Fallen angel, answering my own questions
Tuesday, March 22, 2022. 50 Minutes past 2:00 I should write a book, or many, based on my conversations with the world. I don't remember a time when I shone away from discussing anything. Especially about those issues I find essential to social well-being. And this conversation, which started with the seemingly popular idea of [...]
Tuesday, March 15 2022. 50 Minutes past 5:00 After several months of not writing here, I feel the need to contribute to this story due to several preoccupations. The most pressing, even if it's self-indulgent, is saying goodbye to Natasha. And then there is the lesson of the value of honesty to romantic relationships The last [...]
Here and now, I must insist that you summon the full extent and force of your self-control. Because yes, I have much to say on the subject. This is a fair warning and call to action to all critical thinkers. Given that you have not thrown whatever device you read this on across your study, [...]
Acquiescence Bias is the human (social) propensity to portray a positive or agreeable overtone when questioned or queried (or vice versa - disagreement). Psychologists refer to it as "yah-saying" and define it as the tendency to agree with a statement when in doubt. If someone is unsure of the answer, they will often agree rather [...]
An old meditation about he relationship between Imagination and Intellectual Honesty, and how Einstein's popular allegories blur the line between the two. February 27 2012 The trend amongst proponents of new-age thinking and believers of everything illogical is to hold imagination as "better" or more important than knowledge. This seems to result from the human [...]
These last few days have been about resetting after contemplating the state of the world. I have not contributed much to this blog or to any other platform for that reason, but I should be more responsible with my content. I will do my best not to miss too many days. The challenge posed to [...]
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 [...]