Tag: philosophy.
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TRUTH WITHOUT AN ADVERTISING BUDGET
The need to order and organize our society comes before the need for truth. To think otherwise is to fall for a delusion – a delusion so common that like air, it fuels us without paying attention to it. Everything else serves this organisation agenda. Disorder, disagreement, and lack of cohesion trouble our souls as…
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THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE
Can someone explain your fascination with Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky to me? To me, these guys just play “stuff” – or noise. Yet I can’t stop the awe I feel when I see people commit themselves to their pieces. A composer’s fascination with these legends tells me more than I can describe. Yet, even they…
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CAUSAL OPACITY: MAKE ELASTIC EFFORTS IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
CAUSAL OPACITY There are consequences for being wrong. There are consequences for taking the wrong steps. Dangers exist for making the wrong decisions. And worse, there are effects of reactions based on those decisions. I think, and I am sure that every sensible person will agree with me that there are unbearable consequences for insisting…
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LEGACY: THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD IS FOR THE LIVING
In the absence of an afterlife, your memory and legacy no longer serves you. Materialists know this so they do not hesitate to desecrate all that they can. But if this reminder should serve any purpose, it is that you should still choose to live in a way that preserves your memory for the living.…
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF ADDICTION
The Philosophy of addiction The topic of addictions is a hot one. That is because like bad news, the negatives provoke more attention. Let’s then visit the nature and philosophy of addictions. Introduction: Tradeoffs At the point of writing this essay, I cannot conceive of any addiction that is a good thing. We use the…
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