In email to me this morning, someone said, “Your site is major-league high-brow.” I thought that was a funny observation, but I also know there is some truth to it. I don’t know that we’re all that high-brow-civilized, but we do try to take up ideas in a very penetrating way.
Epistemology — the philosophy of knowledge — how can you verify and validate your knowledge? — is an idea I’m always bringing up. There is no limit to how much better we can get at thinking.
This is a video I saw yesterday at Little Green Footballs. This is on-topic for BloodhoundBlog only in the absolute broadest sense, but BloodhoundBlog is all about looking at things in the absolute broadest sense. In any case, this is a very nice example of video doing an intellectual job that would be much harder to pull off in prose.
Sean Purcell says:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I’ve got a pretty good, first-hand supernatural story. If you’re interested, find me at Unchained.
April 17, 2009 — 2:46 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
I found the video sufficiently interesting that I followed the link back to “Qualia Soup’s” entire collection of videos on his YouTube user page.
I can’t help thinking that all these videos were not created in a vacuum, that he must have created them in response to some other person’s ideas or attitudes that he encountered.
Oh, how I would love to know the backstory there…
April 17, 2009 — 7:22 pm
Don Reedy says:
Sean,
As I promised Teri, I am bringing some iceplant, and that means that, coupled with the Windy City dogma of one Geno Petro and my own constabulary stories of exhibition and contrition, you, my friend, now have an audience for just the supernatural story you describe above.
Can’t wait.
April 17, 2009 — 8:22 pm
Teri Lussier says:
Sean and Don-
Ghost stories! Sounds like a slumber party. We can make a tent out of the covers and I’ll bring a flashlight. I know a story about a car full of kids who ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere…
>There is no limit to how much better we can get at thinking.
I’ll try to remember that next time I react viscerally.
April 18, 2009 — 8:19 pm