Psychology
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Time – clocks that don’t tick
Is a clock a clock if it does not work? A deliberate intervention prevents the mechanism from having the potential energy to move the hands, the batteries are removed, maybe it is just broken. My pal did this with a nice timepiece, a carriage clock his mother owned that she was bequeathed from an ex… 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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Revisiting mistruths
Every philosopher is on a quest to write something that changes the way the person who reads it thinks, a search for some compelling argument. Not truth as we might contend, persuasion would be a better term. What is verifiable through testing is scientific fact, those are not arguable in the same way as the… Continue reading
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A difficult question with an likely unsatisfactory answer..
So, trying to be as diplomatic as possible, and not get myself into trouble, I ask Em a question. It occurred to me that sometimes I considered that women are often irrational, and sometimes slaves to their current emotions in a way that men tend not to be. Now that is a generalisation, yes, but… 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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A very big picture, painted with a very small brush
Why are we all scared? Statistically we are safer than we have ever been. Pinker wrote the book “the better angels of our nature”, in it he claims that research has shown that this era is less violent, less cruel, and more peaceful than any period in history. Walking with my fiancé we discussed the… Continue reading
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Black and white perspectives
You don’t have to hate anything, hatred is a self harming emotion, you could be indifferent, apathetic, toward any subject or object you choose. I like cats, some people are not fond of them, but that is not the same thing as hating cats and everything about them. The person who says “I hate cats”… 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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Human moments, Human structures, Human folly…
We find ourselves at a funeral. Happening is a human moment, one of mourning, where people feel and express the emotions that come to them while they focus mostly on what the person who has died meant to them, and somewhat on the other people who are attending. They’re thinking they haven’t seen this or… Continue reading
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