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Navigating Life's Cosmic Carnival: Stoicism, Existentialism, and the Meaning of Existence
Navigating Life's Cosmic Carnival: Stoicism, Existentialism, and the Meaning of Existence #Philosophy #Existentialism #Stoicism #MeaningOfLife #Resilience #CosmicCarnival #AncientWisdom #ExistentialInsights #PhilosophicalJourney #HumanExperience
Embark on a philosophical journey through the cosmic carnival of existence, where the “Stoic Steed” and the “Existentialist Mare” beckon as metaphors for ancient wisdom and modern contemplation. Imagine a grand carousel of ideas, each horse representing a school of thought, carrying you through the landscapes of resilience, virtue, existential angst, and the pursuit of meaning. As we explore the…
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—Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
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I’d need to watch it again to confirm this, but I’m pretty sure that Thomas Becket is the only character who independently initiates touch with Henry?
There are plenty of people whom Henry touches, and it’s almost always possessive or threatening: the villager woman in the first flashback scene, the Saxon peasant girl (and possibly the old man? I think he prods at both of them with his riding crop), Gwendolen (holding her shoulders/neck), the French prostitute (kissing, leaning over, sitting on, slapping her butt), his sons (pushing and kicking them), the bishop (strangling), his barons (clutching onto one, tapping one’s head to indicate his vapidness), and Thomas too—(clasping his shoulders when he realizes Thomas is hurt, holding his hand to put on the chancellor ring).
Interestingly, I don’t think we ever see Henry touch or be touched by his mother or his wife. There’s the moment when he grabs/kicks their needlework, and later on he knocks all the plates off the table, possibly vaguely in their direction—so there are two physical interactions which are violent but still sort of… distant? And still the direction is just Henry to them (in terms of physicality, anyway—verbally, they do initiate conversations/fights with him).
Does anyone touch Henry? There are the monks who whip him in the end, but Henry has ordered them to do it. Likewise, there’s the servant/valet/page who begins to wipe him dry in the bath scene, but again, that’s someone performing a duty. Thomas Becket though, cuts in and takes over the drying, and the dialogue tells us explicitly that he’s not expected to do this, and doesn’t have to (“You’re a nobleman—why do you play at being my valet?”) but Becket seemingly wants to do it, and he knows Henry likes how he does it: enthusiastically, confidently, warmly, and freely (“No one does it like you, Thomas”). He towels Henry’s head, helps Henry put on his boots, and then casually uses Henry’s legs to push himself up to stand.
There’s the scene in Henry’s tent, after the French prostitute has left and the two of them are sitting on the bed: Becket sort of leans in and briefly clasps Henry’s arm where it’s lying in his lap, casually and warmly.
There’s also the getaway horse ride, where Becket is holding onto Henry, arms wrapped around him, and they’re both laughing and smiling. Henry’s shirt actually falls open a little and Becket’s hand winds up on his bare torso.
And then there are the thwarted attempts at touch, after the split: the two scenes where Henry accuses Becket of not loving him. Both times, Becket moves toward Henry and reaches out to touch him, and both times, Henry moves away and tells him to keep his distance.
They’re quick little things, but if they are actually the only instances of anyone touching Henry affectionately (or even of their own volition) that we see over the course of the movie, it does support an impression of Henry as fundamentally isolated—maybe there is truth to his claim that Becket is the only person who’s ever loved him.
What’s tragic is that 1) Henry doesn’t really know how to express love himself (see: Henry expressing nothing but violence and entitlement to everyone else around him, and even to Becket for the most part), and 2) Becket’s love, albeit huge in Henry’s world, is conflicted and unfulfilling—for both of them.
Becket might be the only person who’s dared to reach out to Henry and meet him on something close to a human level, and Henry loves him for it, but why does Becket do it? Part of it may just be an instinct of Becket’s to fulfill a need where he sees one, if he can, and if it benefits him. I think it’s so interesting that Henry seems obsessed with the question of whether Thomas really loves him, when it seems the truth might be that Thomas actually doesn’t know; maybe it’s an unanswerable, even nonsensical question to him. Like, what else could he do? I don’t know. “Insofar as I was capable of love, yes I did [love you].” But the fact that his last words, unwitnessed and private, are, “Poor Henry.” Fuck me up.
Ok, that last paragraph got away from me and now I can’t stop. Tempted to draw comparisons to “Beauty and the Beast” (this is a sad version where no magical transformation happens… unless you take a particular Catholic stance and consider that both of them maybe took real solace and meaning in Thomas being made a saint and that Henry maybe found real absolution through his penance).
I also want to compare all of this to “The Lion in Winter”, where it feels like, rather than a story about one lonely monster in a castle full of people he sees as objects, it’s a whole microcosm of traumatized and power-hungry people, reaching out for power and security and love and stabbing each other in the back, over and over. (Like, of course his mother and wife and kids have complex feelings for him—some of which involve love!) I think that depiction is better and less myopic, more true to life and probably a more accurate portrait of the historical figures involved (even when it comes to Henry and Becket—Becket was of that world too, after all), but I think I’ve rambled enough about all of this, so I’m going to end this post now. I’ll just say that there’s something nevertheless appealing about the boiled-down fairytale melodrama of “no one else ever loved me but you!”
