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“Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.” - James Mill, Essay on Government
Equality via Differences
It's in my philosophy to see and treat everyone as an equal. It makes no difference the difference in salary, the difference in job title, or the difference in individual, we are all equal. However, we are not all identical; we are wired with the same parts but in different ways. For example, our bodies have veins, but the ways my veins are shooting up my arms are different from yours. This leads to be realize that the ways we are wired might lead to a natural advantage over others (ex. Mental disorders and genes). Perhaps we aren't truly the same, some are born better off than others, but we all bleed blood, breathe air, and drink water. As unique as we may be, we are all equal under as a species.
“In philosophy, in politics, in theology, in history, negation is the preliminary requirement to affirmation. All progress beings by abolishing something; every reform rest upon denunciation of some abuse; each new idea is based upon the proved insufficiency of the old idea.”
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution
The Weirdness of I
Have you ever stopped and wondered how crazy and miraculous it feels to live on this Earth, within this reality as You? I mean, how crazy is it that with a global population of 7,814,561,127 people, You are experiencing everything from only one perspective. It’s fascinating to me that I am living just one life, from one perspective. If we trace back our lives, we all start off as sperm cells, plain and simple. Add the fact that there are an ungodly amount of sperm cells all over the world. Combine THAT fact with the fact that I share my birthday with countless other people around the world. What circumstances have had to occur in order for their to be a Me? What allowed me, or stopped me, from being somebody else entirely? For all I know, my existence as this person was a roulette wheel, a random act of chance. What biological, neurological, or otherwise natural processes had to happen for me to be born as this person, living out this life from this perspective? What stopped me from being a part of a completely different family? I feel like these are the questions that stoners ask when they’re high, but I’ve been thinking this since I was like 12. How weird to think that my life was a cosmic game of dice: nothing but chance.
Necessary Evil
The Yin Yang: it shows the Darkness within the Light and the Light within the Darkness. A never ending chase of good and evil, with the goal to swallow the other one up. Similarly, we humans are imperfect, we have some darkness within us. Additionally, we also dawn the task of overcoming the bad with the good. However, if we take a step away from ourselves, we must acknowledge the dependence that good and bad have on each other. Without a good, we cannot have an evil. What makes both the Yin Yang and our world complete is the existence of both right and wrong, one cannot defeat the other. Therefore, the evil that we encounter is a necessity to bring about the positive change that we look for. The good always chases the evil, and the moral dance will continue for as long as humans roam this earth.
Questions to Answer Later
Who am I? I don’t mean your name, or your profession, but YOU, ME. Who am I? What makes me, ME? At what point do I stop being ME? How much of myself can I remove until I stop being ME? Why am I Here? What is making Me stay? What is keeping Me from going? Where else can I go? How would I get there There? Why am I existing? Who put me Here? Was it my parents? the Universe? God? Why would they bring me here? If I truly have free will, why was This decision, the most important decision, made without my say? Who made This decision for Me? Was it God too, giving me free will but making a This decision for me? If so, God lied to Me. God doesn’t care for Me? A heartless liar is making The most important decision for us without our consent. What gives God the right to do this? Blatantly going against our desires, giving us what we don’t desire. If he is actively delivering us onto evil, Why call him God?
I am eventually going to tackle the question of “Who Am I?” Not what my name is, not what i do, not what my likes and dislikes are, nor what my opinions are. Rather, what am I?
A Human’s Hubris
Friedrich Nietzsche once proclaimed that “God is dead, god remains dead and we have killed him.” This quote implies that God was once alive. We can’t deny the cultural, and obviously religious, impacts that God has had on the entire world; people have based their own existence on God. If God is dead, the same people who worship God will refuse to live without God, and they will go to any lengths to bring God back. Herein lies my following questions: If God is dead, should Humans resurrect God? Do Humans have the right to make such a decision? If God did indeed give us (humans) free will, as St. Augustine proclaims, then we do have an unalienable right to make the decision of resurrecting God. The problem lies in if we should. We can take the lives of animals and plants because, here on Earth and relative to we Humans, all other organisms seem inferior to the Human. The reason why we hold such reverence towards God is because it is a superior being in relation to us Humans. As with angles, demons, spirits, and other deities, we hold God to be the ultimate life form, above every other thing in existence. So if we humans make the decision to resurrect God, and we succeed, would we elevate our status as a living being? With the successful resurrection of God, would humans be deified? If humans are to be deified to the role of some sort of God, would that mean that all our flaws will cease to exist and we become something other than human? Perhaps now, we get to make a life form in our own image.
