God does not (not) exist.
I don’t agree, but I thought it was a good read. Good religious philosophy.
Slavoj Zizek - What does it mean to be a revolutionary today?
40 minutes, but worth bearing his speech impediment/accent.
Your morning cup of Hateorade
Seriously? Screw Ayn Rand. I know this conversation’s been hinted at in earlier posts, but Steven Colbert justifies my opinion nicely… after the jump.
On Infinite Smallness
I just watched a pretty rad video of an electron microscope zooming in on a mint leaf and it got me thinking, as these things can do, on the idea of infinite largeness and smallness. The fact is, we have yet to discover the source of mass. No matter how far we zoom in, there’s just more empty space. Technically speaking, we should all be transparent if all that nothing weren’t somehow packed together so tightly.
So you have to wonder… if and when we find the God particle, the source of all our mass and all the mass in the dirt and the air and the sea and space, what will it be? What will it look like? Even electrons are made up of smaller particles orbiting still smaller particles. When you get down far enough — when we smash apart some atoms in the LHC — maybe we’ll find us? The fact is, the idea of these baby universes isn’t improbable. We just don’t know.
Let's talk Philosophy!
I feel, perhaps, school would be a lot more effective these days if it was taught this way.
On Virtuosity
A friend asked me this and I thought it was an interesting question:
Which virtue do you think is the most overrated?
(There’s a huge list of the supposed virtues on Wikipedia.)