Tag Archives: philosophy
The God of our Hearts
This is something I only realised once my faith in God was broken. I think everybody has a concept of God that they hold close to their hearts, a secret and very personal image. Like an icon: something they desperately want to believe in, something loving and kind. Often undefined, or a mish-mash of humanistic principles, […]
Of the two stories, which do you prefer? (Life of Pi)
I missed the Life of Pi philosophy train. When the movie adaptation was released last year, the internet was ablaze with deconstructions and metaphysical readings. The religiously inclined loved the movie for its wonderful exposition of poly/pan/regular theism and the atheists loved the movie for its sly nod towards religion being a means to cope […]
The value of Cricket Hymns
You will need headphones for this post! ___ Imagine if the world was sucked dry of energy, slowed to a thick and restless bubbling of molecular vibration. Every sound struggling to be heard, desperate to voice some internal hidden message. A surge, an upswell, vortexing to blend harmony and melody in one. When we slow […]
Pascal’s Wager, Atheist’s Wager
Blaise Pascal, aside from having a genuinely fantastic name, proposed one of the world’s most famous wagers: the 420 wager. ‘How often to partake of the weed’ was the question for Mr. Blaze, and so terribly did this notion vex him that the man threw his life’s fire and fuel at the dilemma that faces […]
Counter Dimensional 