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WHY is nature immediately associated with good?  Why do companies use the word “nature” to portray their product as viable and healthy?  I seem to remember nature being the true source of dioxins.  I seem to remember nature containing the radon under the houses that lead to so many deaths.  I seem to remember nature being responsible for the advent ( Read more... )

                    Laughter; what is it?  Some would say that laughter is the camaraderie felt between two orbiting, coevolving souls showing unison and adulation.  This is, of course, the romanticist’s viewpoint.  Some have conjectured laughter is a way to build other’s spirits and form altruistic bonds between friends all while indulging the ( Read more... )

Often I’ve found humanity an open book.

An open book in which someone has spilled a glucose based solution (>=15M).  When the solution has evaporated the solute has caused the pages to freeze in their positions.  Now that the solution of idiosyncrasy has evaporated we see the halting properties of anthropocentricism.  This pervasive though, this ( Read more... )

            Perhaps the oldest of philosophical problems is the problem of what is real, how we can know it, and if we can know it.  Greek philosophy began with that question.  The issue for the Greeks was whether, as Greek religion assumed, our fates were ruled by the whims of the gods or, as Greek philosophy asserted, our capacity for reason gave ( Read more... )

Kerry 04                                                                                  Bush 04

Who to vote for?  This question is one that has plagued man ever since the terrible notion of freedom and representation entered the proletariat mentality.  The answer would seem clear; vote who best represents the ideas of your culture’s ( Read more... )

FUCK

This amorphous, but stunningly protean, word acts as the primary subject of/in the general colloquium of our general populace.  Like individual threads on a latticework this word slowly generates the individual that is apathetic, caustic, and unbelievably ignorant.

For a moment I would like to identify; with the aid of wordiq.com, the ( Read more... )

Green….I think that’s the color of grass…of course calling it one color is a mnemonic for referring to its capabilities to absorb all but that color (see also: pretentious pseudo-philosophers, see also: Starbucks)…Red---color of blood….color of hemoglobin, actually…thanks to that reversible process, closed vascular systems can help the systemic ( Read more... )

            We entertain such flagrant narcissism.  We, as humans, find ourselves enigmatic and unpredictable.  Ostensibly, this curse, the inevitable curse of unpredictability, is used as degradation.  The deplorable standing of random is, by definition, maladaptive, and as such, undesired.  However, I feel that we use this “the element of human ( Read more... )

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