I noticed one day a man wearing a pair of glasses. Now these glasses weren’t just any ordinary glasses. They were child molester glasses. When I saw them I immediately thought “Those are the type of glasses a child molester would wear!” That is when I started to wonder if he was a child molester and if I should go make a citizens arrest. However I don’t think anybody gives a rats ass about citizens arrests anymore. I remember when my dad first told me about them. I thought it was awesome! I wanted to see somebody do something bad just so I could go arrest them. I was only a kid though so I don’t think I could have managed to restrain them…

So I was looking through my blog stats and found that a lot of people were coming to my page because they searched for things related to needles through fingers. A few other people were searching for stuff like “Using olive oil on penis” and “Monster penis” put hey, there just weird. So I figured I might as well put up a post with the title “Free Porn” and then get a crap load of views by horny people trying to score some free porn. Anyways if you came here in the hope of viewing naked women or men, your out of luck since I’m not allowed to post explicit stuff up. Otherwise you would be getting an eyeful of MAN!

Speaking of man I really have the urge to go hunting, kill some small animals, and then drink a light beer…

Taoism

Comes from China

Began with a society of very primitive Chinese living very close to nature, it didn’t used to be a philosophy but instead a way of life.

Natural = Ideal.  Things in nature are “perfect”

The very moment that you start asking “philosophical” questions like “How am I?” is a sign that something has gone wrong. We have become un-natural. A normal person would know who they are or what is right and wrong. You don’t see plants and animals trying to figure out who they are or what is right and wrong.

PU = Original Self

Because of the pressures of society and such, at a very young age we start to live a lie or go wrong. We are actors and we sometimes do not even know what our opinions are anymore. We become unnatural and loose the taste of our own being. We do not know what to do because we do not know what to be.

The Tao- The collective naturalness of the universe

The universe is perfect and harmonious, because there is a general feel that all little things are part of the same large things.

Buddhism

The Buddha observed the human life as one of complete dissatisfaction or Dukkha.  Dukkha is human suffering.

Like a lot of religions, it starts by telling us that we somehow see that the world is wrong. But how have we seen things wrong? It begins with the overlooking of the fact that the world in a constant state of impermanence, that is to say, nothing is permanent. Humans want permanence though, we want things to stay the same and to not change.

What is reality? It is an unfolding thing that we don’t really realize. We think things permanent to us because of our relevant view of time and how slow things are to us. Things fall apart and come together all the time. Therefore there is nothing really except partials and forces.

There are no “things” there are only particles and forces. This is because everything comes together and breaks apart in time. A cloud at one moment is there and in the next it can be gone. There are only temporary clumping of particles and if we recognize them, then we can give them names.

Buddhism believes there is no God, there is no soil, there is only dust which is you and by eating and living we can sustain our being for a while. We must enter the world of the way things really are. If you hate your roommate, don’t think about how much you hate him for the entire year till June, instead just accept the fact that you don’t like your roommate and go on with your life.

All suffering is self created. We create a sense of bad feeling ourselves.

The world is emptiness or Shunuata. There is no “thing-ness”

1)      Life is suffering

2)      Suffering arises from selfish craving (got to have this and this and this)

3)      Craving can be eliminated (accept whatever happens, don’t despaired if you don’t have  all that you desire)

4)      8 Fold Path (The way to achieve happiness)

Emptiness is the freeing of ourselves from everything. Once we realize that our desires are empty, we become the masters of ourselves.

Hinduism

Veda = Knowledge
1000 B.C. Immense amount of questions started to be asked. Primarily: How did this happen?

They recognized that time flows and that there is a cause and effect, one thing leads to another. What started it all?

At some point in time there must have been something that gave rise to everything. There was a time when there was nothing, what happened to make something?

At the beginning of time there was an entity. They call it a “person” or Purusha, the original being.

[The world is made of Matter, Energy, and Consciousness]

Purusha was at the beginning and thought “I can create a vast world full of all greatness full of everything and the universe. However since he is all there is, he would have to destroy himself to create it.

He struggles for a while and the struggle builds up inside of him and finally he just says “Yes I’ll do it” and he explodes out with the force of the internal debate. [Big Bang Indian style]

They recognize that things are different because they came from different parts of Purusha.
They recognize that everything that exists has a purpose. The universe is a organism, and you cannot understand the pieces unless you see the whole.

People are entities and the things inside of us all work to make each other work. All our organs and connections, our blood and body, work together as a whole to make us an entity.

The purpose of life is not to figure out what you like to do, but to find a work that supports creation. The less selfish we are the happier we are. The only real happiness is to have our identity dissolved in the essence of the entire universe.

