Monday, April 24, 2006
A Rambling Post of Many a Word
Philosophy is based fundamentally in science and math, yet it feels like it's a good hundred years behind any current advancements in either (most especially science). We still have people who argue that Kant's philosophical view is correct (or a modified version of it is), when it was clearly based on old logic and Newtonian mechanics (as well as old neuropsychology). It's... annoying. It seems the best way towards metaphysics is science.
Additionally, it feels as if someone needs to just read everyone else's papers/theses and come to some profound conclusions, as everyone is busy writing/publishing without taking in others' discoveries/ideas. Maybe you could major in it: BA in Idea Synthesis. Just like majoring in Interactive Media Studies (Thesis: "The Perils of Immortality: A Meditation on Planescape: Torment; A Rope of Sand").
And just today my old passion for Europa and the like came up. Being an cosmonaut would be interesting... being outside this bloated world of ideas, to see it all encapsulated so peacefully; our ideas so rich, our actions so poor...
I think my favorite pasttime is exploring wikipedia.
And if you ever wondered what goes on in Tom Cruise's head: Know the Truth! Know
Xenu!
I guess it's time to break out the
Gospel.
8:46 PM
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It's interesting how easy it is to entertain oneself with trivialities and simple distractions. The internet, computers, music, all make us uniquely vulnerable to feeding off of others' creativity and not contributing our own. We wait and wait until college or some other entity forces us into some quasi-creative mode of thinking.
If you are interested in doing something in college, after college, as a job or profession, you don't need to wait until then to learn about it or start it.
But this brings to light an entirely different problem: we do not wander for knowledge, or for power, but for recognition, and ideally from a member of the opposite sex.
Lost in Translation, Shaun of the Dead (the two most recent movies I've seen), both these movies play off our universal desire for a companion, at the loss towards greater recognition, knowledge, or understanding. We get our BA's in Philosophy to impress others with our uselessness, while a true philosopher would drop out of college and read Kierkegaard on his or her own. Money is used to impress others and ourselves by our ability to be 'better' than others. I love the studies that show how people who have the same income as the others around them, even if it is higher than they would usually have, are less happy than when they have less money but are relatively richer than those around them. Oh, the humanity.
Of course, self-contradiction is the first sign of consciousness.
-=- This came to my head while talking en linea, i.e. I wrote this the other night ago.
3:52 AM
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So it begins. This'll be less of a blog and more of a meetingplace for ideas and things created. Pero solamente si hables en la lengua de la tierra de la madre:
WALLA WALLA pow.
11:30 PM
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