Valentine's Day can continue to be the bleakest, most merciless reminder of my loneliness, but as long as Letterman promises to end each Valentine's Day henceforth with a performance by Norah Jones, i promise i'll stick around for each one.
--the management
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
the trivial matter of the nature of existence.
...and with a swift stroke of the delete key, i here have wiped out a meaningless blog. the dead, mangled, incomplete skeleton of an existentialist ramble.
The problem with postmodern, existentialist thought is that it is, ironically, removed from the soul of existence, and, therefore, it is disconnected from reality. Self-righteous western thought assumes itself to be superior to the simplicity of ancient eastern thought. i do not consider the application of Occam's Razor here to be a stretch. For the uninitiated, Occam's Razor states that assumptions introduced to explain an idea, concept, or hypothesis should not be multiplied beyond necessity; in other words, the simplest solution is the most probable. I say that western thought makes more assumptions about the nature of existence than does ancient eastern thought. Take for example the language of the ancient Hebrews: their approach to communicating ideas required fewer jumps of logic becuase it did not employ abstracts--rather, it was anchored in funcionality.
By all appearances, we seem to be put here to interact with one another. that's close to the heart of the meaning of life. I say that we are also here to interact with God, but that's a different argument. What i'm really trying to say here is that no good has ever come from my attempts to explain how existence works--that's a relatively modern, western approach to things. The most good in my life has come when i have, albeit ever so remotely, approached things from a somewhat ancient eastern perspective--that is that existence is a very practical matter. See Ecclesiastes 5:18-20.
A good article to clear up what i'm talking about can be found at the following web site:
http://www.shamar.org/articles/hebrew-thought.php
for more on Occam's razor, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam
The problem with postmodern, existentialist thought is that it is, ironically, removed from the soul of existence, and, therefore, it is disconnected from reality. Self-righteous western thought assumes itself to be superior to the simplicity of ancient eastern thought. i do not consider the application of Occam's Razor here to be a stretch. For the uninitiated, Occam's Razor states that assumptions introduced to explain an idea, concept, or hypothesis should not be multiplied beyond necessity; in other words, the simplest solution is the most probable. I say that western thought makes more assumptions about the nature of existence than does ancient eastern thought. Take for example the language of the ancient Hebrews: their approach to communicating ideas required fewer jumps of logic becuase it did not employ abstracts--rather, it was anchored in funcionality.
By all appearances, we seem to be put here to interact with one another. that's close to the heart of the meaning of life. I say that we are also here to interact with God, but that's a different argument. What i'm really trying to say here is that no good has ever come from my attempts to explain how existence works--that's a relatively modern, western approach to things. The most good in my life has come when i have, albeit ever so remotely, approached things from a somewhat ancient eastern perspective--that is that existence is a very practical matter. See Ecclesiastes 5:18-20.
A good article to clear up what i'm talking about can be found at the following web site:
http://www.shamar.org/articles/hebrew-thought.php
for more on Occam's razor, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam
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