Variety Show – Mission Trips, Citizenship, and Uncanny Existence

On February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 By Alex V. WeirIn Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Lack musical ability? Tune to DADGAD and play pentatonic shapes! You too can sound like a bayou mystic!

In this video I discuss a really neat thing somebody did for people and how we can do an even greater thing for the world by being informed citizens.

Then I prattle on a bit about the problems with appeals to emotion and how they obfuscate the truth. I drive the point home by citing the Dhayan airstrike in which US bombs were used by the Saudis to kill 40 children under 15 years old. A citation made to contrast the moral preening on display as regards US vs Soleimani.

I finish up with a ramble about the ucannines of reality and why the hell is everything just so?

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The 20’s, The Many Evils of Beans, and Soleimani

On January 4, 2020 By Alex V. WeirIn Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogLeave a comment

It’s the 20’s again! Meaning it’s no longer hipstery to wear fanciful hats. Where’s my flatcap?

The Pythagoreans thought consuming beans an evil. I think this idea of sin and many ideas of sin in general, as well as the whole drive to mysticism via asceticism has to do with homeostasis. I expand on this via fart jokes.

I also give a few impressions of the Suleimani situation due to all the ethical ramifications it, and the region, presents.