I'm thinking about the article I read in TPM this morning, regarding David Hume. I am not the most learned individual when it comes to philosophy and I don't want to come off as the put-out schmuck in the back of phil. class who's read a few books and thinks he knows everything. I don't pretend to have any answers but I am intrigued by an idea Hume mentioned.
He didn't believe in a soul nor an afterlife but rather that one's self is a connection of mental states. And in a symmetrical way, he sees no great injustice about the fact that we don't consider not having a soul before being born, so afterward shouldn't be a problem, either.
I've never read anything like that before and it's truly revelatory. I leaned toward believing in a soul, and still do, but I hadn't considered that my body had no soul prior to conscious, physical birth. You read all sorts of wonderful stories and literature about reincarnation, and the enlightenment of the spirit and all that, and now there's some logical reason to doubt or reconsider it. The magazine is celebrating Hume's bday with a major chunk (its midsection) full of essays about him and his theories and at first I thought it'd be isolating but now I'm intrigued.
Hit the gym last nite and was able to bench the 3x8r of 185 again. Felt much better this time around and if I can repeat that next week, I'll see if I can up the weight. Am probably going to run today, again. If I'm truly committed to getting my weight down to 150, then another 9x should knock out another pound. There's only going to be a couple of days of gorging and that won't be for another couple of weeks so I think I can accomplish this.
Listened to I'm With You from "Annie" to "Goodbye Hooray." It gets better with each listen.
Thank you for reading.
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