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Nihilism Doesn’t Exist

June 03, 2023 by Joe Gray in Communication, Cultural Musings, Epistemology, Language/Linguistics, Philosophy, Rants, Thoughts

Nihilism doesn’t exist. It is a paradox. If there is no meaning then the word nihilism can’t have any meaning and therefore nihilism doesn’t exist. If nihilism has a meaning then meaning exists and nihilism exists only as a paradoxical concept.

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June 03, 2023 /Joe Gray
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Communication, Cultural Musings, Epistemology, Language/Linguistics, Philosophy, Rants, Thoughts

What is wisdom? (No Answers Here)

September 28, 2020 by Joe Gray in Epistemology, Personal Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Thoughts

Growing up I always thought that intelligence was the most important quality a person could have.

I believed my mom was smart and my dad was dumb. Turns out my mom is intelligent. Alternatively, characterizing my dad as dumb might be disingenuous as it is filtered through anger and resentment.

Now, as I realize more and more the limitations in my intelligence and desire to know things I think that I would like to focus on being wise. But what does that mean?

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September 28, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Epistemology, Personal Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Thoughts

NOT Conscious

July 17, 2020 by Joe Gray in Consciousness, Epistemology, Philosophy, Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Whimsies

The hardest thing to do is convince someone you're not conscious. People see consciousness everywhere. They apply it to wind and rain. Mountains and rodents. We can personify anything including the universe and god and gods and vegetables. We tell stories of eggs that fall off of castles and bunnies that have tea parties. Everything is a metaphor for ourselves and we are everyone.

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July 17, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Consciousness, Epistemology, Philosophy, Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Whimsies

Brief Thoughts on the Ontological Argument

April 23, 2020 by Joe Gray in Philosophy, Religion, Thoughts, Epistemology

The ontological argument...

Anselm defined God as "a being that which no greater can be conceived", and argued that this being must exist in the mind, even in the mind of the person who denies the existence of God. He suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must also exist in reality because if it exists only in the mind, then an even greater being must be possible—one which exists both in the mind and in reality. Therefore, this greatest possible being must exist in reality. 

---- From Wikipedia

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April 23, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Philosophy, Religion, Thoughts, Epistemology

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