Belief: the ID Card That Gets You Into the After-Life Party |
Last week I re-watched "I Heart Huckabees." Although my ideas have significantly changed since I first saw it, I was still amused by the scene where the two main characters, Alfred and Tommy, have di...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 11:42:00 GMT |
If There Were No God ... Purpose and Pascals Wager |
I wrote this last spring and saved it on my computer with some other thoughts, so I'm not sure if I actually posted this or not. If I did, it's worth repeating. If I didn't, it's wort...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:50:00 GMT |
Thoughts for My Conservative Friends |
Judging from the influx of status updates on my friends list over the last 24 hours, half of my friends are passionate liberals who are relieved and jubilant that Barack Obama was elected president. ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:01:00 GMT |
Why Sarah Palin Terrifies Me |
Yet another post I made elsewhere but feel compelled to share. What can I say? I'm naive enough to believe that the American people want to listen to reason, rather than fear-mongering rhe...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:26:00 GMT |
Why I Support Barack Obama |
This is another post that I made elsewhere but feel I should expose to the widest possible audience.
For the first 23 years of my life I disdained politics. I thought it was nothing but an endless pa...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:24:00 GMT |
Why I Support Gay Marriage |
I've been cheating on MySpace, but with an upcoming election of increasing importance, I feel like I should repeat views that I've expressed elsewhere.
Let's start by talking about gay marriage. ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:20:00 GMT |
MySpace Surveys |
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Let's talk about surveys, those endless series of meaningless questions that permeate myspace bulletins and crowd out the few but brave genuine announcements that so...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:00 GMT |
Ethics and Beauty |
I spent four pages journalling about ethics - on what can we base a universal system of ethics, without resorting to an infantile system of rewards and punishments (heaven and hell in the afternoon, ...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:52:00 GMT |
Art Is Useless |
All art, as Oscar Wilde pointed out, is quite useless. And all useless things, as Stephen Fry pointed out, are what make life worth living.
Art is about shaping order from chaos, transforming ug...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:08:00 GMT |
New Age Philosophy |
It was one of those days. I was running late; I hit all the red lights on my way to class; my coffee mug of pens spilled all over the floor when I turned into the parking lot; I had to move...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:14:00 GMT |
