Owner: Unusual Orthodoxy URL:http://unusualorthodoxy.wordpress.com Join Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:47:46 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Unusual Orthodoxy is an attempt to show how we can shape our own identities. I explore how people can escape labeling and be free to define themselves. The goal of self-defining is the existential dream I attempt to chase. Being as elusive as the essence Site statistics:Click here
Shared destiny 2008-08-12 15:30:52 Is the destiny of mankind shared? Is there any such thing as destiny, even if it is our own creation?
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Infinite meanings 2008-08-11 15:54:33 Do we construct meaning where there is none? Is meaning discovered or created? Read more:Infinite
External validation 2008-08-10 12:14:33 Is what we are always by reference to the outside world? Can human nature be a solitary creation?
The song in the video is Existentialism on prom night by Straylight Run. Read more:External
Our decision 2008-08-09 13:22:20 Is it always our decision
who we are? After all, we cannot choose our race or gender. Or are these artificial social constructions that we can choose to disregard? But if we do treat them as artificial, are we not being postmodernist after all?
The clip is an excerpt from the movie Waking Life.
Elusive origins 2008-08-08 09:42:34 What is more important in determining our identity: what others call us, or what we call ourselves?
On transit 2008-08-06 18:47:19 Why does it often feel like life is on transit? It feels like everyone else is going somewhere or another, while we’re stuck in one giant transit terminal, moving neither forwards nor backwards. Do we actually have to make a home in this terminal and cherish it? Or do we attempt to break out?
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Unintended consequences 2008-08-05 17:29:28 If we define ourselves by reference to what we have done, are we also defined by unintended consequences
? Are we defined by what we intended or what we did?
Empty paths 2008-08-04 07:22:18 If man defines himself, where is morality? Read more:Empty
Chinese Whispers 2008-08-02 18:02:36 If our feelings and experiences are ours alone, why do we communicate how we feel? Is not all communication, regardless of the medium, doomed to failure? Read more:Chinese
Don’t blink! 2008-08-27 11:00:58 If we are defined by what we choose to do, is involuntary action not part of being human?
Everything we do 2008-08-25 11:00:26 Can we cherry-pick which of our actions define us? Would cherry-picking which actions define us be a matter of choice or of compulsion?
PS make sure you turn the volume up to hear the commentary. Read more:Everything
Multifaceted 2008-08-23 11:00:35 Does everything have multiple layers of meaning? Which one do we treat as forming the essence of something?
To choose to feel? 2008-08-21 11:00:40 Is what we do always a choice we can make? Is what we sense a choice?
The song in the video is Eclipse by Pink Floyd. Read more:choose
Latent self 2008-08-19 18:08:34 Do we have a personality independent of our choices of actions? Read more:Latent
Inglorious fate 2008-08-17 01:53:56 Do we have to choose in order to have free will? Or are we condemned to be free?
The song in the video is Freewill by Rush.
The anti-will? 2008-08-15 21:32:59 Does external authority subvert our ability to construct ourselves through our actions? Is being influenced by authority inevitable? Is authority an alter ego?
PS Although the references to God in the audio clip are interesting, my questions refer to the human authority that is mentioned. The original audio can be found here.
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Your life in six words? 2008-08-14 22:05:27 Would you include a verb if you describe your life in six words? Whether you include a verb could indicate whether you view life as a state of being or meaning that you give to your existence.
Imprisoned 2008-08-13 17:42:14 Can we impose our understanding of ourself onto others? Is how we are perceived by others outside of our control? Read more:Imprisoned
Flying is not an option 2008-09-19 11:00:52 Why dream of flying when you cannot walk? Why dive when you cannot swim?
PS The photograph is On The Edge by *KhalllodY on deviantART
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No title 2008-09-17 11:00:41 There is no yesterday or tomorrow.
The photograph is “only exit, exit only” by Taylor Hain. Posted under Creative Commons licence.
Philosophy of clean? 2008-09-14 16:59:53 How do we imprint ourselves on the world? Is the ‘world’ anything more than what we experience? Is there any meaning veiled behind our experience? Is our experience the be all and end all of life?
PS the video is a short documentary on reverse graffiti. For more information click here.
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Contemplated meaning 2008-08-31 11:00:16 Is the essence of a human being always physicalist? Must it always be derived from actions? Can meaning never be derived from the ventures of the mind?
Unfettered man 2008-08-29 11:00:53 Are we always free to become what we want? What are the limits to our ability to shape who we are?
PS I drew the image above using this application. And the drawing is of a man, in case you didn’t spot it!
The curse of freedom 2008-09-23 11:00:16 Condemned to make choices, we are never truly free.
PS The photograph is Epidemia by *complejo on deviantART
Straight forward 2008-09-21 11:00:54 Is perception just a point of view? If we reject what we perceive, what is real?
PS The photograph is Sea of Chairs by ~nhwar on deviantART
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