Philosophy?
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
I think I am getting really philosophical these days. I can't go by one day without treating someone with a long philosophical discussion, be it on existance or skepticism or why we should not study. A few days ago I was crapping to Lin all about existance and skepticism, and today, I told my mum all about the reason for studying and why we all should just stop studying during dinner. Both Lin and my mum were so irritated with me. Ha.
Philosophy can be quite fun. I think I enjoy the topic on skepticim very much, because I found myself wondering about the exact things many times previously in my life. Things like: Is it air I am breathing? Am I seeing what is actually there? How do we know blue is blue and not red or brown or black? Am I living in a dream world? (You are living in a dream world, Neo) Who knows how I actually look like? Do I even know how I look like? Is this a dream? Or an illusion? Am I alive? Do I even exist? What if I am like Fox Mulder's sister, Sam, captured by aliens and they did some experiments on me? Urgh.
You know, I often feel that I am dreaming, or living in subconsciousness. I often think I live in an alternate universe or something. Like the whole universe/milky ways/solar systems thing does not sound right to me. I think there's something more, something else beyond this vast expense of endless eternity. Perhaps there's an end to this. The End of the Universe.
Which is kind of crappy, because I dreamt about it. The whole universe thing. I dreamt about something similar to Star Wars, but it is sort of weird because I never watched Star Wars before in my whole life. I don't know how it happened. It just did.
Or did I imagine the dream? Perhaps I did not dream about the dream in the first place. Curious thing, the mind. We can never really understand how a brain works, because how do we know we're looking at a brain in the first place? Perhaps it's just some metal thing our sensory organs percieve as brains. And it goes back to where I started off from, huhh? Kinda freaky, if you think it through. Now do you think you are part of a dream? Part of an elaborate conspiracy by the aliens to take over the Earth? How do we know where we are is the Earth? What are aliens anyway? What if the Earth is really flat, won't that overthrow Newton's law of gravity?
Brain overload huhh.
Let's talk about something else. Like, for example, Math. Math is not something that's really there, you can neither see nor feel it. It is not literally on the surface of the Earth (taking that the Earth does exist in how I percieve it to be), it's just principles and ideas that some crazy people came up with. Heck about Math. Without its existance, it's not the end of the world. Yes, it is important, but some people can't see what's so great about a thing that's invisible and not there. Math is built up from lots and lots of assumptions from scratch by early Mathematicians. What if one day one of the 'assumptions' is proven wrong, that won't everything we've studied as a human race just falls through?
Anyone feeling the same as I do?
Ok I am just rambling. Most of what I've typed may not make any sense anyway. I am not coherant with my ideas at all, because I am doing what I am doing because I am just bored. Haha like what MrT (is it?) said, when you are bored you'll start to ask questions and try to find answers to such questions. So here I am.
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Ok I am listening to Coldplay's Swallowed in the Sea now. It's one of the official Jack/Liz ship song, after one of the most popular Jack/Liz fanvids on youtube. Earlier on I was listening to Busted's What I Go to School For.
Yesterday during physics prac Sarah and I were singing some random songs and changed some lyrics to suit our taste better. One of which is BSB's Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely. I know I've said this zillions of times, but this is absolutely my favourite song since my craze over X-files a few years back, thanks to a Mulder/Scully fanvid. Yayy. Second in running should be their song Climbing the Walls from their Never Gone album, then perhaps Swallowed in the Sea? Encore/Numb? CSI NY theme song? LOL. Was irritating Lin during Math today by singing that Pirates' 'Drink to my hearties Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirate's life for me' song. Oh well. JD rocks.
Countdown. 8 more mths to POTC: At World's End. Rock on Johnny Depp.
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8/29/2006 07:10:00 PM
