NuggetWig

So this post is mean't to be a pre-reading review and prediction of what I can expect from a book I will be reading. I promised my friends I would read the self-help book "The Secret" written by Rhonda Byrne in 2006. For the record I am not reading it because I think I need help, (although who knows haha) only because my friends recommended it. The book received critical acclaim after appearances on the Ellen DeGeneres show and Oprah. "The Secret" seems to me to be just like every self-help... Read Full Story

I wanted to revise the post I made earlier in the year about love here . Much of what I said in that post I would still maintain, but wanted to change some things and also clear up some misconceptions I heard from friends about that post after I posted it. I do not think romanticism is the proper way to approach love. I don't believe in true love. And I do think that relationships are simply best friends who have sex. I have also revised my thoughts on the application of a quantitative over a... Read Full Story

So this post is perhaps simply a validation for me of my passion, that being philosophy. It seems absolutely absurd even to myself to describe oneself as a philosopher since, once acquainted with the field of study, it is easy to see that every person in some way is a "philosopher." In this post I will do no justice to the "proper" definition of what the field of study entails. I wanted to provide my own reflection on what philosophy has meant for me and lead into a whole other host of random... Read Full Story

Recently I saw a movie called The Bridge by director Eric Steel. The film is a documentary about people who chose to commit suicide by jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge. Check out their website here . To quote the website: "THE BRIDGE offers glimpses into the darkest, and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind... THE BRIDGE is a visual and visceral journey into one of life's gravest taboos." This will be a short review for the above words describe the movie perfectly, but I... Read Full Story

Ok so this post I write for a friend who is a fan of such mysticism. So. Where to begin? Psychics intrigue me the most. Simply because they have the greatest chance of proving themselves to me. As in, I want a psychic to tell me with great specificity things that have occurred in my life. When a psychic tells me how old I am, where I have lived my whole life, and the name of my best friend, without stealing my wallet, I may be somewhat amazed. However, until that time, the "psychics" that I... Read Full Story

We are taught at a young age that perhaps the biggest way in which we will learn and grow as individuals is to make mistakes. That having all kinds of experiences, good and bad alike, will help us to gain perspective. Now the little proverb we all know about making mistakes and learning from them is quaint, in so far as the mistake is small. What we are not told when we are young is the kinds of mistakes it is better to not make. That although we may in fact grow and gain new perspectives... Read Full Story

So here is my confession. I confess to pessimism in the traditional sense. I just never considered myself a pessimist since I see my outlook as only an attention to the way things actually are, simply reality. At only 20, I feel I have somehow seen the darker side of life. The real world unveiled in all of its cruel ABSURD beauty. This claim seems out of place coming from a young kid from a middle class family with all the opportunity in the world. You would expect such a claim to come from... Read Full Story

Don't you just wish people could read your mind sometimes? It was this thought that reminded me about Ludwig Wittgenstein and his investigation of "private language." Wittgenstein was looking at the plausibility of the idea that people can create their own set of words, outside of ordinary language, to describe a certain sensation they had at a certain time. He ultimately decides this is nonsense, which on the whole you have to agree with him about. I don't really want to discuss private... Read Full Story

Ok folks... this crude question is indeed asking what you think it is. Although very private, an interesting debate and question was uncovered in a recent discussion with best friends. That question being: How do YOU use your TP?? All parties involved, except for the individual who sparked the conversation, were completely unaware of another way... It was as if we had stumbled upon the greatest mystery of our lifetime. There were so many questions! The end result, however, was a debate over... Read Full Story

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