philosophy
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Mice in my Garage
There are mice in my garage. And I have not killed a mouse,but I have seen it done with traps and I have seen them crushed underfootI have also seen how cats kill them, and cats…
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April
I wake up angry these days. The good times come and go, and the bad times are worse as they come. I can feel myself getting older, and every new bout of depression carries the weight…
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The Death of Hope
From 11/27/23 – On The Internet “I want to collect milestones in my personal growth, but I don’t want to face the embarrassment at having held an opinion that I’ve since grown from. I want to…
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On Existential Psychoanalysis
Edited from “2/17/23 – On Existential Psychoanalysis” To extend the title: ‘in relation to Sam Harris’ explication of determinism’: Per Sartre’s description of existential psychoanalysis, the exercise that I performed previously for Sam’s Free Will can…
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The Human Knows Where It Is
An object is what it is because it is. The human understands what an object is by knowing what it isn’t. By relating what an object is to what it isn’t, the human creates a relation…
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An Exercise on Free Will
Edited from “1/18/23 – An Exercise on Free Will” In his 2012 essay ‘Free Will’, Sam Harris describes the causal nature of impulses (which lead to actions) as a logical argument against the concept of Free…
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On Transhumanism
Revised from “1/13/23 – On Transhumanism” Contemporary cultural movements, such as identity politics and label-making as a result of the progressive soft-sciences, suggest that humanity is approaching a state where the general populace hold an awareness…
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On The Soul
1/12/23 – On The Soul One major philosophical concept: that of the Soul. Or rather, what has been described by some as the soul, the self, the “I that I am”: a singular, indivisible, atomic center…
Sanctity and Constraint 