by CH3SH1R3 M4TT	Last Updated: 04 July, 2010
Modern Philosophy

Talking to the Gods  - Maybe our ancestors really could talk to the gods. I know I've suggested many possibilities about what constitutes a god, but for now lets just take the word at it's most literal: creator and maintainer of life. In other words, the Sun, our star. The matter you and I are made from was forged in stars, and every bit of life energy present on Earth owes it's very existence to the Sun... read more Nothing is Real  - Nothing is real. Of course it is, all of it, you'd say. I can touch things and feel them, that makes them real. I can see things and watch them, that makes them real as well. But really, in a world where even the one doing the feeling and the watching isn't real, wouldn't the experiences of the unreal be just as not real?.. read more War on Schmerror  - I think at this point we can all agree that the direction our leaders have taken us in the "war on terror" has largely been ineffective. It has almost been a full ten years since the attack that provoked our globe into a facing off between nothing and nothing... read more Fear is Comfortable  - Fear is as important to a human as love or happiness ever could be. As counterintuitive as it may seem, fear actually helps us to be calm and to focus our attention on important tasks. One could argue, however that fear doesn't seem to focus us and keep us calm, and you'd be right, except when you consider the long term effects any particular fear can generate... read more Eff Your Status! - By JPez20  - Every day I log into Facebook and I see this line at the top the screen. It says "what's on your mind?", and unless I have something interesting or humorous to put up I leave it blank. Does that mean nothing is on my mind... read more (FIRST CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLE!) Zero to Infinity Instantly  - You are, right now, zooming along at the speed of light. Of course you would reply to me, however: Einstein said travelling the speed of light is impossible, so you must be crazy or drunk. Well I might be crazy, but I'm not drunk, and my statement still stands either way... read more UFO's Definitively Explained  - I can explain EXACTLY what UFO's are. They are in fact, and quite simply "unidentified flying objects"... it's actually in the name. But from a less smart-assed point of view, I actually think I have a pretty good theory about what those mysterious lights in the sky might actually be... read more Dr. Who is god.  - Dr. Who is probably as close to god as the Christians are going to find. Let me explain. As I sit here watching my freshly downloaded pirate-sourced DIVX of the new Dr. Who season premier, I am struck with that notion. The episode begins with a little Scottish girl saying her prayers before bedtime... read more Psychic Cavemen  - Early on, when man was man, but before technology, before society and before language, human beings must have been more in tune with their less obvious senses. Free from the distraction of what someone was saying, early humans with an ability to read one another's minds would certainly have had the evolutionary advantage and opportunity to be able to communicate before language... read more God: Software Engineer  - Some people think that science is an affront to god. They would have you believe that god, being the supreme being that he is, has taken time and care to prepare this universe for us and that to attempt to categorize and codify the wishes and will of god is the highest insult and no less than blasphemy... read more Darwin-Gauge Shotgun  - Evolution is shotgun, not a sniper rifle. Shotguns spray a group of shards in a random pattern which land in a cluster, the size of which is determined by a number of factors such as barrel size and length, and the range of the target to name a few. A sniper rifle places one projectile along an extremely narrow and specific path with a great deal of accuracy and determinism... read more Ancient Egypt: 1 - Modern Catholics: 0  - Egyptian temple-goers 4000 years ago demonstrated more wisdom and thoughtfulness than a 21st century church-goer. If you belong to a modern monotheistic church, one of what I like to call "the big three", then by description your god is an omnipotent, omnipresent consciousness with an infinite wisdom and strict set of morals by which you are judged upon... read more

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