Many years ago today something grew
inside of your mother...
That thing was you
YOU
YOU YOU YOU YOU
Did she scream did she cry
Only those that are born are the ones that
Get to die
One more year closer to dying
Rotting organs ripping grinding
Biological discordance
Birthday equals self abhorrence
Years keep passing aging always
Mutate into vapid slugs
Doctor gives a new perscription
Bullet in a fucking gun
One more year closer to dying
Plastic surgeons fuel the lying
You forget why you came in here
Your mind rots with every New Year
RSVP PLEASE
For the DETH of thee
You have little time
And you're running out of life
Happy Birthday
You're gonna die
Now you're old and full of hatred
Take a pill to masturbatred
Children point to you and scream
Because they will become that thing
One more year of further suffering
There's no point of fucking bluffing
Open up your DETHDAY present
It's a box of fucking nothing
RSVP PLEASE
For the DETH of thee
You have little time
And you're running out of life
DIE DIE
DETHDAY
BIRTHDAY
DETHDAY
DIE DIE
DETHDAY
BIRTHDAY
DETHDAY
RSVP PLEASE
For the DETH of thee
You have little time
And you're running out of life
Happy Birthday
You're gonna die
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Just my opinion
People keep saying I'm arrogant for claiming so, but it is my firm opinion that jumping off of tall buildings without any sort of parachute or whatnot...is just bound to end badly. Of course, I've never tested this opinion myself and I've, thankfully, never seen it put to the test by anyone else. However, no matter how much people tell me that it's possible to float if you really believe, I simply can't bring myself to even consider their opinion as anything but bat asshattery.
It is true. I can't logically prove that it's impossible to float. Really, I never said it was impossible to begin with. It's just that based on what I know of how the world works, it simply is not so. If you jump off a bridge, you will fall. I say this with absolute certainty though of course I must always admit that it is a logically indefensible position. I've always considered that a rather pedantic point though.
Of course, I've always said, "Go ahead, jump and show me," but nobody to date has been willing. "I don't need to jump. I don't test my faith. If I jump for you then by jumping I admit that there's reasonable doubt and there is none. Furthermore, by jumping I would then know and by knowing lose my faith." When I throw up my hands and say, "Well I sure as hell ain't going to jump and I really find your claims to be quite insane," they of course insist I'm being quite arrogant and insulting. I don't really know what to do with that.
What really bothers me though is when I watch how these people go around convincing others that what they're saying is true. Worse still, they insist on telling their children that they can fly. I just want to scream every time I see them doing it. It takes every amount of willpower to keep from slapping them across the face and demanding to know by what rational they believe it right to tell children such things. Is it right for me to sit idly by knowing that these children are being lied to and that the lies they are being told will effect how they approach life as adults? It is, of course, just my opinion but still...every ounce of my intellect tells me that what these children are being told is incorrect and dangerous.
Then there are those among the "helium heads", as I call them, that admit the proposition is absurd. They tell me, "But it makes some people feel better to believe they can fly. Who are you to insist that they subscribe to the same truth that you do, a position I find rather disturbing and morally underwhelming?" I just don't know what to say to that either. Believe what you want I guess, but if you jump you are going to die. Furthermore, why insist on believing in something that you know is absurd and that you know can never really effect your life in any way until you test it, something you are unwilling to do? What about thinking you can fly makes your outlook better than mine and why do you think my life is less fulfilling because I hold the opinion that thinking you can fly is just nuts?
It's really quite disturbing to me that so many people are like this. They think they can fly and that I'm somehow less of a person because I just don't buy it. Worse, they say I'm arrogant because I hold what they call an indefensible position that is essentially unprovable and keep insisting that their position is up for debate and should be confronted at every opportunity.
What do you think? How should I approach this situation?
It is true. I can't logically prove that it's impossible to float. Really, I never said it was impossible to begin with. It's just that based on what I know of how the world works, it simply is not so. If you jump off a bridge, you will fall. I say this with absolute certainty though of course I must always admit that it is a logically indefensible position. I've always considered that a rather pedantic point though.
Of course, I've always said, "Go ahead, jump and show me," but nobody to date has been willing. "I don't need to jump. I don't test my faith. If I jump for you then by jumping I admit that there's reasonable doubt and there is none. Furthermore, by jumping I would then know and by knowing lose my faith." When I throw up my hands and say, "Well I sure as hell ain't going to jump and I really find your claims to be quite insane," they of course insist I'm being quite arrogant and insulting. I don't really know what to do with that.
What really bothers me though is when I watch how these people go around convincing others that what they're saying is true. Worse still, they insist on telling their children that they can fly. I just want to scream every time I see them doing it. It takes every amount of willpower to keep from slapping them across the face and demanding to know by what rational they believe it right to tell children such things. Is it right for me to sit idly by knowing that these children are being lied to and that the lies they are being told will effect how they approach life as adults? It is, of course, just my opinion but still...every ounce of my intellect tells me that what these children are being told is incorrect and dangerous.
