Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Birdies, Blimps and Battiness
PART 1: The 28th week of 2018 did see A visit, from the mighty orange power that be, he hoped that his journey across the Atlantic, would bring salvation to the hearts of the football fanatics, a tweet, a birdie, or even a par three would surely erase the memory of a Croatian defeat. It…
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Dreams and Happiness
I have thought for a while about how to share these thoughts, but writers block isn’t writers block if you’re not bursting to write. I think, when I was 15 and 16, I was so eager to write because I felt it was how I could prove to someone, anyone, that I was growing in…
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Love Island: Dystopia, Post-Reality, Fate
Just as a background for anyone who hasn’t sat through a slow hour of the show: Love Island is an ITV reality show in which contestants all stay in a tropical villa, aiming to “couple up” with each other and the last remaining couple get £50,000. It is essentially a cross breed of Big Brother…
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The flaws of the Fine Tuning argument
The Fine Tuning argument is a type of teleological argument, most famously employed by Christian ‘thinker’ William Lane Craig. The argument draws attention to the astronomically delicate balance of initial conditions necessary for life in the Universe as we know it. The scientific study of astrophysics in the past 50 years or so has brought attention…
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Henry 14/02/17
Bishop and Philosopher George Berkeley introduced the idea of immaterialism to the western world. His writings suggest that the material objects by which we live are simply illusions delineated through the prism of the five senses, and do not exist. Thus, following through to conclusion, Berkeley argues that perception is all illusion. An illusion of…
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Heart
It is futile and untrue to rise “above” emotions. Ignoring them is fruitless. I want to listen to my heart, not to my head. But my heart has been dormant for some time now. There is an occasional opening through the clouds that reside around it, sadly though, it is more often than not a lighting…
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the alluring nature of contradiction and significance
Imagine all of your consciousness. Imagine none of your consciousness. Imagine something but nothing. Imagine blank vibrant colours Imagine a chilling eye. Imagine a never ending end Imagine a quiet rumbling Imagine a bending light that screams why can’t you be sure of what you imagine. everything we imagine is filtered through a basic cycle…
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Response to a youtube video.
The title of this 5 minute youtube video is entitled This is Proof That Christians Are Smarter then Atheists I know the title is Ironic, but anyway… Your argument revolves around three ideas; 1) You believe the majority is always right. You quoted that 83% of Americans are christian many times in your…
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A letter to the authority COURSEWORK
To whom is concerned, The further I venture into the monotonous journey that encapsulates my mock GCSEs, and eventually my full GCSE exams, I find myself weaseling every last smidgen of individuality that I can muster. This is a somewhat perilous journey that struggles to leave harbor, however it does provide my daily intake of eternal rebellion. There is…
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Religion and violence
“God is a concept, by which we measure our pain”. John Lennon had it nailed all those years ago. In such times as ours, we must see this lyric in perspective, because recently many different religious “extremists” are using their divine relationship with a ineffable and infallible deity to justify causing pain to others. I have…
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