The Imperialist's Blueprint

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."

--Alexander Hamilton



[Relevant Link: http://endofamericamovie.com/video_step9.php]

Blue Velvet and the Cosmic Spin

"Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day."

-AND-

"Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd."

--David Lynch



[Relevant Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html]

I Tasted the Fruit and Its Rotten

I cannot be a strict atheist. Never shall I be able to say, "There is no God."

Granted, I reject the concept of God as religion has defined it. However, it is my disdain for religion that stops me from outright rejecting God in all forms--conceivable or inconceivable.

Religion's primary ontological claim actually extends in two directions. Religion does not simply claim that there is a God and it is a God as they define it. In actuality, religions (especially Judeo-Christian sects) are based on a exclusive disjunction, i.e. an Either/ Or premise.

In the case of religion, that premise can be summarized as, "Either there is a God as we define it, or there is nothing." This is the inherent nature of religion that necessarily makes it so exclusionary.

Hence, in my opinion, when anyone says, "Okay, fine--there's nothing," they're actually affirming religion's proposed ontological structure. Fuck that.

Why are those the only two options? To quote Whitman:

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

That sums my views up. Energy never dies. Our imbecilic human brains can barely even comprehend space and/ or time. The electromagnetic spectrum is a vast, absurd thing. Who knows what the true nature of reality is? Sure, it's not a talking snake and a boat-full of animals riding out a flood, but it's definitely beyond our tiny little brains--and it's beyond our grasp in ways we cannot even imagine.

That's how small we are. We are not even capable of imagining the true depth of our ignorance. So is there a God in a nebulous, transcendent, I-connect-all-of-reality-together-kind-of-way...who fucking knows?

However, as far as your religions are concerned, let me quote Mr. Maynard James Keenan, "Fuck your God."



[Relevant Link: http://universalfield.org/]

What the Hell Am I Doing?

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."

--E.M. Forster

The Philosopher from State of Tomorrow on Vimeo.

[Relevant Link: http://www.xs4all.nl/~maartens/philosophy/why_philosophy_is_important.htm]