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mmoa_writes at 08:05am on 21/09/2007
mmoa_writes at 08:05am on 21/09/2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs - Biafran War video
Ach, don't get me started. Reading those comments, I'm glad that some people are capable of reason and that hyped up patriotism is dying, but it's dying too slowly, dammit! Much too slowly.
Watching Scrubs, and it was the episode with the 'debate' between LaVerne and DrCox that 'everything happens for a reason'. Yes, yes, I know, this is so typically moi, but I couldn't help wondering...
It's interesting that when it comes to 'life' we use the word 'reason' as a forward thinking meachanism rather than as an event that takes place as a result of something. We use reason more in the sense of purpose than cause, which is actually, quite annoying.
I mean, when we say 'and what is the reason for this?' about anything else, we are referring to what caused it and int hat sense, yes, everything does happen for a reason. There is no such thing as an isolated event. Such a thing would be entirely impossible. So yes, HIV/AIDS happened for a reason. As do tsunami waves, hurricanes and random stabbings in the street. Sometimes, a virus evolves in a decidedly unexpected manner, other times, tectonic shifts that enable recyling of minerals and various elements on which all life depends cause water to churn over and waves to increase in magnitude and wipe out shoddily built towns who, thanks to a lack of the money given by a government to the tsunami/seismic warning and communication devices thanks to corruption... ach, you know how it ends. And a senseless killing? Try a symptom of disaffected, amoral individuals.
It's no surprise that we seem almost bewildered in trying to find any sort of a solution, because we go along the lines of a reason as purpose that will show itself in the future, rather than as a result of interlinked factors. Because of reason as purpose, we star with the 'nothing happens for a reason: it is all entirely random', which is patent balderdash.
And with that sort of delusion living so cheerfully on within a supposedly more rational and more terrifyingly globalised society, I'm more than a little frustrated, and a little worried... for the fate of humanity!
No, I'm joking. I'm more frustrated because of the strange logic people like to employ, and how they can whine that there are no answers when really, there could never be any sor tof answer because the questions/axioms are so ridiculously formulated.
And now, off I go to college.
Ach, don't get me started. Reading those comments, I'm glad that some people are capable of reason and that hyped up patriotism is dying, but it's dying too slowly, dammit! Much too slowly.
Watching Scrubs, and it was the episode with the 'debate' between LaVerne and DrCox that 'everything happens for a reason'. Yes, yes, I know, this is so typically moi, but I couldn't help wondering...
It's interesting that when it comes to 'life' we use the word 'reason' as a forward thinking meachanism rather than as an event that takes place as a result of something. We use reason more in the sense of purpose than cause, which is actually, quite annoying.
I mean, when we say 'and what is the reason for this?' about anything else, we are referring to what caused it and int hat sense, yes, everything does happen for a reason. There is no such thing as an isolated event. Such a thing would be entirely impossible. So yes, HIV/AIDS happened for a reason. As do tsunami waves, hurricanes and random stabbings in the street. Sometimes, a virus evolves in a decidedly unexpected manner, other times, tectonic shifts that enable recyling of minerals and various elements on which all life depends cause water to churn over and waves to increase in magnitude and wipe out shoddily built towns who, thanks to a lack of the money given by a government to the tsunami/seismic warning and communication devices thanks to corruption... ach, you know how it ends. And a senseless killing? Try a symptom of disaffected, amoral individuals.
It's no surprise that we seem almost bewildered in trying to find any sort of a solution, because we go along the lines of a reason as purpose that will show itself in the future, rather than as a result of interlinked factors. Because of reason as purpose, we star with the 'nothing happens for a reason: it is all entirely random', which is patent balderdash.
And with that sort of delusion living so cheerfully on within a supposedly more rational and more terrifyingly globalised society, I'm more than a little frustrated, and a little worried... for the fate of humanity!
No, I'm joking. I'm more frustrated because of the strange logic people like to employ, and how they can whine that there are no answers when really, there could never be any sor tof answer because the questions/axioms are so ridiculously formulated.
And now, off I go to college.
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I have a Biafran pound note somewhere, in near-mint condition.