Philosophical Musings

11/27/19 In order to begin casting into doubt all I have learned up to this point I must burn away all that has meaning to me. I must imagine for a moment that I have existed for an infinite number of lifetimes. That every conceivable outcome for each and every one of my actions has happened and infinite number of times. For an infinite number of times you have read this and I have typed it, for an infinite number of times, you have not read this, and I have not typed it. That each and every possible thing in the universe has already happened and not happened in advance. Furthermore, I must imagine that I actually do not exist as such, that the fiction of self is not conducive to reality either. What I am then, in this journey, is nothingness, but it is not a void. Rather, it is the nothingness of this this series of infinity itself. Lets call this infinite series of things (X). (X) is a countable infinity.  Let us go even further. While myself to be the totality of (X) there...

11/27/19 I am completely and totally dissatisfied with the state of contemporary philosophical discourse. In many ways there has been little progress in the field in general in the past couple of millennia. With the state of contemporary philosophy being absolutely abysmal. For far too long philosophers the world over have deluded themselves with attempting to answer questions, this has resulted in the decay of the field into nothing but neologisms and academic pretensions. I would like to posit this simple axiom; its not about having the answers, its about having better questions. For thousands of years we have been stumbling in the wrong direction, we are truly the blind being lead by the blind. What we need now, is a complete start over, a true wiping clean of the slate, so that we may find, not answers the answers to questions but better  questions. It is the question itself that shapes all hitherto ideology. It is a mistake to believe that it is concepts that shape perceptio...