Articles: “Suicide Note” Mitchell Heisman

Mitchell Heisman was a thirty-five-year-old man who committed suicide on the steps of the Harvard chapel. Before doing so, obviously — he wrote a 1900 page suicide note.

This is that note:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/38104189/Mitchell-Heisman-Suicide-Note

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Articles: Certainty Series

The certainty series from Wikipedia covers the following topics:

Agnosticism
Belief
Certainty
Doubt
Determinism
Epistemology
Estimation
Fallibilism
Fatalism
Justification
Nihilism
Probability
Skepticism
Solipsism
Truth
Uncertainty

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Certainty

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Links: Philosophy Bro

Check out this site:

http://www.philosophybro.com/

The author describes common philosophies in an entertaining way. Here’s an expert from one of his more popular posts “Plato’s ‘The Allegory of the Cave’: A Summary”:

Socrates: “Why do people think philosophy is bullshit? Let me put it this way – imagine you’re in a cave, all chained up so you can’t turn your body at all, and all you get to look at is this one wall. Some assholes behind you are making shadow puppets using the light from a fire and making echo noises and that’s all you or anyone else chained up has seen or heard all your life. Sounds terrible, right? Except it’s all you’ve ever known, shadows and echoes, and that’s your whole world – there’s no way you could know that, really, you’re watching a slightly-improved M. Night Shyamalan film.

While I wouldn’t use his summaries to study for a philosophy exam, I would read them for a surface level understanding and for fun.

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LWM: Why? A mission statement.

So why?

Why, another blog?

Because it’s my blog, that’s why, damnit.

What do I plan to post on this blog? Pretty much anything I feel like:

• Stuff I find funny
• Stuff I find interesting
• Stuff I think about

This stuff is more for me than for you.

Of course, I am wanting others to see this stuff, or I wouldn’t be posting all of this in a blog.

Let me rephrase something a little: this stuff is more for me than for you, but I hope to add to your wealth, just as much as I gain from this stuff.

Well, I guess my cover is blown. I am not so cool that I don’t care if no one reads this stuff.

I am not above begging so shower upon me your attention and comments, validate me — please!

So, with my mission statement complete let us move into our exciting future together.

LWM: The Lost White Male

Who’s the Lost White Male? That would be me of course, your author. But, I am not so foolish to think I am the only lost white male in the world. In our society there are throngs of lost white males. This lost epidemic certainly is not limited to those of the Caucasian race. No, no, it would be racist to think only white males could be lost. I am only laying claim to being the lost white male that The Lost White Male makes reference to.

                                                   

What is this lost epidemic I mentioned? I share in a overall and general mood of a lost sensation encompassing my consciousness. Vague? Maybe. But, that is part of being lost — a vague feeling floating about, never quite there, never fully materializing, and never diminishing. A type of call to action ever present, threatening to command.

I suspect this is all a product of my biology, my current state in life. After all, I am a biological being and all products from a biological being, are biological in source.