Waxing Philosophical

I rarely share my inner thoughts on the internet, but I'm looking to change that. To get the ball rolling, here are some quick ideas on a few areas.

1) Religion

My chief criticism of Christianity is supplied by its own creation story. Adam and Eve are banished for tasting the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. So the great original sin is learning. Mm, convenient.

All religions are equally valid. They fulfill a social function and attempt to provide answers that humans desire. They are dangerous enforcers of binaries (heaven-hell, God-man, good-bad, believer-heathen) that always favor one and marginalize the other.

There is no such thing as an absolute. Nothing is purely one but not the other. There is no universal right or wrong, and no such thing as Truth.

And I've found that when you abandon the need for Truth, you become much more open to perspectives.


2) Police

I hate the police. For one thing, I can't criticize them without being called ungrateful. Yes, the police protect me, but did I ask them to? I never had a say in the matter. I'd rather protect myself.

Now, with my talk of binaries before, I'd be a hypocrite to accuse all cops of being dicks. They aren't. Many are really great guys who believe they're doing a great service. Others might be decent guys just doing a job. Some are dicks that want to be a tough guy.

My main problem with police is that when they happen to be dicks, you feel as though there's nothing you can do about it. They're the man, after all. But people forget that they work for us. We pay them. We're the ones they're meant to serve. They should answer to us and be accountable for how they treat us. I personally think they should be required to announce their name and badge number when they pull over a vehicle. Like a free "how's my driving" prompt that reminds people that they have the right to be treated well. If this person isn't doing their job well, they should be reprimanded or fired. Simple as that.

Man, I should be mayor. Anyway, some people are aware of this relationship and tend to be given more respect by cops. Typically these people are older white males. This is generalizing, but the fact is that young adults and especially teenagers get a lot of undeserved shit from the police by virtue of being young, and minorities deal with it too.

Unchecked power will be abused. Period. Cops should be held to a higher standard and monitored more. Especially in low-crime suburbs where they've got no excuse for their behavior but boredom.

3) Love

Get over this word. The love I have for a friend is the same I have for my mom is the same I have for a girlfriend. The experiences make the feelings and the nature of the relationship. Anything else is sexual. "Love at first sight" is bullshit. You feel attracted to and infatuated with a person and then tack on deeper things later if you're lucky.

4) Life

Life is a game, and some people play to win. I just want to have fun playing. The length of the game doesn't matter . . . I'd prefer something longer than checkers or Hungry Hungry Hippos, but shorter than Monopoly. Risk is a good, long life. Err, game. Life should be a good game of Risk. You should piss off your friends, conquer all you see, and defend Kamchatka.

And stop cheating. Games aren't fun if they're too easy.

5) Reproduction

I shall have one child. Male or female. He/She shall be raised to be developed physically and mentally. He/She will be raised a ninja. My child will be educated to choose his/her own beliefs and be informed of the limitations of existing beliefs and knowledge surrounding him/her. My child will pick a gender, so that this paragraph will be easier to type.

6) History

History is subjective and is therefore inescapably linked to literature. Only basic facts are undeniable; the rest is relative to the presenting perspective, with the dominant force's story being the most widely accepted.

7) Mathematics

Advanced mathematics deal widely with theoretical numbers and concepts. Once real numbers go out the window and imaginary numbers become the basis for formulae (imaginary numbers, not variables), I feel that mathematics lose their validity, as they are no longer tied to the natural world and the numbers become meaningless. It's a system of logic that transcends any reality it can be applied to.

8) Randomness

Does not exist. Randomness is an illusion, and represents a result beyond the receiver's ability to predict. For example, when a die is rolled, the result is not random. The sides of the cube are turned by the released energy determined by the force, distance, and angle of the roll, as well as other factors. These collective forces determine the number; it is "random" because we cannot perceive and process all of these factors to predict a result. In a computer program that generates a "random" number, the program pulls values from a variety of places such as a timer that the user cannot see or perhaps follow. The variable does not come from nowhere, and no equation produces "random" answers.

9) Science

The biological will become indistinguishable from the mechanical and cybernetics will lead us into a post-human era. Our bodies are as programmable via drugs and gene manipulation as machines are via computers. Machines currently supplement our physical and mental abilities and soon our biomechanical minds will allow us to store and process data never before possible and we will march toward omnipotence behind the latest advancements in cyber-porn, which naturally pushes the industry and leads to each breakthrough in technology.

10) Turtles

Turtles fucking kick ass.










And there you have it. Deep, deep thoughts.

Thoughts so deep, you'll drown.

In thought juice.







It's sticky.