I was probably having a bad day. The day after my birthday, curiously. I still have days like this.
Anti-social
I. You. Them. Us.
Society is … the average of all the people you know. It is the melange of all the media you ingest. It is the virus in your computer, and in your blood, and in […]
Read: Self-Image Psychology, chapter two of a book on how to change the world by changing perceptions: Why Not Utopia?.
I have to ask. I always have to ask. And what is the question?
What is the point?
The great question of philosophy, subtly re-phrased: what is the point of life? It’s just a way of asking, What should I do? What is important? How do I decide? Once I’ve decided, how do I respond? What are […]
The vast mass of the average. Their minds little more than a tedious litany of likes and dislikes, and a few tired schemes relating to them.
I suppose one can only divide people up, meaningfully, by the nature, complexity and subtlety of their likes (concrete and abstract), the schemes they invent (versus imitate) to get them, […]
Can you hear it? Do you wear it? Will you reach for it?
It’s a great responsibility. To seek it. To honour it. To listen to it. What is true? What is right? What is good? Can you ask these questions? Can you answer them? Have you considered them? Or have you just filled in the […]
Nothing stops us. Nothing drives us.
We simply go.
The universe is inscrutable. So why do we try to understand it? Why do we ask why? There is no answer, but we search anyway, because searching is what we do. Those of us who search for nothing in nothing. We find it, and yet we continue to […]
I’ve only read the introduction, but wanted to post about it immediately, as I’m impulsive and excited by claims about knowing or understanding the truth about existence. It’s called The Wholeness of the World.
Personally, I think (/feel/believe) that is time to re-consider the entire enterprise of truth-seeking and philosophy, and question the underlying motivation for […]
(or, How to Make Sense of Yourself, part II)
Disclaimer: What follows are my thoughts on love. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I am just a person who likes to think seriously, analytically, about what is important to me. For me, serious thinking is a natural way to express what matters to me. […]
“Humanism is a broad category of active ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on our ability to determine what is right using the qualities innate to humanity, particularly rationality. Humanism is a component of a variety of more specific philosophical systems.”
The opposing view: Anti-humanism.
My own interpretation is that humanism […]
(or, How to Make Sense of the World, part II)
Other people. I only just scratched the surface of other people two posts ago. I had been thinking about something else before I started to write that, and then I got overruled by the logic of my ideas, and just went with it.
Where I want to […]