Category: Think Thrice

  • Get sober, Christian fellows

    In Third Way style, the way to approach Christianity would be this: accept the Gospel as a trustable message based in traceable history; but do not interpret reality based on this message except where there is no unvcertainty how to interpret reality; there are really few cases where there is no uncertainty, and among them […]

  • The art of mental management

    During the last week I learned two important things. First, real desperation is one of the worst imaginable conditions. (To the extent that I speculate: being stuck in desperation forever could be said to be “in hell”.) Second: thinkers are more prone to fall into desperation, but there are learnable mental management techniques to guard […]

  • Life's too short, too messy

    And has too many meaningless details. Look at this well-known YouTube clip and you will know the impression I got: Source: Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years. When looking at women, everything is a little bit more colorful, but the essence is the same:  She takes a photo every day […]

  • Physics might be simply information processing

    People have speculated (also before the movie “Matrix”) if this world is actually a simulation. It is said that, if one finds a “limit of resolution” in physics, that might be a hint that this world is indeed simulated. Now the quantization of energy could actually be this limit … When taking this idea theologically, […]

  • Got ensnared by modern fascism

    I just read an insightful comment on weissgarnix.de: Traditional fascism demands order and submission; modern fascism flatters the individuals, furthers the illusion of freedom and self-determination and controls the people mostly nonviolently by conditioning them. (Tina, comment #111 on “Geht’s noch tiefer” on weissgarnix.de; translation by me) Why do I post this? I think I […]

  • Practical epistemology

    Each individual person can do nothing better than to find and use the best epistempology (a method for determining truth) for which he or she has the resources to use it. As this will return the best possible results, while even better but utopic epistemologies return no results at all. Therefore, people in ancient cultures […]

  • Ooops, relationship

    Many people like to be free and independent. Some even to the degree that they prefer self-employment over the security of employment, and friendships over the reliability of long-term pair relationship. Of course there’s always the danger of loneliness, but also always the benefit of flexible, agile, simple living. You gotta agree with only yourself […]