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Category Archives: Philosophy
Philosophical (and sometimes metaphysical) meanderings…
Failure
The first step towards failure is believing failure is impossible.
The second step is believing failure is the only possible outcome.
Will mankind die out or are we in a computer simulation?
The Fermi Paradox is, in essence an assumption (via for instance the Drake Equation) that, because our galaxy contains a large number of stars like our sun that are billions of years older than our sun, and that some of those stars have Earth-like planets, and that those planets, in turn, might give rise to intelligent life, then the galaxy should, by now be overrun by extraterrestrial intelligent life.
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The Whole World In Your Hands
Whenever you shampoo your hair, you’ve got the whole world in your hands…
I was thinking about a TV-show where a character was shaving and singing “He’s got the whole world in his hands.”
Apparently, he was also putting on the aftershave belonging to his girlfriend’s ex-husband.
I was thinking about this while in the shower and it hit me. Given his cocky behavior, the “he” in his song might have referred to he, himself.
I.e. “I’ve got the whole world in my hands…”
At that moment I was shampooing my hair and I realized that, indeed, I did have the whole world in my hands. At least as far as to the concept of you all being in my world. (Woahahaha).
Of course, when you think about the world, we’re all in your world. However, of course, I’m always in my world because I’m special! 😀
Defining moments
Defining/scary moments in life:
- The first time you realize mom and dad don’t have all the answers.
- The first time you realize your doctor doesn’t have all the answers.
- The first time you realize there are questions that have no answers.
Will this ever fucking end?
– Will this ever fucking end?
– It’s called life, and it always ends.
Choices
One choice eliminates endless possibilities, that’s why choosing is so scary. As much as we’d like to postpone choices in order to keep our options open, abstaining from choosing is also making a choice, it’s usually a choice to give up control.
Genius
Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
/Arthur Schopenhauer
Hard to explain…
Things worth explaining are seldom that easy to explain.
Why the death penalty is wrong
I’ve spent some time thinking about the death penalty and why it’s such a bad idea. Some of my reasons are:
- People aren’t one hundred percent perfect one hundred percent of the time, and the death penalty is a one hundred percent permanent punishment
- You can’t give life back to the dead, so maybe you shouldn’t be so eager to take it from the living?
- Isn’t the death penalty just another kind of murder? And what gives the executioner the right to do something no one else is allowed to do?
- You can’t compare murderers to wild animals in order to justify the death penalty because people aren’t animals!
- Neither religion nor nature really grants us the right for revenge or any other way to kill someone else
- Personal reasons and lust for revenge is not a valid reason to ask for a perpetrator to be executed–personally involved people aren’t even allowed to serve as judges or in any other official capacity in the court proceedings, the sentencing or the punishment (the term is “disqualification,”) why should personal reasons be used to demand the death penalty?
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