Tag: philosophy
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To be a Christ, a Buddha
“The purpose of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists. The purpose of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.” – Adyashanti I would like to look at the life of Jesus not as a story about a man, but as an allegory, and instruction for self actualisation and a representation of the condition of…
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Intellectual Nomadism: Dante, Zen, and Deleuze
I was recently listening to an audio-book of some of Alan Watt’s lectures, and he highlighted an interesting parallel between a passage at the end of Dante’s Paradiso and a prime principle of the ‘Zen’ endeavour. The passage from Dante’s Inferno is given at the end where he is in presence of the vision of…
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“Does God Play Dice With The Universe?”: An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Superposition, Differentiated from the Uncertainty Principle
Firstly, it is worth differentiating quantum superposition from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle- the former representing the non-classical simultaneous occupation of two (seemingly exclusive) states, and the latter being a constraint on the measurement of a system or state. The most well known example of superposition is Schrodinger’s cat, but I think I can do one better.…
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The Garden of Eden and its Symbolism
I look at the story of Genesis- namely the description of the garden of Eden as holding profound insights into the most foundational geometries in nature. This story, no doubt, is a syncretism of other such stories and doctrines. We have the tree- a fractal; a form observed in all areas and scales of nature.…
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The Philosophy of Lord of the Rings
Tolkien was known to be well read in many areas of linguistics, as well as having studied many of the classics. With this in mind, I’d like to offer an interpretation of some of the key themes and their potential inspirations. Plato wrote of a thought experiment in the form of ‘The ring of Gyges’…
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Honesty, Truth, Bullshit & Lies
First off- because some of the content in this post was inspired by others, I feel I should give credit where credit is due. I love deep conversations with people, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent time with some great minds, and found some great communities over the past few years. Most notably,…
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The Dialectic of Self Interest and Altruism
What I mean by Dialectic is in line with Hegel’s concept of opposing concepts resolving in a synthesis of sorts. This post will be fairly short, but will capture a brief muse I’ve not yet written down in public. Essentially the muse is born of the question of whether self interest or altruism is the…
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Schizophrenic Politics and the Modern World Stage
Schizophrenia, meaning ‘split mind’ in ancient Greek- there is no better term for the current state of politics. Vladislav Surkov (“Putin’s Rasputin”) introduced some interesting concepts to the Russian propaganda machine, inspired by absurdist and surrealist art theory. If you can make such a confusion of a spectacle, make every event polarising and divisive, and…
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Principia Primordia – Meditations on the Structure of the Universe – Quantum Phenomena Part 2: Superposition, Entanglement, Quantum Gravity and Dark Matter.
So, to revise what has been previously said: Things exist locally to a frame (the same general area) over a duration, by spinning about an axis or around a point; things either fly through space linearly- into the distance and away, or they orbit around a common point (stars around the galactic centre, planets around…
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