Category: Philosophy

Investigations in truth, knowledge, reality, existence, metaphysics, epistemology.

My Morning Jacket sings George Berkeley

I admire the ideas of George Berkeley. He’s probably misunderstood. He probably didn’t think what he was saying was the absolute nature of reality in it’s precise form. He merely brought to the surface that you can be completely sane and logical and believe that the physical doesn’t exist (or more accurately, that the material… Continue reading My Morning Jacket sings George Berkeley

Metaepistemology and Undomesticated Humans

Does knowledge derive from reality or its disparity between conflict? Or even as a denial that they are polar opposites? Does knowledge come from perceptions? “To be is to be perceived or to perceive” George Berkeley came up with this, meaning that something only exists, in the particular way that it is seen to exist,… Continue reading Metaepistemology and Undomesticated Humans

Hallucinate without Drugs (Perceive New Dimensions)

Before I get criticized for using the word hallucination, I’d like to point out that illusion and hallucination are different, but they share a bit in common. The first (illusion) meaning you perceive something the wrong way, and the latter meaning you have a vision of something without any sightly cause to promote it (a… Continue reading Hallucinate without Drugs (Perceive New Dimensions)

Music and Politics

Politics in music can be: a political front, where political ideology writes the music before artistic expression is considered. An example would be a singer who writes songs specifically for a party (to gain acceptance by a political party or to affect swing states or something stupid). A sub-category might be songwriters writing Christian songs… Continue reading Music and Politics

Partial Death Abortion

Fetally speaking, I’m well past my 100th trimester (three-month term) since I’m over 20 years of age. Today in one of my classes, we were discussing the legalese of Roe v. Wade and recent law pertaining to abortion. From a legal standpoint (and in order to have relevance for the government to be involved), there… Continue reading Partial Death Abortion

Self-Awareness Experiment

What would life be like if you constantly were confronted by your immediate self? A better memory, maybe. By providing instant feedback, I think we’d be self-aware of everything. The repetition would at least for a time make us think more about what we are doing. If you were always reflected back to your consciousness,… Continue reading Self-Awareness Experiment

Blogging Less Says More

I notice that traffic-hungry bloggers and web-savvy advertisers tend to follow SEO marketing schemes of creating filler content and fluffing up word count. They claim that it will keep visitors satisfied and search engines will flock to their precious keywords which will increase click-through rates. The latter may be true, but the former is problematic.… Continue reading Blogging Less Says More

Absolute Freedom of Present

This article is written to inspect the conflicts of freedom, and foreknowledge of God, and to propose some alternate ideas extending beyond orthodox theories of divine timelessness and monolism. I wrote this article before reading a segment of Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” written in 524 AD, which deals with the same topic. His explanation is… Continue reading Absolute Freedom of Present

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