#debatable philosophy

[corporateintel]

Weak Thinking

I’ve been a student of philosophy for most of my adult life. It’s a passion, it’s an indulgence, at times it’s an obsession, and it’s a driving force in many of my most consequential actions. Digging through the canon of thousands of years of argument — hundreds of thousands of pages of dense text — can be vastly unsatisfying. It’s not for everyone. It becomes obvious there are far more questions…

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#9-11 #broad intellectual authority #civilized discourse #considered thought #debatable philosophy #Elon Musk #fabricated drivel #free speech #noble premise #Sam Bankman-Fried #self-esteem shields #student of philosophy #TikTok #tone-deaf #World Trade Center

[evilwizard]

like 90% of all riddles only work because we don’t have the language to talk about them succinctly. is the ship of theseus still the ship of theseus if every piece of it has been replaced? well, its tribberly is intact but its quonk is gone. tribberly means the idea of something while quonk means the actual atoms that make it up, by the way. there riddle solved. “boohoo but you still haven’t answered the question; does a ship’s quonk or its tribberly determine whether it’s the ship of theseus?” subjective. figure it out amongst yourselves. it’s literally simple it’s subjective it depends on who you ask there’s nothing paradoxical here. “when a tree falls in the forest but nobody hears it, does it make a sound?” it makes a splornk but not a glibbitytoop. you absolute fuck

#wiz philosophy #amateur philosophers you are un-invited to debate me

[fellthemarvelous]

Holy forking shirtballs

I'm choosing violence today. I started this on Twitter, but I'm going to finish my thoughts here like I always do.

But what really blows my mind the most is the way that people look at Aziraphale's "choice" at the end, as if he had one to fucking begin with.

I'm sorry, but Aziraphale knows how messed up Heaven is. He told The Metatron, more than once, that he did not want to go back to Heaven! We can debate what each of us means by "choice" all night because my "choice" and your "choice" might be two different concepts. He could have been strong armed by The Metatron or he could have looked at where things were headed and realized he had no choice but to intervene himself.

You need to ask yourself what Aziraphale has a moral imperative to do.

What do we owe to each other?

Seriously, if you have not watched The Good Place, I recommend you go and watch it, because it absolutely shaped how I've viewed Good Omens 2 since its release.

My levels of frustration with the bad faith mischaracterizations of Aziraphale are off the charts. If you are blaming him for everything, implying that he should have to grovel and that Crowley has a right to hurt him back, you have missed the point of Good Omens entirely.

I defend Aziraphale, but I don't think one of them is more right or wrong than the other. They're equals. They're a group of the two of them, acting and reacting to each other throughout history. They're Alpha Centauri.

I cannot even begin to explain how fucking devastated I felt when Crowley said these words, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. What he said took a lot of courage because he's finally admitting something they've both been too scared to publicly define for 6,000 years. Crowley has had to spend so long with a rough outer shell because he fell and had to hide all of his softness.

The look on his face was one of pure joy when he created that nebula, but I think the fact that he got to share that moment with Aziraphale is what has always stuck with him.

So yeah, seeing Crowley with a broken heart at the end of "Every Day" was sad for me as well.

My brain still lives here!!

But Neil has said that Good Omens 3 is not quiet, gentle, or romantic. I imagine it's going to be more like the the first season in which they are not central to the plot. GO2 will help us make sense of how they ended up where they are when we see the bigger picture with all the other major players involved with GO3.

Aziraphale was still a soldier and accidentally got himself discorporated in his own magic circle in season one. He had a platoon waiting on him to start Armageddon, and he deserted them to go save the world with Crowley instead. Aziraphale is a deserter. I need everyone to remember that. He yeeted himself out of Heaven and sought out Crowley before even locating a body just to warn him about what was happening so they could try to save the world together.

I can't help but think of 1941 and that magician who had been arrested for being a deserter.

Aziraphale disobeyed orders. That took courage but it branded him as a traitor against Heaven. They tried to destroy him for it the same way Hell tried to destroy Crowley for his part in stopping the war.

