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Without Truth You Are the Looser

I found this fantastic picture when browsing a stock photography site a little while ago:

I don’t know whether the artist intended to write ‘looser’ or ‘loser’, but I like to imagine he or she spelt it that way on purpose, rather than it just being poor spelling (although this is entirely possible, the graffiti […]

Simulacra Sunshine

Continuing from last week…
What if all our goals are simulacra? Does this present any problem? Or even hold any relevance at all?
I think it’s important, especially for the agnostic, to be aware that everything around herself is in flux, isn’t constant, is (perhaps) simulacra. Things are slightly different for the theist, as they have god, a […]

Plato and the Cave

( Books and Philosophy and Politics and Religion )

I've been reading some of Plato's works recently, specifically his allegory of the cave. For those who don't already know what it is about, this is the description from wikipedia, or you can read the original text at the link above.
Allegory of the cave 
Imagine prisoners, who have been chained since birth deep inside a cave: not […]

Death and Funerals

Last weekend I was away in Ireland for a funeral. Whilst there I experienced a lot of new things; saw new sights and felt new feelings. I haven't been to funeral since I was a young teen; and have never been to a funeral in Ireland as opposed to England. Things are done slightly differently […]

Fear and Trembling

I am currently reading “Fear and Trembling” by Søren Kierkegaard which (more or less) opens with the following passage:
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable […]