The Tao is becoming closer to what it really is - the harsh realities of life. When I think of Tao, I think the flawless flow of truth, reality, and above all, final order. I always think of life more personally as a shitty and vengeful torture that we must endure as Beings. I forget that they are the same thing. Except on nights like tonight. I ( Read more... )

Life is perfect. As existence is a possible 'substance', it creates the most important thing conceivable (and I say this with complete and absolute certainty): non-contradiction. Flow will never let anything become truly against us (ignore the quantum level for now). We are humans and as such we are primitive animals with extraordinary powers. Like ( Read more... )

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Every time I watch Rules of Attraction, I am reminded of a very out of control college culture that is overly sexualized and has an insane amount of existential freedom. I am jealous of the flow of life there. It is a very nihilistic culture where people live according to this college stereotype (the motivational foundations are unclear) where sex ( Read more... )

And I figured out why I'm not very good with modern philosophy. Simple: everyone in the 16th, 17th. and 18th centuries are backwards morons. It's not that I can't make sense of their claims, it's just that there is no sense to be made at all. Empiricism is an improvement, but I'll be unimpressed until they shut the fuck up about any arbitrary or ( Read more... )

I've been getting closer to understanding Zen from the western context. The use of essence is extremely tricky here. Suspend teleological beliefs so you can think rationally ( Read more... )

The fear of death is a common affliction within society and the apparent influence is highly crippling. As relevant to suicide, then there must be a fear of suicide with the premise that is questionable ( Read more... )

"The main finding among severely depressed people was that they ceased to respond to a dummy placebo pill, not that they showed a particularly heightened response to anti-depressants ( Read more... )

My favorite political issue is the oil crisis. It makes the Iraq War for oil look like a good decision and a moral act for America. Minus the democratization part, we can't be hassled with that ( Read more... )

No one seems to want to have fun. I was reminded that the reason it was physically impossible for a college student to be in poverty (unless they are from China, which means they are 100% guaranteed to be in poverty, richer than your or not) is that college kids don't deserve money or poverty. Thing is, apparently, in college you have so much room ( Read more... )