barbie doll and the problem of evil

coming soon.

on the adaptibility of religion

objective morality is dangerous in the sense that it causes people to not take responsibility for their actions by mechanism of transferring that responsibility to their preacher--who if so happened to have disagreed with another leader on a given theological issue, would not have come together to solve and finally agree but instead would have come apart leading two new sects of what was previously the same belief.

ironically the acceptance of moral relativism is the cure for the fractionation of religions which threatens to destroy institutions from internal rife, let alone the onslaught from without--that of rational thinking, evidence-based reasoning and the changing social environments advocating inclusion rather than exclusion.

dark night

goodnight sleep well

on existentialism and the biological pressure against it

when we roll a bunch of dice and they all end up on sixes, or any single number, we perceive it as a rare, special event. yet upon a preponderance of facts, we can also show, albeit tediously, that each possible outcome on each die is just as rare as any other. yet we cant help but wonder of cosmic intention when 'rare' things happen to us, like rolling 3 sixes, jackpotting the lottery, or even miscarrying a child.  we just dont remember nor attribute significance to rolling a 1-3-5 or a 2-2-4, or even the number of times we bought a lottery ticket and thrown it away, or how common miscarriage actually is. but there is a rush to be felt when a triple-6 is rolled--this is usually an awesome thing in a typical dice game. and of course, winning a prize at the lottery is memorable--we only remember the things which matter.

so it is clearly part of the human psychology to seek answers and meanings when there almost always are none. without this awareness of memory bias, one could very easily be tempted into the theories of fate, destiny, deja vu or even synchronicity.

if we gave an infinite number of monkeys each a typewriter and have them bang at the keys, at least one would randomly bash out the entire work of Shakespeare verbatim. maybe in a string of an infinite number of random universes, ours is the one in which the elements were arranged just right, where entropy was low enough on just this region of space called Earth to qualify as life.

the fact that we are alive and made out of the very same elements which form the deadest things in the universe goes to show how special we are. right? are we really? how can we claim we are special compared to 60kg of gasoline which contains so much more extractable energy than our own body?

not only do we think of objectively common events as rare whenever it suits us (such as winning $1000 for a betting on a random number), we also fail to see the importance of rare events whenever it doesnt suit us. it is precisely the ignorance to science that continues to chain so many of our people to the old ways of thinking--it is easier to be this way, say our human biases.

there is an entire universe out there for the scientific method to interpret but if only we could drop the psychological armor and constant need for meaning for a second we could see how things REALLY are--for its incomprehensible beauty that is beyond us.

on history and what it has to offer

why is it that we know there is much to learn from history, yet we also know that we are doomed to repeat it? why do we look back at the past and pat ourselves on the back for our fortune today in individual liberty and accomplishment in social progress, yet fail to see the atrocities we commit today in the name of laws--the same ones the society of the future will pat themselves on the back for no longer having? 

i have found a divide in people--one that separates the conservatives from the progressives and it is from my observation that the social travesties of history have always been perpetrated by the conservatives, compelling revolutions instigated by the progressives, and it is the perpetual wars of these two mental parties of humanity that have resulted in the cyclical nature of human progression and death (read: history) .

in the interest of order, consistency, security, conservatives have held on to rules, mores and laws that served them well in the past, yet grow ever obsolete in the changing times. status quo protectors form the resistance to diffusion and change, both bad words in the perspective of conservation. yet nature sees this differently, as do i: things merely and inevitably come to equilibrium over enough time, and it falls to the path of the progressives to accelerate this procedure, just as it comes under the conservatives to stall it.

but in this day and age of globalisation and the collective way, where should one place efforts in?

lets just say its easier to demolish a dam than to build one, and over time it is far wiser to spend energy on the former, because we all learn from the river of history eventually. perhaps the pessimistic fear inundation--i but wish for humanity to progress with as little hate and death as possible.