There is a certain kind of alienating majesty in space, a kind of overwhelming beauty in the silence and the vastness, a humbling hugeness that quiets the mind into darker reveries of thought, punctuated by a kind of ecstatic beauty in the bursts of brilliant lights, far off, like epiphanies within the darkness of thought. [...]
Archive for April, 2008
In the Footsteps of Emerson
Posted in Literature and Poetry, Transcendentalism, tagged Emerson, Joy, Transcendental, Transcendentalism on 27 April, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A Memoir in Six Words
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hemingway, memoir, poetry, Truth on 23 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Normally, I don’t do these sort of chain-mail things, but this one is actually relevant to my normal existential musings.
Apparently, Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words, which he did:
“For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
How this relates to us occurred when Bookbabie posted a challenge to the [...]
Note to Self II
Posted in Uncategorized on 21 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Right, so we’ve already covered the problems with atheist morality, explained the truth in subjectivity, thoroughly bashed bumper-sticker Christians, viewed problems with monotheist religions, and invoked Beethoven to pass by the weary hours of the night.
This knocks off a good portion of what I wanted to cover last time, but there are a few things [...]
Those Timesless Hours
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged Adagio sostenuto, Alexander Pope, Allegretto, Caitlin, can't sleep, Jordan, Moonlight, Moonlight Sonata, Presto agitato, restlessness, sleepless, Sonata on 17 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I should be asleep. Barring that, I should at least be doing something productive. Homework perhaps.
Instead I mixed a fair portion of the Bacardi into orange juice and put on the Moonlight sonata.
Adagio sostenuto
I wonder, right now, if there is anyone who also should be asleep, who has things to do tomorrow, but who might [...]
Love God or Go to Hell
Posted in Christianity, God and Theology, tagged Christianity, CS Lewis, Damnation, Heaven, Hell, Islam, Jesus, Monotheism, Muslims, Omnibenevolence, Omnipotence, Savior, The Great Divorce, Tyranny, Tyrant on 5 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A consideration of the inherent Tyranny in Monotheism, and Christianity’s solution of the problem.
Starting Points
Posted in God and Theology, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, absolute, Anselm, Argument, axioms, Descartes, disprovable, existence, God, Jordan, Meditations on First Philosophy, of, ontological, ontology, provable, reason, self on 4 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a gloomy day sometime in 1640, or at least, I like to imagine it was a gloomy, quiet day in Europe when Descartes, dressed still in his nightgown, sat down in front of his softly cackling fireplace and drew his ink bottle and paper towards him to compose the Meditations on First Philosophy.
It [...]
