Category: Signs of life

• Sign of Life: Lab-coat fallacy

  Perhaps it already exist in one place or another.. but I am introducing a new fallacy called lab-coat fallacy. Lab-coat fallacy is created to me in disrespect for a person called John Morris Pendleton and actually in honor of Logicked who called him out for pretending to be a scientist on spurious credentials and wearing  a lab-coat…

  Merit Coba

  19/05/2016

  rants, Signs of life

• Stefan Molyneux! Because paying taxes sucks!

  

  Philosophy is like lighting a room with cigarettes: not very practical and possibly unhealthy(and it makes you smell bad).  It is a bit of a forced statement, but it reflects how I feel after having seen some philosophical discussions. These discussions tend to become quoting contests in which the one who can quote the best or the most wins…

  Merit Coba

  05/01/2015

  history, rants, Signs of life

  anarcho-capitalism, Captialism, Crazy stuff, history, libertarians, Molyneux, taxes, The state

• Black Peter(Zwarte Piet): Intolerance and popular politics

  On  the evening of  the fifth of December Saint Nicolas and his helper Black Peter(Zwarte Piet) bring sweets and presents to children(small and large!).  Of late this ‘tradition’ has received criticism because of the depiction of Zwarte Piet.  Some people feel that his blackness combined with his servile role towards the white skinned Saint Nicholas creates…

  Merit Coba

  04/01/2015

  Signs of life

  Alkmaar, Black Pete, Black Peter, Intolerance, Opa, Politicss, Popularism, Popularity, Saint Nicolas

• Someone I used to know(a post about little stories)

  I like story telling and using pictures for them. I am working on a various stories which I hope to put out now I have some more time on my hands and less stress. I make these scenes and stories using Second Life, which takes a lot of time to put together. A friend of…

  Merit Coba

  02/01/2015

  pictures, Signs of life, sound and vision, stories

  Gotye, Kimbra, merit, Music, Natasha Pincus, Short Stories, Somebody I used to know, Video, You Tube

• I am no atheist!

  

  Some days ago I lost a post I was writing about ‘my’ atheism.  Strangely enough it was a wordpress article and normally wordpress saves your work, but I can’t find the post. I did find the picture I uploaded.  Perhaps I lost the post when I turned of the computer while traditionally ignoring all the…

  Merit Coba

  21/12/2014

  Signs of life, stories of the real

  atheism, ayn raynd, early medieval history, history, humanism, jesus, logicked, nordic, steve shives

• Vending machines

  The employees trickled into the room by the twos and threes depending on who shared an office with whom. A few went out again to form a short line in front of the vending machine in the hallway. But eventually they all gathered into the windows less meeting room with it’s yellowish walls at the…

  Merit Coba

  06/06/2014

  Signs of life, stories, stories of the real

  jobs, management, outsouring, RL, signs of life, stories of the real

• Between real and depiction of real : Coca Cola, identity and avatars

    “Dick’s stories typically focus on the fragile nature of what is “real” and the construction of personal identity.” (Wikipedia: Philip K. Dick) A few week ago I borrowed some books from the public library. It has been a long while that I visited a library, but of late I found that I sleep better…

  Merit Coba

  02/03/2014

  rants, Signs of life

  Advertisment, Coca Cola, Make belief, Norman Rockwell, Santa Clause, second life, Soda, Soda Fauntains

• Signs of Life: affluence

  “I used to get off the train here.”  She nodded her head towards the platform. She was sitting on one of the folding chairs that were fixed to the side of the train wagon. She had asked to sit down, because she said she was  wobbly in the morning. I could imagine she was as…

  Merit Coba

  07/09/2013

  Signs of life

  affluence, death, healthcare, Life, Short Stories, signs of life, story

• Signs of Life: dominoes

  When Harold returned from the doctor his wife Janice asked ”How did it go?” Harold was both taken aback by the abrupt question and in a quandary about a the answer. He had not expected that question so soon, but he knew she would ask it eventually. He knew he had to say something as…

  Merit Coba

  30/08/2013

  Signs of life

  break up, breakup, coming out, confession, divorce, domino, domino. dominoes, gay, honesty, separation, seperation, signs of life, truth, wedding

• Signs of life: the last voyage

  She caught my attention because she was so there: standing tall with her arms folded in front of her chest and her defiant gaze that seemed to say to everyone around her: ‘I dare you, I dare you  to say something about it, I  dare you to assume; dare to conclude, to judge’. He was…

  Merit Coba

  15/08/2013

  Signs of life

  breakup, lost love, seperation, short story, signs of life, story, the last voyage, train