I talk a lot here about the organic society and the idea of whole logic. Modern logic, or rationalism, takes a single factor of many and lets it stand for the whole situation. It’s derived from the populist religious/consumer tendency to assign good or a dollar value to any item in an absolute, universal context. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transcendentalism’
Nihilism: in search of a working definition
Nihilism I’ve always defined nihilism not as “believing in nothing” but “not believing in the value of anything.” Subtle difference. You can’t not believe in reality and exist for long. You can however claim, like the Russian nihilists did, that nothing has any meaning and you might as well just do whatever. Then there’s the [...]
The Universe recognized its emptiness, and created somethingness And From That, Life
Astronomers have detected a building block of RNA floating within the hot, compact core of a massive star-forming region in the Milky Way. The molecule appears to have formed with all of the other stuff that makes up planets, suggesting that many other worlds are seeded with some of life’s ingredients right from birth. { [...]
Transcendental Christians versus symbolist Christians
Scanning around the web for death metal-related information (a favorite passtime) I found some Christian folks who seemed rather irate about death metal. Although I started life as a radical Christian hater, I now view Christianity as one means through which philosophies can be expressed. Specifically, if we express Romanticism — transcendental naturalistic idealism with [...]
