Anonymous asked: Courage is our strongest weapon!
Thanks for the words of encouragement, anon. Awfully kind of you.
The moment you forget that you’re merely an animal is the moment you stop being human.
princezarathustra-deactivated20 asked: But d00d I spent like 150 bucks on alcohol for this weekend and the lady who was gonna drink with me just got grounded. How many things are wrong with that statement? Also, still no shot glasses D:
I would tell you that being friends with high schoolers is awful, but I think that’s implied within that statement. You should drink with college girls; they are immune to grounding, are more fully developed, and most of them have shot glasses. Come visit. There are college girls here and I think most of them are into you. Also, I miss you.
Kuhn and the Nature of Science
Philosopher and historian Thomas Kuhn argued that the enterprise of science is not the purely rational, steadily improving march toward the ultimate nature of reality that we often believe it to be. Instead, modern science is not “better” than ancient science, it’s merely different, as we consider different questions to be more important than the questions of the past.
Therefore, the conclusions of science do not have anything to do with the underlying physicality of the universe and are just as arbitrary as every other human endeavor.
So, Fuck you, Kuhn, for this idea. Fuck you more for convincing me.
That is all.
The Problem of Induction
David Hume argues in Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding that all experiential knowledge about the world depends on our knowledge of cause and effect. In turn, our knowledge of cause and effect comes from experience. Therefore, all scientific and inductive reasoning about the world is inherently circular, which means We can know nothing with certainty.
Thus, when you claim that the sun will rise tomorrow, you appeal to the presupposition that the future will resemble the past, and according to Hume, You have no logical reason to do so.
Humbling, no?
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My poetry slam performance from last year.
“We Are”
We Are the generation who never learned how to speak.
We Are the offspring of the decade
20 years hence.
Post 60s love, 70s drugs, 80s hair.
We don’t know where we fit. Not yet.
We were the last to grow up on Sesame Street before it was unsuitable for children.
We are. Statistics.
Lost in a world that doesn’t recognize us. We let our different colored ipods define us.
We are. Plugged in. To every one else.
Caffeine-addicted alcoholic cyber-socialites.
We are. 3-am internet junkies.
Learned our 1s and 0s before our yes’s and no’s
We are. Complacent uncaring electorates.
We think joining a Facebook group is an act of protest
We are. Godless. And Godful. Indifferent and morally pretentious
We are. Affixed to our LCD screens.
The Network manifest, Viral Video machine.
We are. The self-destructive invincible
messiah suicides.
We are. The philosophic insomniacs
Unread blogs of misplaced ideals, deified.
We are. A cavalcade of unwavering conformity
The will of the collective unconscious.
We are. Calling. Crying out.
With a recurring twitter update:
We exist!
We are. Guilt-imposed green-preaching druids.
Begging you to suckle the nipples of mother earth.
We are. Desensitized pharmaceutical mistakes.
With a drug and a plan for every ailment, every heartbreak.
We are. Self-induced comas when it comes to the world we see.
That war’s for someone else to fix. Not me.
It’s okay cause that earthquake didn’t happen here.
That genocide’s elsewhere. There’s nothing to fear.
They say the world’s more connected than it’s ever been.
If that’s so, then I say we got a long way to go.
Because the mature of this world will not live forever.
And it’ll belong to us. For worse or for better.
Us, with our consumer electronic virtual internet existence
Will be left to keep the planet’s subsistence.
And the lord once said, the earth will belong to the meek:
Us, a generation, who never learned how to speak.
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