I think I've been looking at things in a way that's something like what you say here- the elements of reality (so far as there are separate elements of reality, and whatever, or however fundamentally mysterious, they may be) respond to one another in an orderly way, and we interpret this as causation because it appears to us as though some things ( Read more... )

I reserve the right to tell you that your culture sucks.

http://evolvingthoughts.net/2010/02/27/mccarthy-and-the-autism-demon/

In other news, it looks like I'm moving to Wichita with Ashley Quinn and her boyfriend Michael Mohr. At least I know what not to do this time.

Some disordered ideas I thought I'd like to have written down ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about the "knowledge" we have of our present experiences- a type of knowledge that a phenomenologist might tell us is immediate and complete, as we cannot be mistaken about what we are presently experiencing. To clarify, I might be busy forming mistaken interpretations about what I'm presently experiencing, but the naked experience, ( Read more... )

Why should anyone have to shout this?

/irresponsiblepoliticalrhetoric

I am a shore where there was once an ocean; when the tide rolls in, I am as deep and blue and wild as ever, but when it goes out there is nothing I can do for it, and nothing I can be but sand and shells and faded memories. The longest and driest spell has passed, and hopefully this cycle will pass as well; til then, I have faith in the tide ( Read more... )

I DARE you to get better than this.

http://xkcd.com/626/

go unnoticed if you don't stand tall enough to see them.

Jack Handy out.