#philosophy I guess

[unyandere]

Alrighty so I’m kinda in the mood for writing BUUUUUUUT… idk what to write first so you must vote!

[crustacean-man]

What I find interesting about the symbolism in the story of Slay The Princess

SPOILERS AHEAD

The Shifting Mound is shown as a Princess since she embodies Change, the kingdom of Men, of Mortality and Impermanence, thereby choosing a piece of our culture that we (mostly) made up and will likely be lost to time. That of a traditional Monarchy, of princesses and princes, kings and queens.

Or chosen because the office of Princess is not subject to change but the person who inhabits it is. The Queen dies and her heir takes the throne and her daughter becomes the new princess and so on and so forth. the shifting mound is a living blob of infinite possibilities, infinite stories to tell, of love, of sorrow, rage and calm, war and peace. Life and Death.

The Long Quiet represents the kingdom of God(s). Unchanging, Immortal, imperceptible and abstract, taking the form of a bird with wings that stretch forever as reference to Biblical Angels or, more likely as reference to Cosmic Horror. Of beasts beyond human comprehension, everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. The name in and of itself has meaning in regards to the Universe itself. If Heat Death is achieved, there will be nothing at all for nearly a nearly infinite amount of time, that is, to put it simply, incalculable. The nothing is nearly permanent. A Long Quiet, to put it simply. It is Forever and Forever is It.

I’ve been thinking about this for the past 2 days. Food for thought. 🫤

[beesvines]

Instead of leaving my head and my heart on the dance floor I left my last ounce of sanity inbetween Plato’s forms

[hurgablurg]

@hairdryerbath

The heat death of the universe implies such entropy that all heat, all energy, anything that affects physics and time and space disappears by cooling. This alone can't affect matter because even in the vast void, a clump of matter can orbit or float or attract to other remnant matter and either collide, causing heat and energy even in a minuscule amount, or clump enough together over time to form another star or pinpoint of contracting mass and thus energy, which given enough time could continue amassing as such to form a new Big Bang, starting it all over again.

The total loss of energy would also require all matter to somehow denature in the cold and be reduced to base atoms, which would then also need to decay to nothing. I am not sure if this is possible, so correct me if I am wrong, but I think that's why we measure elemental lifespans in half-lives - we can observe fractional decay, in continually smaller amounts, long past the point of usefulness or notability, but not in it's entirety.

If an immortal person still exists, then there is still matter and energy existing and active, and so the universe is not ended. It would require that immortal person to denature as well, which, under the given definition of immortality, cannot be possible.

If whatever mechanic keeping that immortal person in existence (the replication or utter preservation of matter and energy), and whatever form exists to comprehend that immortality (a soul or consciousness, the prerequisite for true immortality to be undesirable or torturous) can somehow persist past the end of everything, then nothing will ever truly end because that mechanic will still exist - and if that mechanic has such power to preserve, then it can surely either preserve EVERYTHING that qualifies somehow, or perhaps even reignite heat as needed. YOU could even be the immortal match that reignites existence.

If that mechanic CAN'T do any of that, and it is a limited immortality, then you can indeed die or come apart, and likely will before a torturous eternity in the void is a possibility.

And that's all not even considering everything we don't know about how the universe works. Perhaps there IS no heat-death because dark matter or some other unknown factor will always be roiling around cause friction and heat. Maybe there is a god or jinni or higher intelligence and power that presides over that kind of thing.

Immortality then is likely to be more of a long life than anything. Long enough to have fun and love and live and forget and live in a long-enough version of the transitive state we already all live in.

"immortality sucks because all your friends die" all your friends die anyway. those we do not mourn are those who mourn us.

"immortality sucks because you forget who you are" we always forget who we are. do you remember who you were at four years of age? who you were at fourteen? "who i am" is a shadow cast on the wall.

"immortality sucks because" skill issue. skill issue. skill issue. give me your liver

[pollutionorchestera]

the only way to make the world a better place is to dedicate every one of your actions to the best of your ability in both your mind and heart to the help and care for others.

[thedrunkphilosopher]

how do you know if you are having a unique thought? like you have no clue if someone hundreds of years ago already had that same thought, but maybe they just could articulate it or record it in any way that lasted through the years. so now its gone. and you are plagiarizing the thoughts of ancient people.

like, i feel there is no way that i am special in any significant way. so what are the chances that i come up with an original idea? probably very slim right? like in the grand scheme of the universe?

obviously, so in todays essay im going to explain...

[greytoafawlt]

it’s so crazy that we can tell you whether or not something is a human but we can’t actually put rules about what parts of them make them human

[boygirlfag-sael]

Okay but the whole mainstream meme culture being like 90% symptoms of mental illnesses has to say something about gen z. Like I think that’s part of the reason older people don’t find memes funny, because there is a deep rooted in and out group for memes. I think part of it is the mass trauma events of gen z in general, especially older gen z (1997-2002), and younger gen Z (2008-10 who just didn’t develop social skills the same because of the pandemic.

