#philsophy

[kirkjerk]

Milestone birthday! Fifty seems like an absurd age to be. Over the past few months, I wrote down a lot of ideas I'd most like to share with people, and then I made each into a panel for a comic book. Eventually the things coalesced into 4 categories: personal history, big philosophical idea, advice I'd offer, and then quotes or lyrics I find really meaningful or useful.

#comic #life lessons #fifty #aging #webcomic #quotes #philsophy #personal history

[typhlonectes]

#anti-racist #anti-racism #racism #race #philsophy #politics #antifa #antifascist

[literarydialect]

blog where I show off some old science fiction/fantasy I’ve gotten my hands on and share my personal opinion on them: The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.

a young man receives a thing called a Time Belt from his uncle Jim and uses it to time travel. he meets various versions of himself and even has a little hanky panky with his past self. existential turmoil, mind-bending paradoxes, and questioning of the “self” ensues.

I want to personally call this my absolute favorite piece of science fiction (thus far!). it hit all the right points for me. this has been reviewed as the Ultimate Time Travel Novel and it does not disappoint. a very quick read that can be knocked out in a day and leave with you a sense of lost sense of identity and apathetic existentialism. this book ruined my day in the best way possible.

it is also very queer!

10/10 ⭐️

#science fiction #scifi #discworld #time travel #bookstagram #bookcore #books and reading #reading blog #reading #fantasy #philsophy #existentialism #dark aesthetic #book aesthetic #dark academia #queer #queer books #queer community

[themadgirlslovesong]

I’ve accidentally put off keeping up with my productivity days, despite me actually putting in the work. I’ve had a busy day today, and haven’t had much time to lock down on some serious work—so I channeled that into reading. This morning I started rereading the dark academian bible (The Secret History), followed by continuing my read of Lolita in the afternoon. After work, I borrowed my boss’s copy of his fancy dictionary that I ache to memorize, and finally ended the day with reading a chapter for my philosophy class. Tomorrow morning I’ll wake up early and answer the questions, I’m just too tired to get it in tonight.

#days of productivity #dark acamedia #studyblr #reading #books #philsophy #the secret history #study blog #motivation #university #readingblr #bookblr

[relar-fela]

Terry Pratchetts footnotes get me every time.

#discworld #terry pratchett #physics #philsophy #absurdism #dark akademia #mort #fantasy #footnotes #monarchy

[saintmachina]

Philosophy students are stronger than me. I spend two hours reading theory and I can actually feel fire in my skull threatening to liquefy my brain. I get physically nauseous.

Absolute Truth is an illusion and yet it must exist. All that is certain about humanity is our bottomless cruelty, until all that is certain is our limitless compassion. The highest ultimate good is non duality, and yet without the juxtaposition of opposites there is no matter.

The snake eats its tail. Chickens, eggs. I’m going to throw up.

#I wish I was being hyperbolic here but I am completely serious #sometimes the infinite existential arguments in my brain get so loud I burst into tears #or start sweating #or have to go immediately lie down #and you do this for fun?? for the sake of learning?? #gods strongest soldiers #philsophy #thoughts #dark academia #chaotic academia #light academia

[kafkasapartment]

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a bill of rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

Carl Sagan

#quotes #carl sagan #freedom #responsibility #liberals #liberalism #philsophy #community #anti-fascist #anti-communism #life #hope #dreams #politics

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Look now, this is the starting point of philosophy: the recognition that different people have conflicting opinions, the rejection of mere opinion so that it comes to be viewed with mistrust, an investigation of opinion to determine whether it is rightly held, and the discovery of a standard of judgment, comparable to the balance that we have devised for the determining of weights, or the carpenter's rule for determining whether things are straight or crooked.

