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My contempt for religion- In as few words as I could

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:15:00 +0200

It seems a shame...

The trials of mankind have been harsh and unforgiving over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. From watching the stars in the sky and the life that sprang from the earth with such wonder and awe- From building the tools to discover and understand how such things have come to be, how they formed- To founding a way by which we may put aside our biases and peer into the clockworks of nature...

Only to be held back by a pious few who were done wondering before they even knew how to ask.

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Wishes

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Sun, 12 May 2013 06:28:00 +0200

I can't pretend to have known him as much as I wish I could.

I can't pretend to miss him as much as his family does, or to have loved him as his family has through out the last few years. Such devotion is unimaginable were it not so trivial to those who truly loved him.
That is why there is not much that I can say about him. I know that he was loved, and having known him, I knew why. Having seen the attendees, I now know how much. I know that he was a great man, such a man that now, having passed, he will even be missed by those who have never laid eyes on him and may never know the gratitude they owe him. Not an honour many could come by.

But as I've said, there's not much that I can say that isn't already clear to all who knew him.

So I will talk about myself, about my selfish wishes.

I so awefully wish to earn the love of such people as he, that when the day comes for me too- they would speak in at least as half as much praise. That is, if I'm deserving.

I've come by it before, but this time- it was kinder. It meant not to confuse or frighten, to sadden or dishearten, though it did. It came teaching. Reminding of its imminence.

And so I've learnt that before it comes approaching, were I to glance back and reflect- I only wish that I would see that I have loved more than I did hate in life, that I was content more than I was frustrated, that I have understood more than I have feared.

This is how I wish to live.

cont.

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:07:00 +0200

The world, my friend, has made a cynic out of you

dialogues/fear cont.

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:07:00 +0200

"Such is my nature and it forbids me from being oblivious to it."

"Alas, I trust you are entangled-"

"And trust! Trust'd be the most wicked strain of all! For the more I trust the more I question why. By-the-by I question that unto which I have mine trust entrusted! Aye, for what reason have I? What reason have it to seem trustworthy unto mine eyes? Such a knot and tie not you nor I can certainly untangle! I find certainty but in lies! The more I have trusted the more I have cause for having done otherwise."

"Ah, yet one question still remains riddled and entwined which you, in doubt, did not care to mind, for, alas, the one thing you have trusted most- is the question that you post."

"Why ask why?"

Epistemological notes

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:12:00 +0200

"...

Thereupon that time then a thought had come intruding

From whence has my mind such a demon wrought

- A venom therein fatal and enduring?

Imposing: Surely, there is nothing as subversive as a thought.

..."

SPIRITS: NINE SISTERS

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:08:00 +0200

Excerpt from CH:1 Eternal Dusk

...Orpheus' russet-brown eyes lost focus somewhere at the valley basin then he
spoke and not once did he blink nor shift his eyes, "avow you to
be man as though a fault be in all else not. Had you known the nature
of man, surely you would not be so proud. Man, abound by all his just
virtues, is nonetheless, forever a beast at heart..."

Ethics/Sanctity of Life?

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:10:00 +0200

An excerpt from I, the Emisor / Ethics / Capital Punishment- The Sanctity of Life.

I do not hold the absurd belief that life in and of itself is sacred, not in a sense that transcends the marvel that is the biological mechanisms that allow it. That is not to say that the sustainability and qualities of life should not be regarded with respect and empathy, but the latter terms are very human and coherent phenomenons that aid in procuring a tolerant society without having to resolve to otherworldly injections of qualitative components.

The concern propelling the notion of the sanctity of life appears to be more a fear of death than a concern for the qualia of living. It is the natural empathetic response to death's potential immediacy embodied in the form of dialect identified with those of supernatural inclinations and used loosely to convey the instinctive feeling of disapprobation experienced at life's disruption.

A naturalistic approach may adequately explain the seemingly inherent feeling of disapprobation at witnessing the imposed death of another being. An empathy that is endowed to the general majority of the human species by the strenuous processes of natural selection. Either lacking this emotional reaction must have been disadvantageous at a certain point in human evolution or that the trait of being able to experience such an emotional reaction occurred as a result of other processes and was never a significant disadvantage, probably both. This does not necessarily imply that this is also true in modern societies or all societies for that matter, however, I would argue that it does hold sway in most as it is disruptive for a society to keep these anomalies at its midst and that the social structures tend to both actively and passively isolate individuals lacking in empathy.*

Suppose however, that the sanctity of life is a notion that is concerned with the experience of living rather than the fear of experiencing it end- I would not have remarkable objections to the implementation of this term other than the religious connotations it encourages.

In consideration of the claim that sanctity is an immeasurable element that does bear implications on the quality of human decisions I would press the point of its irrelevance in light of circumstance. To the most advocative of this notion even the "pricelessness" of life could be hardbought when appraising one life against or aside another, especially if one displays intent to rid the other of its sacredness/life or if one displays more favorable characteristics. Thus, quantitative terms are introduced to a qualitative argument not making it void but making it fallible. The sanctity of life must now be filtered through a complex compilation of enquiries regarding the worth of its nature. (In a given a circumstance could one life be more sacred than two? etc.) In attempting to answer these questions the advocator of the notion of sanctity will either resolve to naturalistic causes- making the case irrelevant to begin with or adhere to an absolutist approach- making it ridiculously unfalsifiable and non-negotiable to which the objection is a utilitarian one. A theoretical absolute remains theoretical and as a theoretical tool it is not negligible, but it does not manifest as a direct form of physical influence, rather- an indirect one.**

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*Is this not an act of apathy? "Sympathy" following section.

**On the rationality of metaphysical concepts: ch. 3 'Utilitarian Metaphysics' from 'Critique of Religion'.

From Dialogues on ethics

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:17:00 +0200

"Pray thee not in honour of retribution, rather, for the sake of preservation."

"As when terms are set..." "... For one inclined by the passions of the soul forsakes his own law in favor of the hypocrisy of his own terms."

"Alas, for at the gallows the fault does not hang with the condemned, nor is it rid by the victim's recompense. It is only in light of the evitable wrongs that we may act justly."

Dialogues/Fortune

nobody@israblog.co.il (Cerca Trova) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:01:00 +0200

"Whe' the wind's at yar back- don' be coy 'bout do'nhaulin' them sails."

"The wind, my friend, is a treacherous thing."