Holy fuck this was weird, but this is what happens when you finish Neon Genesis Evangelion within like 5 days and while you’re in the middle of a rollercoaster ride of discovering philosophy.
“One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.” - Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
Heap of My Mind
The Heap of Sand paradox is a thought experiment that blurs the lines of quantity and knowledge. We go to the beach and pick up some sand in our hands. The sand on our hand is a heap of sand, this much we can all agree on. Now we’ll start removing one grain of sand from the heap; at what point does this heap stop being a heap? At one grain of sand? Then with two grains of sand it can be considered a heap, right? Such a paradox is hard to quantify, even harder if I pose that same experiment but with my neurons. The human brain is made up of billions of neurons and help create the being I call “me.” My personality, my mental characteristics, my opinions, and my moral compass are all a result of how my brain is wired. If we start removing neurons from my brain, one by one, at what point will the cognitive functions that determine my personality cease? At what point can you keep me alive, both physically and mentally, but render me totally lame on the inside, completely void of my essence? Can such a state be achieved? Is the scenario I just described even possible (or even worthwhile)? If it is possible, somebody let me know how it goes because I would not want to volunteer for that experiment.
“There is also a philosophical question about the relation between mind and brain, and it is this: Is your mind something different from your brain, though connected to it, or is it your brain? Are your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, and wishes things that happen in addition to all the physical processes in your brain, or are they themselves some of those physical processes?” - Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?
I cannot stress how important it is to be a little bit mad. I don’t mean angry. I mean strange. Weird. Bizarre. I mean that creative, passionate, wild thing romantics call madness. That thing that stirs the poet’s soul, or gives inspiration to the musician. Madness is the fuel that drives the mind of the mathematician as they discover equations that govern the universe, or the philosophers as they question their own existence. Madness is what gives activists their strength. Madness is the oppressed demanding freedom in the face of their oppressors. Madness is doing what is right despite the darkness surrounding you. Madness is daring. Madness is love. Madness is human. I’m not saying you shouldn’t fear it. One should fear madness as one fears God. After all, it is holy.
Find your madness, then find your medium. Even madness deserves a stage
“If you ain’t some kind of crazy, you ain’t shit. Facts.” -Tech N9ne. Call it madness, call it passion, but you can’t call it unnecessary.
The Various Me’s
There is a Me that exists in my own mind. Likewise, there is a Me that exists in the minds of everyone who has ever met me in person. There is a Me that exists to the people who have met me online. There is a Me that exists in the minds of people who don’t know about Me but know the things I do. There is a Me that exists as a small part of somebody’s day, or their friend’s day, etc. Point is that there is a Me for as many people that exist in the world, and each one of them is different. There is also a Me that exists objectively; the objective Me holds the most truth out of all the Mes. This objective Me exists to everyone simultaneously, but still varies among everyone. So if it varies among everyone, it can’t really be classified as the constant, raising the question of which Me is the “true” Me. It might be the Me that exists within myself; as I live this life in the first-person perspective I am able to experience and feel more things than anybody else could know, making the version of Me that exists in myself the most superior. But who am I to say that one person’s view of Me is any better or worse than mine or any other’s? They are valid versions of Me based off of what they know about me, which is ultimately determined by how outspoken I am to them. There might not ever be a true version of Me, which I think is kinda cool.
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Triangle of Truth
When I got to thinking, I realized that Philosophy, Science, and Math are the 3 main fields of discovering the truth of our reality. Philosophy sets up the questions: How do I think? How small am I in relation to it all? Etc. Science and math help answer those questions. Science answers the empirical questions, if it can be measured, observed, tested, sampled, etc science can answer it. For the more rational or theoretical questions, math helps us out. Fields like Calculus help us understand the ways gravity and the universe behave to gain knowledge of the things we can't seem to measure. Pretty sick trio if you ask me.
“All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion.” - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
