How much of our strivings are aimed at procuring some point of satiation and safety; how bored we become when we find it... Messiness and chaos that which we say we hate, yet we nevertheless continue to create in our own lives. It may manifest in peculiar forms, like scrutinizing the true orderliness of things, …
Category: Philosophical Musings
Decisions of Motion
Why is it that whenever something comes to an end we tend to, or inevitably succumb to the urge, reflect back upon how it all began? There is a part of me that wants to refuse the tug of the past and instead continue steadfastly moving forward, with my gaze fixed upon the potentialities held …
Flows and Fragments
Celebrate with a drink! Cheers to good health with the consumption of a known toxin.Mustn’t let yourself fret over such trivialities - let's return to building our own reality.Where to begin? Are you a friend or foe? Wait - regardless of what you say, how can I trust you?The response would naturally then be: how …
Thoughts for Ponderance: Humility & Inquiry
There is always more to be drawn out from the shadows—as long as light continues to shine. The scope of the unknowable is and will always be unknown; through repetition and indirect of methods of approximations, the distance between the known and unknown can be lessened, inferences and hypotheses can be made with reasonable certainty. …
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Flowing Forward
The flow of time is due to entropy. Entropy is flowing from a state of order into disorder, and we perceive that as the arrow of time. But, on a true scale, time is truly relational: it is a matter of motion and change relative to other things (ultimately, light). What does this mean phenomenologically? …
Tipping the Scales
In the court of law, there is a key threshold required for evidence known as the the standard of proof. This puts forth the required amount of evidence for a determination to be made in the specific case, and it differs between civil and criminal cases. For example, in most civil cases, the standard of …
A Two Sided Truth 