Tuesday, September 26, 2006

A symbol for my thoughts

I'm trying to create a symbol. quotes from the movie 'V for Vendetta' - A symbol is only as powerful as the people that follow it (or something like that). I was reading about Aethism and I found these two absolute Ideas that I believe in. they're called Occum's Razor and Hume's fork. so I put a Razor and a Tuning fork together.

1. Occam's Razor says "The Simplest explanation is the best explanation, disallow every other explanation"
2. Hume's fork relates a theory to two prongs - Relation to Ideas and Matter of Fact.

(taken from wikipedia)
Hume's Fork makes it pointless to try to prove the existence of God (for example). Since God is not literally made up of physical matter in the world, making a statement about God is not a matter of fact. Therefore, a statement about God must be a relation of ideas. So if we prove the statement "God exists," it doesn't really tell us anything about the world; it is just playing with words. It is easy to see how Hume's Fork voids the causal argument and the ontological argument for the existence of God. However, this does not mean that the validity of Hume's Fork would imply that God definitely does not exist, only that it would imply that the existence of God cannot be proven.


My comments on this later.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Meaning of Life

God give me the answer to my life
God give me the answer to my dreams
God give me the answer to my prayers
God give me the answer to my being

- No Prayer for the Dying (Iron Maiden, 1986)


The eternal question, probably because there is NO meaning, and I stand by it. it doesn't make sense since we're generic living beings. humans lead purposeless lives. if you notice any animal you'll se that it's very attributed to the food chain and instinctual habits around it, as well as where it usually lives. Humans eat everything, live everywhere and have the odd-est habits.

Animals adapted to fill up the holes, we somewhere down the evolution line decided to make holes instead. we have total control over our instints (well, most of us,.....err....few of us...but you get my point), and this enables us to control our lives in a far more self-dependant way.

Since we're in control of our lives , there is no specific destiny this is all supposed to lead to. (maybe we're supposed to lead to the destruction of the universe, but that's too far fetched to think about).

To contradict everything I've said so far, we still reproduce because we're basically evolving that way, leading to more intelligent beings (with no meaning for their existence either)