So here's the thing. I don't think i believe in free will anymore. Is that against the rules of being a teenager? o-o

In philosophy we've been talking about "determinalism". There's a really long definition, and i am sure that i am overgeneralizing here, but basically what it says is given that the past is a certain way, according to the laws of ( Read more... )

"There's good old Mortimer, that person who is sitting next to you in the meditiation hall , or perhaps someon who works in your office. Some people are lusting when they see Mortimer. He looks wonderful to them. A lot of their discursive thought is taken up with what they'd like to do with Mortimer. A certain number of people hate him. They haven' ( Read more... )

So here's the thing.
Girl's school nearly all my life. 
Decision making since 6th grade. 
Learning about feminism in some context in nearly everyt subject at some point (women in history, women in mathematics, women in philosophy, women in science...)
We have ALWAYS been taught never to submit to men, never to accept the "man's world", to always stand ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how fire alarms work?  Becayse I do. At least now i do. xD

It's kind of amazing, actually. Did you know fire alarms contain radioactive material? Just a little bit, not enough to hurt anyone. But they are actually powered by a nuclear reaction! THIS nuclear reaction!

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They actually have a ( Read more... )

And you know what? WHILE i am talking about philosophy, I am going to talk about my OTHER philosophical mind bender of the day.

Mind-Brain Identity Theory: Every instance (token) of a mental state of type M is contingently identical to an instance (token) of a Brain State of type B

This guy names Saul Kripke came up with a really interesting reply to ( Read more... )

So this time i am attempting to insert some pictures. I am fairly proud of myself for even figuring this process out in the first place, so the fact that i can't figure out how to size the images so that they aren't WOMPING over my page is going to be ignored. :P ( Read more... )

So. Zen is supposed to be (at least in part) about overcoming duality.

"The conventional, relative world is nevessarily a world of opposites. Light is inconceivable apart from Darkness; order is meaningless without disorder; and, likewise, up without down, sound without silence, pleasure without pain. (35)"

"Facts and events are as abstract as lines ( Read more... )

Today i heard a lot of talk about the differences between eastern and western thinking. There is this notion that easterners and westerners (as a generalization) have problems understanding each other because we have two completely different ways of htinking. Watts says that

"[in some ways] the chinese written language has a slight advantage over ( Read more... )

 OMG TODAY i came across a concept that is amazing to my mind.

So. MOVING. We do it all the time. Here's why it's impossible. ;D

1) Movement requires traversing the distance between A and B.

/A/------------------------/B/

2) Moving from A to B requires at some point going half the distance between A and B. Say, at C.

/A/-----------/C/-------------/B/

3) ( Read more... )

So you know how people wonder if people are born good or born evil? I wonder how it really is? I don't want to beleive that people are born evil. So i don't. :P 
But it's an interesting thing to think about. Is evil present in our genes? I would think that IF something like "evil" was genetic, it would be more of a predisposition towards evil ( Read more... )