thephilosophah

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getting murdered but it's so traumatic i repress the memory and only actually die years later during hypnotherapy

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Looking to get into philosophy does anyone have any thoughts for beginners?

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superman is just such a perfect character concept. what if the nicest guy in the entire world could eat guns

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They're researchers. The past came back to haunt them. They're schoolteachers. They've got firsthand experience to everything they teach. They're cryptids. They're perfectly average hylians. They're heroes. They didn't ask to be. They're reincarnated legends. No one's heard of them. They're a princess and loyal knight. There's no kingdom left. They're champions. They lost. They're over a hundred years old. They're just kids.

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pokemon is extremely underrated in terms of how good its cartoon bugs are. in this awful age of fleshy human faces on cartoon bugs pokemon is the last bastion of hope

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And this here is what we in the writing industry call "a display of hubris that may or may not have karmic consequences but is very, very fun".

[ID: a screenshot of white text on a black background reading "All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The sole exception for the ocean, the ocean is The Pacific Ocean from real life. If it is unhappy with its portrayal it can settle the matter personally." /end ID]

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I was thinking about how ‘Grinch’ and ‘Scrooge’ are words for people who hate Christmas but aren’t exact synonyms and then this chart happened.

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unfortunately, the final Epic livestream getting cancelled because the cast decided to go to Ithaca together only to face nonstop disasters including a crazy bad storm is the funniest possible way this could have ended

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I absolutely think adults, especially parents, ascribe manipulative intent to children when they shouldn't and it's absolutely a problem but it's always kind of funny to me when people go online and proclaim that children are incapable of manipulation. When I was three I asked my mom to get my older sibling their favorite candy bar at the grocery story because I knew she'd get me mine too as a reward for being thoughtful and that was way more likely to succeed than if I just asked for a candy bar for me. And it worked. Children scheme at a developmentally appropriate level the trick is not assuming children scheme at an adult level.

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i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

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saddest thing ever is seeing new 18-22 year olds talk about how Christmas doesn't feel magical anymore during their transition from it being a super special day of the year to kinda just another average day of the year. I remember that feeling well, and I just want to say to those young people specifically: if you want the magic back you have to create it yourself now, the way you want to. it's your magic now

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i found the perfect display for my 100,000+ year old shrimp fossil

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when there’s an old photograph, AND the guy in it is really old, it’s like, wow, that guy is super old

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“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

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she franken on my stein til i 'hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.'

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Kringle's Conundrum 🎅