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Just recently, I closed my Facebook account. I would give you my account info to look me up, but it doesn’t exist anymore. Honestly, much of social networking is getting scary and more than a little evil. I won’t go into a big tirade over Facebook and all the reasons I think they are a hazard to anyone who uses the service.

Today I came across a site called QuitFacebookDay. Surprise, surprise, the site is all about quitting Facebook on May 31, 2010. Below the information regarding reasons to quit, the official Quit Facebook Day and some other related bits and pieces, there is a comment section. Read more »

I have discovered a numbering ideology that I am morally opposed to. Honest and true. I really dislike it. It’s called dozenal. Now, before I go any further, I would like to say that I have a BA in applied mathematics. I specialized in applying mathematics to the real world in college. Bearing that in mind, the simple idea of the existence of a base 12 numbering system doesn’t bother me one tick. I am just as comfortable with the idea that there are an infinite number of different numbering systems. This is fine. Where I really draw issue with the dozenal camp is the fact that they want the world to convert to this system. Read more »

In a strange twist of fate, the topic of existence (not existentialism) has come up twice in the past week. Moreover it got the philosophy machine moving again in my brain. The first time that the topic of life, mortality and human existence came up, it was related to morality. Now, I’ll tell you that I love a good discussion on morality. Morals are infinitely fascinating to me simply because I think that the people that were closest to the underlying reasoning of morality were the hedonists. Ultimately, why do you do something if not for your own pleasure? There are, of course, people that would wholly disagree with me, but all the same, I think that this really does reflect the intrinsic nature of human morality. Now, of course, this will lead me, ultimately, to the thought of ‘why do anything at all, ever?’ Once this has been stated it becomes clear that Aurthur Schopenhauer was right on track to say that life is not worth living. Then, of course, Nietzsche would in turn say ‘Schopenhauer played the flute and you play the guitar.’ Correct! Is it really worth the time to even do these things? I say no, due to the fact that, ultimately it is for naught, so why bother. But I digress. Read more »