12/6/09 12:55 pm
i wonder if i will ever grow up.
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guess you really are busted in half.
clunk along anyways.
:/
WOOOOO PSUDEOINTELLECTUAL PSYCHOBABBLE thanks internet :)
hough this anon's description is technically not correct (I won't say that it is correct, however, since it basically says nothing), I'd like to put in a less freemasony way:
Let's assume the existence of an external, consistent universe. In this universe, we can make observations by measuring its properties and deducing from them.
Let us assert that in this universe there exist 'goodness' and 'badness', with objects and action belonging to these fuzzy sets (let's call this belonging A(x) in [0,1])to certain degrees.
Now, the existence of goodness and badness is real insofar as all universals (such as 'redness' or the number 6) are - but this is beyond the scope of this discussion, so let's leave it at that for the moment.
However, there is no known way to demonstratably determine A(x) for any x in the universe as one would determine other physical properties. Though we might contend that we feel things to be good or bad, we 1) these feelings are not consistent across individuals and even though they may true for some and can be communicated, their justification can not (we essentially have to take people's word for it) and 2) even if they were, there would still be no guarantee that they reflected anything besides our emotions.
Furthermore, the ethic dimension of things does not influence the physical world in any known way, rendering it - for our purposes - irrelevant. Even if we could somehow determine that an act is bad, its perpetrator will not fall down dead for doing it (according to the current knowledge of physics).
Thus, the nihilist's claim that 'nothing has (ethical) value' cannot be proved, but it also cannot be disproved, making it the ideology of angry 13 year olds who like every other word of their's to be 'nigger'.
Of course, it must be borne in mind that any reasonable argument must be dismissed with absolute conviction! For the Emperor!
tyler mentioned tonight, psychedelics are a lot like sex, in ways.
I couldn't have said it better my good man.
perhaps i will spend my evenings by the fire with dear lucy at
if you'll excuse me, my favorite part of this song just happened <3
though much easier to come by, haha.
sometimes i wish
things
were
different but it is difficult to tell
the good from the bad this
way and that is
good because
perception
you know
the drill. :P
i think i thought a great many important thoughts today, and forgot all of them promptly.
ah! one, i remember. in the shower. I think I may not be just being an emo kid anymore, and for reals actually don't care about these people.
then i considered caring and it felt kind of
good, pure, in a way.
earnest.
that was the word i was looking for. :)
funny that i hadn't really noticed. :P
in fact i only did notice cause i accidentally did care there for a second. :P
or maybe that wasn't caring at all, who knows.
misplaced synapse refuse blasted out at nine am by too much water in the eardrums
the et cetera of the mishmash. :P
sometimes, the pain is nice.
reminds me of.....
hm. I don't know, really.
(that's a coping mechanism right there, buddy. :P)
well, hello there, 4:13 am.
its been a while.
i guess some folks are just strange folk, pop
'n that's what they are, how thell be.
hush up now boy, weve got things to tend to