When I hear people talk about metaphysical types of things, they tend to treat distinct concepts as though they were the same thing. This conflation of things can then lead them to conclusions which are contrary to what I think those things really mean.

One such case of this is when people bring up the idea of nothing. They use the idea of nothing ( Read more... )

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Most everybody recognizes that theft, killing, and control of others is wrong. How is it then that 99 percent of everybody supports the idea of a government which is defined by those things? It seems to me that the only way people can rationalize things that if done outside of political systems is considered a crime is to view those in government ( Read more... )

I have a theory which is counterintuitive to most people: the more government there is, the more crime and less security there will be; the less government there is, the less crime and more security there will be ( Read more... )

"So many times I thought I've been changing ( Read more... )

Thoughts on the energy crises ( Read more... )

Yesterday Brian and I went to Best Buy because he wanted to get a new computer. The sales lady asks him "so do you want a computer to do whatever or to play games?". He said play games, and so she showed him a display model he might like. After looking at that one as well as all the other ones, he had pretty much decided on the one the lady had ( Read more... )