My painting of life… A giant cylindrical pit, reaching upwards eternally, and every soul who has ever existed is thrown into it. At first it was chaotic: everyone clambered for the top, pulling others down in order to push themselves up. People screaming in pain, clawing in desperation, contorted, eternally struggling, and rarely achieving the [...]
Walter raised his head, dropped his pen, stared from his chair into some empty space. Why this note? Why such a long poem of reasons and justifications, if he was to simply throw it away, to tear himself from the world with a spasm of a trigger finger? He read back to himself what he [...]
“Must have been strong warrior human man to be able to beat down a Klingon woman!” Jokes often have an element of tragedy. Life is cruel and brutal more often than it’s sweet and endearing; a hearty soul knows a good laugh. It’s natural and right for the suffering of others to bring forth our [...]
An Illustrative Hypothetical Question to Feed Your Thoughts Which would be a more effective deterrent against crime: a well-armed populace of people willing to assert their freedoms, or the threat of governmental punishment? After your knee-jerk response, whichever it is, take a second to really think it over because it’s a close question. If a [...]
Make a widget on the right to highlight particular posts Begin to arrange my “categories” around central philosophical ideas I wish to expand upon (e.g. “Everything is Dangerous,” my epistemological thesis that everything we know is probably wrong, and my Kant-ish theory that reality is infinitely complex, so any attempts to describe, understand, or even [...]
…all? Humans, like other animals, act to fullfill their desires. Humans are unlike other animals in that they can consciously choose whether or not to pursue a certain desire, for whatever reason they want. They may pursue a set of rules by which to live: a morality. There is no one overarching morality to which [...]
Time is finite and infinitely valuable. How a person uses her time ultimately reflects back on that person. So why should anyone spend their time reading this blog? ABG is Content-Focused Most blogs are results-oriented: the focus of the author is usually on what they wish and expect to get from their blog (e.g. attention, [...]