I'm always amazed by the ways people act on their religious beliefs - especially in terms of fundamentalism. You see, fundamentalists take their belief of interest literally to the point of infallibility. Regardless of the excessive number of contradictions in said belief, their minds will not alter ( Read more... )

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=495

Interesting read.. hence the source.

I watched a film last night about a girl who made dumplings using meat from a dead fetus she aborted herself with a clothes hanger..

BrilliantIn other news.. I've been recently experimenting with surreal experiences, my current focus being lucid dreams. In order to increase the frequency of these dreams, I've started a sort of "dream journal." ( Read more... )

What is art? I've been pondering this question recently, and have yet to come to a conclusion thusfar ( Read more... )

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Science has become the new religion. God is dead and science is merely a substitute filling the void. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake makes just as little sense as goodness for its own sake, and can be equally harmful. If we're going to ask "goodness for what purpose?" we must also ask the same of knowledge. Scientists too often act as ( Read more... )

If it weren't for the excessive emails from forum sites I don't remember joining, I likely would have forgotten..

It's my birthday.

I'm writing a novel. So far, it's not very good.

I am in the midst of existential despair as well as a sort of pathological nihilism. I find myself constantly worrying about everything in which I think..

For quite a long time, I thought I knew what logic and reason were. Now, I am uncertain. I cannot be at all certain that what I consider to be logical is what is actually logical. Furthermore, I ( Read more... )

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