• Private Institutions and Poverty

    So long as power remains privately concentrated, everybody, everybody, has to be committed to one overriding goal: and that’s to make sure that the rich folk are happy — because unless they are, nobody else is going to get anything. So if you’re a homeless person sleeping in the streets of Manhattan, let’s say, your first concern must be that the guys in the mansions are happy — because if they’re happy, then they’ll...

  • The Roman Catholic Church Comparison to Atheism

    Roman Catholicism is even worse than Atheism itself, in my opinion! Yes, that's my opinion! Atheism only preaches a negation, but Catholicism goes further: it preaches a distorted Christ, a Christ calumniated and defamed by themselves, the opposite of Christ! It preaches the Antichrist, I declare it does, I assure you it does! This is the conviction I have long held, and it has distressed me, myself... Roman...

  • Reforming Education: There is No Quick Fix

    (Mortimer Adler Quotes) An adequate reform of public education in our school system cannot be accomplished by anything like a quick fix. We suspect that anyone who thinks otherwise cannot fully understand the shape of an adequate reform or all the obstacles to be overcome in achieving it. The books to be read should not be limited to those written in English.... Instead it should be devoted to the great works of...

  • Why do I feel oppressed?

    Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy...

  • Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

    Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a C...

Posts tagged Reality

Is a key still a key if there is nothing to unlock?

Mar 11th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

No comments

A key is nothing more than a form that humanity gives an essence to. It was created to unlock another entity, whether physically or metaphysically, and presides of a nature which is analogous to the original form of its solution. The question presumes that a key needs to have a purpose directly comprehensible to its owner. Just because a key doesn’t necessarily look like it has a use, it may inexplicably still serve a purpose years later, which is unbeknown to all, until it eventuates.

In summary, a key is nothing more than an objective form which humanity gives a name More >

, ,

Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? Explain?

Aug 30th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

No comments

This is my response to this vexing question:

Who: The person I think I am.

What: Whatever I want.

Where: It’s not over there so it’s here.

When: It’s not in the past or the future so it’s now.

Why: Because you have asked.

Explain: Something we never do well enough.

, , , , , , , , ,

If you eliminate the impossible, must whatever remains be the truth?

Jun 5th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

No comments

Not necessarily.

If you were able to eliminate the impossible, you would be left with the possible.

Just because something is possible does not mean it is the truth.

Therefore, if you eliminate the impossible you are not left with the truth only a possible entity.

, , , ,