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Category Archive: epistemology

21 Feb

How Do You Know When You’re Right?

 Or at least more right, more often than not.  The answer? By constructing an amendable matrix. Of differing lists.  Along with the following concepts: Integration Subjectivity Objectivity Rationality    …
February 21, 2012 at 1:40 pm Leave a Reply
11 Feb

My Struggle

“Now I Know How Joan d’Arc Felt.” – Morrissey, The Smiths Adele. Love her. Rawness is a gift. It’s encouraging to see more ‘Roman’ singers like Adele. Roman, in this…
February 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm Leave a Reply
07 Feb

Old Vlog: “What Will Sites Like Facebook and Twitter do to Our Lives?”

February 7, 2012 at 9:23 pm Leave a Reply
07 Feb

Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy

“A principle of abstraction is said to be conceptual when the items upon which it abstracts are concepts, and it is said to be objectual when the items upon which…
February 7, 2012 at 12:43 pm Leave a Reply
10 Jan

Corporate Hegemony and Internet Philosophy

The corporate superiority of the redneck or hillbilly in terms of communication that is all at once, integral, in depth awareness and slang tongue. Coupled with a real time, emotional,…
January 10, 2012 at 10:06 pm Leave a Reply
04 Jan

Aphoristic Futurist Thoughts: Asynchronous Messages to & from the Self

“Sat Night Live, SNL, reminds us that there is a center left in the world, with centralized cultural attitudes. Ex. Humor acts to curtail nonsense.” – Diary Aug 2010 “You…
January 4, 2012 at 10:13 am Leave a Reply
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01 Jan

Riddles of Ourselves.

Today a black lady I met, a very respectable neighbor, a former stranger, just met her, said to me, out of nowhere: “Hitler was a genius.” Weird moment. Maybe she…
January 1, 2012 at 1:29 pm 2 Replies
23 Dec

Listening

What is listening? What does it mean when someone actually listens to another person? How often does this actually happen? In order to answer the last two questions, obviously you…
December 23, 2011 at 3:15 pm 2 Replies
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20 Oct

EXCERPT FROM VESPER HELIOTROPIC: IS IT OKAY FOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO HAVE SEX?

“Large suburban bedroom windows obscured the bright room of its details, shafting a morning glow of dreaming breakfast. Rachael had been fantasizing about strawberry pancakes in the City on this…
October 20, 2011 at 12:53 pm Leave a Reply
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18 Oct

MY STRUGGLE. PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE BEHIND VESPER HELIOTROPIC- I. The Results of Freedom as Unilateral Value

I. The Results of Freedom as Unilateral Value Freedom begins with the premise that objectivity is its only corollary. That is, beginning with the political, the freedom of man to…
October 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm Leave a Reply
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16 Oct

The Careerist

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October 16, 2011 at 4:52 pm Leave a Reply
06 Oct

Crush Democracy and End Religious Freedom

Then make it against the law to be Republican. Or liberal. The new Fascism will end the religious nut’s reign of Terror over our civilization when we crush their descent.…
October 6, 2011 at 6:12 pm Leave a Reply
01 Sep

The Profit Motive is Not Capitalism

Another very real equivocation that we deal with on a daily basis is the confounding of the profit motive with personally or collectively held values. They are two different things.…
September 1, 2011 at 10:51 am Leave a Reply
05 Dec

There is more to life than this: Meaning and State

When we say someone is ‘deep’ what are we really saying? This colloquial nonsense is not really always nonsense actually, but half the time we say it in terms of…
December 5, 2010 at 10:38 pm Leave a Reply
30 Aug

Why ‘Agree to Disagree’ Is A Series of Falling Dominos

This is a quick blog to document my position and reasons for it on a particular issue, in this case on the practice of agreeing to disagree under the context…
August 30, 2010 at 9:44 pm Leave a Reply
31 Jul

America’s Assault on the Modern Woman

There are two strands of modern American feminism, all other categories seem to be variations of the following two:
July 31, 2009 at 6:06 pm 2 Replies
15 Oct

Smokescreen Complexity: Inclusion of the Probable

If someone said to you that it is virtually impossible to know the probability of how many car-to-pedestrian related deaths there are in a given city, you might be inclined…
October 15, 2008 at 3:07 pm Leave a Reply
23 Sep

Killing in the Name of Science: The End of Common Sense

It is no longer merely the vogue to ignore common sense, but now only sufficient to jettison the concept altogether. I don’t know, there must be some other world that…
September 23, 2008 at 3:03 pm Leave a Reply
09 Apr

Comprehensive Evaluation of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand: Part I: Intellectualism:

It took me a while to articulate that Rand regards intellectuality as implicitly all pervasive, in a fully explicit way to myself. On the other hand, it did not take…
April 9, 2008 at 1:54 pm 2 Replies
04 Feb

Corporate Personhood is a Violation of a Democratic Republic

My views are now post-political. I realize now that the culprit of immorality and lack of progress never was one political system over another per se, but a philosophy unsuitable…
February 4, 2008 at 5:23 pm 4 Replies
31 Jan

Visceral Probes: The Decentralist Collective Will Overpower the Corporation

Decentralization of mass media into a shattered niche market with global over-bearings will automate the corporate experience, and end the corporation as we know it. Its obsolescence has been antedated…
January 31, 2008 at 9:20 pm 3 Replies
30 Jan

Burned At The Stake You Built

“The man who discovered fire was probably burned at the stake he built.” -Paraphrased from ‘The Fountainhead,’ by Ayn Rand Someone recently pointed out, here on my blog, that I…
January 30, 2008 at 9:30 pm Leave a Reply
29 Jan

Corporatism

I think I may be beginning to oppose capitalism. Not on a political level though, my objection is philisophical: that the profit motive isn’t a valid goal for human life.
January 29, 2008 at 2:18 pm Leave a Reply
23 Jan

Listening

  What is listening?  What does it mean when someone actually listens to another person? How often does this actually happen?   In order to answer the last two questions,…
January 23, 2008 at 9:38 pm 3 Replies
23 Jan

The Anatomy of Reasonable Aggression: Part II:

  Summary of Part 1:    I introduce the objectives of the blog: one to show how the equivocation of reason as aggression, objectivity for ‘perspective’ actually works, two, to…
January 23, 2008 at 9:26 pm Leave a Reply
21 Jan

The Anatomy of Reasonable Aggression

  I am observing with greater and greater frequency the confusion of objectivity for perspective. With even more frequency, I observe the interpretation of reason itself, as aggression. Dale Carnegie…
January 21, 2008 at 6:51 pm Leave a Reply
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