Over the past few months I’ve been spending a lot of time in the library, so I thought I’d write a post about the nature of ‘the library’ and what it means to me. My somewhat rose tinted view of libraries looks a bit like this, constructed through the libraries I have read about in Discworld books […]
Busy time has more or less ended so hopefully I’ll have the updates up a bit more frequently in future.
I was listening to the radio a couple of days ago and heard this lady ring in complaining about the effects of rock music on the “Youth of today”. Her arguments were laughable, including “no-one has […]
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 […]
I think it is easy to forget what memories, reality, science and “fact” really are. Just because you can remember something doesn’t mean it’s true, just because experimental theory points to something doesn’t mean it’s true. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, almost any hypothesis is ultimately as viable as any other. I […]
What is the use of education if we do not become creative, conscious and truly intelligent? Real education does not mean knowing how to read and write. Any stupid person, any fool can know how to read and write. We need to have intelligence and it only awakens within us when the consciousness awakens. - […]