Before I make any further comment: Rand was wrong about Homosexuality as I have previously stated. Why she was wrong is the issue. Recently, as a result of people reading the immenently accessible works of Terry Goodkind, himself an Objectivist there has sprung up yet another variation on the theme. Which is fine as far as it goes. "Reasonism" is the name of their belief system, and it's clearly based on the immature understandings of Rand that one would get from being able to read Ter...
What do I mean by this statement? Well I’ve touched on this before. But consider the concept of video. There are basically two ways to produce video that we can watch. The first uses successive frames of a complete image drawn (or otherwise) frame by frame. Run them fast enough and the human brain can’t deal with it and it sees it as fluid motion. The second way is to use pixels. Each pixel contains 3 sub pixels. Red Green and Blue. Each of these sub pixels can either be ON or OFF. (In...
If Peace Be Your Purpose then the inevitable outcome is death. If freedom, absolute, non-contradictory freedom, be your purpose the inevitable outcome is peace. If you care, think on these statements and tell me why they are right.
I admit it, I'm hooked on House. It's fantastic! Dr. House is like me except a doctor and with a limp So tonight's episode had House in a battle against a slick talking doctor who had made a diagnosis (that was wrong) and one of House's staff was buddies with this guy. Well House KNEW it was wrong, and fought for his opinion. The guy on his staff (Omar Epps) got a job offer. House talks to him about it, and Omar says "you could do with a little humility" or something along those line...
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -- Nitzche Taken from the "I want it, therefore it's good" man, but none the less, even Hitler made a good point sometimes.... "Never attribute to malace that which can be adiquately explained by incompetence." -- Hitler Thanks Sonya!
Yes, you can prove the subjectivist position incorrect. To summarize their point of view for those that haven’ttaken a philosophy course and aren’t aware how badly you have been hoodwinked(they will try and twist this around and hide this, but boil down the wordsthat they say, extend it to its logical conclusion and this is what you get): There is no such thing as universal truth except that there is no universal truth. We’re all wrong, we can’t ever be right about ...
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, ...
Ok, so I'm going to piss off pretty much every segment of the population except for the thinking kind in this one article. (As if I didn't already do that in the last one) So if you don’t want to get pissed off, please don’t read this. (I might piss off thinking people too because I’m in a really sarcastic mood…) Objectivists: Ayn Rand was wrong. Totally and completely wrong at least once (well more than once, but I'll get to that later). The contradiction is hit you over the head obvious...
Yes, under the losers are losers for a reason file: Woman on welfare with 3 kids and no husband (dead beat too aparently) finds $40,000 in cash. Turns in money. Gets reward of $2000.00. News media loves it, great Christmas story and all because hey, poor person wins lottery is marginally ethical. (miracle) Law in Ontario says that whatever you make while on welfare gets deducted from your welfare. Media exposes, boo hiss!!! Government aquiesses and does rowsing speach on rewarding h...
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst . . . Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." ...
Ok, so it always seems to come down to this one thing with religion and then the religous nuts argue that you just have a belief too, just as they do and you can't be sure you're any more right because of the old chicken and egg. Chicken and Egg theory... CONTRADICTION. No matter what belief you have, big bang started the universe or God did, you still have the chicken and the egg. If God created the universe, who created God? Occam's Razor comes into effect here. (And Christians fa...
Lately I’ve been watching as people get more and more upset and argumentative fighting over who’s right, democrats or republicans. I’ve also been watching so many other arguments to the point of stupidity about which cell phone system is better… All of it has a common thread. There is a continual “that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong” implied corollary to everything everyone says but at the same time, the division between people because of the arguments is surreal. The PC attitude has ...
Yes, I know I was going to write a whole pile of stuff and I’ll get back to it eventually. But I think this important. It’s the false assumption that is the basis for almost all thought in the world. It’s the concept of “the greater good”. Sorry, but the greater good doesn’t exist. It’s a contradiction in terms and the only result is mediocrity, and slavery. Yes I said SLAVERY. We’ve been creating ever more ingenious ways to enslave portions of our society, throughout history. The Romans ...