Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When Science and Technology advance to the point where people are going to live for 200+ years, the ironic thing is that the one thing that science ensured we drifted away from –being human– is going to be the one thing we eventually need to do most (and the one that we might have forgotten to do (sidenote: more irony…
Everything that is something had to come from nothing. Every relationship you have in your life, at some point, was not there. So if you were fine before it happened, it’s proof you’ll be fine after it’s gone. Which is like life. At some point you didn’t live. And the world worked fine. And at some point you will be dead,…
Philosophy, both reading it, studying it, and most importantly living it, is not about winning, or being the better than others (or the best) at it. In saying that though, in this football game of Germany’s philosophers vs Greece’s (refereed by Confucius), Greece wins. And how. And who else scores the winner, but homeboy #1 Socrates… Goooooo Greece!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA
Karl Popper’s philosophy Science can be applied to real life, for realsies. You don’t know anything. You can just experiment, analyse and reflect to show what doesn’t work, what isn’t right, perhaps what isn’t true. But we don’t know anything. And it’s that open mind that makes life so amazing, that makes you curious for you entire life
Communication (at least verbal) is incredibly ineffective. For example, when one person says ‘I love you’ it might mean ‘You are the person I enjoy being with’ but if the other says it they may mean ‘If I lost you, I wouldn’t be able to live.’ Those two things are dramatically different. And therefore the consequences of any actions that affect…
Say you have to choose between living the life you want, and compromising the things that you value most, just to alleviate your fear of regretting things in the future, or fearing that you’ll make the wrong decision… So, this is scenario 1: If you first thing deeply about understanding yourself, then you’re honest with yourself, and respectful of those who…
What do we actually need? Well, this song, and specifically Soja, have an idea of what… And thanks to one of my students, Marcela who translated Falcão’s verse so beautifully and poetically from Portuguese, this is what Falcão thinks we do… Look for your dreams, your intentions, Open your mind for your heart, Wake the transformation of hundreds to millions, Because, if…
There’s one thing, just one, that is impossible to ever know about. One thing that no one can ever experience and tell us about, for us to know, for a fact, what it’s like. And yep, that is pretty much my favourite topic to talk about, (just behind this): death. We think death is a terrible event. At least for…
Why are things like seeing panoramic views of cities (say, from the top of skyscrapers or the Eiffel Tower for example) so appealing and so captivating? It’s possible that it’s because we attempt to process in our brains what we, as individuals and as humanity, has achieved, and are capable of achieving. Master feats of engineering that have made us,…
The NFL regular season has only 16 games (compared to 82 in the NBA, same in the NHL and 162 in hockey, for comparison). Also, only 12 out of the 32 teams make the playoffs (which are all one off games, also, significanltly less than the other major sports which have them). And it’s full contact, and there’s an uncountable…