To believe in the equality of all men, when we see them all unequal; to believe in liberty, when we see slavery established in all parts; to believe that all men are brothers, when history tells all are enemies; to believe that there is a common mass of misfortunes and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Life is the Absence of Sleep
The universality of sin necessitates the universality of purification, which in its turn requires pain to be universal, that the whole human race may be purified in its mysterious waters. This explains why all men born suffer from their birth to their death. Pain is the inseparable companion of life in this obscure valley, filled with our sighs, deafened with our lamentations, and moistened with our tears. Every man is a suffering being, and everything not painful is strange to him. Continue reading
Life’s a Bitch, but she’s my bitch so I love her
Death is certain, the time and manner is not. ~ Buddha In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche wrote: The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living….The highest interest of life, of ascending life, demands the most ruthless suppression and sequestration … Continue reading
Schopenhauer on Christianity
The innermost kernel and spirit of Christianity is identical with that of Brahmanism and Buddhism. Continue reading
Tenets of Darwinism
Darwinism is based on two fundamental tenets: Survival of the fittest Variation in a population is the result of random genetic mutations The current version is better called neo-Darwinism because Darwin did not know about genes. As Karl Popper pointed out, tenet (1) is really a tautology, not however in … Continue reading
Fruit Flies and Evolution
Scientists performed the following experiment with two colonies of fruit flies. The first colony was allowed to breed without interference. In the second, the flies were selectively bred to produce a superior colony, that is, it “evolved”. The interesting thing is that when male flies from the evolved colony were … Continue reading