I haven’t written lately because I have been sinking into despair at the state of the world. Or more specifically at the general state of mental acuity in the world, especially what I see in the USA. I did some research recently and discovered that 15% of American’s think the government was complicit in 9/11. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Philosophy’
August 25, 2009
“”This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity”
I haven’t written a whole lot recently about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Partly because it’s a depressing topic, and partly because I am wrestling with some new insights about such wars and the people who support them. President Obama’s latest pronouncement on the war in Afghanistan pushed me over the edge though, so [...]
August 9, 2009
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is [...]
August 5, 2009
Is Satanism Misunderstood?
That was a rhetorical question. Of course Satanism is misunderstood, the vast majority of what most people know about Satanism comes from movies or sensationalized crimes by self- styled Satanists. I don’t even need to mention how ridiculous the former is as a source of knowledge about anything, and judging any faith by the [...]
July 31, 2009
Through Thick and Thin: Professor Gates to Dead Canaries
Another day, another week, and a another year older. Yesterday was my birthday, which was why there was no mid-week post. The celebrations began early and lasted until last night. Of course pretty much the only person celebrating was me, and my celebrations mostly consisted of sitting around home relaxing with the cell phone turned [...]
July 17, 2009
Strange Lodgings
“Imagine yourself waking up in a strange and unfamiliar room. Too much to drink maybe, some medical crisis, who knows … there you are. To compound your difficulties, you have amnesia, and can’t for the life of you remember anything about your life before you awoke in the room. It’s a normal enough looking room [...]
July 10, 2009
“Isn’t it strange and a little freaksome that the human skeleton and muscles work together to actually hold us up, that people even walk around at all?”
In my random readings I came across the quote above, and it’s bugged me since. I wander the streets of Berkeley looking at the people walking around and wondering at just how strange it really is that masses of cells can be animated like that. So of course I thought I would share it with [...]
March 18, 2009
No more smarmy optimistic Doug’s Puppyworld posts
Why yes, it’s not been a good year. Dead friends, dying cats, involuntary unemployment, it’s been a trifecta of “this sucks” so far. On the plus side, I did get my first poison pen letter. If I’ve managed to piss off some complete stranger so much that they are sending me hate mail, I must [...]
February 23, 2009
Thinking Aloud
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips
Another week jetted by, another dozen half-formed blog posts in my head. I’ve been told there’s a lot of half-formed stuff [...]
January 31, 2009
Changes
Friday was a peculiar day, I had to run out the door first thing in the morning to take a client’s cat to an emergency veterinary appointment. Thus, no blog Friday morning. I run out the door, and the last thing I do is check on my cats to make sure they are safely locked [...]
