*** What’s a DYSON HOT ROD?
“If a human CAN someone WILL.” – Dr. Freckles
Only choice is to CHOOSE … choose YOU
“When you realize that with or without God your ONLY choice is to BE YOU, then you can toss the assholes into the trash bin of history.” – Dr. Freckles
The darkest place …
“The darkest place a philosopher finds is this: The universe is a farce. I am the only ‘I AM’ that exists here, I am truly alone. The only other creature is the PUPPET MASTER of this fake realm and all HIS fake puppets and stage craft, and whatever IT feels, the architect? – it is not love. And then you sense it’s worse.”
– Dr. Freckles
Don’t disturb …
“Don’t disturb what you observe.” – Dr. Freckles
A simulation …
“A simulation is a game with zero players or one player.” – Dr. Freckles
GRIZZLY MAN
- Was Timothy Treadwell protecting the bear or exploiting the bear or does it matter?
- Can humans live in nature absent the things that make us human: to include socialized/communal hunting, tools, fire?
- Do we run the risk, being around animals, of projecting our own fears and emotions on to the animals, do owners?
- Did he go crazy, was he crazy to begin with? Did he replace one drug with another? Is that the sober life?
- Wouldn’t it be COOL if A.I. advances enough, that you can have an app on your phone called dzog, where as you die a voice can be heard, sounding like Werner Herzog, narrating you death.
- Is there something contradictory about filming/recording oneself in nature? Compare/contrast with the into the wild story … Christopher McCandless
I AM a NON-CONSEQUENTIALIST
… and I can’t imagine a Christian that wouldn’t be, with Pascal’s Wager as a CAUTIONARY backdrop.
“Consequentialists” or Utilitarians or any “the ends justifies the means” freaks drool over the TROLLEY PROBLEM … but it’s a Skinner Box, it’s a torture chamber. As with the Milgram Experiment: it might just be Doritos for the brain.
BTW: great exploration of the “trolley problem” is the 1964 CLASSIC “FAIL-SAFE” …
ANARCHY, STATE and UTOPIA: NOZICK
Deeply Arcane
“Of all the rabbit holes you can go down intellectually, Carl Gustav Jung is one of the DEEPEST and most arcane.” – Dr. Freckles
It starts with a PSYCHIC …
- a psychic makes a prediction on a radio show: “terrorists will attack WA DC on November 12th”
- the terrorists hear the radio broadcast and change the location to NYC on Jan 15th …
Was the psychic right?
Is there freewill?