Aziraphale and Job are the only characters we have seen interacting with God directly. Aziraphale has spoken to God before and he is determined to do so again.

Aziraphale knows Heaven is flawed, but he also knows it's supposed to be good. He wants it to be good. He does not like the way the system works and he wants to make a difference. (And I'm pretty sure he's also determined to talk to God without being intercepted by The Metatron.)

Since when is that a bad thing? I don't get it. And I've had this discussion before.

If you need to change the system by burning the old one to the ground, it's still change, and we don't know what Aziraphale has planned.

It seems to me that people just want to see Aziraphale fail because it would punish him for returning to Heaven instead of running off with Crowley.

Some of y'all take everything Aziraphale says or does and twist those things into malicious anti-Crowley actions because you think the only reason Aziraphale exists is to make Crowley happy, and if he isn't thinking only about Crowley then he's doing something wrong.

Aziraphale does not exist as a plot device to further Crowley's character. They come as a pair. They've been learning from each other for 6,000 years. Crowley challenges Aziraphale just as much as Aziraphale challenges him.

You can be mad at Aziraphale all you want, but villainizing him is gross. Defending Crowley does not mean you have to tear down and mischaracterize Aziraphale anymore than defending Aziraphale means you have to tear down Crowley (but I don't see that happen on nearly the same level it happens to Aziraphale). Stop painting Aziraphale as an abusive partner, for fuck sake.

Aziraphale knows there are flaws in the system. He wants to make a difference, and since he has seen that Gabriel can change, then maybe the whole system can. He has to at least try, and if he can succeed then maybe he and Crowley can stop hiding and finally be together without having to look over their shoulders all the time.

Why is that a bad thing? He's just as protective of Crowley as Crowley is of him!

But don't forget that Aziraphale's wing was covering Adam and Eve too. As much as a wants to protect Crowley, he has a moral imperative to keep humanity safe as well.

He sent Adam and Eve into the unknown with a flaming sword so they could protect themselves.

As much as he wants to be with Crowley, there are 8 billion people on Earth heading toward the Second Coming and Judgment Day. They'll work together to fight alongside humanity in the end. Aziraphale should not have to humiliate himself just to earn Crowley's forgiveness. That's a rancid notion.

The Resurrectionist was a whole ass moral dilemma for Aziraphale, which is why I brought up The Good Place earlier, but that's a post for a different time.

Aziraphale has his own motivations and they're just as important as Crowley's, and they don't have to be chalked up to Aziraphale being the bad guy. Weird, I know, but shades of grey.

"To the world."

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale defense squad #yeah i'm being bitchy #no i don't care if you're offended #no i'm not interested in your aziraphale hate #i'm not interested in hearing takes about aziraphale being toxic from people who can't even be objective #some of y'all need to watch the good place because you need a lesson in moral philosophy #we should be able to have discussions about the characters without gross takes calling aziraphale abusive #az and crowley approach everything from wildly different perspectives because of where they are #just admit y'all shit on az because he doesn't look or act like crowley #I'm so done with the shitty aziraphale takes #they aren't even interesting enough to debate #they're just annoying

[zitrovee]

College made me evil

i had a comic assignment for my creative writing class but im. not a comic writing guy. a funny one, to be worse. im not funny. thats what i made

portuguese cause i forgor im brazilian and made the comic in english and posted it and then i had to post it again in my actual language wtf

#cassandra cain #bruce wayne #batfam #batfamily #batman #batgirl #idk what im doing with my life #i need to finish a whole screenwriting asssignment #and a debate for my philosophy class #and a book chapter for my history of communication class #im a cinema student btw #why the hell am i making comics #you know whats worse. i didnt need to draw ir #i could use a internet template i misread it and drew it i couldve saved so much work #cass looks funny tho #idk man im not the funny type of guy im a vine compilation guy idk #brart #brartist

[gillianthecat]

#virus #virology #the great debate #microbiology #biology #life #philosophy #poll #tumblr polls #my polls #hw lb #gillianthecat goes back to school

[randomthunk]

If you know, you know.

