Thursday, February 07, 2002

The danger of a good philosophical arguement is that it sounds right. Doesn't matter if it makes any kind of validy point or not, it sounds right. And something like that can be daunting. The people out there who win arguments of this nature are just the ones who make every possibility other than theirs seem absurd. The drummer for the October Question will question you and pick at every little detail that you do asking why. When you're on the spot like that any answer you give seems silly or wrong. But in all honesty, the best retort when someone tells you that what you said isn't much of an answer, is to tell them that it wasn't much of a question.

It is folly to believe every thing that the wise philosopher says just because they convince you. It is logically possible to prove pretty much of anything, but that doesn't make it right. Descartes asserted that perhaps nothing exists, that we live in a dream state and all that we think is reality is just fiction. Plato would probobly retort that the world does exist, but just isn't as important as theory. And modern philosophers will argue back and forth for days about which is more noble, or more true, or more perfect. All Crap. In point of fact, it does not matter if this world is real or a figment of my imagination. I don't care if I'm living in the Matrix. The same holds for every theory out there. If it's true, great, if it isn't, great. It is so easy to be daunted by logical or philsophical evidence. But in the end, if this world isn't real then I can never know that it isn't real. I might as well enjoy what is in front of me and all around me.

Philosophy and Religion and Science are all fun to dabble in and come up with some wild theorys, but as for my life..... Fuck them.