Comments for entry "Inspiration and Passion and Whatnot" at Dilbert.com Blog

Comment from travis123456

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Comment from peppermt

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I think I shall try the waking up early method, even though I am more creative at night. I love to write, to taste the words as they emerge from the primordial soup of ideas and take on form and meaning, but between being a teacher and the only breadwinner of the family it has been difficult to translate writing to something "worthwhile". Then again, I have no need to justify myself to others, is there? Passion drives us to do the stupid and the impossible. Thanks for the much needed encouragement (even if you didn't mean to do so): I start writing today.

Comment from tragicmishap

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Also, the free will vs determinism debate is raging within Christianity as well. Check out Calvinism.

Comment from tragicmishap

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Obviously there are some things about which we have no choice. Emotion is one of them. There are those who are free to follow their passion and there are many more who aren't. Both groups seem to do just fine.

Comment from ClarenceW

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According to http www blupete com /Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm, two other Italian scientists of the time, Galileo and Bruno, embraced the Copernican theory unreservedly and as a result suffered much personal injury at the hands of the powerful church inquisitors. Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and, dared to suggest, that space was boundless and that the sun was and its planets were but one of any number of similar systems: Why! -- there even might be other inhabited worlds with rational beings equal or possibly superior to ourselves. For such blasphemy, Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in 1600. Galileo was brought forward in 1633, and, there, in front of his "betters," he was, under the threat of torture and death, forced to his knees to renounce all belief in Copernican theories, and was thereafter sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his days. This may explain why Galileo was burried in a church

Comment from Neander

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This is exactly why I started my blog last week, inloveandwarblog.blogspot.com Even when I was in my crappy office job I would write stories. I'm sure my blog will jeopradise my career as a school teacher because of its racy content, but I don't see that I have a choice.

Comment from OrionStyles

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Heh, I remember being driven to learn about technology since I was 12. It was even fun for a year or two doing it professionally. Then the weasels sucked all the life out of me. Then I was laid off, and in those 6 months did some of my most creative works.... driven, to work on it 12 hours a day, and then more as I had new ideas. Then I starved. Heh, cold and starving is not a fun game. Then I got a new job. I have no soul now.

Comment from ina

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oh, wrong post

Comment from ina

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Nah, Scott, good idea, but useless. Polish are very protective of their dead bodies. Lithuania tried to claim (for less sensible reasons than green energy) the body of Czeslaw Milosz, who won Nobel prize for literature for poetry, devoted to Lithuania. No luck.

Comment from webgrunt

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Thanks for the info, Warren! I was being facetious about the lack of blood to the brain, but I wasn't aware there was a name for that nirvana-like state. Thanks again!

Comment from mathieu

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Just curious - what inspired you to sit in a chair with a coffee at 4am? Had you decided that you had to do something else with your life but didn't know what just yet?

Comment from way_paid

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So what you're saying is, if we want to write a book, we have to shower? Damn, I thought I got away from that requirement in Jr. High School!

Comment from Dooby

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An inspiring post - literally. I've been working on a project lately that I just have to get out of my head, so I identify with the feeling. But between work and family its been so hard to find time. After reading your post though, I got the notion of waking up at 5 in order to work on it before I head to my job in the morning. I did it for the first time this morning and it was amazing how clear-headed I was and how much I was able to get accomplished. Not being a morning person by nature I really didn't expect that to be the case. It's a no-brainer that I'll be doing this again tomorrow, and I just wanted to thank you for the suggestion.

Comment from Warren L

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@ Aardwizz: great post. @ webgrunt: The high in a food coma is not due to lack of blood. It's a serotonin boost from the insulinâ†’tryptophanâ†’serotoninâ†’melatonin cycle. I ain't no fatty but I loves ma food comas!! For more info wiki "food coma" or check http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/dieting.htm.

Comment from webgrunt

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Zim wrote: "You can eat two cookies, and that's fine, but once you get to four you start to feel ill, and if you eat six you're already way past that point." tragicmishap then wrote: "Strange. I don't start to feel ill until my tenth cookie. " Amateurs! No pain, no gain. You have to keep eating to push past the ill feeling--then you find more room in your stomach, much like a runner experiencing a second wind. If you do this regularly, you'll be able to increase your nausea threshold to the point where you can eat more cookies in one sitting than you ever thought possible, without any nausea! You can achieve a sort of eater's nirvana in which you experience bliss while your mind is empty of all thoughts. True, it could be just the trans fats and cholesterol clogging the arteries in your neck and the resulting high is due to starving the brain for blood, but it's all good.

Comment from SCTArep

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It's almost as if you're talking about 'destiny'.

Comment from nectarines

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Ah, !$%*! I put in several years of getting up before dawn for work, and now you're telling me I've got to do it again if I want to find a passion? At least the bakery was paying me! What comes first, anyway, talent or passion? How can you have a passion when you have no particular expressive abilities?

Comment from tragicmishap

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Strange. I don't start to feel ill until my tenth cookie.

Comment from AlanKrueger

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Scott has rediscovered the concept of a Muse.

Comment from another

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Thank you. That was what I needed to learn, when I needed to learn it. It will be copied and pasted into a document post haste. Thank you, again.