When Science and Technology advance to the point where people are going to live for 200+ years, the ironic thing … More
Category: On the philosophy of…
The Philosophy of Monty Python’s Stan (from Life of Brian) – You came from nothing, you go back to nothing. What’ve ya got to lose? Nothing.
Everything that is something had to come from nothing. Every relationship you have in your life, at some point, was not … More
The Philosophy of: Monty Python’s Socrates (and his match winning golazo vs Germany)
Philosophy, both reading it, studying it, and most importantly living it, is not about winning, or being the better than … More
The Philosophy of: Karl Popper – Nothing can be proven right, it can only be proven wrong
Karl Popper’s philosophy Science can be applied to real life, for realsies. You don’t know anything. You can just experiment, … More
The Philosophy of: Ludwig Wittgenstein – The games of language (pay attention to which one others are playing)
Communication (at least verbal) is incredibly ineffective. For example, when one person says ‘I love you’ it might mean ‘You … More
The Philosophy of: My mate Matt – Honesty doesn’t lead to solutions. Honesty IS the solution.
Say you have to choose between living the life you want, and compromising the things that you value most, just … More
The Philosophy of: Falcão & The Octopods in The Arrival – Many become One. (Another student of mine inspires me)
What do we actually need? Well, this song, and specifically Soja, have an idea of what… And thanks to one of … More
Hypothetical: If you could choose between dying peacefully (and unaware) during your sleep, or die FULLY AWARE, but have ONE SECOND after your heart stops (and before your brain shuts down) where you could see the universe’s entire past and future and understand every single thing in the universe ever (alas Lucy in yep ‘Lucy’), which would you choose? & The Philosophy of: Lucy [pt.4]
There’s one thing, just one, that is impossible to ever know about. One thing that no one can ever experience … More
‘Holy flying fuck, that thing took off.’ – The Philosophy of SpaceX & Elon Musk [SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy taking off, and its outer cores landing, is god damn incredible and could give you goosebumps (and why)
Why are things like seeing panoramic views of cities (say, from the top of skyscrapers or the Eiffel Tower for … More
The Stoicism of: Tom Brady & Bill Belichick – The past is no indicator of present or future success. Do your job. This job right now.
The NFL regular season has only 16 games (compared to 82 in the NBA, same in the NHL and 162 … More