A selfish person is a cancer on the universe.

Philosophy seems to insist that if there is no evidence for something, it is irresponsible to believe in.

A myth is a tool that is used to describe something that is otherwise unexplainable. Therefore it does not matter whether or not it is true.

The  Hindu myth that talks about the world being a single organism, much like our body, where everything is connected but working on their own to make the world work. It shows us that selfishness is a waste. This is because, according to the myth, we are all part of the same organism. You must lose your sense of ego and self importance and value.

Heinz’s Dilemma

Heinz is a man whose wife is ill and about to die. There is a medicine that can cure her but only the pharmacy down the street has it. He needs it to save his wife but he only has $1000 and the medicine is $2000 and the pharmacist won’t give it to him.
Steal drug to save wife?
Let wife die but don’t steal?

This was tested on children. Boys said steal the medicine, girls said they refuse to believe there are no other alternatives.

Masculine- Linear- Left Brain [mind]
Feminine- Intuitive- Right Brain  [feelings]

Irrational Faith

Cannot be proved but I still believe it because I have faith.
We can never know got through the mind, we cannot reduce him to ideas or something that we can think about and comprehend.

Contractual Rights

Contracts between individuals that state rights in the contract
If you do this, I’ll get this.
Like a painter and a home owner.

Legal Rights

Rights that come from general laws. These do not apply to everybody.
You must be 16 to drive a car.
Laws can be revoked

Civil Rights

Based on philosophical principles derived from the society and the government
Civil rights determine how the government works.
In America our civil liberties are emphasized on liberty rather than equality. People are not guaranteed a certain standard of living.

Human/Intrinsic Rights

Rights guaranteed because we are born humans
These cannot be taken from us
Is there something that we as humans should always be given, or always be entitled to.
Is torture bad everywhere, or is it dependent on the laws of that area

Aristotle

He was the first philosopher that stressed classification; we need to start breaking things up and collecting like with like.
To get a handle on something, we must reduce it to its smallest components.

Politics

People tend to agree on things and discuss things but in the sense of politics, subjects tend to pull away from one another.

What is the measure of a rightly organized society?
What do we need more of or less of in this country?
                Freedom?
                Equality?

Tolerance: should we be tolerant to intolerant people? People tend to be less tolerant of others that don’t share their same opinions.

Whoever wins an election, supporters of the person that lost will call it an injustice. However it is in fact the will of the people who got elected. Democracy is the voice of the people.

We want society to operate along the lines of righteousness.

If somebody doesn’t like something, is it their fault?
Somebody doesn’t like bananas. Is it their fault that they don’t like banana?
Somebody doesn’t like gay people. Is it their fault that they don’t like gay people?

Are those arguments the same?
Prop 8: is it just something that has to do with people feelings?
People don’t feel comfortable around gay people so if the majority votes for the proposition is it ok?

We pick people to represent us and we pick one person to govern our lives on a day to day basis. We need somebody that is “WISE”
What makes somebody wise though.
Somebody that upholds rights.

When we make claims about justice, saying something is unjust or just, we say that there is a way the world must be and that you have violated that order.
Therefore it is implied that there is a way the world should be, a structure or order.

Action Ethics

Virtue Ethics- Traditionally a good person is a person who does good actions. However is that true? Virtue ethics says that you should not measure how good a person is by their actions but by who they are. You can do all the good things in the world and still not be a good person.

Somebody can donate to the poor, kiss babies, shake hands, and do a lot of things that look like great things and that in fact are. However on the inside maybe that person is in fact a selfish hateful person on the inside and nobody knows is.

Therefore, what IS a good person?
A measure of quality of character is something that can help lead us in the right direction.

Why do good people do good things?  Because it makes them feel good inside. They have an aspect of their character that guides them in the right path.

With Value Ethics however, you can never quantify anything. You can’t measure the virtue

Mill

Also a utilitarian

Mill thought that the quality of happiness was left out. Some happiness is better than others.

Happiness

Hard to assess
Hard to predict
Too demanding

There is no “justice” in utilitarianism
Justice is not taken into account. It focuses solely on happiness.

Kant

Sought to define Duty-Defined morality

Where, however, other than God could you find these morally defined moralities?

Categorical Imperative

“Act only on that maxim (principle) by which you can at the same time, wish that it become a universal law.”

Shall I cheat in class? Apply principle above
I do cheat and it becomes a universal law. It becomes universally acceptable.

You take something that you are thinking of doing and you apply the theory and see if it beneficial to you in the end.