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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary ( Read more... )

got into an interesting discussion with someone online about whether or not there is room for objective moral principles in a materialist world view (contrasted with an idealist one)...it's a bit lengthy, philosophical, and nerdy, but here is my response ( Read more... )

I was recently asked why humans evolved the appreciation of beauty. Latent within the wording is the tacit assumption that appreciation of beauty is in fact that something that “evolved” in humans, that is to say something that, in the course of our evolutionary journey from protozoa to the present, a) at one point wasn’t there, b) appeared somehow ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAuxXvNVhgA

Some light in a dark tunnel.

"The heart is a muscle. The heart beats. My arm will contract and cause the fist to beat; but it beats only when my will commands. But here is a muscle in the body that beats when I am asleep. It beats when my will is inactive and I am utterly unconscious. It keeps on beating all the time. What will is it that causes this heart to beat? The heart ( Read more... )

At the end of the day I still prefer Livejournal to Facebook. The degree of personalization here is unprecedented. The calendar is also a much-missed feature. At the end of the day my LJ actually feels like it's my own space, whereas Facebook feels more like someone else's space that I'm using. The communities are also vastly superior here. If ( Read more... )

"As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final, and say, the senses give us representations of things, but what are the ( Read more... )

My school made the local paper:

http://www.nuuchahnulth.org/tribal-council/hashilthsa/2009/June%204,%202009.pdf

:D

Check out the story on Pgs 10/11...

Also, you should add me on facebook if you haven't already: jeffyrock@hotmail.com

I cannot believe I have had this thing for 7 years. And I feel like such a lame-o for not updating anymore. :(