Posted in Happiness, Musings on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This may, quite frankly, be the most arrogant, forward post I will ever write in my life. Enjoy.
I figured out life. Let me explain.
People have talked for thousands of years about the “world’s problems” and how to solve them. Every single person invents some notion of their own about how to eliminate the world’s problems. Religions, theologies, ideologies, science, philosophy – in short, everything you can possibly think that humans have done can be summed up in two words “problem solving”.
We are problem solving creatures. Furthermore, all of our problem solving relates to reducing perceived harm. Whether we refuse to now eat chicken because it gave us salmonella last time or we invent a theory about how to eliminate war from our planet we are intending to reduce perceived harm.
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Posted in Musings on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So in an effort to switch the focus of my blog, I want to try something a little different. I want to talk not about religion or Christianity, but about thinking.
We often learn how to think (reason), but rarely do we learn how we think.
How do our emotions influence our thoughts and vice versa? How [...]
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Posted in Musings on August 23, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Life seems to me to be little more than drifting from comfort to comfort – addiction to addiction. Each one providing the solace and peace that is needed at the time. But isn’t that a depressing thought? Not at all, at least to me. To me it is comforting, because it means that nothing has changed at all since I left the faith. All will go on as it always has, driven forward by the cycle of life and time and the nature of man. Humanity never truly advances, per se, we only change. And that too, is comforting. To know that I cannot ever truly experience – or miss – anything new “under the sun”. The basic principles that drive human nature will not change in my lifetime.
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Posted in Musings, Uncategorized on August 10, 2009 | 55 Comments »
All living creatures that we observe are formed of non-living matter. This can be demonstrably observed because if the non-living matter is separated, the life ceases. Life, then, is dependent upon the construct of non-living matter.
Furthermore, all living creatures that we observe sustain their life by intake of non-living – or dead – matter. This [...]
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