#philosophical bullshit

[lotusblue234]

It's been weeks, and I'm still genuinely tweaking about that quote from Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, where Yoda tells Dooku that

"Yoda teaches like drunkards drink. Like killers kill."

Or something very like that, I didn't get the book to make it verbatim. But like. Damn. Like. DAMN!!! Not only is that so informative about Yoda's character, that's so fucking REAL.

I'm obsessed with this idea that people do things- good things, bad things, weird or neutral things- for the same reasons drunkards drink. Because they feel like they have to stay alive. Because they're addicted. Because the world is too much to face if they don't. Because it makes all the pain seem bearable.

Yoda teaches because he feels like he has to in order to continue facing the universe. He's addicted to being the teacher...

[theunamedauthor]

To the people who voted at this time, I ask but this simple question: “What does it mean to be a baker?” Is it simply the act of baking culinary goods in an oven, or is there something more?

What does it mean to bake? People in the more arid regions of the world often claim they bake in the sun’s heat, so one might surmise that it is not the product of baking that matters, but the process itself? Following this line of logic, both a tool smith and an alchemist may be considered bakers.

Woodsmen, too, could be considered bakers, as part of the baking process is to prepare ingredients, and we ‘bake’ the wood to heat our homes and fuel our ovens.

Even philosophers such as myself could be considered bakers, as we prepare the ingredients called information, combine them into a fine dough called thoughts, then letting those thoughts bake in our minds, then when finished, we deliver the finished product in the form of knowledge.

[nonjumbledclown]

Sitting cross legged on a bench @ my college...jus livin life...playin a word search app ive used to replace the space my discord was on my phone,, i think this is peak. Socializing is cool but . Maybe its cooler to take breaks between friends so that u can have super cool fun when the time is right,,,do u get what i mean. Either way sometimes life and u and life and u are all u need. Friends are awesome and so are games and everything all in moderation, its easier on paper but i dont think ive ever felt it so literally aside from now. Makes u realize how much u rly aint experiencing when ure still doing the same thing u used to, u jus gotta change it up bro

[ffcrazy15]

There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!

[rainiiis]

He needs a chair and a table methinks

Two chairs : one for me, one for cardboard legolas

And the table is for elven food

the only thing in our new apartment so far

[secret-made-of-secret-sauce]

I think it should be illegal for me to have done my capstone in political philosophy and have ocd i think someone should have warned me my life studies would go. In circles. Forever

[0ccuria]

"I am nothing but a granule in the ever changing sands of time. The particles that bind together to create my physical form are barrowed. Once I've had my use of them, they will find their way to another soul - I can only pray that soul harbors more patience than I when listening to you speak... "

[propalahramota]

I was recommended As Above So Below because it's apparently a fun creepy horror movie set in an original location (Paris catacombs) but I didn't know that it's not a movie for a history buff. I'm 10 min in and so far I've mainly been laughing and saying: "What?" through an awkward smile a lot

[the-anime-man]

FUCK YOU EA FUCK RIGHT OFF!!!

[wastrelwoods]

i say again LET THEM COOK

[rainsoftenings]

can i be honest i never thought the ending scene of monster was supposed to be tenma hallucinating. i thought it was diegetic

[hellincarnation]

Rat backwards is tar and rearranged is art is u who decides what u become😤

I’m a rat

[nayruwu]

i love how shinya in the novels takes the role of a wise old man teaching the mc everything he knows, because most lessons guren is taught in catastrophe, shinya has already learned.

... except he isn't an old man, he's a child.

but he did get the white hair.

[darkfictionjude]

What does being a woman mean to you Jude?

WOW this is a huge and maybe philosophical question

I don’t think breasts, vaginas or children make a woman. I believe it’s something more ephemeral. Something within us, something we’re born with us that allows us every where in the world feel a kinship towards one another, a deep understanding no matter our circumstances, beliefs, orientation and race. It is funnelled through the world we live in that’s against us.

I think that’s why men believe there is some hidden mystery to us, because they don’t understand it, it’s like a unspoken language they were never taught. I guess that’s what I believe being a woman is.

[slutcore-starships]

i cannot BELIEVE godzilla singular point has such a mixed reaction considering this might be one of the hardest shows thats ever existed

[toastling]

Sleepless in New York at 6am, the neighborhood breakfast attempts to express a coherent thought about an incoherent nag of his past ten years