#is this philosophy?

[altar-ov-plagues]

Burn your illusions. Everything is about looks. There is no romance. Sex seems to be the key for everything. Burn all your poetry books. Watch a model becoming victim of an acid attack to her/his face and see how many of those who love them will gradually vanish from their lives.

And burn your utopian political heaven ideals. Some of you who preach about the "good for all" are the same who slack at work and leave more for your fellow comrades. Some of you who preach about common good are some of most untrustworthy and worst people i've ever met.

There are no nazis or communists in the modern days. Just fascists and fascists painted in red trying to impose their ways unto others. The same fascist who tries to justify their ways and calls you a fancy evil name is the same that is responsible for supporting politics that created a few common graves on ukranian soil with body parts of women and children. Apparently some forms of fascism are worst than the others depending on how you paint them, even though they produce the exact same outcome to innocent lives.

Looking at internet comments it seems being anti logic and anti freedom is the new trend. Some of you are so pathetic and don't even have the physical and mental discipline to survive in the same political utopias you support.

So fuck all of you and your groupies. Atheists they say lol you are all just fruits of christianity, denying all factual reality to justify your weakness. Man the fuck up. At least have some integrity to your flesh vessel and accept the creature that you really are. A jealous organism screaming "me!" and "more!".

If we had to create a metaphor, then look at a +36 year old with vans and a fred durst looking hat at hardcore shows still with a teenage mentality beating younger kids on moshpits and coming with ways to justify it. We get it. The beast inside needs release. It is simply as that.

Let's just admit how rotten we really are and stop pretending we care. We are all the same.

[supernutcollectionuniverse]

Call me insane but what if we all have obligations to each other in society and we do owe others things.

[teffiebell]

[sailing-ever-west]

the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

[wild-moss-art]

This is why I read the reddit comments

[correctopinionhaver]

[identitty-dickruption]

t-shirt that reads "BE SUSPICIOUS OF THAT WHICH IS LABELLED AS APOLITICAL" on the front and "NOTICE WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS EXPLICITLY POLITICAL" on the back

[missyourflight]

[honeydewcorporation]

"Thoughts on women?" Yeah pretty much constantly

[its-a-me-dre]

If your argument boils down to "It won't matter when you die"/"It won't matter because we all die"/"It won't matter to whoever unearths your bones", consider this:

It's not the "gotcha" you think it is.

What you're saying is I, and everyone else, should live miserable, plodding lives, never try to achieve anything, never strive to be happy, never embrace our true selves... because we'll die anyway. That contributes nothing to any conversation, it's a detestable argument really, would you like someone to say this to you when you're discussing something dear to you?

"I wanna work on a script and strive become a famous screenwriter"

"Won't matter when you're in the ground"

Replace the screenwriting with something you're passionate about and doesn't that just grind your gears? In no situation is it an intelligent response and in no situation will it be considered and appreciated, it's a way to essentially say nothing while at the same time irritating all who are present while showing you're not trying to understand or contribute to what the other party is saying.

So please, don't think about a grave and a pile of bones, instead, try to understand where the other person is coming from and why what they're talking about is important to them. Heck, why stop there, seek out what's important to YOU, let yourself be passionate, strive for happiness and nurture your dreams.

XOXO

[lenainwonderland]

- Vladimir Nabokov

[mceajc]

Commonality between gender and religion

In the same way that I was brought up as a certain gender, I was brought up in a culture that is steeped in the history of christianity. It has imposed its history and theology on me, though their power is waning. The traditions and ways of thinking linger.

In the same way I don't believe in god - I recognise that there is a nebulous societal understanding of what "god" is, though no-one can come up with a coherent description or set of traits for god - I also don't believe in gender.

Gender, the concept of "man" and "woman", these are concepts being imposed over physical reality that don't - in themselves - have any physical meaning.

If someone tells me that they believe in a particular god - I don't really know what that means.

If someone tells me they are a particular gender - I don't really know what that means.

This could be a failure of understanding on my part. In any case, if someone tells me that they are a man, or a woman, or a christian, or a jew - that's fine. So long as you aren't using some internal logic to oppress or harm others as a consequence, then there's no harm in these flights of fancy - and I know how much it means to belong to a group of people who see the world like you do.

I wonder if any other asexual, agender or atheist folk resonate with this.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

– Oscar Wilde

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[typhlonectes]