Let’s pretend there are 100.000.000 blogs. Actually we don’t need to pretend, they actually are. Let’s assume that some of them are active. And that people who make them active write often.
When writing, these people use words. But the number of words is finite. This means that the sum of all possible word-combinations is finite. [...]
¶ 06/03/09 | Sophistry | 7 comments
Museum tickets. Letters. T-shirts. Minute pictures. Shells. A Mickey Mouse cigarette lighter. Some dusty SMS, stored in the phone’s memory. Compiled CDs. Little things. A pipe. Memories. A yellow sticky note, stealthly attached to an
agenda.
And what if Plato was among us?
We tend to wrongly believe that philosophy is a footnote to the work of Plato. I really don’t know who said such a stupid thing, but I bet he/she lived before 1905. For it is in 1905 that the new philosophical revolution began.
¶ 05/25/09 | Sophistry | 2 comments
Nothing.
[There is, however, a "theory" stating that beyond the Universe (where "beyeond" is understood in a spatial sense) is God. This "theory" is the consequence of an argumentative string: God is the Supreme Being; He is eternal, omnipotent, infinite, omniscient; He created the world solely by his word and by his will; the world is [...]
¶ 05/25/09 | Sophistry | 3 comments
John Smith, Echos, Paris, Les Curies, 1972
The book presents the story story of an old lady who – left alone by her son who was at work – felt the spleen and turned on the radio.
John Smith offers to the reader a detailed account on the two hours that the old lady (her name is [...]
The TV of the future will be non-existent. This is the only condition of possibility for the future.
Explanation
We always imagine future people as being superior to us. (This means we have properly acquired the myth of the progress.) If future people are superior, they must necessarily be smarter than us. Constrained by the myth of [...]
¶ 05/22/09 | Invention | 2 comments
Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, Sunny Albany, 2000
Stanislav Grof is a big naive. In a monist and materialist world, he seems convinced that the consciousness exists.
In the history of philosophy, consciousness was defined as the thing that makes us aware. For Descartes – the most authorized voice in the [...]
There’s a kind of dull men, whose bodies secret an excess of phlegm. These men are called “skeptics”. They say that there’s no truth about the world. But, if there’s no truth about the world, their assertion is false. So there’s at least one truth. This is what I’m going to reveal to you in [...]
¶ 05/22/09 | Sophistry | 2 comments
I learned how to levitate in Nepal. I went there to climb the Everest, but I got cold, so I had to find some other entertaining activities. During this fun seak, I got to Nepali national television, where I met a Buddhist monk, who introduced me to a 734 years old guru. He taught me [...]
I was sitting on the couch, eating a banana. And Delicia was sitting next to me.
- You want some? I asked her.
- Yeah, she said.
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