Dave Martin | Sports, stupidity & real-time data analysis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There was a blackout where I live last night. Which was excellent for 2 reasons –one, because a blackout limits your options of what you can do (and I’m pretty sure there’s a strong correlation between having fewer options and contentment), and two, the time display on my microwave and oven were reset and now my oven displays this every…
The only reason I didn’t want to get a tattoo on the weekend was because I wouldn’t be able to go swimming in the ocean for 2,3 weeks or whatever, which I do almost every day. So the last time getting out of the ocean before I got it felt somewhat melancholy and bittersweet. But just because I had 2 weeks…
Admiral James Stockdale spent over 7 years in a Vietnamese Prisoner of War camp, where he was tortured by having his legs crushed, his back broken and his shoulders torn from their sockets. And the thing that kept him going, by maintaining control over his own mind, was the philosophy of ancient Roman Stoic Epictetus. By putting everything in perspective was…
What’s the point of tattoos? I don’t know and it might be different for every person, but today I’m getting this done on one arm: And this on the other: With this text somewhere too: It’s so exciting… Things which you have no control over… You can see a great big storm coming and you can’t do anything about it.…
There’s a lot of reasons Robert California is one of the greatest fictional characters there ever was and here’s another one. When two people start talking about personal relationship shit in front of him, they start to feel bad for him and pitifully tell him, ‘I’m sorry this must make you uncomfortable’. To which he replies: I am never uncomfortable.…
Communication is what makes us human, enabling us to connect on the deepest level with those around us — telling our own stories, expressing wants, needs and desires, or hearing those of others by really listening. All this is how the world knows who we are. So who are we without it? – Martin Pistorius Imagine not being able to tell anyone anything at all? Not being…
I was previously in a relationship where my feelings for the person were intense and full of meaning when they weren’t with me. But when I was actually with that person, I felt indifferent to them at best. If you want to test and see how much someone or something means to you, the true test is when you’re around them.…
In Plato’s Theaetetus, Thedourus and Socrates debate what it is to ‘know’ or ‘perceive’ something. And Socrates being the annoying (but excellently annoying) bloke he was, badgers Theaetetus about what they believe knowledge actually is. Theodorus’ viewpoint gets stripped bare by Socrates to the point where everything he thought he knew is put into question. He starts to get pissed off…
Humans understand a bunch of shit. We can split the atom, build the Large Hadron Collider and launch and then land a rocket back on Earth. But there’s one thing we have no clue about, one thing that’s physically impossible to experience and share knowledge about (and therefore impossible to know what the fuck we’re on about), and that’s… yep… Death.¹ The one…
This is something my girlfriend suggested to me after yesterday’s post on the better way to approach knowledge and whether Socrates was taking the piss. If Socrates said ‘There’s only one thing I know – that I know nothing.’, doesn’t that mean that he’s saying he actually knows TWO things? The fact that he knows nothing and 2. The actual…