philosophy
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An argument against Omission
I’m going to skip around certain political happenings in a post that doesn’t go anywhere or come to any conclusion. It’s just a wander around some of the things I wanted to say as if they were the unfinished, hardly started notes lying on a desk in no particular order. I may ramble, but as Continue reading
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When did we stop being reasonable?
Polarisation, the process where by one’s perspective is either wholly at one extreme of the spectrometer, or it is as far the other way from the equilibrium. For folks now it seems that commitment, surety projected, subjective position stated strongly as if it stands as a fact (an objective, demonstrable, and measurable reality), is what Continue reading
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Endings
I’ve been on a counselling course. Everything you learn in life is a good thing, even the hard lessons. This wasn’t one of those tough ones though, it was a surprisingly rewarding and interesting experience, and I’m glad I participated. Now I’m not going to review the course in this blog, much more interesting is Continue reading
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A horse to water
William Buckley’s words were sophisticated, maybe too much so for the audience he was speaking to, and certainly we would not recognise the style now as something we could relate to. Such assuredness and confidence oozing out of each elongated sentence, performance notes in the execution of every critical word, pauses timed and positioned with Continue reading
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Cortisol and insult
Cortisol, the stress hormone. I’m not a doctor, and I’m not one of those nitwits that has “done my own research” on the internet. There must be a reason to believe something, some science behind it. Luckily there is a lot of good evidence that how you feel psychologically will contribute chemically to how you Continue reading
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Cultivate happiness
Toll can write of how we need to be more settled, your therapist can tell you that you’re being destructive, you can realise this yourself, you can buy any number of books on how to change your life, drugs may give you temporary relief, the legal ones can dull your senses, so can alcohol, you Continue reading
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Links in a chain
I’m not going to try to give you, the reader, a business lesson. In this piece we are going to examine a mistake of perception instead. Unfortunately for both of us though, in order to spot the mistake we need to begin by understanding all the individual stopping points along the path between the initial Continue reading
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Directed shame
I wanted to explore an idea, that of shame being a weaponised human emotion. This thought came to me while talking to my partner Em about a social news article we heard in the car while going somewhere. Sparked by the subject matter I asked Em what she thought, as I often do, primarily because Continue reading
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The religion of Em
My partner Em has done much less research into religions than I have, because she doesn’t value argument the same way I do, yet she certainly is as strong an atheist as I am despite that fact, and she does make good points if pushed. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that she couldn’t Continue reading
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Uniqueness
I wished to explore the idea of uniqueness, the individual, the self and the myriad of differences between one self and another. What is it about persons that makes them them, given that we are all made mostly out of the same materials as each other, the dust from long gone stars according to Prof Continue reading
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