Okay. I’ve got for you today a funny little thing and a nice piece of philosophy. Let’s start with one of the funny things.

I have been thinking about all these funny slogans for imaginary companies I run. My pharmaceutical company would be, “Casual Drugs Casually, specializing in Valium, Perkacept, and Medicinal Marijuana for teenagers suffering from heavy to mild teenage angst.”

The grounding for this philosophy is that the only way to determine the truth of a feeling or emotion is via the gesture that follows or implies said emotion. For example, saying “I feel sad,” is invalid unless an actual sign of sadness follows. The basic reasoning for this is that people can delude themselves into believing that they feel a certain way and vocalizing it, but acting upon it seems to be harder for the subconscious. Also, it is much easier to say “I feel sad,” than it is to actually be sad. So delusion forces us to not look at what people say, but what people do. Part of our mental ability as humans allows us to realize that our own reality is but a perception of reality. And then reality just becomes the gestures of our perception. So events, time, facts, they only matter if the gestures that commonly occur follow them, because otherwise they are just delusions. Anyway, the basic assumption is there.

Using that logic (which I prove better in this Gatsby essay I am writing), I can prove the love does not exist. In order for love as an emotion to be valid, it needs an action. Society has created these actions, namely, for the religious, sex, and for the rest, marriage. Those actions are suppose to represent the emotion of love. We all know that people have sex for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with an expression of love and that marriage is not love. So where is love’s action? The invalid one is the colloquialism of “I love you.” Simply invalid because it is not an action and just a verbalization of an emotion, declared irrational in the beginning thus not an indicator of a true emotion. The second one, valid, is giving birth. Family interactions are based on love, but that only exists within a family unit; it is evolutionary and not emotional. So love in fact has not action to it and is not a real emotion. People say that love is just semantics, a word for a group of emotions like caring, adoration, respect, attraction, but I don’t buy that either because those emotions are made tangible in different ways than love is said to be. So what I am saying is that love does not exist because there is no action that is done out of anything I would consider to be love. Marriage can happen for 100 different reasons that represent any other emotion. In Romeo and Juliet, the final suicides are considered acts of love, and I’m no pessimist, perhaps in Shakespeare’s mind love exists and he could write of actions representing that, but at the same time, who knows why those idiots killed themselves?

The next funny slogan is for Thewit.net (which is out of commission but still a really good idea I will eventually do again). So The Wit, where a little wit goes a long way. Also there is The Wit, where a little wit goes wee wee wee all the way home.

Goodnight and God Bless. LOL

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Iraqi girl being questioned about possible links to the Al-Queda after the US and Coalition Forces invade Basra, noted terrorist hotspot.