tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123404962011-04-21T18:27:20.521-07:00Bernard Strehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155591480402651023noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340496.post-1114459882406526822005-04-25T12:47:00.000-07:002005-04-25T13:28:34.566-07:00Ideas have been undervalued.<br /><br />Did you ever that Simpsons where Homer gets so smart that he is able to prove God doesn't exist through a long math equation. He shows Flanders, Flanders burns it to destroy the evidence, but Homer is putting copies of it under all the wipers of cars parked on the street.<br /><br />Is it no small thing, to say God doesn't exist? It would be one thing for a debate about it to take place and people could listen to both sides and think deeply. Obviously in such a venue as the simpsons or modern art or in most forms of which the idea is communicated, the idea is not thought about deeply. All the idea does is give us a little chuckle. Homer takes a huge idea with fantastic reprecussions, chews it up, vomits it out on our TV and we chuckle. Something glorious traded for a chuckle.<br /><br />I have sat on many a philosophical conversations about many different subjects. Inevtitably the conversation goes to the absurd but people don't shoot down absurdity, in the name of open mindedness. Example: in the middle of a heated debate about immigration we will most obviously be talking about what is true and good. Then someone will say "well, what is truth?" As if objective truth doesn't really exist. But if truth doesnt exist why are we even debating anything?<br /><br />If the speaker really beleived that there is no truth then there is no way to convince others of it. What truths would you use to proove truth isn't there. But, the speaker can throw out the idea as if that should be considered.<br />Do my comments make sense? Is there something there?<br />Let me know<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12340496-111445988240652682?l=ideasmatter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bernard Strehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155591480402651023noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340496.post-1114113369103747902005-04-21T12:40:00.000-07:002005-04-21T12:56:09.103-07:00I just heard about a girl who wore a button to high school that says "I Love My Vagina."<br /><br />Apparently its a statement. She says that she wanted to raise awareness of women's abuse issues, taken from "The Vagina monologues."<br /><br />In response to "I Love My Vagina" I say so what? What's your point? You should love your vagina you should love your toes too.<br /><br />Is the Vagina the only thing left to femininity? Why not motherhood? Isn't that what the vagina is there for? "I Love My Mother" would probably do more for the cause. Even non females are turning their genitalia inside out to have a pseudo-vagina.<br /><br />Is this a commentary on ideas not mattering or am I off?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12340496-111411336910374790?l=ideasmatter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bernard Strehlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16155591480402651023noreply@blogger.com0