#this entire post (tag ramble and all) was in my Drafts for like 3 months. it’s a lot of words that don’t say much but I’m setting it free ->#and now a new epiphany#henry is just the fucking phantom of the opera again isn’t he lmao#the original blorbo#(for me I mean)#which makes thomas christine and god… is raoul.. :/#maybe it’s a hot take to call becket a simple fairytale melodrama lol#it has its complexities… there’s… spirituality and politics#(although idk if the film is actually that interested in the matter of the separation of church vs state)#there’s the entire thing about oppressive hierarchal social structures and whether love is possible within such a structure#and if it’s not possible to escape and not possible to love in it then is love even a meaningful concept? is this becket’s issue?#in the dvd commentary peter otoole was so unconcerned with / unaware of a marxist and feminist reading of it that I was baffled#and had to realize that I was seeing that by default but that it’s not like. actually the default or Correct meaning#the co-commentator tries to go down that direction talking about Henry’s mistreatment of Becket and Gwendolen#and then he asks otoole if he thought that was reading into it too much and otoole is like ‘yes lol’ so .#his take seemed almost existentialist? like the tragedy of henry and thomas is that they are bound to different Roles in the world#and that they simply couldn’t be otherwise even though parts of them wanted it to be different#because they’ve chosen different paths different meaning to fulfill (but are aligned in a way by becket’s death/ascension)#and that is definitely a huge aspect of it#becket’s line: ‘we must do—absurdly—what we have been given to do’#hmm#anyway clearly I’m fucking insane now so#have this I guess . or don’t lol. goodnight#I’m giving myself a d+ for this tumblr.com paper#becket#peter o’toole as henry ii cinematic universe
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how i perceive skk and their philosophical beliefs, particularly existentialism and absurdism
in my opinion, dazai's an existentialist. his character explores around the concept of finding meaning in life bcs he has no idea what's the point of it all. is there even value in the act of living? or is it just a foolish desire human beings have?
we all know dazai struggles with human emotions and has a constant conflict with his own identity
and yet, dazai constantly makes his choices in order to seek meaning (ex. staying in the mafia for a period of time, joining the ada, saving people, etc.)
the thing is, he WANTS to learn what it means to be human; wants to understand and find the value of life
as for chuuya, i believe he's an absurdist.
chuuya's journey is simply—for lack of a better word—ridiculous.
he has faced many absurd challenges in his life, yet managed to turn his life around through sheer force of will (mind you), and continues to live through it all with a devoted passion towards maintaining his relationship with humanity
like dazai, chuuya also struggles feeling human. at his worse moments, he feels like a weapon only wielded for war
despite that, chuuya continues living and commits himself to the people around him as an act of defiance in my opinion
yes, the conditions of his life is inane. laughable. maybe even pointless. but does it matter?
he doesn't particularly care abt the greater value of life or actively search for the meaning behind it, since he has already lived his entire life accepting its madness
he does and will constantly choose to live in spite of his conditions bcs he refuses to give in to the notion that he's not human and therefore shouldn't even cease to exist
in the end, chuuya rejects the promise of death and the power of destruction he's clearly capable of in order to stay in touch with his humanity—no matter how absurd his life is
#soukoku#skk#bsd#chuuya nakahara#dazai osamu#bungou stray dogs#philosophy#existentialism#absurdism#existentialist#absurdist#bsd chuuya#bsd dazai#its 3am#3am thoughts#3am things#personal nonsense
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i feel the cigarette smoke pass my lungs,
its taste on my tongue,
oh it's just like you,
injurious to health.
- madhira
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bad wolf soda <3
#level of obsession reached where i zoom in on screenshots to see what shes reading#p sure that says kierkegaard in white but thats as far as im getting#'first existentialist philosopher'#okay i really gotta find out what the fuck existentialism really means now bc carmilla seems to like it#'related to the meaning purpose and value of human existence.#Common concepts in existentialist thought include existential crisis dread#and anxiety in the face of an absurd world and free will as well as authenticity courage and virtue.'#SCREAM OKAY I SEE I SEE#kierkegaard beauvoir sartre nietzsche camus yep p sure those all get mentioned#okay this is fun#kierkegaard was like an existentialist before the word and hes from the first half of the 19th century#dont know if you can call vampires contemporaries of people bc....immortal. but carmilla was a contemporary of him#technically#and then when existentialism gets named halfway the 20th century carmilla has just escaped her blood coffin punishment#and so shes alone for a little bit without direction. perhaps free or perhaps waiting for mother to show up again#it's fun that existentialism seems sort of to be abt there being a choice abt who you want to be#that youre not defined by an essence. that What You Are is not defined pre what you do#so you can shape yourself#it's interesting the tension between that belief and the position carmilla is in. no wonder theres self-loathing#but also! she starts resisting the What She Is that is imposed on her. after 1945. starts sabotaging plans#i gotta go download some books#'ive got a talk i wanna catch on goethe' hang on im googling#1749-1832 she lived through that too#oh right faust and young werther i know of those#'Goethe admitted that he 'shot his hero to save himself' a reference to Goethe's near-suicidal obsession for a young woman a passion he que#relatable#god theres so much to read in the world and i have not read any of it#carmillaposting#i wonder what she'd write her dissertation about
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Overthinking should probably be a separate branch of art or subject under psychology, philosophy or literature. Because we become more stressed when we think over smth and it's not accepted by ppl (a feeling of being unfit in the society). We are afraid that it is abnormal. Bro! Even great existentialists of the 19th century faced this unrecognised condition. But see now, they'll be proud of themselves and their ideas in heaven.