Then there are those among the "helium heads", as I call them, that admit the proposition is absurd. They tell me, "But it makes some people feel better to believe they can fly. Who are you to insist that they subscribe to the same truth that you do, a position I find rather disturbing and morally underwhelming?" I just don't know what to say to that either. Believe what you want I guess, but if you jump you are going to die. Furthermore, why insist on believing in something that you know is absurd and that you know can never really effect your life in any way until you test it, something you are unwilling to do? What about thinking you can fly makes your outlook better than mine and why do you think my life is less fulfilling because I hold the opinion that thinking you can fly is just nuts?
It's really quite disturbing to me that so many people are like this. They think they can fly and that I'm somehow less of a person because I just don't buy it. Worse, they say I'm arrogant because I hold what they call an indefensible position that is essentially unprovable and keep insisting that their position is up for debate and should be confronted at every opportunity.
What do you think? How should I approach this situation?
Friday, April 30, 2010
Teleological
When I look at the world around us I am forced to conclude that the entire thing was created by a vast and diabolical mind. Living beings are forced to survive through the murder and devouring of other living beings. Only one such living being cares enough to lessen the suffering of the devoured being: humans. The squid, for example, feeds on its prey by slowly pulling into its beak where it shreds the helpless creature one small bite at a time. The wolf will hunt down the weak and the pack feeds while the poor, screaming caribou lies helpless on the ground before them. This terrible struggle between the eaters and the eaten is the very gear-works of life.
And rabbits eat their own feces.
The abject horror of existence leads to one inescapable conclusion: this world could only have been created by Cthulhu, the ancient one who's very waking causes terror and insanity. One day this sleeping God will awaken to shatter our insolent and arrogant notions of the divine.
And rabbits eat their own feces.
The abject horror of existence leads to one inescapable conclusion: this world could only have been created by Cthulhu, the ancient one who's very waking causes terror and insanity. One day this sleeping God will awaken to shatter our insolent and arrogant notions of the divine.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Victim of my Brain
This is a great documentary anyone interested in human intelligence should watch. It's loosely based on Hofstadter's book, The Mind's I.
But I want to talk about the saying itself. Many people of the naturalistic bent will make the claim that they are just victims of their brain. It's hard to figure what they mean by this because it doesn't seem to make much sense. What are "they" if not their brain? Are "they" some other entity that just has to watch the goings on of the brain? Where is this entity and of what is it composed?
I've never really gotten any answers to these questions. Fact is that "we" are our brains. The I that is a victim of its brain is the very brain it is a victim of. All you are claiming is that you are a victim of yourself. This is part of what I believe is behind the illusion of non-free-will.
Many people will claim that there's no such thing as free will but will then admit that we have an "illusion" of free will. It is their contention that our choices are but "illusions" and that we really have to choice at all. Now, it must be granted that there are many demonstrative cases when this is true; we think we have a choice but we find that outside forces have conspired to assure that we'd make the choice THEY want.
But this is not what they are referring to. They are referring to the fact that the calculations that occur within our brains to derive a choice are all governed by physical processes. But again, they are distancing themselves from these physical processes, as if they themselves where not physical processes. The thing that calculates the decision is the very same thing that observes it: the brain.
What sense does it make to say that you have an illusion of free will? If you have a choice to "calculate" from a miriad of possible directions you can travel in the course of your life, and there's no outside influence on you forcing you to make one decision or another, it matters not that those calculations are entirely derivable as logical statements, one following another. It is still a choice that is being "made" and the thing that did that, a brain, is you.
So, I ask such people, what's the difference between an "illusion" of free will, and free will itself?
But I want to talk about the saying itself. Many people of the naturalistic bent will make the claim that they are just victims of their brain. It's hard to figure what they mean by this because it doesn't seem to make much sense. What are "they" if not their brain? Are "they" some other entity that just has to watch the goings on of the brain? Where is this entity and of what is it composed?
I've never really gotten any answers to these questions. Fact is that "we" are our brains. The I that is a victim of its brain is the very brain it is a victim of. All you are claiming is that you are a victim of yourself. This is part of what I believe is behind the illusion of non-free-will.
Many people will claim that there's no such thing as free will but will then admit that we have an "illusion" of free will. It is their contention that our choices are but "illusions" and that we really have to choice at all. Now, it must be granted that there are many demonstrative cases when this is true; we think we have a choice but we find that outside forces have conspired to assure that we'd make the choice THEY want.
But this is not what they are referring to. They are referring to the fact that the calculations that occur within our brains to derive a choice are all governed by physical processes. But again, they are distancing themselves from these physical processes, as if they themselves where not physical processes. The thing that calculates the decision is the very same thing that observes it: the brain.
What sense does it make to say that you have an illusion of free will? If you have a choice to "calculate" from a miriad of possible directions you can travel in the course of your life, and there's no outside influence on you forcing you to make one decision or another, it matters not that those calculations are entirely derivable as logical statements, one following another. It is still a choice that is being "made" and the thing that did that, a brain, is you.
So, I ask such people, what's the difference between an "illusion" of free will, and free will itself?
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