February 2011
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Craigxistentialism
Anyone who reads my posts, quotes or re-blogs has probably noticed that I have a slight obsession with the writing of Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche, and existentialism in general.
It started when I was in college. I needed an extra class in my schedule, and decided to take one in existentialist thought just because it seemed interesting and I didn’t know anything about it. It...
“Life has no meaning a priori. Before you live it, life is nothing, but it is for...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1943 (via ruinawish)
January 2011
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“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via nightonthesun)
Anonymous asked: I thought it would be cool if you debated with this Christian man.
http://niquelejon.tumblr.com/
http://niquelejon.tumblr.com/
Here is an example of stupidity:
cabdriver:
Asking someone to “prove there is no god”. Prove that something does NOT exist? That’s dumber than ad hominem. That’s ad ignorant.
Its dumb to just declare that something exists and then defy other people to prove that it doesn’t. You can do that with anything. I can just claim that there is an invisible and intangible elephant in the room, and refuse to admit that it...
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What if thy neighbor is a jerk?
“Love thy neighbor”
That is a statement of self-hatred. Not in that you are being selfless, but in that you are supposing that you should only and always feel love toward everyone. You are saying “these are the good, acceptable parts of myself”, the love, acceptance and generosity, and “these are the shitty parts that I shouldn’t have”, the anger, the...
““All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish...”
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, pt. 1, “The Author’s Profession of Faith” (1794)
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
– Carl Sagan (via psol89)
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things;...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Captain of the Future →
I have finally finished writing Captain of the Future. Hecks yes.
“Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions. (via latemailplatemail)
"Everything happens for a reason."
jessica731:
I hate this phrase. It does not comfort me. It pisses me off.
Addendum: I don’t mind it if it implies cause and effect. I dislike it when it implies that the “reason” is something dictated by fate, a higher power, or universal meaning.
“Knowledge is when you know a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is when you know not to...”
– Philosophy teacher, who got it from somewhere else that I cant remember. (via maliceandfriends)
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On Purpose
(Wooo, this is my 50th post)
The stock philosophical question is “what is the meaning of life?”.
I don’t think that this is a valid question. To say that life has a set meaning, that there is some purpose inscribed into humanity suggests an idea of intelligent design. For a purpose to exist, there would have to be something that understood and declared that purpose in the...
New blog post: Insomnia http://goo.gl/fb/0TZJ0
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“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my...”
– Carl Rogers
“You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new...”
– Buckminster Fuller
via @eglinski
(via metaconscious)
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Discussion
What exactly does it mean to have “depth”? Do you think there is something to it? Or is it just jerks trying to justify their lifestyles and feel like they are better than so-called “shallow” people?
GIVE YOUR OPINIONS TO ME.
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Humans suck at sleeping
Humans basically suck at sleeping. I watch my cat, and he can sleep on any surface and whenever he feels like it, and that works fine for him.
Humans get thrown off if they have changes in their sleep schedule. And we still get into awkward sleeping positions even though we are on a huge cushion, with another one to prop our heads up and a huge piece of cloth over us. My cat can sleep on the...
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane....”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via politefight)
cannabalistic-muffin asked: Really? That's very interesting. I can't imagine a religious professor not knowing. I was taught that at the Jewish school I used to go to. I feel the same about the empty motions. Just doing something because some old book tells you to bothered me.
cannabalistic-muffin asked: Just a comment on your post on Athiesm and neckties...
I was also raised Jewish and am now athiest. All religions cherish tradition and tradition is not necessarily a bad thing. Yes, refraining from eating pork now seems stupid but wearing a yarmulke does have meaning for the religious. It is a symbolic seperation between man and God. I actually envy religious people. They have this...
I was also raised Jewish and am now athiest. All religions cherish tradition and tradition is not necessarily a bad thing. Yes, refraining from eating pork now seems stupid but wearing a yarmulke does have meaning for the religious. It is a symbolic seperation between man and God. I actually envy religious people. They have this...
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Censorship and superstition
If there is one political issue that really raises my blood pressure, its censorship. A lot of people see censorship as a simple omission of something, but it is more than that.
If you blur out nudity on a tv show, you are doing more than just omitting it. You are saying something about it. You are pushing the idea that it is wrong and shameful.
What gets censored in the media in American...
“…If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll...”
– Bruce Lee (via jmajick)
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“Love is impaired less by the feeling that we are not appreciated than by a...”
– Karl Menninger
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Online gallery of Zdzisław Beksiński's artwork →
Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish surrealist painter. One of my favorites.
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The inherent flaw of pancake stacks
So I have a stack of 3 pancakes. I pour syrup on them. The top pancake directly gets the syrup poured on it. The bottom pancake absorbs the syrup that drips onto the plate. But…what about the middle pancake??
This is why stacking pancakes in any number greater than 2 is a fool’s breakfast design.
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“Religious misery is in one way the expression of real misery, and in another a...”
– Karl Marx
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Atheism and neckties
I really hate neckties. And not just because they are uncomfortable. Because they serve no purpose whatsoever. They are just a weird thing that you tie around your neck. They used to have a purpose, they held together the high collars on suits back in the day. But now we just keep them around out of tradition.
That is a lot of the reason why Judaism never appealed to me. It was a lot of...
“Because each new generation of children is taught that religious propositions...”
– Sam Harris, “The End of Faith” (via atheos)
Someone just re-blogged my last post “The Problem of Evil”, and added what seems to be two guys IMing each other in German about whether the Xbox 360 or the Wii is a better system.
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The Problem of Evil
“The problem of evil” is a philosophical topic, basically wondering why bad things happen.
Why wouldn’t they? Should the random movements of atoms moving though space do anyone any favors? I think “evil” is only a problem to people who are thinking in theological terms. Yeah, if you see the universe as created and controlled by a supremely benevolent and...
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“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre,
The Age of Reason.
(via innerword)
“Life has handed me a fair share of lemons. I have decided to make grape juice...”
– Jessica Rosario (via poetryfromtrufloetry)
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“Once you damn an individual, including yourself, for having or lacking any trait...”
– Albert Ellis
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out...”
– R.D. Laing (via postpisceanpsychedelicclub)
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Writing
I am almost finished with writing the last part of Captain of the Future. I am happy that I managed to combine the thrills of a physics lecture with the excitement of a guy wandering around and describing things.
I’ve never tried to write science fiction before this, but it is really a goddamn fun genre to write.
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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via livelovebark)
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