Jun 29
jmeshornLiterature, philosophy, random philosophy, questions, time travel, writing
I watched this bad time travel movie (I forget the title). It did pose what turns out to be an interesting question. In the film the characters have come up with an idea and written it down. This idea will make them rich, famous and culturally significant. There are time travelers who kill culturally significant people just after they make their greatest creation (you know, so we wouldn’t have to put up with the last fifteen years of Billy Joel).
Anyway, our heroes are faced with a choice: they can destroy their creation (forgoing fame, fortune and a sort of immortality) and live or they can refuse and die at that moment, knowing that their work will live on for centuries.
As writers how would we deal with that. What if you just wrote THE novel. The thing that would live on for generations after you, but the only way to avoid immediate death was to destroy it? What would you do?
May 16
Nathan Tyreephilosophy crazy people, Literature, moral subjectivism, objectivism, philosophy
Moral Subjectivism: A Rational View
People can be divided into two groups: Moral Objectivists, and Moral Subjectivists. The beliefs of these two groups vary widely.
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Apr 27
valeriewalter78Web Goodies noah cicero, philosophy, stealing time back from the man
noah cicero laid a pretty heavy thing down here
one part i smiled at was:
…as Writing Two professors tell us, “You should always pretend like you are convinced of what you are saying.” Which is a strange thing to tell another human being, because I’ve never met anyone my whole life completely convinced of what they were saying. Oh yeah, I have met some and they were always annoying.
i did find typos and i hereby offer my proofreading eyes to anyone who wants them although i must warn you my official education is lacking.
i read noah’s nietzsche essay on the clock at work and not on my lunch break. i am also posting this on the clock at work and not on my lunch break. i am such a deficient worker bee.
for shame.
Mar 03
Nathan TyreeFilm, Review day of the dead, dualism, Film, idealism, land of the dead, materialism, philosophy, romero
The New Flesh: A Post-Postmodernist Review of the Mind-Body Problem as a Theme in George A. Romero’s Films Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead.
Philosophers have long wrestled with what has come to be known as the “Mind-Body Problem;” the question of whether we, as humans, are merely physical, material creatures or if we are possessed of some non-physical mind (soul or spirit are often used synonymously with mind). This open question has developed into one of the greatest schisms in the history of modern thought. The partisans in this battle are aligned on three sides: materialists, dualists and idealists. The eminent auteur George A. Romero has quite brilliantly aligned himself on the materialist side of this fight with the latter entries in his Dead film series. A careful watching of both Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead makes this point almost excruciatingly clear.
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