January 2012
6 posts
November 2011
1 post
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARL SAGAN!
May 2011
5 posts
tomorrowdreams asked: Hi PopKa,
First... love the blog. Have you ever read "The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher" by Julian Baggini? I believe it would be right up your alley. :-)
First... love the blog. Have you ever read "The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher" by Julian Baggini? I believe it would be right up your alley. :-)
New Tumblr blog! Add meeee: allthelovesalivetonight.tumblr.com
I’m starting a new blog. One about ME. Please add it!:
www.allthelovesalivetonight.tumblr.com
A Philosophy of Love
Taking the writing in to my own hands this post. Now, I am not much for deep posts that come from the heart, but I feel it is necessary given my current situation. It is quite sad of a state when people are merely in love with the idea of being in love. We see these people move from relationship to relationship, without taking a break in between. At first we justify this pattern in their...
April 2011
3 posts
I Love Philosophers
“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest of loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and everything unutterably small and great in your life will return to you, all in the...
February 2011
2 posts
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
From TIME Magazine (click link to read article)
January 2011
7 posts
sovereignsoul asked: So, I'm currently taking a logic class, but we haven't really learned what p or q could possibly meaan in a real life situation. Why is Modus Ponens your favorite?
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend. They shall never be broken.”
– Albert Camus (via bowsuicide)
Why we should teach philosophy to kids...
Via the BPS Research Digest: A recent study on the long-term benefits of the Socratic method. In a study of 105 children, all around 10 years old, teachers spent an hour a week for 16 months teaching lessons based on philosophical inquiry.
The philosophy-based lessons encouraged a community approach to “inquiry” in the classroom, with children sharing their views on Socratic questions...
On Death...
There’s a crack in the edge at the end of the world where I will sit with my love in this fluorescent swirl eat us up, break it down, in the tiniest cell in our room with a view and a window to hell. Where those who bearing bodies in their barrels of fun will be marched through museums that display what they’ve done. They`ll be shot up through the sky by a cannon of sin where...
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Modus Ponens: If P, then Q. P. Therefore, Q. It is my favorite valid inference rule. Used extremely often in logic to solve proofs, for those who are unfamiliar.
Doesn’t the idea that God was somehow involved in the making of the universe seem immensely more reasonable than believing that some random form of matter has existed for all of time, or that matter just up and popped into existence? “So you’re asking whether it’s more plausible that everything in the known universe including man was made by a supernatural being, in 6 days, than from a...
December 2010
6 posts
This quote appears at the beginning of Christopher Hitchen’s memoir, ‘Hitch-22.’ Quickly has become a favorite. The more I think about it, the more true it appears, and the more sadness I find being conveyed in the truth of this statement.
Ricky Gervais: Why I'm An Atheist
Wall Street Journal 12/19/10
Why don’t you believe in God? I get that question all the time. I always try to give a sensitive, reasoned answer. This is usually awkward, time consuming and pointless. People who believe in God don’t need proof of his existence, and they certainly don’t want evidence to the contrary. They are happy with their belief. They even say things like “it’s true to me” and...
“We all flirt with the tiniest notion, of self conclusion in one simplified motion.”
I honestly think a person is weird if they’ve never thought about killing themselves. According to Camus, it is the only central question…
Just picked up this book yesterday. Finished the first chapter, which was wonderful. Actually, it was quite beautiful, to be honest.
ASU Proudly Shares NASA's Discovery
Woo! I love my university!
A Non-Philosopher's Guide to Philosophical Terms
Link
Showed up too small on my Tumblr. Enjoy!
November 2010
9 posts
Professor: Where do you work?
Me: I work at a bookstore.
Professor: Is it a Christian bookstore?
Me & Professor: *chuckle, chuckle, chuckle*
Oh the subtle jokes…
Trying to be a philosopher is tiring, at best. Here I am… Been working on the same paper since February. Sending it in as my writing sample for my grad applications. I am also thinking about submitting it to get published in an undergrad journal. I think it deserves it. I am very proud of the work I put in to this paper.
I have to admit I was a bit surprised to get an email from one of my...
Watching Harry Potter and cleaning. Going to make cookies soon and enjoy some hot apple cider. My favorite!
Visualizing Bible Contradictions
“The bars that run along the bottom of the visualization represent the 1189 chapters in The Bible, with the length of each bar corresponding to the number of verses in each chapter. White bars represent the Old Testament and grey bars represent The New Testament. Each red arc indicates a contradiction.” -Project Reason
So neat to see the contradictions within the Bible visually...
Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
“Our imagined self importance, the delusions that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.” -Pale Blue Dot
Just bought this magnet!
<3
Explanation can be found here.
October 2010
9 posts
'Where-to Transhumanism?'
Of course John and I deeply considered going. After I told him about my LOTR obsession!
Two Planet Opposition
The fait greenish dot in the left corner is Uranus. The huge disk in the right of the picture is Jupiter. You can see Jupiter’s moons Callisto, Europa, and Io rotating alongside the left the of the planet. Ganymede is alone to the right of the planet.
Jupiter is my second favorite planet. Such a magnificent photo.
Philosopher Tweets
I let my paper “rest” for four months.
If you’ve never experienced this phenomenon, you are missing out!
I think I might have given myself a heart attack last night while studying for the GRE. NOTE: No more studying before bed time.
I woke up with awful chest pains in the morning. Since I’ve been having health issues, it’s a good idea to keep my stress levels down, as it seems to be a trigger. Last night confirmed so.
GRE before bed -> Stress
Stress -> Morning chest pains
/ GRE...
Proofs That P
Philosophers’ hilarious proofs that p, which any logician can laugh at:
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Davidson’s proof that p: Let us make the following bold conjecture: p Wallace’s proof that p: Davidson has made the following bold conjecture: p Grunbaum: As I have asserted again and again in previous publications, p.
Putnam: Some philosophers have argued that...
Practicing being a professor whilst listening to the (500) Days of Summer soundtrack. Now, where should I go to grad school? I should practice applying. ;p
The Great Debate
Just bought two tickets for this! I can’t even contain my excitement. I will be tormented for a whole month until this day arrives. About a year ago I missed Richard Dawkins and Steven Hawking speaking (more or less (okay, bad joke)) at ASU, and I wasn’t about to pass this up. Most looking forward to seeing Singer and Blackburn, as they’ve influenced my work greatly. Such...
September 2010
2 posts
“It’s pretty well established that the more intelligent and educated a person is, the less likely they are to believe in God. Here, have a graph:”
via unreasonablefaith.com
IMPORTANT NOTICE
“Metaphysics” as a field of study within the academic area of Philosophy is very different from “Metaphysics” as the label of a bookshelf in Border’s Books. This is a Philosophy course. It is not about what Border’s Books calls Metaphysics.
The popular (Border’s Books) understanding of Metaphysics is that it is the study of paranormal phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, out-of-body...