[earhartsease]

the original inspiration for the Marx Brothers was Plato, with his brothers Knifo and Forko

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

Many people have taken one look at this and inmediately leaped to the conclusion that Jedi forbid emotions. Which is, huh… interesting.

What people don't realize is that the Jedi Order are a religious organization, and as such they have their own sacred texts, such as this meditation mantra (because yeah, that's the only time it's ever mentioned, during meditation).

And the trick about this kind of texts is that they're not meant to be taken literally. You're not supposed to take it at face value, you're supposed to think about it, reflect about it, and then interpretate it. I'm sure the average "fan" hasn't actually thought about it beyond "code bad Jedi evil", nevermind that it's not actually the Jedi Code mentioned in the films.

Since it's a meditation mantra, one used to focus to make connecting with the Force easier, it makes perfect sense that this is how you should feel when using the Force.

You shouldn't be overwhelmed with emotions or passions, you shouldn't act if you don't have knowledge. This is obvious: if you can command the essence of life, then maybe you should actually be in the state of mind to do it.

However, the other lines of "no chaos but harmony" and "no death but the Force" don't fit into this. So, what do they mean?

Here is the other version of the Code. It was seen for the first time in the Kanan comics, and is arguably more canon than the previous one.

(People have called it the Gray Jedi Code, which is hilarious in and on itself and another point in favor of the argument that the so called Gray Jedi are just canon Jedi.)

I'm sure everyone can agree that this one is good.

Feel, but find peace in your emotions. Know nothing, but figure it out. Suffer, but look past it to find serenity. Just like there is chaos, there is harmony. And just like there is death, there is the Force.

But what if I told you that both Codes are saying the same thing?

I know, I know. You probably think I'm crazy, but… what if they're saying the same things, in different ways?

To expand on the interpretation that the first one is how you should be when using the Force (and I admit with my whole chest that this is my interpretation), we can say that the Force isn't naturally things like emotion and chaos. They are only what we bring with us.

That doesn't make them any less real. They are, and they are important, but they are subjective experiences. Everyone will have different emotions, different passions, different things they are ignorant of. Even death, even as it will come for everyone, is something private and personal. I don't know what X person felt or thought when they died.

However, things like peace, harmony and the Force are universal.

Chaos (noun): "complete disorder and confusion." "the property of a complex system whose behaviour is so unpredictable as to appear random"

Dictionary definition, bear with me. "Whose behavior is so unpredictable as to appear random". It isn't random, it has patterns and reasons to happen just like everything else. We simply don't know those patterns. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Just because we don't know something doesn't mean we can't learn it. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. Therefore there is no such thing as chaos, not really, just a pattern, an order, a harmony, we don't know yet. First definition is about human reaction, not anything about the object itself. There is no chaos, there is harmony.

Emotion, ignorance, passion, chaos, even death. They are all feelings, subjective experiences, things that, ultimately, can change as you find new understanding (well, death only happens once and is permanent but you get the point). But inner peace, knowledge (about situations, about people's reactions), serenity and harmony are all universal. They exist, and will exist long after we die, we just have to find them.

And, long as we remember people, as we understand that all lives have left a mark, big or small, we will keep those who have passed alive within our hearts.

Death, yet the Force. There is no death, there is the Force. Or, perhaps…

"(The Force)'s an energy field created by all living things" Obi-Wan Kenobi, ANH

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" Yoda, ESB

"No one's ever really gone" Luke Skywalker, TLJ

Death, yet the essence of living beings. There is no death, there is life.

[mareastrorum]

An annoying part about any fandom discourse is the push to categorize characters, populations, and factions as representations of actual groups IRL. The most annoying one (to me) is insistence that a particular group is Indigenous Peoples and the other is the White Settlers.

Like a lot of people in the U.S., I'm mixed race. Many who are mixed race don't identify as such; they pick one or another. Why? Because mixed race identities are systematically ignored or erased on multiple levels of government and political influence: census records, diversity reports, financial aid qualifications, membership in political groups, etc. Choosing one identity alone is rewarded with greater voice and resources in different spheres. Acknowledging that this split isn't real is offensive to groups in power, both for the dominant hegemony of Whites and the coalitions of minority groups. Each group benefits from enforcing this exclusionary practice because it allows specific people to justify their leadership based solely on their heritage: a new aristocracy.

All this fake dichotomy nonsense in fandom is a replication of that mentality. Like, some media like The Terror really, truly are commentary on colonialism. There's no need to hide the ball about it. If your favorite media has nothing to do with conquest, exploitation of land and resources, or the subjugation of populations for the benefit of foreign powers, then it's not about colonialism. There's other themes to explore.

