#philosophical musings

[orsialos]

Ancient gods and ancient ideas often seem to be consistently framed in the context of their ancient societal standards, which makes sense from an academic standpoint, but from a philosophical standpoint it leaves me wanting more. "X is a god of y". But what if X was a god of y in a more abstract way?

I pose this question after thinking about my beloved Terpsichore, muse of dance and choral song. I am a dancer, aspiring to be professional in fact, and spend a lot of time finding joy with her inspiration and beauty. So, as I was doing some light academic researching on her (spoiler: it's not much) I came across a paper entitled:

Terpsichorean movements of pentaammineruthenium on pyrimidine and isocytosine ligands

What this means is quite literally beyond me, but I was drawn in by "Terpsichorean movements". Because indeed what we call "dancing" is just a beautiful art form of flowing movements and emotional expression.

Is "dance" as we know it truly the only form of dancing - if we can dance, can other animals? Can a flock of birds swarming through the sky in a mesmerizing pattern not be called a "dance"? Can the same not be said for a school of fish swimming to and fro in a beautiful pattern?

We have uniquely human interpretations of the gods and their influence in the world, but if they are all reaching, all loving, all encompassing, why would they only bless us with their gifts? I pose that the gods, in whatever form you believe them to be, share their same spheres of influence across the universe and across all living beings. And I just find that so dang beautiful.

#the mousai #terpsichore #helpol #hellenism #hellenic polytheism #personal #musings #philosophical musings

[senditothemoonn]

you are NOT thirsting over the old man from monster house say sike right now

Look into his round blue orbs and tell me yourself

#sometimes old men just need to be bred #and you need to get used to that anon #this is gc speak on main #i talk with so many layers of irony #i don’t know what’s true and what’s not anymore #do I want to bone mr nebbercracker… #who’s to say #if he were wearing a cardigan perhaps #philosophical musings #fruk au where Arthur protects kids from his evil housewife #ask

[wikipedie]

SYSTEM IS UNDERGOING MAINTENANCE - WE ARE SORRY FOR THE DISCOMFORT CREATED

This was today's mood for me. I woke up in the morning with this discomfort due to a lot of things that I've recently realized about myself and my life (and which I keep realizing, honestly) and this is (some of) the resulting conversation with my brain. And I wanted to share it because despite being a messy quickly drawn comic, I like it.

I really wanted to write: Just be. The system cannot update without you (or something of the manner) but it was too long.

I'll write what I wrote by hand in the last panel on here because I know it's not easy to understand: Things are indeed changing. Just be present. It takes as long as it takes. You wouldn't tell a tree to bloom faster.

I've really been trying to learn how to keep living through this sort of discomfort. It's not easy, even if necessary. One of the things I'm learning is how to not make a big deal out of it and get more frayed and tired than I already am. I don't have to stop all brakes just so I can deal with everything; it is honestly just a false hope that by doing it all at once, I will never have to deal with it again which *laughs* fool's hope. Some things maybe get settled, others don't and it's fine.

I'll make a cup of tea and I'll let things resolve in their own time.

#personal #comics #i frankly don't know what to tag this as #perhaps #philosophical musings #about me #mine #my art #wow i have a tag for this now

[mbharestuff]

whenever we see the Charmin bears on TV, they're taking huge dumps. is this all that they do, in their lives? take huge dumps? or are we to infer that this is just what we see of lives that are far richer, far more meaningful than endless dumps?

#bears #toilet paper #advertising #commercials #philosophical musings

[10shi-256]

Why did I make this blog?

I've fallen into a habit that many people are guilty of, and, in fact, we are essentially being socially engineered into adopting this habit as a standard set of behavior. I do feel like there is some intentional mechanism steering us towards this behavior, turning us into socioeconomic and political cattle that can be herded one way or another. This gluttony for aesthetics has bottlenecked our intrinsic creative cycles and, in some cases, killed our empathy in pursuit of feeding that hunger.

Allow me to explain in reverse. I believe that the "creative cycle" is a simple loop of production and consumption. We input (read:consume) raw data. Information. Everything we intake with our senses is stored in some way in our minds. But it's not solidified yet. We know what these things are but we don't know how to feel about it. The concepts of the things we have experienced remain in a plastic form until we output (read: produce) a simulacrum of our experiences as only we can relate them, through our unique perspectives. But something has now changed. The version of that concept as we have output it is different than the fundamental, mutable concept that was in our heads. The concept solidifies into the image that we have produced. This is how we process any information we receive, even on the simplest level. Take, for instance, a flower you've observed on a walk. You see it, and it compels your thoughts. "That's a really pretty flower." The action of putting that thought into words is an act of production, no matter how simple. Why use the word "pretty" in place of "beautiful," "alluring," or "captivating?" Why is it a "really" pretty flower, instead of a "very" pretty flower? or just a "pretty" flower? It is healthy and necessary to say what we mean and mean what we say, therefore we should not shy away from eloquence.

