance novels and movies have been the major causes for numerous bad relationships in [...]

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Just got thinking again (gasp!). I think I’ve been realizing how important a concrete example is.
There are many reasons why I still haven’t found a life-mate yet. Definitely one of them is that I still feel quite comfortable living by myself (which is a dangerous thing). I think, however, the bigger reason is that I [...]

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I’ve come to realize that I don’t know what I want, really, in “love”. Or maybe, I want too much and I know that’s unrealistic. On a certain level, I feel like I would be perfectly happy with any “decent” one once I am convinced. However, on the other hand, I feel like that’s just [...]

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I guess it will be a while yet before I’d be able to not think about this subject all the time. I’ve been tackling another Erich Fromm, Man for Himself for some time now (too busy at work). It’s supposedly about “ethics,” but so far it’s mostly about “characters” and stuff. I think his [...]

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There is a new TV series that I think has a potential this season, called “Cupid.” It’s on at 9:00 pm on Thursday nights on CBS. It’s about a “relationship” counselor/newspaper columnist and a guy who believes he is the Eros being punished by being casted off from the Mount Olympus (to Chicago, go figures) [...]

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