RIP Christopher Hitchens. You are remembered.

"Come to think of it, how can I prove the Earth is round? Am I sure of the theory of evolution? I know it's supposed to be true. Here's someone who says there's no such thing as evolution. It's all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that no matter what you think you are bound to be ok because you are in the safely moral majority.

 One of the proudest moments of my life that's to say in the recent past has been defending the British historian David Irving, who is now in prison in Austria for nothing more than the potential of uttering an unwelcome thought on Austrian soil. He didn't actually say anything in Austria. He wasn't even accused of saying anything. He was accused of perhaps planning to say something that voilated an Austrain law that said only one version of the Second World War may be taught in our brave little Tyrolean republic, the republic that gave us Kurt Waldheim as Secretary General of the United Nations, a man wanted in several nations for war crimes. You know the country that has Jorg Haider, the leader of the fascist party in the cabinent that sent David Irving to jail.

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The two greatest achievements of Austria were to convince the world that Hitler was German and that Beethoven was Viennese."

Shamefully, I attended the school that spent its money attacking great men such as these! Now I hope things will be much better.

RIP Hitchens, a fallen comrade. It is so sad that you died too soon in your haste.

"Nor may I less be counted one

With Davis, Mangan, Ferguson,

Because, to him who ponders well,

My rhymes more than their rhyming tell

Of things discovered in the deep,

Where only body's laid asleep.

For the elemental creatures go

About my table to and fro,

That hurry from unmeasured mind

To rant and rage in flood and wind;

Yet he who treads in measured ways

May surely barter gaze for gaze.

Man ever journeys on with them

After the red-rose-bordered hem.

Ah, faeries, dancing under the moon,

A Druid land, a Druid tune! "

Interesting Trend on Multi-tasking

So, recently I've been hearing some interesting examples of people saying that "multi-tasking" is not optimal. Remember, this multi-tasking is the idea that made huge waves in culture, appearing on countless resumes as a skill and in countless conversations as a tool for optimizing one's time.

Well, from the start, I claimed that multi-tasking made no sense as a technical idea and in fact really served as a Liberal Feminist plot to attack Men. My biological training lead me to this conclusion. Of course this did not make me popular.

Well, now it turns out that I was right (of course), but no one is focusing on the Liberal Feminist plot part. They are just stupified to find out they were wrong the whole time. Gee, wonder how that happened? I find that enraging. So now, with this perceived advantage over my Liberal adversaries, I confidently exclaim that their prejudice has once again been exposed to the world!

Liberal cultists convinced the world that prejudice against males was morally good. Those shits. And now I want them to pay. I urge you not to forget their plot now that the truth has emerged regarding Multi-tasking. May we come to agreement on ever more examples of this hypocrisy.

To the world: cheers! We are one step closer to understanding one another.

You've Never Been So Easily Entertained

Thanks for the condescension, Apple. I'm lovin' it.

Is the Power to Convince Bad?

This will be an incomplete post because I am tired. I just did not want to lose this information. I remembered this idea that I forgot weeks ago, when I was reading a review about a new television show that caught my interest called Defiance. I came to realize that all reviews are an attempt to impose one's opinion on others. They do not merely supply raw data but also interpretation. I had an interesting thought about a world where that was not possible. I am currently trying to understand what that world would be like to determine whether the power to control opinion is an inefficiency in human communication.

Update: I decided that this power is definitely not an inefficiency.

Certainty and Truth

So, I was sitting at my computer writing some code and talking to myself about unrelated things. And randomly, one of the unrelated things I was saying brought this idea to light. I cannot be sure of what exactly I was thinking, since the better part of my mind was devoted to the code I was dealing with, but somehow, the word "truthfully" substituted in my mind for "certainly."

And that caused me to pause and consider the sentence. I thought, is that the wrong word? How did this mistake occur?

I came to conclude that in fact certainty and truth are interchangable. Truth is a certainty. Furthermore, and this was the real interesting part. Certainty is a truth!

Think about it. Think about any particular idea of which you are completely certain. Is that a true idea? Is it reflected in the language of the external universe? In fact, it certainly is.

And if it is not, if someone is certain of an idea that is not true, then the certainty is an illusion. Conversely, if a true idea is not certain, then its truth is an illusion. If no one (all entities must be included in this argument) can be sure of an idea's certainty, then no one can be sure of an idea's truth. In the case where certainty cannot be achieved, I urge everyone to default to false! The alternative involves creating the illusion of certainty for an idea that may not be true. This, to me, is worse than simply being uncertain.

Eliminating Higher Levels of Inheritance

Imagine that red were the only color in the entire world. Everything you saw were some shade and luminosity of red. Would the world forget the meaning of color? Would then color simply mean, "redness?" I believe this is true.

Now imagine the same situation, but instead of eliminating color, eliminate red, green, and blue. Only color exists. Does red then still have a meaning? No, it does not; but it still exists, and it is still beautiful, more beautiful, arguably, than it would have ever been were it simply reduced to "redness." Color is so much more beautiful than any of its elements.

We should not be colorblind. Black and white become so boring. We should be "colorsblind." What is red to me, besides a feature of something more beautiful that we call color? Red should not even exist because it is ugly except where it is simply a part of color.

Enlightenment means to lose awareness of the mundane and to appreciate fully everything that is greater.

I have a Dream, and I had a dream.

I just had this really weird dream about becoming a zombie and convincing the government not to kill all the zombies. There were some really interesting ideas in this dream. For instance, I was able to talk to the officer in charge of exterminating the zombies in my area, and I argued that he did not check his targets. If a zombie happened to look like him, he would shoot anyway. He argued he always checked his targets, and he pointed at his soldiers, noting the differences in colors between their uniforms. I had not noticed that before.

I asked him why he shot the zombies, and the answer became clearer and clearer that he shot the zombies because he was afraid of them. I told him I was afraid of him as well and that there was no reason to shoot zombies. Then the carnage stopped, and all the zombies were able to return to their lives before the outbreak, albeit this time as members of the undead.

This dream has disturbed me, however, and I will be taking down all my posts temporarily until I can figure out what it means. That's a strange reason for taking down a lot of blog articles, but they were strange blog articles and a strange dream. If you were following my blogs (and I don't think anyone really was.) But if you were, I apologize for the inconvenience. Figure out who I am, contact me, and I will send you a copy for your records.