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The Spy in the Fortune Cookie says:

There is no original, only obscure. We cannot manifest that which we cannot perceive. We cannot perceive that which does not exist outside our reality.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

While I'm Going To Fail AP Euro...

Existentialism.

Existentialism is a philosophical school that emphasizes the concrete over the abstract and deals with what the human subject can readily perceive.  Though I never really realized this, much of my metaphysical analysis revolves around existentialism.

Look at the "about me" section (though I know it's not named that), and read it.  I suggest, unlike many other existentialists, that there exists no human being beyond a body.  This human being is made of and exists only within the human body.  A person has no personality beyond his or her brain.  A person has no breath beyond that within his or her lungs.  A person has no life beyond the beating of his or her heart.  If you kill a person, you kill a person.  The value of life does not exist beyond what we can make out of any single human being.  We're basically machines.

Then, you might ask, is it right to kill?  Well, it isn't right or wrong, but it's not very helpful so we don't do it.

So what about a fetus?  Is that not a life too?  Well, a fetus is a vegetable.

So why can't we simulate it in a laboratory?  There's really nothing you can simulate in a laboratory.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Unalienable Rights

The Declaration of Independence identifies rights inherent to the dignity and existence of mankind-life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But I propose, or, rather, reveal, my own five rights.

1. I hold and uphold that all "people" have the right to their own emotions.
2. I maintain that all "people" have the right to the action of desire.
3. That no force may ever contradict another's principles without destroying them.
4. That any force has the right to redefine "people".
5. That all beings, abstract or concrete, have the right to resurrection.

Among each of these Truths is the right granted to interpret as one wishes, though any opposition to interpretation is allowed. No argument can be made, however, that disproves all five of these rights at once.*

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*Go ahead. Try.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Daily Critique

I'm going to kick Pandora's Box and go for this.  In debate: Lassen Sie nicht die Kritik fallen!.  Don't drop the critique!   (I think.  I got that off a computer translator.  Probably totally false.  Check out that system that puts whatever you type through like 12 translators and see the result [on a side note, who the hell has time for that?].)

Anyways, I have to say, I really respect people that can just say "no".  Sorry for some misogynist 
"rhetoric", but it appears very difficult for girls to say yes or no.  Look at rsvp responses.   Girls tend to stick in the "maybe" section.  If it's a "no", make it a "no".  There shouldn't be:

Yes: 15
No: 3
Maybe: 13

And when one (referring to both sexes) says "no", life is easier.

If you talked to me at 7:20 yesterday, thank you.

Friday, April 3, 2009

I'm finally back.

Yaaaaaay.  To the 7 people that read this.  Yaaaaaay.

Recently, I've been watching the Brad Neely comics on Youtube.  And I can imagine they seem rather obscene and bland to many people.  But in reality, as a Poly student, I'm just picking it apart, trying to find the life lessons in it.  And I did.

Philosophers try really hard to be as far from moderate as possible.  But this is ridiculous because their job is to define hypothetical life for "the subject".  But because "the subject" is so moderate, contemporary philosophers are really distancing themselves from the truth.

Notgonnalie.  I do that.  But at least I know.