philosophy
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Clean hands and plural inaction
This is not going to be a post on the rights and wrongs of having a death penalty, we in Britain do not. I fancied flexing my philosophical muscles a little bit, so I thought I might do a few posts using the materials I developed during the years I studied. My output has become Continue reading
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The enemy of now
“Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the current misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children” – Robert Tressall, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. I love the now, I’m happy and I love my life, love my wife in Continue reading
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Gawking
Forgive me for this one, I am just wandering with a thought as I write it, there is no purpose but to think out loud. Everything is arguable… So, let’s say I am a woman, I’m not and don’t claim to be, but let’s imagine I am, just long enough to examine a theory. Can Continue reading
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Our outrageous fortune
The worst person is they that would exploit, make profit from, and wish praise for dealing with, the miseries you and I cannot conquer alone. No evil exists more than that which wishes your sickness to enable it’s remedy, and no person is so depraved that their validation is not gained without the existence of Continue reading
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You are in my tribe
Even though all wearable overtly labelled clothing is trying to appeal to you, the buyer, I think there may be an important distinction to be found in the motivation behind the purchase. These are tribal identifiers, no different from the bodily tattoos of a Māori or an Aztec or a modern gang member or motorbike Continue reading
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Strategy for a post-truth existence
I’ve got to admit to struggling to get my head around the now. I thought maybe it was a generational thing, and there may be some truth to that yes. However, if I am honest, if we are still allowed to be honest, I think the issue might be that I do not have a Continue reading
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A good life
The most important philosophy is the good life, unfortunately nobody has ever been able to define what this is satisfactorily. Every philosopher in history has been trying to give humanity their take on what is the best way to live, personally, spiritually, or structurally. Mozi is the origin of the golden rule, where the treatment Continue reading
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A changing river
“No man ever steps in the same river twice” Heraclitus Meaning that everything changes, all the time. The river you stepped in that one time has changed now, it may be the same river nominally, but it is not made of the same material. The water and the fish are not the same, the banks Continue reading
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Negativity is positivity
What is it to be negative? Is it to hope that bad outcomes arise, is it to make bad outcomes arise, is it to deride achievement or to downgrade the now, the present, in language so as to represent it in a way that is overly miserable? Is negativity found in bitter resentments and nasty Continue reading
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A writing wish
If there is one TV series I wish I’d written it would be black mirror, it’s just so fudging clever. Most Sci-fi and fantasy, not sure this is the correct genre, postulates the idea of an alternative, a future trajectory, a misunderstood past event, or a clean slate after a disaster. Some imagine myths, some Continue reading
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