ἴδ᾽ ἀρχὴ φιλοσοφίας: αἴσθησις μάχης τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ ζήτησις τοῦ παρ᾽ ὃ γίνεται ἡ μάχη καὶ κατάγνωσις καὶ ἀπιστία πρὸς τὸ ψιλῶς δοκοῦν, ἔρευνα δέ τις περὶ τὸ δοκοῦν εἰ ὀρθῶς δοκεῖ καὶ εὕρεσις κανόνος τινός, οἷον ἐπὶ βαρῶν τὸν ζυγὸν εὕρομεν, οἷον ἐπὶ εὐθέων καὶ στρεβλῶν τὴν στάθμην.

—Epictetus, Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, bk ii, cap xi, sec 13 (108 CE)

[Thank you Robert Scott Horton]

#Robert Scott Horton #Epictetus #quotes #philsophy #opinion #conflicting opinions

[godsspecialprincess]

i made these in ethics im so sorry.

#do you guys get it #its bc kant says that morality is based off of someones goodwill #like the store #but also good will #philsophy #ethics #the good place #kant #immanuel kant

[thequietabsolute]

New book // 31st. Jan. 2024.

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

#thomas mann #the magic mountain #literarture #philsophy #switzerland #🏔️ #my books

[fisarmonical]

#albert camus #pipemen #pipesmoking #smoking pipe #pipes #historic photo #20th century #philosophy #philsophy

[typhlonectes]

Crabs are intelligent, sensitive animals — and some scientists wish we didn't boil them alive

Crabs seem capable of sentience. This makes it difficult to kill them humanely for food.

From the "Little Mermaid" character Sebastian to pet hermit crabs, people think crabs are wonderful — but some experts believe the way we treat crabs is downright barbaric. Like many other decapods (the class that also includes lobsters, shrimp, crayfish and prawns), crabs are a popular food item. It is common to prepare them by dropping them while still alive into a boiling pot, then cracking open their shells to suck or scoop out their tasty inner flesh. Of course, even if humans weren't regularly sending crabs to a boiling death, we have so polluted the oceans that crabs are losing their sense of smell and failing to develop healthy shells. In other cases, literally billions of crabs have disappeared due to climate change. Overall, it seems that humans are much kinder in practice to fictional crabs than to real ones. But scientists supposedly tell us that crabs are nothing more than stupid sea bugs. Is that truly the case? "I think we should separate the question of whether an animal is intelligent from whether they are sentient (i.e., can experience positive and negative feelings)," Dr. Andrew Crump, a lecturer in animal cognition and welfare at Royal Veterinary College, told Salon by email. "Intelligence isn't, on its own, relevant to the question of whether we should care about animal welfare. But sentience is. The human case illustrates this point — we don't think that people with lower IQs are less capable of suffering..."

#animals #nature #animal welfare #science #animal intelligence #crab #crabs #crustacean #seafood #food #philsophy #ethics #cuisine #cooking #vegan #vegetarian

[burntblueberrywaffles]

The thing about philosophy class is that most of these dudes you have to learn about just suck.

"Ohhhh humans only use each other and every relationship is only built on the potential advantages you can get from it" So your heart has never exploded thinking about how much you love your friends?? Sounds like a you problem.

#burntblueberrywaffles #philsophy

[wack-ashimself]

The best philosophical show ever made (that I have seen).

"The good place."

I ain't going to ruin ANY of it (because I watched clips before I got into the show, I KINDA knew what was gonna happen and regret it).

But it literally covers nearly every major philosophical concept. Even tho it is usually more a theme or in the background, you're learning about existence.

I will say SEMI spoilers cuz it covers something I said over....a decade ago(?).

If you stay in hell long enough, it won't be hell.

And if you stay in heaven long enough, it won't be heaven.

But those aren't entirely perfect opposites.

See, I came to the conclusion that if you were in hell, going thru every bad thing imaginable for all time, even if they erased your memories, your SOUL would retain SOME kind of recollection, at least in part. So if you are there long enough (may take millions of years)...you get used to it. Like a callous on your psyche. Eventually nothing they could do would bother you. It'd just be a typical tuesday.

