Just a quick update today (and probably for the coming week or so) as I am ridiculously busy.
This is a fantastic podcast/blog I have found called Mohr Philosophy by Todd Park Mohr, he is just starting a series on Nietzsche at the moment. He also posted some pictures of his house the other day, which […]
http://electricsheep.org/
This is a really interesting screen saver program. It’s made up of lots of linked renders called sheep (like the one below), which people can make themselves and submit. They all link up to create a morphing psychedelic visual experience. When it is on it downloads new sheep and circulates them round, with the more […]
Can we ever really be content?
I always want more or better. I find it almost impossible to live in “the now”. I always am thinking about how I can improve things, what would make things better, which often results in me missing what is good at the moment.
It’s good to have hope, and dreams. But […]
What does wealth and security give us? If you look at the people who get depressed, or moan about all their problems, they are not always the worst off people, but often the better off. At school, a lot of the people who became depressives were people from “stable” (or at least richer) homes, and […]
For those of you who are interested, the official “A Scanner Darkly” website is online here, looks good. Some stills:
Something I dislike about the social “norm” (in this country at least) is the way that, when you are in a group, there always needs to be speech. If nobody speaks for a few seconds, the situation begins to feel uncomfortable.
Why do we feel the need to cram every moment we are with other people […]
Night, So radically different to the day.
For most people, “life” is what happens during the day, at work, at school etc, meeting people, talking, feeling the world around you… So what does that make night?
I personally seem to spend a large chunk of my time “living” at night, I love the quiet, the relative solitude, […]