So what happens when this cycle that defines the post-industrial human condition is interrupted? When we become stuck in an endless phase of consumption, we lose our ability to convey how we feel about anything, and thus lose our ability to know and understand the world around us. We essentially lose our souls. But who would do such a horrid thing?! Simply, anyone who wants to sell you something with no risk of you deciding for yourself that this isn't something you want to buy. Someone who wants to guide your thought into a direction that you would have otherwise judged against. They would have us become puppets, sheep, opiated masses, whatever ages-old allegory you're more familiar with.

When we scroll for hours, mindlessly sharing things that pique our interest without using that information for anything productive, we are building that dam more and more solidly. It must be broken. So I would like to begin breaking the dam I've built for myself. I want to surf the internet more slowly. When I come across something that piques my interest, I want to dive in and explore its fullest depths and understand why my interest is piqued, what can I do with my newfound knowledge, and hopefully inspire someone else with the research I've gathered. This will be my space to do so. My greatest hope? To invite someone to a dialogue and compare my perspective with theirs. Sharing and exchanging ideas is how we continue to grow internally. I don't ever want to stop growing.

#first post #philosophical musings

[callipraxia]

I started answering a comment on my Gravity Falls fanfiction. I wrote a 1200 word essay comparing the ways the problem of 'Why Are Villains?' was handled in Star Wars and Harry Potter. This is a completely normal Tuesday evening for me.

#gravity falls #star wars #harry potter #villains #villainy #philosophical musings #this is a...perk of how my ADHD works I guess? #accidental essay #essays in the comments #fanfiction #fanfiction reviews

[teler-of-gallifrey]

I find myself more and more attracted to the idea of Satan as a sympathetic figure, one kind and empathetic, a true foil to Christ. Just as Christ descended to earth, so did Satan fall. Christ came pull us up to higher heights. Satan came down to us to lift us up from below. Christ is great and good and wonderful, but ultimately he requires us to accept him to do any good, and many have been burned, and cannot. But always there is old Satan, old Lucifer, to hold us and whisper "I know. I know. But you are not worthless. Your soul is not tainted. You are beautiful. You are loved." As there is light, so to must there be dark. Perhaps we are meant to find comfort in both of them.

#religious ramblings #philosophical musings #religious trauma #I've been listening to ghost #trans stuff

[missingmusing]

“The truth, and please forgive us for it, is that we’ve been forging an art story”

-Orson Welles “F is for Fake” (1973)

#philosophical musings #academic musings #my musings #film musings #quotes

[thapsyrensays]

Do you know that you slow yourself down when you're waiting for someone else to get their karma?

I know they did you dirty baby.. but you gotta let it go. They enacted their karma the minute they chose to act outta integrity and vibration to yours.

So don't wait around, stalk, and fill your time wondering what will happen to them or hoping they get theirs.

Trust that the scales will always do what the fuck they gotta do.

Remember that what you pay attention to is what grows, so how much precious energy are you wasting if you're focused on that, rather than growing your own garden?

Heal for you. Fuck them people. (and they baldheaded ass mama too)

#spirituality #psybytes #spiritualgrowth #karma #growth #healing #shit psyren says #philosophical musings #energy work #justice tarot

[turiyatitta]

The Cosmic Synchronicity of Spiritual Evolution

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#ancestral echoes #Consciousness #cosmic tapestry #cosmos #evolution #fractals #Interconnectedness #philosophical musings #Self-Discovery #Spirituality #synchronicity #wisdom

[violet-yimlat]

Do you ever realise that you write more in a diary on days when nothing much happens? Like, when something big happens you can write “I went to the zoo and Joey was eaten by a greater hornbill” and be done with it but when nothing happens you write every little detail so you don’t forget about that unremarkable day.

RIP Joey

He had it coming

#philosophy #philosophical musings #shitpost #my diary #diary

[sonoroustempest]

I do not take care of my plants—they survive me

My eternal neglect will either slowly kill them or make them hardy enough to survive the apocalypse, unstoppably alive Despite All Odds. And I ask myself, is this what God thinks of us?