#inktober #inktober 2023 #star trek voyager #kathryn janeway #kat arts #fanart #we could debate the ethics and philosophy of it #but like #we're all ignoring the most important thing: #Tuvok doesn't deserve to be stuck with Neelix for the rest of his life #what hell that must be #Tuvok has like a wife and kids #and is. you know. likable. #so yeah #Janeway Was Right

[waterghostype]

hands of time is good because i like it skybound is good because i like it misako is good because i like her jay is good because i like him llokita is good because i like it kailor is good because i like it jaya is good because i like it the ninjago movie is good because i like it . thats my only reason for everything

#aphid philosophy #ninjago #this Is a joke but also idk i just like things sometimes #is x thing objectively good? debatable #but did i like it? yeah sure #same thing with what i dont like x is bad because i dont like it #but if i made a post abt that i wokld die...

[furious-blueberry0]

A gentle reminder that the "Balance of the Force" is not about the Light side and Dark side being equal.

It's about the Cosmic Force and the Living Force interacting with each other and giving life to the universe without being interrupted by people using them to bring destruction and death (something the Sith do).

The Jedi were not wrong to think that the prophecy was about destroying the Sith, because it is them who disturb the balance.

So, the dear Anakin, did not fulfill the prophecy by killing all the Jedi, leaving an "equal number of dark force users and light force users", he fulffilled it when he killed Palpatine and then died, eradicating all the Sith.

So no, the balance was not restored with the death of the Jedi, like i saw many claim, but with the death of the Sith, the selfish individuals who only bringed destruction and pain to the galaxy, who liked to bend the will of the Force to their liking, while completely ignoring the balance.

#star wars #pro jedi #in defense of the jedi #no this is not really up for debate #if someone reblogs or comments with insults I'll block them #so try to be civil #jedi order #jedi philosophy #jedi culture #the jedi

[lesbianrobin]

Seeing as it's Black History Month, I'm gonna take a break from your regularly scheduled girlblogging to be a film nerd and beg every single person reading this post to go and watch Within Our Gates (1920).

Within Our Gates is a feature-length silent film written and directed by black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and it is a miracle that we have it today. The film was believed to be lost for years until a SINGLE surviving print was found in Spain, translated back into English, and recut to match the original as closely as possible. (This is actually not uncommon in the realm of old film a lot of lost films get found in random closets but ANYWAY.) The film tells the story of Sylvia, a southern schoolteacher who travels up north to raise money to keep her school open. It explores how her life and family have been affected by racism, abuse, and sexual violence, as she falls in love, works to save her school, and grapples with her place as a black woman in the antebellum south. If that's not enough to get you interested, the film is also kinda batshit. There are shootouts! Affairs! Someone gets hit by a car! It's wild and dramatic and incredibly engaging.

You've heard of Birth of a Nation, right? Maybe you've even seen it. That insanely racist piece of film history premiered in 1915. Oftentimes people will defend D.W. Griffith and the film itself as being "a product of its time." Well, Within Our Gates premiered in 1920, and it is a product of its time. It depicts white mob violence against black Americans, and how that violence destroys innocent lives and rips families apart. It is written and directed by a black man. All of its lead actors are black. It is an absolutely heart-wrenching, moving, and intelligent film, produced on a shoestring budget, that explores what it meant not only to be a black American in 1920, but what it meant to be a black woman. Different characters have different approaches to coping with racism and strategies for protecting themselves. It's complicated, and upsetting, and one of the most impactful films I've ever seen.

If you can spare an hour and twenty minutes, if you happen to have access to the film through a streaming service (in addition to being FREE ON YOUTUBE, I believe it's on Amazon Prime, Paramount+, MGM+, and some Hulu plans) or an institution (you may have access to Kanopy or a similar platform via your local library or university), it's worth a watch. Play whatever music you want in the background if your version doesn't have any added! Even if you can't watch it for whatever reason, I'd encourage all of you to look into Oscar Micheaux and the history of "race films," films created outside of the Hollywood studio system by and for black Americans.

