Metaphysic Storm

After much investigation I’ve discovered that one of the driving forces that causes faith heads to latch onto their delusions is the belief that their life has infinitely more meaning if there is an invisible sky daddy fortifying their eternal meaning vessel. The standard issue argument against the naturalists is that our lives must be very shallow if all we can claim to be is the mortal human animal. The religious see us holding a glass that’s empty and pity the loss of the contents. We reply, “What glass? I have a body”

It’s as if those that walk in the kingdom of the holies, look at us humans and wonder how we can live from day to day, year to year, with the knowledge that at the end we’ll “complexly” not be. It’s assumed that since the secularists can’t extract meaning from another dimension we are forced to place a valued rating system on the meaning of a persons life depending on how much their actions influenced, or their work influenced, future groups of humans. Logically the idea of god and the good Shepard is very comforting in this view of reality. In my opinion this is the cause that secular/religious people create idols of historically documented figures. The god child view also contains the belief that it doesn’t really matter at all what one did or made, for as long as they loved the god and try to obtain the impossible perfection of his prophets, they have achieved the ultimate meaning in the eye of the god. Because apparently gods purpose was to create souls that could chose not to love him, thus creating a dualist system of mean and mean-nots. God must fear a world of atheists because then he would loss meaning, his purpose would be a failure and all would flash in a skillet of hell. Continue Reading »

The most distinguishing aspect of belief is that there is the possibility that the thing one believes is false. We all believe a few things, especially what we’ll have for dinner tomorrow. In an astonishing display of denial, many supernaturalists insist that evolution is a belief. It’s true that we’ll never have a complete fossil record of every generation of every species, thus we are forced to speculate and thus believe certain specific scenarios took place. But we don’t have to believe in evolution as a whole. We know that mutations take place and we know that nature provides pressure to select the most adapt individuals, thus we know evolution is a fact.

The two main arguments about knowing things from science and philosophy come from the quantum and matrix worlds. In the quantum world, pundits claim that since we can not know where a particle is or how fast it’s going with absolute certainty we are forced to believe in its existence. Luckily most of the particles we interact with are clustered up into atoms and molecules. We don’t have to believe they’re there, we just have to except that our knowledge of they’re exact location will always remain undetermined. Continue Reading »

Value, in any form, requires an agent: a being able to connect a desire, importance or need to something. It’s easy to extend the concept of value to life forms whom don’t posses brains through anthropomorphism. A plant definitely needs light and water for survival and natural selection rewarded those whom “sought” out these things with continued existence. However, the plant does not have the capacity to value anything. Light and water are a requirements for it’s life, but just as a time piece requires winding to be, they can not place a value on the requirements without a self.

In today’s hurricane of political rhetoric, Family Values (Christian Values), surfaces more and more as the most decisive character requirement of our representatives. Naively many people believe Christian values is synonymous with goodness. Jesus’ message of unconditional love to all, on the surface, sounds like a great way to answer all of the worlds problems in one great swoosh. But Mi casa Su casa requires everyone on the planet to willingly disown all of ones property, including the self: thus the “I live for Jesus” line. Conspicuously most Christians don’t actually value losing their self or their property. Christ was a communist minus the guns plus one god. Christian values is paradoxally one of oppression: Submission to an invisible ruler, Selflessness, Complete passiveness, Unconditional love, and Unconditional forgiveness. Baaaaa… Continue Reading »

For a few weeks now I’ve been working on a deep post about two words: Value and Property. They are the nuggets that have been rattling around my mind on an ever more frequent basis. It’s almost as if I’ve been waiting for a revelation to bubble up to the tip of my tongue, but alas all I’ve produced is distraction from my soon to be written subject. These two words represent things that are so abstract they probably cause Picasso to wince in his grave, yet they are used so casually one would think they are as simple as any thing.

I realized what I was actually waiting for was to start playing the key board. I know the ideas are in my head like little marshmallows starting to scab over. If I don’t start dancing in black and white the ideas are bound to go up in a puff of smoke. It is the pen that will toast them into a tasty treat begging for digestion from anyone who’s acquired a taste for the brain manifeast.