Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

So you are gone So you are gone never again, can my arms wrapped around you find their mark. I’m lost in a troubling swirl of tear stained madness raving like some gibbering fool at the sharp, merciless edge of piercing Reality. Laddie what happened? What cause was such that no effort at resolution no…

Beware of Mirrors Beware of Mirrors – for a cold creature lurks there There are other sorts of mirrors than just the glass ones we obsess in. Other types of mirrors that seem to set us off on an inward looking spiral. Me. Introspection. Strange. Does it really matter? Francis Meyrick Francis Meyrick Francis Meyrick…

The Importance of Self – or Not? I am a Child of the Universe – and I am loved For a long time in my Life, I saw myself as at the center of the Universe. Maybe not consciously, but effectively, Life revolved around me. Oh, and I was important. I was essential actually. I…

A Hug in Ferguson – A Young Fellow who SEES – I want one too You know why I admire this lad? Because he is going to cop it from his local community’s “activists “. (read: thugs) And you know something? I bet he knew that. And he STILL went ahead and did the human…

The Next Tank Man Who will be the Next Tank Man? I don’t mean standing unarmed in front of advancing tanks, like that astonishingly brave young fellow in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on that fateful day in June 1989. I mean, who will be the next young person who stands up, and manages, by…

Is there a Message in the Bottle? A couple of years back, there was big to-do in the media, for at least two days, about the efficiency of anti-depressants being called seriously into doubt. Imagine that. Really? Big Pharmacy had been making all those billions of dollars all those years selling billions and billions of…

Reality – worst game ever? Well, you knew I was going to poke a bit of fun at Cyberspace, didn’t you…? Basically, it’s mostly good. I love Science. Technology. Space Exploration. SpaceX and Elon Musk. The Frontiers of Science. But Reality is out there. You know, Real Place. A couple of odd trends: 1) People…

Be your own Helicopter I’ve been flying Airplanes and Helicopters for a living for decades now. I also did an aircraft maintenance course, and I am what they call an Airframe and Powerplant (A & P) Aircraft Maintenance Technician. The point of that anecdote, is not to tell you how great I am, but, on…

Ain’t nuthin’ cooler than an Old Dog learning New Tricks The Free Enterprise System, much maligned, and chronically under attack from Radical Left Wing Saul Alinsky clones, (who know better than ordinary plebs like you and I) is probably much under appreciated. Put it this way, what I’ve seen of Socialism, never mind Communism, convinces…

All Puffed Up It amuses me. People who have achieved “some ” knowledge. Indeed, “some ” skill. Definitely “some ” expertise. But for “some ” reason, they puff up into wind bags. And then they can impact people’s lives. Often, not for the Good. It just seems to be the way Man is programmed: he…