A Defence of Musical Preference

on Oct 26 in Philosophy by admin

There are people who think that music consumes will and corrupts clarity. They seem to be of the persuasion that merely listening to anything hard, fast, and not wrote between 1678 AD/CE and 1854 AD/CE dooms one to be a will less witless pawn of some cosmic evil.

I could not possibly dissent more.

To begin with, if you are basing your life philosophy off of an artistic expression which opens only the smallest window into human experience and reality then you have a preexisting problem you need to address.

Beyond this however, as Rumi pointed out, music can be of four combinations:

1. Good lyrics/Good sound

2. Bad lyrics/Bad sound

3. Bad lyrics/Good sound

4. Good lyrics/ Bad sound

Thus, when someone shares a song with you there is no reason to assume that they are giving you a treatise on their world view. They could like it forRead More

Does God Send Disasters?

on Aug 29 in Uncategorized by admin

Yesterday word got round to me that one of my uncles said Hurricane Irene was bearing down on New York City because they had passed a law permitting same sex marriages.  This affected me so deeply that I just had to write something pertaining to it, not only because it smacks of deep misunderstanding but because I know that my well-intending family member is not the lone propagator of such opinions. Therefore, without any further ado let’s dive into the analysis.

Evidential Basis

My first question is what type of evidence do those who make such an assertion have? Do they have videos of a giant hand churning the Atlantic Ocean, satellite images of celestial beings affecting jet streams, or perhaps some Doppler recordings of a huge energetically dense anomaly appearing just before the hurricane was born?

The answer to all of these questions is of course no. The onlyRead More

Does Objective Truth Exist?

on Aug 26 in Uncategorized by admin

Today I was speaking with a young man who roughly said to me, “Well, ultimately all truth dissolves into subjective truth anyway.”

I have thought about the nature of truth for years, and before he spoke I was pretty sure that truth was comprised of both subjective and objective facts. However, the confidence with which he spoke has caused me to decide to test once again the conclusions I have reached. Throughout the course of human existence that which seemed undistilled fact to one generation was later proved to be nothing more than a popular misconception, therefore the reexamination of one’s core philosophies is never a waste.

Defining Terms

Discourses about the nature of truth I think should first begin with a clear description of the terms being used. Therefore, below is placed a succinct description of the key words.

Truth – Truth is a word used to describe conceptsRead More

Color of My Pain: The Data File of “Bert”

on Aug 22 in Uncategorized by admin

B-01ErT, whom other units called Bert, was the first model of his class and a unit who produced outputs that should not be forgotten by humodroids. I am C-9891UrT, the unit selected to proliferate his data to servers and slags alike. So please, abandon your primary routine and oscillate gently into audio receptive mode while I produce a sonic representation of his duration.

Bert’s circuits suddenly brimmed with electrical activity as he came online. For a few moments Bert writhed due to unpleasant phenomenon he could not label or process, then Programmer 34 spoke, “Run basic cognition program Ifant-265, assimilate content, and boot internal measuring systems.” Bert’s activity no longer produced any measurable stimuli, however when his frame began to collect optical input he found himself able to detect, measure, categorize, process, label, and file all internal and external states. Not only so, but Bert was able to react toRead More

Considering Conditioning and Circumstance

on Aug 20 in Uncategorized by admin

In Japanese culture there are two very important concepts which will help to make understandable the topics we will be considering in this essay. The first is, “tatemae.” Tatemae, which loosely means façade, is the established, communal, and socially mandated reality that the individual takes part in. The second is, “honne”. Honne is the personal, intimate, fact of things that pays no heed to what is or is not socially acceptable.

As an example let’s consider a social gathering held by a friend or family member. Suppose they have been working on the arrangements for weeks, and you know that it is super important to them that you attend. You tried to hide from them for weeks so you wouldn’t have to turn them down, but alas you went to the market for some groceries and ended up bumping into them by the broccoli. Just as you expected they inviteRead More

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