#a ghost speaks #plants #philosophical musings #about the extents of my executive dysfunctioning #religion #i guess?? #about as agnostic as mentions of god existing can get #i think #im not an expert

[jaideepkhanduja]

Beyond Death's Reach: A Journey Through Life, Death, and the Unknown #Afterlife

“Beyond Death’s Reach” is a phrase that often sparks our imagination and prompts us to think about the mysteries of life, death and what lies beyond. The phrase has been used in many contexts and has been interpreted in various ways. From religious beliefs and spiritual interpretations to scientific theories and philosophical musings, “Beyond Death’s Reach” continues to captivate our minds. In…

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#afterlife #cryonics #death #medical technology #mysteries of life #philosophical musings #religious beliefs #scientific advancements #soul #transition #unknown

[kakitysax]

I feel like “our culture of consumerist individualism is so toxic and one’s identity shouldn’t be based around which products they consume and in what colors” and “expressing yourself through what you buy can be very empowering and healing” are two statements that can and kind of need to coexist in the world we live in

#karkles stop #philosophical musings #brain shit

[mariathechosen1]

Digging too deep:

Philosophical obsession to the point of self destruction

[Image description: A collage consisting of 10 different photographs and quotes, all related to digging and holes. From top to bottom:

A wikipedia headline that says “Law of Holes”.

A close up of a shovel, digging into loose dirt.

An excerpt from a wikipedia article about the law of holes: The law of holes or the first law of holes, is an adage which states: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." It is used as a metaphor, warning that when in an untenable position, it is best to stop making the situation worse.”

A lyrics excerpt from ‘The Song With Five Names’ by Will Wood: You can break a shovel when you break new ground / You dig dirt up when you dig deep down / You should know better than that by now / It's not profound to know that you could never know!

A blurry photograph of a dark rectangular hole in the ground, seemingly a grave. The hole is so dark the bottom of it isn’t visible. Besides the hole there is a pile of dirt.

A lyrics excerpt from ‘Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!’ by Will Wood and The Tapeworms: Gotta get to the bottom of this/ Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta gotta get, gotta gotta get, gotta get / Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta gotta get, gotta gotta get, gotta get / Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta gotta get, gotta gotta get, gotta get / Gotta get to the bottom of this / If it kills me

An excerpt from a wikipedia article about the law of holes: The second law of holes is commonly known as: "when you stop digging, you are still in a hole."

A photograph of a deep round hole. There’s a ladder going down into it and the bottom of the hole isn’t visible.

An excerpt from the transcript of episode 88 of The Magnus Archives: It was very strange. It was just the one word, solid capital letters in a small, neat typeface at the very centre of the page. It said ‘DIG’. I took that to be the title, and turned to the next page. ‘DIG’. Exactly the same. The third page. ‘DIG’. The fourth page. ‘DIG’. Dig, dig, dig, dig.

A lyrics excerpt from ‘Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!’ by Will Wood and The Tapeworms: Looking down I could say heaven sent me / Hand me my shovel, I’m going in!

/end ID]

[‘Law of Holes’ - Wikipedia, ‘The Song with Five Names, a​.​k​.​a. Soapbox Tao, a​.​k​.​a. Checkmate Atheists! a​.​k​.​a. Neospace Government, a​.​k​.​a. You Can Never Know’ - Will Wood and the Tapeworms, ‘Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!’ - Will Wood and the Tapeworms, MAG 88 ‘Dig’ - The Magnus Archives]

#web weaving #web weave #the buried #the magnus archives #will wood #paralells #spilled thoughts #horror #anyways- I’ve been kinda deeply obsessed about how academic and philosophical obsessions can lead to self destruction #in the form of overthinking and over analysis #never done web weaving before but I really enjoyed this!! #(this is deeply inspired by ‘Self Ish’ by will wood if you couldn’t tell) #I also had a really nice hamlet quote I wanted in this but alas the picture limit #(That and an amazing devil lyrics) #but also don’t take this too seriously #it’s more of a musing than anything actually ‘artistic’ #more of a macaroni and paint collage than a poem yk? #all the photos are just stockphotos I’ve edited slightly btw #Maria’s stuff #mariacore #cw claustrophobia #tw claustrophobia #tw death #tw self destructive behavior #tw self sabotage #let me know if I should tag anything else! #image described #(God I hope it was the right choice to add all the hand me my shovel lyrics)

[storybookprincess]

a tendency i’ve noticed in myself, and one i really try to fight against, is the inclination to treat feelings as emergencies

what i mean by that is that when i find myself in a moment of sadness or anxiety or overwhelm, my knee jerk response is to go “how can i fix this?? how can i make this better?? maybe a cup of tea will help?? or should i call a friend?? do i want to take a bath??” & perhaps i’ve just been acceptance & commitment therapied within an inch of my life, but i don’t think that’s always the most useful response to moments of distress

i mean, feeling down sometimes is just a part of life, and, in my opinion, a necessary and important part of life. and for me, oftentimes just saying, “yep, this is part of the human condition. our wide ranging emotions are a gift, but the that gift does mean that we feel like shit sometimes” is a much more useful response in the long run than running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to stop experiencing a particular emotion

like i’m never going to live a life free from suffering & honestly i don’t think i’d even want to??

#liv speaks #philosophical musings that no one asked for let’s goooooo!!!!! #if that doesn’t apply to you cool pls notice the first person pronouns used in this post!!!!!!!