Fallen angel, answering my own questions
I wrote stupidity and evil in 2011. I have reworked it here for the benefit of this website. For the most part, humans accept the dichotomy between good and evil. Popular depictions of this duality place its parties in a sort of perpetual battle, a ground whence the reasons for important events comes. Good and [...]
As Professor Brian Cox explains, "an opinion can be criticised and even ridiculed if evidence and good argument show it to be nonsensical". This simple statement proves offensive to many people when I utter it. Could it be that my eminence pales compared to that of the professor? Of course it does, but this fact [...]
To say that I stand with the Ukrainian people doesn't and shouldn't imply that I support the United States government. I don't. I do worry, however, about The Russia-Ukraine War and American Hypocrisy. A level of hypocrisy that is historically damaging to the world. The fiasco with Honduran president Xiomara Castro, when Kamala Harris intended [...]
It is worth noting that before I undertook the endeavour of being the Devil and accepting philosophy as a discipline, I had little to no respect for it. Still, here we are, reading a brief shout-out to philosophy by me. The mere mention of it aroused disdain in me. Especially for those who saw it [...]
We have not yet filled The Need for Accessible Language in Science and Philosophy. Though it is much better than about five years ago, the language of science is still heavy and difficult to follow. Now, this is necessarily so due to the complex topics often discussed in the pursuit of scientific endeavours: talking about Quantum theory will [...]
When I talk about Learning as a positive lifestyle, I am referring to the use of that intense desire to know more about the things you enjoy and love for your benefit. You may have already thought of several of these “things”. In fact, I know you will suppose of at least one by the time [...]
Science according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is "a systematic enterprise that creates, builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe." Scientific Observation The same article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science, says that contemporary science is typically subdivided into the natural sciences, which study the material world, the social sciences, which study people and [...]
This one deviates from my usual philosophical rants, but not without reason. I now give you a meditation on why religious convictions are immoral. A reflection resulting from queries I face when the topic of belief arises. I will add that this very meditation is one that earns me the moniker of the Devil. One [...]
As you likely know, the Devil is always keen on asking the right questions to make you think differently about what you think you know. And this is the focus of this meditation on meditation and knowing. Once, during a discussion about the need for meditation and introspection, a dear friend told me that spending [...]
Epistemology is one of those fancy ideas more people should understand. And I mean this, countless notions could change the world if only the world paid closer attention to them. The anti-luck intuition is one of those notions. And the phrase itself is elegant; it appears to mean something significant or to belong to a [...]