The blogs and the death of the literature

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 [...]

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¶ 06.03.09 | Sophistry | 7 comments

Plato is among us

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.

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¶ 05.25.09 | Sophistry | 2 comments

What is beyond Universe?

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 [...]

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¶ 05.25.09 | Sophistry | 7 comments

The truth about the world

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 [...]

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¶ 05.22.09 | Sophistry | 3 comments

How shall I usefully commit suicide

Be myself, described on the interval of the actual world. For various reasons, which are not worth discussing here, I decide to commit suicide. It is a big deal of a decision, and I know what I’m talking about. After having taken such a decision, I would first feel relieved. Then I would stop worying [...]

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¶ 05.19.09 | Sophistry | 1 comment

Why do we sleep

- You’re so silly… If we didn’t sleep, we’d eventually drop dead. Or, worse, we’d never dream. – Are you sure you’ll keep this ironic smile all the way through the end of this conversation? – I bet I will. – Let’s see, then… They say that we sleep in order to recover the natural [...]

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¶ 05.18.09 | Sophistry | (Reply)

Why you should chose black magic over white magic

In this text I’ll present you an irrefutable argument according to whi(t)ch it is preferable to chose the black magic (over the white one). What is magic Magic is the sum of the operations intended to artificially modify the reality. Depending on the forces invocked by the magician (the witch) to modify the real state [...]

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¶ 04.28.09 | Sophistry | (Reply)