nero2675

Not a hell of a lot has been happening lately. Trying to get work done for school as well as working with a professor on a couple of my own works. Big exam in metaphysics next week which I should do well on, although I have serious reservations about anything metaphysical, in fact the more I read the more pragmatic I become and I'm beginning to realize that arguing about things that can't be proved right or wrong is really just an act in futility. After seeing someone in my class get upset to the point of tears because the rest of the class just didn't look 'beyond' what is real and therefore aren't getting as much out of life as her irritated me a little bit. I commend her dedication and commitement to her beliefs, but if I can't see a white rabbit sitting on top of my monitor then chances are it's not there, and it's not because I'm not looking close enough it's because if it were there I'd surely be able to see or touch it. You can argue until your throat is dry and there's tears in your eyes but unless I see some value in the resolution of an argument then I don't want to even talk about it.

For example, some friends and I were arguing about a car cd player the other night. There's a transmitter that you can hook up to a portable cd player that allows you to tune into it on your radio. One of my friends said that you could get one right over at radio shack, the other one didn't believe the technology existed. They were practically screaming at each other by the end of the argument and I simply asked why the hell there was even an argument when regardless of whether the technology existed none of us had any money to go out and actually get one.

Enough metaphysics I say. Though I do need to write a paper for my philosophy of mind class. I've decided to create a theory of deja vu and how it's related to childhood. This might be borderline metaphysics, but I need to finish the paper to pass the class so for that purpose I have to put my principles aside. Anyways, the idea is that from the time that we're born to the age of probably around ten years old, the mind is expanding at such a rapid pace that it creates all of these correlations and scenarios that we don't even know it's creating. Because there are just billions and billions of ideas and images working their way into our subconscious mind if we live long enough we are bound to find ourselves in a situation that in some way resembles one of the scenarios that our childhood brain created, thus causing the sensation of deja vu.