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.

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.

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.

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.

The Doorknob Principle

Yeah.  I don't write much now.  And by now, all five (or seven) have already realized that.

So here's the doorknob principle:

When people wait at a door and no one appears to be inside, immediately, the people already waiting will tell anyone who arrives that the door is locked.  However, if they do so, the new arrivers will try to open the door.  It is the action of warning that person that triggers the opposite reaction.

However, this is not the case with greater risk.  For example, if those same people are waiting at a door and instead they tell those who arrive that the doorknob is electrified and if the people arriving have the slightest reason to believe them, a battery or spark for example, then they will not attempt to open the door.  People are more likely to value words if they are larger.

Skepticism actually applies to tiny truths rather than large lies.

Daily Critique

I'm back finally.  Here's another loser thing I do each day.  I come up with a social critique each day that does not necessarily have to change society, but make the observations necessary for progress.  As you can tell from February, these are usually angry speeches criticizing post-modern romance.  Also, my English is improving (Jajaja, for those of you who get it).

To continue my rants, I want to share a short excerpt from the film (My life is not a book.  It's more of a film) known as life.

Sputnik : Estoy enojado.  ¿Por qué?  Pour quoi?  Why does life beg me to rise and command me to fall?

Angles : Err... [shifts uneasily in seat while reaching for water bottle]

Sputnik: There are opportunities... and not the kind you're thinking of. [tries to imply something to Angles, but fails]

Angles: Okay.  I have no idea what the heck you're talking about.

Sputnik: Я–очень одинокий!  Я–свободен!  I'm lonely!  There.  I said it.

Angles: What?  Are you trying to "break" me again ?

Sputnik: No.  I'm saying that I'm tired of dangling opportunities [meaning chances to ask the unnamed girl out].

Angles: Well take those opportunities.

Sputnik: Yeah, yeah.  Carpe diem and whatnot... [Takes Angles' water bottle, but returns it after flipping it thrice]  You don't know the consequences of "opportunity".

Sounds rather pointless without proper context, but this dialogue represents an internal struggle within each member of Poly society.  While Poly should be known for offering more opportunities, in many cases outside of academics, we are depriving each individual of them with our isolation.  Each individual at Poly has become beyond self-aware in isolation.  It becomes the obsessive self-consciousness that bites away at the heart.  Why can't we be like public schools?  Asking someone out is not the bureaucratic system it is at Poly.  There should not exist the model "Become friends for 6 months, ask out, date for 2 weeks, stop because of 'the value of preexisting friendship'".  Bullshit.

Pandora's Box 10

Value is a key point of psychology.  People often misvalue certain aspects of life.  This is the modern concept of hamartia, the term used to describe the "fatal flaw" of personalities in Greek tragedy.

Some people misvalue abstract values such as "dignity".  But most people misvalue what is given.

For example, punishment is NOT given.  There's no "karma", so people take it as their own responsibility.  However, certain things, such as the basic nature of things, are fully given.  We cannot expect certain animals to not eat the smaller animals it sees.  There's nothing we can do.  Now, I suppose the same is true for death, but death must be valued as a total change, not a process.

Wow.  I am a terrible writer.  Of course, I have a really legit excuse.