My niece has started asking questions about what existed before the universe, at the tender age of 6. It’s a pretty early start, so by the age of 26, I figure she may have either found a way to break through the mile thick concrete cell that she’s just put herself in, or hopefully she [...]
Tag Archives: self
Life, the Universe and Everything (…else that we don’t have the ability to understand)
March 5, 2010 – 4:21 pm
Life without Social Networking
September 24, 2009 – 4:49 pm
I admit it, I am addicted to checking my Facebook page daily, if not on an hourly basis. It’s just so instantly rewarding… but in the depths of my mind, I can feel a swell of pity every time I log on. It’s the part of me that wonders why I find these status updates [...]
Why T-shirts can’t Time Travel
September 1, 2009 – 12:44 am
If I stepped into my magical time machine wearing my only green t-shirt, and went back to the time when I bought the shirt and killed myself…. The question that I ask to you is… what colour t-shirt would I be wearing whilst I was hanging about at the crime scene with my dead self? [...]
Insight into Passion
August 30, 2009 – 10:02 pm
In a my previous entry Searching for Passion, I propsed that passion was created by a continuous stream of reward. If this was the case, this would mean that one could become passionate from simply seeking out reward for whatever you wanted as a goal. In practise though, the world we live in doesn’t always [...]
Dealing with your self
August 24, 2009 – 1:13 pm
Over time, we develop the thought patterns in our minds so that we can be more efficient. For instance, if a vicious looking creature comes running at us with it’s teeth and claws brandished, it would probably serve us to have already decided what to do about this situation a few seconds before we noticed [...]
Perspectives
August 20, 2009 – 6:17 pm
Try as I might, to consider ‘everything’ about a particular subject; it never really seems to work. I can focus all my attention on a subject, use reason and even make educated predictions about the matter at hand. But all it takes is to approach the thought from an alternative perspective, and a trapdoor is [...]