2025-01-09 #
Recall the Book of Job, in which a man's faith is
tested by Satan and God when everything he has is taken away from him.
From this parable, it seems that the benevolent God makes himself known
by allowing Satan to cause tragedy after tragedy, taking away his
wealth, daughters, and painfully disfiguring him. Job questions God,
suggesting that the wicked go unpunished while the good suffer.
Remind anyone of the problems of judicial systems today?
The epilogue of Job's health being restored and things returned to him,
is somehow more unrealistic and implausible than God making himself
known to Job. Perhaps it takes away from the lesson of this parable,
that good people have to suffer, and people of even stronger moral
character suffer more.
2025-01-07 #
What is The Truthβ’? There's the misconception that
truth prevails over falsity. What the truth is in practice:
- What the average of your closest peers think.
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Consensus by self-proclaimed experts, bureaucrats, and the political
class.
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Behind closed doors, the truth is what the most powerful person in the
room believes.
- Information which may harm those in power.
There are narratives which in all likelihood don't tell the whole story,
but the people are powerless to challenge it: might makes right.
2025-01-04 #
Hell is other people. The interpretation of this Sartre
quote at face value is almost always wrong, it doesn't mean that other
people make life miserable (but this is also the case). Once one is
dead, the perception of that person is fixed, it can no longer change,
hence that person is trapped in Hell on Earth. A person is truly dead
when they are forgotten, often this happens before the physical death. I
keep reminding myself of this as I think about my own mortality.
2025-01-01 #
Time is a flat circle. The same things keep happening
over and over. What did I want to do differently in this life? It's
absurd yet also realistic to think that today could be my last day, or
it could be years from now. I think not about how I wish to be
remembered, but how I may be judged by God. Not really sure why I'm here
at all, though my art gives me some sense of fulfillment, and my writing
at least puts my
worldview out in
the Γ¦ther. This is for sure a Hell realm we inhabit here on Earth.
While kings may be buried with their lavish possessions, I may as well
leave nothing behind but this webbed site. Most people depart this Earth
with nothing but relationships to others, I have relatively few of
those. I don't intend to unalive myself, but I'm pre-occupied with the
thought that life is so short.
There is this concept of the
death drive
which manifests itself in self-destructive behavior. Some might even
argue that a
will-to-death
is what motivates human behavior. Becoming a martyr, whether one chooses
to or not, is a noble death. I disrespect people who mock how people
died, especially their enemies, it reflects that they live for no values
at all.