#me thinkies#thoughts#art#psychology#philosophy#social acceptance#existentialists#overthinking#tumblr girls#writers on tumblr
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✨just sister things✨
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Finally got my hair cut and I feel like a different (better) person, so you'll have to suffer my badly lit selfie and grey skin undertone.
And the mug is just pretty, that's it that's the reason.
#If you thought 'wow the vibe is just like a 60s French existentialist movie about a lesbian artist/teacher' then congrats#That's precisely the vibe I'm aiming for#Giuro che mi sforzo di non sembrare arrabbiata nelle foto btw#Useless things
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grasp
#dark surrealism#surrealism#surrealcore#dark surreal art#surreal#existentialism#existentialistic#horror art#abstracart#yearning#mlm yearning#mlm thoughts#contemporary art#contrast#weird art
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✨Worldly✨ an experiment. Not perfect but good enough
This is a replica of painting I started yesterday however approached illustratively. A follower on TikTok had commented about being curious about how one of the Unremitting series would look illustrated, (yes, I do read comments & interact with people) which I had considered but dismissed because my painting style is different than my illustration style. I also doubted I could render it properly the first time, so it would feel like a fail to me, however a stepping stone to improvement. Though my personality is surprisingly all or nothing so it’s like: is this a path I should pretend to dabble in? Because I’m really like: I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. (Mae West) oops it’s a habit & I’m addicted & it’s integral to me now.
But… I don’t feel like the same person everyday so I was like why’d I dismiss that without trying? So, here it is.
Just my inner monologue/ramble. I’ll post the painting tomorrow if things go as planned ✨
#my art#poc artist#art#artist on tumblr#marker illustration#expressionism#expressionist art#soft angst#existentialist art#existential angst#pantheism#artist#art thoughts
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“To talk about real life, they have conjured nascent assumptions about me and have told captivating lies solely, I suppose, because they have neither time nor great will to seek an understanding of me within themselves. They believe and nearly ascertain to themselves in a conceited manner that I have passed, although I have simply torn off my mask. But, is it righteous to blame them for wanting security? What would convince a happy, strictly practical man to stand on the tip of a cliff—and not to merely tower over it, but to jump into the abyss that gradually and gravely shows him an arranged accumulation of silent, convulsing uncertainty and crackling unease, reminding him he is all alone, that for the time being he must listen to his heart throbbing and his teeth jittering at the approaching gloom as his eyes descend its hollow pipe?”
—An excerpt from my unfinished book; Ma Lumiére
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#ok. going to bed soon BUT. some final thoughts#gonna be writing most of tmr because i want 36 done THIS WEEK i am as done with long chapter wait times as yall are. if not more#whole thing is oulined it just needs to exist and umm considering the next 1-3 weeks will be some of the most stressful in my life#i need a distraction!!! thank you tpg#but unrelated. to anyonewho also watches mandalorian who follows me.#i need to write a oneshot exploring existentialist and mortality themes. i need to#because umm just saying grogu is going to outlive his found family father by 800+ years#all of which will be spent without him...nothing left but memories. how do you deal with that#'we all love things knowing we will lose them someday.' Ok#i'll do it when s3 rolls around in march#anyway#uraume pic because im love them & thinking very hard lately about the only established relationship in tpg#GOOD NIGHT#tpg
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and if I don't suffer, what will become of me?
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Hunting Season
The tick of a clock is silver.
The tick of a clock is gold.
The tick of that clock is new, but
The tick of a clock is old.
When I want to wind down,
The tick of a clock speeds up.
It's the vested, carried hunter,
While I'm the flightless duck.
#poetry#poem#poets on tumblr#poetsofinstagram#spilled poetry#spilled ink#spilled words#poets#spilled thoughts#writer#hunting#existential#existentialism#existentialistic#time#clock#tick tock#tick tick tick#read aloud#thanks for reading#really good poetry#good poetry
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okay yes to both but not because of like indoctrination but through living and learning and discussing and coming to the same conclusions mutually but separately and I think that's worth noting
#growing up my mom was a weird mix of conservative religious and liberal hippie and always taught me to ask my own questions#so now we have Deep Thoughts that we discuss regularly#and I think the main differences are that she's an existentialist and I'm a nihilist#and she still believes in God and I believe in me but our views on what impact that has is the same
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