Tuesday

WHAT IF I'M WRONG?

Some very basic philosophical questions: "What really matters to you? How should you then live?" You can find out the answer by measuring the time you spend on certain activities. This is relevant to atheists, theists, agnostics and non-theists. If any person associated with those groups spends the majority of their time telling other people how they should live their lives then they probably don't have much of an "authentic" life ( to quote atheist Jean-Paul Sartre). They are, instead, totally consumed with ensuring everyone else has the exact same world-view as themselves and are thus "inauthentic".

I'd rather live my own life and enjoy it than spend my life consumed with telling others what to do and how they are wrong because they don't share my worldview.

An "inauthentic" life becomes worse when, if you follow some of the new atheists, you are supposed to spend at least part of it mocking the views of others. Mocking is not a logic argument. Therefore my question is: "Is it far more important to spend the vast majority of your limited time telling others that they are wrong rather than living your own finite life? What is the benefit of such a life both to oneself and to others?" Whatever your answer, it is equally relevant to atheists, theists, agnostics and non-theists.

Of course, the other huge philosophical question is: "What if I am wrong and I have spent the majority of my finite life telling people to follow my error?"

Friday

The most annoying person at any concert - "The Whistling Arsehole".

The most annoying person at any concert - "The Whistling Arsehole". This person apparently is not interested in listening to the music played by the band on stage. Instead, "The Whistling Arsehole" has paid for a ticket so that they can give continuous ear-piercing whistles (usually out of key and out of time) directly behind your head. As a result you can't hear anything except the deafening noise as they blow air out their orifice.