Category: philosophy
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Low-hierarchist
I’m not an anarchist, I’m a no-hierarchist. They’re the same you say??? Well yeah, whatever. Someone else decided to poison the term anarchy and there’s not much I can do about it any more. But I definitely like to look at things in terms of no-hierarchy. Friendship has no hierarchy. The only kind of capitalism…
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Time
We’ve got all the time in the world as long as we don’t fuck up the world. So slow the fuck down and take care of nature.
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Must Harry the Human believe in God?
This is a simplification of what I see as a central argument around whether you’re nuts or not to believe in God. I’ve tried to take strictly logical/mathematical language and make it more readable, whilst hopefully keeping the core concepts. Short version: If God exists, then humans must believe in him or they are lying.…
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Reasonable religion
The God Delusion creates a very well thought out attack on religion. But going back to philosophical arguments there’s a couple he missed, or maybe I need to read the book again. Here I’ll give some reasons why you at least you don’t have to be delusional to believe in God. At least, you’re no…
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An indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe
Is that God or a tyrant? Totalitarian self-conceptions are largely teleological. The tyrant is less a person than an indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe. — Authoritarianism and totalitarianism The devil loves his children. Does God love us all, or judge us and send down floods and fire and brimstone? Does he kill…
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A crock of shit
This is the tale of Klaus Barbie and the US. Why is this relevant to philosophy, religion and science? Well I consider Klaus Barbie to be the closest thing in recent times to what we could call the devil. So I sit here to examine what people do when they come in contact with the…
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The devil loves his children
Klaus Barbie from all evidence loved his kids. According to his daughter-in-law (wife of his son Klaus-Georg), Klaus-Georg was kidnapped by the CIA in 1946 to make sure Barbie would work for them. From the Attorney General’s report: Barbie’s son Klaus-Georg was killed in a hanggliding accident in 1980, at age 33. Barbie’s wife diedin…
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Badass paramedics
Or my warped vision for the police. In Jesus’ and Tolstoy’s and frankly my utopia, we will have accepted the law of love over the law of violence. In this utopia, we will still need hospitals and fire departments. Shit sometimes goes bad, people get ill, fires start. However we will finally have rejected all…
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Utility
I’ve always struggled to agree with economics. I have a masters in economics, but the more I studied it, the less impressed I became. Utility seems like such a weasel word. I found this table on the interwebs when trying to clarify in my mind about utility: I hate the terms ‘Kantianism’ and ‘Utilitarianism’, we…
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Steelmanning the strawman – John Stuart Mill
Lean on meI won’t fall overI’m made of steelAnd stone cold sober — Lean on me, Carter USM I discovered On Liberty (free to read via gutenberg.org) from John Stuart Mill , whilst reading about steelmanning. He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. — On Liberty, John Stuart…
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