Don't buy into the false narrative that the only black representation in historical film was minstrelsy and Griffith-style garbage.

#em talks #history #film history #black history #i hope it's like ok for me to make this post as a white lady i'm just very passionate ab film history #and within our gates is an incredible film that deserves so much more noteriety than it has #i feel like people try to act like The Past was uniformly racist and that's just how things were #when the reality is that just like today people fought for their rights and made art and debated different philosophies of liberation #oh also the film can be very disturbing like many many trigger warnings for various forms of violence and assault #but that's part of what makes it so meaningful the fact that it does not shy away from reality yknow #and for 1920... god it's just so so good

[asocial-skye]

i know that i've stayed out of star wars for a while, but like, can i say something?

you guys do know that the whole aww obi-wan totally knew or the council obviously knew thing is fake, right? like they didn't. they really didn't. the prequels fall like a house of cards set of fire and spraying acid if they knew. the whole point of a ✨ forbidden marriage✨ is that NO ONE knows.

the amount of people who have either commented on my posts or i've seen commenting on other people's posts saying that the council or obi-wan would've been fine with it because they totally knew you guys when their evidence really is a subtle joke in a piece of media they are happy to declare subcanon the second it doesn't line up with their carefully constructed fanon is waaaay too many.

#star wars #starwars #anakin skywalker #anakin needs therapy #anakin x padme #star wars anakin #ahsoka tano #obi wan #star wars prequels #obi wan kenobi #jedi philosophy #jedi #jedi order #yoda #mace windu #star wars meta #the force #like the rules are clear #no fucking relationships #i’m not debating the validity of it #just that it didn’t happen and would never happen #you can’t have it both ways

[illpoet]

being trans is so ship of theseus core

#ship of theseus #transgender #transmasc #transfem #trans #trans pride #philosophy #philosphical #theseus #debate #academia aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #liturature #light academia aesthetic #poet

[iamkakyoin83]

def been done but I’m just gonna leave this here

#achilles #patrochilles #achilles was a bottom #the sillies #the iliad #i am gay #achilles was a twunk #i want that twink obliterated #ancient greek philosophy #Ancient Greek debates be like #plato agrees with me

[pilferingapples]

I feel like the real philosophical divide on that robot/clone poll is between the people having some sort of existential identity crisis about free will and Selfhood and so on, and those of us looking at our mortal shell and going 'who would build THIS on purpose'

#this is probably some big religious debate with a fancy name #happily for me I don't care about religious debates so I don't have to know that part #I can just call this philosophy 'Victor Frankenstein Was a Jackass'' #tbc I'm talking about those of us who want to see the design specs #vs people having some kinda Deep Thoughts about Humanity and Free Will and so on #Yo. Promotheus. Why am I allergic to carrots. #FIX IT. #(I know it's Prometheus. go watch the Critic )

[silverskye13]

i have been shakespeared. mortally wounded. this is the end for me. (dramatically dies)

I'm imagining that one scene from Bug's Life where all of the kid ants put on a Shakespearian-style play where all the circus bugs die dramatically in battle--

#answering asks #caramelcoatednightmares #i feel like my age is showing i remember loving this movie as a kid #remember when pixar made movies about worker ants rising up and kicking out the social elite? #i think Tanguish would love this movie #for no reason in particular #i think Helsknight would wonder why Hopper is the bad guy and they'd have philosophy debates about the silly bug movie

[dcartcorner]

priest singed and scientist madeleine because i will take any excuse to draw priest singed

#arcane #fanart #au #singed #oc #madeleine #they're going to have such great debates about science and philosophy

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1538- El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

(Immanuel Kant)

#palabras #frases #textos #textos nocturnos #pensamientos #vida #culture #escritos de amor #books & libraries #amor #sabios #sabio #el temor de un hombre sabio #opinion #discussion #debate #necio #immanuel kant #philosophy #filosofia #pensamiento #poesia #reflexiones #tiempo