[possamble]

What I love about Dungeon Meshi is that it says “eat, or be eaten,” but not as in “survival of the fittest.” “Eat, or be eaten,” because there is no third choice—every day of your life, one or the other will happen. If you choose not to eat, you will be eaten. Eating is a mandatory part of being alive. The failure to acknowledge this makes you weak, guarantees that you will fail—as seen with Shuro, as seen with Thistle.

“Eat, or be eaten,” because “living things take other lives as sustenance, and no one is exempt.” If you eat—if you are a living thing—you will be eaten one day. Whether it's to literally be killed and eaten for your flesh, or decomposed down to the bone—violently or painlessly, quickly or slowly, you will be eaten and turned into sustenance for other living things. A dead body is always consumed as food, and there is no meaningful distinction between the two. The only way to avoid it is to have never been born at all.

“Eat, or be eaten,” because “eating is a privilege of the living.” And isn’t that incredible? To be a living thing is to have the privilege of eating. To have the ability to eat is a boon, an honour, a birthright. It is the unique, universe-given gift and right of all living things. It is synonymous with being alive—to live is to eat. To eat is to be eaten. We are eaten because we eat, we die because we were born, and the privilege of eating is earned through the inevitability of our deaths. The two cannot be separated. 

“Eat, or be eaten,” because “eating is a privilege of the living” and the reason why a mortal man could topple the personification of infinity—it cannot die, therefore it is not alive, yet it chose to eat. But to eat at all is to become a thing that can be eaten—choosing to take means you will have things taken from you in the same manner. The moment that Laios accepted this—after killing his sister with his own hands—was the moment the Winged Lion had already lost.

Dungeon Meshi is far from the first story to say, “memento mori.” But it takes the inevitability of death—a concept too distant and philosophical to grip the average person—and reframes it within the act of eating. Makes it visceral by using a universal part of daily life, a routine that every living thing is intimately familiar with. 

“Remember that you will die,” it says, but furthermore, “remember that your future death is a prerequisite for the food you are able to eat now—remember that other things die so that you can eat, remember that you will die to feed something else, and that there is no other alternative. There is no way to stop this. To take is to have things taken from you. To eat is to be eaten one day. There is nothing kind or cruel about this—it just is, and you must be the one to understand it and bring meaning to your own existence.

In light of all this, why wouldn't you choose to live as deliciously as possible?”

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

yknow what whatever have some beauty mark boys

[hhhhleb]

inspired by The Rebel by Albert Camus (just an excuse to draw Sci :D)

[jingerpi]

i think this is fairly sensible because the reason we care about people's thoughts from a "moral" perspective is because they influence their actions later. the consequences in the short term might be the same in the situation above, but long term the person who faced adversity and continued to act well is more trustworthy and dependable than the other, because we have no evidence that they will not cave the moment they're put in a particularly bad situation. It's if an unorthodox way of looking at things from what I've seen but I think it's possible to have a consequentialist or even utilitarian model of morality and still care about people's thoughts and mental states, etc...

if i my framework of morality was not strictly consequentialist i would say you are more virtuous if you are tempted to evil but act good than a person who does the same stuff but just bc they want to and they never have the urge to do otherwise. basically. demonstrates a strength of character and saintlike determination to uphold moral truth

[yellowocaballero]

what manhwa have you been reading? I've currently been on a very shitty romance isekai villainess kick lmao

I grasp your hands. Another pig in the trough of manwha. I'm not a huge villainess person, but obviously I have read a shitton of it. I read so much awful manwha, but the good is SO good. Everybody knows that SSS Class Suicide Hunter is perfection, but I feel like The Ember Knight is fucking incredible and not discussed as much! Everybody read The Ember Knight (if you like action)! It's incredible!

I just finished Concubine Walkthrough, which was AMAZING. So good! What a great usage of the premise! Chinese period piece concubine drama (a whole genre.) + 'player gets trapped in an MMORPG' flavor isekai + being ACTUALLY science fiction and extremely interested in the science fiction aspects of virtual reality. I refuse to read those gamer MMORPG manwhas because they're terrible, but Concubine Walkthrough is what you always wish those stories were like.

I also just read through My In-Laws Are Obsessed With Me, which sounds like it should be uninteresting but it is shockingly extremely good. Very good character work, extremely slow and realistic buildup of the importance of the FL in the family, great politics/character dynamics, and the slowburn romance is even really good. Just overall extremely good writing and it was an extremely good read.

I've also been reading Until The Tragic Male Lead Walks Again, which is incredibly fun and funny through virtue of himbo buff FL and sweet and sensitive ML. The ML is disabled as well, which is also always great to see, although it still has that strange character note that's identical to Touch My Brother and You're Dead and associates a man gaining a disability as losing masculinity and blah blah blah woke brain off. I also really enjoyed Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, which does a difficult thing and makes the OP hero story actually very enjoyable. I also re-read/caught up on Lead Me Kidnap The Male Lead! which is VERY fun 100/10 recommend. Also like a lot of other stuff but those are the ones I would recommend.

Always taking manwha recs so if you got any I will definitely check them out :3.