What's today again?
Merry Christmas everyone. At least to those celebrate it. Except for the Japanese, those damn non-believers.
Anyone watch The Colbert Report? I've been getting addicted to it. Anyways, I was watching Comedy Central's Laugh Off 2006 (I think that's the title) that was hosted by Lewis Black. In it, he said that he doesn't know why people celebrate a new year, because time is an illusion (or, as he put it, an illuuuusion). It's true, because if someone is born on leap year day, or lives on Pluto, they still age the same (the Pluto case refers to Pluto years) as someone born on a regular day on Earth. That and time does not really matter in other cultures (before they become "modernized") and before the Industrial Revolution in Western countries for most people. But without it, our lives now would be a mess. Unless it's the weekend and you have absolutely nothing to do. What does this have to do with Colbert? On one of his last shows for the year, he had Deepak Chopra, who wrote a book about how reality is an illusion. That it is reflected upon us by our own emotions, such as if someone is filled with rage, their reality appears to them with rage. That didn't seem too clear, but I guess a better would be that if someone is filled with fear or insecurity, they would be scared of their reality. Also, he asked what happens to reality when we die; does it stop? Well, I thought what he said is a lot like what most philosophers say. It has some truth to it, but when you try to work everything out, it just does not make sense. And this is a philosophy, not a religion. The only people whose "reality" is that affected by their emotions are a) crazy people or b) people in a time of strong emotion (ie. something extremely good just happened to them or the exact opposite). Well, I guess c) for cynical/bitter people also. But it does not apply to most people. It's like how Deconstruction is pointless without Structuralism.
Anyone watch The Colbert Report? I've been getting addicted to it. Anyways, I was watching Comedy Central's Laugh Off 2006 (I think that's the title) that was hosted by Lewis Black. In it, he said that he doesn't know why people celebrate a new year, because time is an illusion (or, as he put it, an illuuuusion). It's true, because if someone is born on leap year day, or lives on Pluto, they still age the same (the Pluto case refers to Pluto years) as someone born on a regular day on Earth. That and time does not really matter in other cultures (before they become "modernized") and before the Industrial Revolution in Western countries for most people. But without it, our lives now would be a mess. Unless it's the weekend and you have absolutely nothing to do. What does this have to do with Colbert? On one of his last shows for the year, he had Deepak Chopra, who wrote a book about how reality is an illusion. That it is reflected upon us by our own emotions, such as if someone is filled with rage, their reality appears to them with rage. That didn't seem too clear, but I guess a better would be that if someone is filled with fear or insecurity, they would be scared of their reality. Also, he asked what happens to reality when we die; does it stop? Well, I thought what he said is a lot like what most philosophers say. It has some truth to it, but when you try to work everything out, it just does not make sense. And this is a philosophy, not a religion. The only people whose "reality" is that affected by their emotions are a) crazy people or b) people in a time of strong emotion (ie. something extremely good just happened to them or the exact opposite). Well, I guess c) for cynical/bitter people also. But it does not apply to most people. It's like how Deconstruction is pointless without Structuralism.