However...on the opposite side of the spectrum, it's actually worse in a way. If you were in heaven, and got everything you could ever imagine (and more) forever....YOU WOULD GET BORED. Eventually, it would turn into your own hell. I mean think about that-everything that could and did make you happy no longer does. NOTHING makes you happy. Kinda like getting too drunk, you got TOO happy. Happiness hangover lol

They do resolve this too. In a way that I actually have thought about (returning to the void/source for peace/rest).

But damn does this show make you think*. And it is FUCKING HILARIOUS too. I did the 'have to pause it cause I'm laughing so hard' laughs. Few comedies can do that regularly. Especially more than once in an episode.

See the show if you haven't yet. ENTIRELY worth the watch. NOT A WASTED EPISODE>can't say that about even some of my favorite shows. Actually thinking out loud...I can not name a show off the top of my head that didn't have 'filler' episodes. Where if the episode NEVER existed, the series still would remain the same.

side note-both this show AND lucifer point to similarities in hell: YOU put yourself there because of your own guilt (known or unknown), and YOU can get yourself out. Lucifer points to this more, but if you pay attention, the good place does it in a lot of ways also.

*ie know the trolley problem? 2 tracks, 5 people on 1 track, 1 on other. Do you switch tracks? THEY ACTUALLY LIVE THIS PROBLEM IN REAL TIME. One of the darkest funniest things ever. And that wasn't even the funniest thing on the show. This is comedy gold. WHOLLY original in almost every way imaginable. We need more shows that take chances like this.

#the good place #lucifer #heaven #hell #philsophy #spoiler #spoiilers

[tle13]

#epictetus #quote #philsophy

[coruscatingdust]

I really do not know how to engage with the world outside of myself. in the realm of my mind—the sacred world of ideas—i feel safe. i can explore my thoughts, organize them, critique them, question them, ask more questions and find more theories and get excited about this process of diving into a terrain of ideological possibilities, insights, and meaning.

the moment I step outside of my mind and interact with the world external to myself, I feel like a fish that has made the leap outside the sanctuary of her ocean. I’m completely out of my element and incapable of breathing. survival is not possible when the world does not have the oxygen that is suited for me. Every time I make a movement outside of myself, I transgress against myself by exposing my ideas to a world that sees them through their preconceived lenses.

Every encounter entails a risk: a risk of someone cutting the cords of my ideas, shooting rifles at the house I have built, by completely misunderstanding and twisting what I said. I think so much of what I say gets lost in translation—translating the contents of the intricacies of my mind the into the simplistic, monistic, and dualistic thought patterns prevailing in the world.

this is what I mean when I say the world does not have the oxygen suited for me. I can not survive in a world that demands me to choose sides, to conform, to stick to one narrative—a world that despises nuance and metaperspective. I am often attacked vehemently for sharing my ideas that try to see the underlying meaning and implications of things because my ideas do not fit into the preconceived notions of where our loyalties ought to lie (to a standard narrative). Many people, by employing the narratives given to them by the groups they identify with, easily see that what I am saying does not align with their narrative and therefore start to drill my ideas until my ideas are splattered all over the floor with ridicule.

and no, I would not call myself an “independent/free thinker” because that category and label too is used by a certain group of people endorsing a specific type of ideological movement and does not evade the problems of lacking in nuance. Besides, who truly is free in their thoughts, completely unsullied by the external world? By refusing to land on an ideological camp constructed by groups of people online, my ideas will never escape misunderstanding and derision.

But I will continue to ask myself: do I need to be understood? or do I need to understand? even those who cannot possibly understand what I am saying, so that rather than joining the war of defense and offense, I continue on in the journey of ideological exploration…of these two options I will gladly choose the latter.

#i am trying though #mine #existential thoughts #ni dom #infj #introverted intuition #philsophy #politics #erin blaire