Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’

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Side Project

by Sean on January 14th, 2010
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seanWow, it’s been a while since any of us jokers posted anything.  I have a valid excuse: job hunting.  I’m not sure what’s wrong with Gerry…  perhaps he finally collapsed under the crippling realization that no one visits this site but the people that post here?  Surely not, but if so, does that make THIS post anything more productive than masturbation?  Should that be the case, then you’re not even reading this right now, so fuck it. How’s THAT for recursive philosophical reasoning?!?

ANYways, I do have a bit of a side project which is consuming signifigantly more of my free time now than it used to do… probably something to do with me no longer having an occupation where I spend all day watching four news channels simultaneously and taking notes. Literally. I AM PAID FROM YOUR TAX DOLLARS. How does THAT taste? Taste good? Like a greasy guy with a cheap suit and more teeth than a shark has his hand in your pocket RIGHT NOW? Seriously, I’m salaried… so you personally are, technically, paying ME to type this.  I may also be consuming alcohol, who knows?

I DO.  MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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The Theory of Tools, Part 1

by Sean on June 16th, 2009
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seanAs I’ve never really fully articulated this concept before, this is very likely going to be a multi-part posting, so I’ll give you the synopsis first and go into more explicit detail after the page break.  This concept ties in with an entire “Mature Mindset” philosophy I’m playing with… the Theory of Tools bit helps with the epistemological underpinnings.  Part 1 really will be an introduction to a complete system of thought that I will hopefully be fleshing out soon.

The Theory of Tools is both a procedural and an ethical theory; it involves holding a particular moral mindset towards both one’s own ideas and the ideas of others, that mindset being one of moral neutrality towards the idea itself, reserving ethical judgments for the uses to which that idea is placed. An idea is nothing more than a tool, neither evil nor good in and of itself in exactly the same way in which a hatchet (the greatest tool evar) is neither good nor evil. Whether the tool in question is a hatchet, a bible, fire or Democracy or a thermonuclear MIRV, the moral and ethical connotations surrounding that tool can only be responsibly applied to the use to which that tool is placed.

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