The Wake

Religion

Do you know what Pascal’s Wager is? It states that we should believe in God on the chance, however slim, that He exists and He’ll be irritated if we don’t believe in Him. So I will refrain from addressing the issue of religion here, but bear in mind that Pascal’s Wager scares the shit out of me.

The Nature of Reality

I hate it when I’m trying to convince people that the entire world is just an illusion inside my head. They always insist that that can’t be true because they know that they exist. I then try to explain that of course they say that, my brain made them say that in order to sustain the illusion that they were real. Bastards won’t listen to reason.

J. D. Salinger Always Italicizes Shit

That’s a bit of a hyperbole, I suppose, but when I read his Nine Stories it seemed like every other word was in fucking italics. It was really annoying. This doesn’t have anything to do with philosophizing, but it occurred to me when I did the italics in the preceding section and I’ve been looking for an opportunity to comment on it.

There’s Nothing Selfish about Suicide

It pisses me off immensely when I hear some smug, self-satisfied asshole bash suicides or attempted suicides because it’s “selfish” or because “they’re just trying to get attention.” No, when people are just trying to get attention, they dress provocatively or name drop—sort of like Paul Auster in his novels—but they don’t try to kill themselves. With this argument, you’re saying, “Oh my God, they’re so selfish because, while they’ve been plunged into a river of self-destructive horror and pain, they didn’t stop to think about how it would affect me.” Dick. You’re a dick.

Friend Me

Ok, here’s the score. Facebook is a marvelous invention. If Facebook was a woman or if it was a man and I was gay, I would marry it. The most important thing to remember about Facebook is that the Wall, the Gifts (fuck them), and all the other applications are just trivial bullshit. The goal, the “primary directive,” is to attain as many friends as possible. Facebook is a competition. If you have more friends than the other people on your friends list, you’re winning. If not, your friends are mocking you. In fact, by seeking to have a massive friends list, you’ve turned the list into a phallic symbol. Congrats.

Ok, there we go, there’s some philosophizing.