Tonight was a good night.

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Well, I remember last night when going to sleep that this essay was due this morning. So I woke up nice and early and threw it together. Not too great, but whatever.

( More Philosophy )

( The Meaning of Life )

Yes, more philosophy.

( To Answer the Skeptic )

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( Enjoy )

"I know that queer things happen in this world. It's one of the few things I've really learned in my life."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

An analytical view of the idea of a necessary being.

( Philosophic Fun! )

I have decided to be kind enough to supply an update. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, though it is just a simple paste of my last essay written in philosophy. It is nothing exceptional but, like most my work, I am still somewhat proud of it at least. The topic? A critical dismissal of Platonic forms and mild praise for the metaphysics of Aristotle. Enjoy.

( Platonic Forms )

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Current Music: R.E.M. - What's The Frequency Kenneth?

"I have encouraged in the expression of liberal views, or have terrified with the knowledge of what modern weapons can do. It is not much, but if everybody did as much this Earth would soon be a paradise. Consider for a moment what our planet is and what it might be. At present, for most, there is toil and hunger, constant danger, more hatred than love. There could be a happy world, where co-operation was more in evidence than competition, and monotonous work is done by machines, where what is lovely in nature is not destroyed to make room for hideous machines whose sole business is to kill, and where to promote joy is more respected than to produce mountains of corpses. Do not say this is impossible: it is not. It waits only for men to desire it more than the infliction of torture.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere."

- Bertrand Russell

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Current Music: R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It

The skeptic that maintains that we entirely cannot trust our senses and that they are illusionary and counterfeit falls into a logical error. We should ask the skeptic how is it he imputes the quality of being counterfeit or being illusionary to the senses when, apparently, all our senses are indeed illusionary. For illusionary to have any meaning there must be something of the senses that are indeed genuine. If there is not, the skeptic undermines his very position as he cannot logically assert that all our senses are illusionary for the very concept is without meaning. Just as for some currency to be counterfeit, there must be some currency that is legitimate. The very same concept applies to the senses.

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