The Museum of Contemporary Thoughts

According to recent pediatric studies (whodunit escapes me), an infant, at 3 months of age, can look into a mirror, and recognize itself. Th...

Self Awareness. What is it, when does it form, how does it change us? Please ruminate and share your thoughts on this matter.

The thing about Free Will is that it's suppressed. Very few people take advantage of this power that resides in each and everyone of us....

There is someone I have been lucky enough to stumble into in my life. She is one of those people who makes you feel better about the world....

Free will.....the idea that we can make a choice... seems false to me. The world is made up of so many contructs, contexts, and binary opp...

The problem with "free will" is that it is not technically free. Decisions cannot be made that are free from the influences of Go...

So... What's up with free will?

I have posted the older PDF files, though the quality is sketchy at best-- I had to print and convert them all the jpegs. If you happen to h...

Faith is a belief structure. Without faith, your world is shifting and unstable where you can no more trust what you see and hear than an ...

FAITH is humanity, unencumbered. It is existential theory, it is religion, and ...

The culmination of all the definitions for "faith" I could find = “ to trust or believe without reason ”. I have a tough time sepa...

What is the role of faith?

Mere Existence Obliges Us To Nothing Except Maybe To Attempt to Survive Obligation comes not from existence But a sense of self and who you ...

Given that I am, I am obligated to preform two simple duties: Recognizing my own mortality I find it my responsibility to procreate and keep...

To be or not.... well, I am. To not, though, is part of being. Death is a natural part of life. In this way, our finite venture here has ...

I took a shit today in the cleanest, safest drinking water that man has ever known. While two thirds of the world lives on less than a doll...

Obligation as a sense of duty, relates only to the social realm in my personal view, as it is not a necessity. Necessity relates only to the...

To be or not to be, that was and, for many always will be, the question. One of the most basic metaphysical presuppositions is that we are,...

Power by its nature must include two components. First, there must be a person or body which acts. Second, there must be the subordinate p...

There are a few basic laws that govern life as we know it. One such scientific law states Power = work / time. The relationship between work...

"With Power Comes Great Responsibility" The phrase has changed throughout time, but with each of its incarnations it shares the co...

POWER rules life. Hunters search out the meek, and powerless for food. The animals on the top of the food chain are often the best fed. Powe...

"With power comes great responsibility" is horseshit. We can hope all we want that those in power will act responsibly, but it wil...

On Power and Responsibility We all know the old adage that with great power comes great responsibility, but what exactly are those responsib...

What is the relationship between philosophy and science?

Reality is created by the sy(mpto)stems of our faith, by the mainaence of our memes, by the keen observation of our wise men, their wonder...

Your house is on fire, your children are burnt; All except one, and that's ragged Anne and she's crept under the warming pan. Go...

How do you define reality?

He stood behind Adolf with the baton in his hand. This was the moment, and yet he hesitated. He had killed hundreds of people fo...

From a man on the street, black, disheveled, thin, “My man, my man, can you spare a dollar? C’mon I’m just hungry, man; I just need a do...