Transhumanism: Part 1/2 existentialstrangers 2010-02-23 | Some thoughts, I watched a bit of the documentary Technocalyps recently. I did talk about how I think ideology cannot be realized fully due to human nature, but I also believe that the sort of perfection it entails or desires might be flawed in itself. Anyways, I would reallyreally appreciate some video responses for this one, or what it would mean to you to move beyond humanity and transcend our current limitations. Is this a bad/good thing? Is this just what's going to happen anyway, and we should go with the flow?
Message for the Youtube Atheist Community... existentialstrangers 2010-04-14 | "The fanaticism of the religious should not be attributed to their own "selves" and thus, we should not resort to ad hominem attacks that criticize the character/person. Rather, we should look at the ideas they present, and separate that which has been hounded into them since birth from the person, the other, at least the potential person they could be. The religious in a sense are blind - directly attacking them will solve nothing. It's as if there was a person made blind by someone else at birth/since childhood, and we yell at them for being unable to see reality. They cannot, their vision has been ruined. However, unlike a physical malady, the mind is shapeable and can be transformed through perseverance, through education. In order to radically transform a person or have them question their own (probably fallible) beliefs, we must slowly work to outline the problems related to following any ideological system in a fanatical fashion. This includes the poliitical, religious, logical, scientific, non-scientific, anti-scientific, and so on. Ultimately the argument for one side holding the truth is repulsive and will always be missing a key understanding of life, which is to try to look at it from all angles, to feel it, to not look at it and all, to allow the objective and subjective remain two distinct truths while still believing both of them to be true." - Nina Jankovic (me) --- Also sorry if you hear any banging, there are workers around our neighborhood that have been here for many months and have obviously driven me insane (I mean, just look at my hair, etc). Also, the "blind" metaphor is more meant for atheists to try to understand the religious in a new light. Hopefully I won't be misinterpreted, but whatever. I think most people are blind in some fashion or other, and we should try to reduce our ignorance.
Romantic vs PoMo: Part 2/2 existentialstrangers 2010-04-08 | I did not plan for this whole video at all, but it's fun to do a video like this.
Romantic vs PoMo: Part 1/2 existentialstrangers 2010-04-08 | Just some thoughts on a course I am taking and my changing thought processes. And Bob Dylan. Please leave some comments! I did not really want to edit, so I hope this is an okay ramble.
Psychological Disorders existentialstrangers 2010-03-04 | What do you think? Do we label too easily now? New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100301crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all
In Support of Transhumanism (Part 2) existentialstrangers 2010-03-02 | Just finishing up first video. More video responses please! Everyone who watches this should do one. Even if all you say is "this is a good video Nina, be my friend" that would be quite nice.
In Support of Transhumanism (Part 1) existentialstrangers 2010-03-02 | ... and cloning, and brain modification and whatnot.Sofia, I think this is the first thing we have ever disagreed on, lol. Or it feels like it. Very strange.
Transhumanism [general view] - part 1/2 existentialstrangers 2010-02-27 | Here I talk about how i see transhumanism and in what way would it benefit humans/society. The video was obviously much longer than these 2 parts but i cut out the parts that made more sense to me. I know you want to make a video about this now, so yippi-yay!
Transhumanism [criticism] - part 2/2 existentialstrangers 2010-02-27 | here i talk about the criticism that could be made about transhumanism. to this i would really appreciate some feedback. (L)
Canadian Nationalism and the Olympics existentialstrangers 2010-02-25 | Going to talk about Transhumanism again in a bit, I wanted to take a break from schoolwork stuffs (that is why I look like a crazy homeless person with hair that grows as the video goes on) and talk about Canadian nationalism and the olympics. Maybe I am taking it too srsly. Just some thoughts. Hypocritical Tourists: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/23/bc-tourist-vancouver-gastown-sales.html New article I found on NATO: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119430§ionid=351020403
Transhumanism: Part 2/2 existentialstrangers 2010-02-23 | Just wanted to add a bit to that, slightly less coherent but why not.
time existentialstrangers 2010-02-15 | a little story about my camera, its fairly old and makes this mysterious clicking sound and doesnt work very well with light (as you have probably noticed) and i would really really like to have a new nice amazing fantastic camera. i guess when the time comes i will get one. when the time comes.
Re: memory [2] existentialstrangers 2010-02-15 | just adding a final thought (for now) to nina's response to my video on memory about re-invention without a past.
Response: Memory existentialstrangers 2010-02-08 | Sorry, wanted to quickly talk about this and ended up being super hyper throughout with lots of "ums" and "likes"
Memory [1] existentialstrangers 2010-02-04 | the documentary is called 'unknown white male'. here is a clip i found on youtube, from here i suppose you can get more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrakwZq-TOQ also, there is so much more to the picture, these thoughts only emerged from this case in particular of douglas bruce. what about people who suffer from alzheimers or other terrible memory disorders, how are their lives affected? i'll eventually come back to this at some point. i'll post something i wrote on the blog in a couple of hours.
Thoughts on Zizek - Revolution and Apocalypse existentialstrangers 2010-02-03 | http://existentialstrangers.blogspot.com/2010/01/nina-thoughts-after-reading-zizek.html
Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Part 2) existentialstrangers 2010-01-25 | All quotes found: http://existentialstrangers.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce-zizek.html
Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Part 1) existentialstrangers 2010-01-25 | All quotes found: http://existentialstrangers.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce-zizek.html
Thought-diary: Why I run existentialstrangers 2010-01-21 | I'm never to sure about this, but sometimes i feel like making videos that will help me understand why i do certain things or think in a particular way, and those videos shall be part of this thought-diary, which will be at a more personal level. I might make a video later sometime about a theory on activity giving/bringing purpose. I should smile more :D Lots of love my nina (L)
Crime and Punishment existentialstrangers 2010-01-15 | I said Raskolnikov in the Canadian way. Am ashamed. Damn it.
Social Responsibility and Conformity existentialstrangers 2010-01-15 | saying: "most people don't want to feel that they are responsible AT ALL for their actions" was poor wording on my part, forgive me. I should start writing out my thoughts somewhere before making these. Another video I did on Crime and Punishment to follow... (which I recorded first)
Pretending and core self existentialstrangers 2010-01-14 | I thought i would add a few things to what i talked about previously. I also wrote a few things down: http://existentialstrangers.blogspot.com/2010/01/few-thoughts-on-we-are-what-we-pretend.html -- I also wanted to share a video from LennyBound [subscribe to him, you'll get to see amazing videos] , where Raymond describes identity as a blured image. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6F8Wlkm_Q (L)
Pretending and Creation of Self/Others existentialstrangers 2010-01-13 | Do you think who we pretend to be is the same or different from who we decide to be?Also, some thoughts on how to create a perfect child, pleaseplease.
Tangente: conflict between personas (response) existentialstrangers 2010-01-12 | Hey. So this is me, second me, Sofia. -- I just leaped onto a huge tangente, and ended up not talking about all the things i wanted to: actors, teenagers growing up, professionals being successful, depressed individuals, people who suffer from multiple personality disorder, crimes committed by people who have short term memory or who sleep walk, etc. So i guess, next time? You should know all this rambling will get better with time. -- The study i talked about at the end is the Milgrim Experiment. [and i didnt really talk about the prison study you mentioned] -- And we have new video responses, so more discussion shall continue. Lots of Love Nina (L)
We are who we pretend to be. existentialstrangers 2010-01-11 | Hi! I am Nina. Yesyes. Link to my channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/determineninz The quote from Vonnegut's Mother Night: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Lolol when I talk about the Prison Study, sorry everyone.
