This is something my girlfriend suggested to me after yesterday’s post on the better way to approach knowledge and whether … More
Author: Dave
Was Socrates taking the piss when he said this? Isn’t saying ‘I don’t know anything’ still a form of knowing something? Instead of ‘I don’t know anything’, would it not have been more accurate to say ‘Do I know anything?’?
This is something that my mate Matt said the other day… If Socrates was the wisest bloke human guy there … More
How do you know you’re not dreaming right now?
When you dream at night, does it sometimes feel real? So real that you feel anxiety, worry, fear, jealousy, love, … More
If you have something you think you can’t imagine losing, you don’t own it. It owns you.
Do you have something you can’t imagine losing? Or something that you can’t afford to lose? Well that things owns … More
If you managed to survive okay without something or someone before they came into your life, you can live without it after it’s gone
What’s the most important thing or person/people/animal in your life? At some point they came into your life, right? But before that, … More
The philosophy of: Que sara sara
If the past is the complete opposite of the future, then if the past is set, that must mean that … More
Things are the the way they are, there’s no other way they could be.
When you look back on forks in the road, it can be tempting to think, ‘If I had/hadn’t done x, … More
Can you use your mind to not get pissed off over annoying things (or even enjoying them?) + Pretending to be Charles Darwin to not throw brooms at magpies
There’s a pair of magpies who came outside my window every few mornings. And they sound like a piece of … More
The philosophy of: The 1975-The Sound (& Kanye West) – Facing your flaws, weaknesses and faults builds strength. Distracting and deluding yourself makes you vulnerable and fragile (+ my experiment doing the opposite of Kanye).
Kanye has this picture on his living room wall: And it’s there because as he says, ‘Well, I gotta cheer … More
The philosophy of: Chunky [pt.9] – Physical appearance doesn’t matter shit
This was Chunky after rolling around in the sand down the local beach today: But you think he gives a … More