Essays and Thoughts
Summary of The Last Judgement: The angels harp their trumpets, and Jesus Christ, the ideal man, judges all according to their worth, putting them in their proper place after their sojourn on Earth. The sinners are damned, and the saints are saved. This is a vision of the ideal that humanity should strive for. A … Continue reading The Last Judgement and its Modern Counterpart
In Ancient Greek Philosophy, Theoria is the moment of clarity when one participates in the spectacle of truth, as when Plato’s Philosopher-King climbs out of the cave and observes the forms. This Theoria came from a cultural activity of travel-logging, where a member of the polis is elected to goto aother city-state (either to Dionysian … Continue reading Theoria, Christianity, and Fratire (Pt. 1)
What is the antidote to transience? The fact that everything enters and everything goes? The futility that bubbles out of death and dying? What can anchor us and provide us with meaning in the symbolic order of identities, where one thing is equivalent to another? (E.g. money, status, abstractions. Not terrible in themselves, but often … Continue reading Man the Maker
(Note: I first came across this idea from Justin Sung) Time is constitutive of Beings, Heidegger taught us. But such time is not the one that is measured by the moving of clock, or represented by the numbers on the top right of one's laptop. Such is the problem of traditional time-management, which divides one's … Continue reading Attention-Management rather than Time-Management
Once upon a time I fell in love with Apocalyptic fiction. I thought it was just a phase. But I have recently relapsed. I pick up, I start reading, and 2 hours go by. My Biology textbooks and Calculus videos are left forlorn on my desk. Out of guilt, I began meditating on the genre … Continue reading Apocalypse and Fiction
Warren's Brain Dumps 