Consumer or Consumed? |
Ive been reading about people as information consumers. Then the table is turned. Information consumes our attention. We now have a flood of information and were drowning in it. As people have the ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:33:00 GMT |
The Fates |
A few weeks ago I was part of a conversation that has haunted me. The concept discussed was so foreign too me, so far removed from the way I think and feel about life. To me, time is incredibly preci...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 17:25:00 GMT |
Free will v fatalism |
Belief in free will ignores that fact that all your decisions are built on the choices of your ancestors, your community, your friends, your influences and your frame of mind&
Belief in fatal...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 03:30:00 GMT |
Nietzsche: God is Dead |
Hmm, here's another Nietzsche thought. All mythology and religion is created by its source society in order to unify and guide. Many people feel they need to belong to a unified community wh...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:46:00 GMT |
A Satisfying Life |
The old English Professor, Faber, in Fahrenheit 451 is a brilliant character. He outlines the three things that are needed for a satisfying life.
First - Quality of Thought. Exposure to idea...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:59:00 GMT |
Fahrenheit 451 |
I didn't realise that Fahrenheit 451 was a book, written in 1953, that speaks of the present in such a prophetic and frightening way. The movie had dated badly, but I'm giving the book a go and m...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:03:00 GMT |
music for the soul |
I find it amazing how each person, most people, find a type of music which just speaks to them, and how it is so different for everyone. What is it about that one type of music that makes it...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:25:00 GMT |
Give us back our pride! Nietzsche on Christianity |
God did not create man, but man created God... but to take this further, man created God and then gave to this God our own positive qualities. This has evolved now into a ideology damaging to our ps...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:50:00 GMT |
Nietzsche and House |
I've been reading about Nietzsche and I keep thinking of House. I don't know enough about Nietzsche to decide if there is a direct correlation, but still, I keep thinking of House.
I've read that Nie...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:48:00 GMT |
Ode to Squeegy Beckenheim |
Oh, how I thank you! Let me count the ways.
thank you for counter hockey, runaway deer and Pippy Longstocking,thank you for guilty pleasures, movie nights and pizza,thank you for town meetings an...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:28:00 GMT |
