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On Ego and Roles (Thoughts)

May 17, 2021 by Joe Gray in Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Relationships

When I am working and ask if I can help and the customer responds automatically with "No, I'm fine." When really what they want is for someone to help them find the thing they are looking for but they don't want anyone to think that they are helpless, weak, or can't find it on their own. Inevitably, within a few seconds, they raise my attention with, "Actually, where is the so and so?"

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May 17, 2021 /Joe Gray
Brief Thoughts, diary, ego, family, journal, life, luck, psychology, reflections, relationships, roles, self, thoughts, thoughts on
Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Relationships

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

Philosophical Zombies? (On Consciousness and Concepts)

April 12, 2020 by Joe Gray in Consciousness, Philosophy, Thoughts

Zombies aren't real so any reference to them as a legitimate metaphor for a being that acts like a human but has no internal conscious experience is nonsensical. The reason this metaphor is confusing and mostly useless is two-fold.

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April 12, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Consciousness, Philosophy, Thoughts

An Educational Miss

November 15, 2019 by Joe Gray in Cultural Musings, Rants, Thoughts

If kids can vote at 18 and everyone thinks they should vote then why is there essentially no formal education related to political philosophy? They should also be practiced in evaluating candidates and understanding the process and its consequences.

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November 15, 2019 /Joe Gray
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Cultural Musings, Rants, Thoughts

Pretending Entertainment

August 18, 2019 by Joe Gray in Balance, Cultural Musings, Gaming, Lifestyle, Psychology, Thoughts

I used to work for a large video game store. One where you might Stop to buy Games. I mostly sold bullshit. Grown men coming up and saying "I wanna pretend I'm driving a car. Is there a game for that?" Pretending and having imaginary friends was once relegated to children but now, it seems, that children do not grow up. Looking for any excuse to feel accomplishment in virtual worlds to distract from the reality of a failure to accomplish personal goals is the purview of men who've been neglected by their parents and devalued by society. Getting self-esteem from simulated successes creates a fog of delusion that, if cleared away, reveals an inflated ego ready to burst.

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August 18, 2019 /Joe Gray
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Balance, Cultural Musings, Gaming, Lifestyle, Psychology, Thoughts
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