Philosophy - Blog Posts
There are 3 things I want :
1. Peace of mind
2. A chance to experience free will
3. A glass of cold milk
Many times people treat enlightenment like a concrete state. Like once they reach it they are above the world, impervious to it. Unaffected by change and time.
But its quite the opposite. Those who are truly in tune with the earth find that change us the only constant. They move with the tide. Sway with the breeze. Grow with the trees.
To reach your most natural state is to be in tune with what is inside you as you are with what is around you. To cut away your earthly ties only brings you farther from the mother.
To be connected with the ever raging fire of your soul is as important as being swept away in the tides of time. Always present, ever in motion.
I was talking with a friend about all the absolutely raw quotes on Tumblr and the random places they come from, like that one post with the mushrooms that says “you can’t kill me in any way that matters”. This brought up the philosophical discussions that turn into nonsense and back again yet keep making some semblance of sense the whole time so you love it and you hate it, the silly things that turn deep and philosophical, and the logical/illogical logic chains that refer to or resemble Diogenes’ “behold a man” moment.
Anyway, Tumblr is the lunatic’s philosophy sandbox.
hello ✨
*insert aesthetic first post*
Do you ever wonder why? Why are you alive? How did you get here? Where does your soul go? Out of all the minuscule atoms in the universe, what about them made the earth we know it today?
anyways, those are just random philosophical questions. Answer them. You might find the answer to the universe… the meaning of your life… your true aspirations…
it’s 3 am and I still need to finish my reading hw of 50 pages on the count of monte cristo …
farewell ✨✨✨
“From the bottom of my heart, what the fuck is going on." - hikaru hisashi (https://archiveofourown.org/works/56392750 , Berylt)
My Philosophy questions are really weird.
1. What is it like to be a chatbot?
2. What is it like to be a human?
3. What is it like to be a bat?
My answers:
1. Ones and zeros.
01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01101000 01100001 01110100 01100010 01101111 01110100
2. Troublesome. "Even in my own life, I don't wanna be the main character." -Tanaka-kun.
3. I want to be bat. Bats are cool^^
"Delve into the shadows of sadness, shine a light to find truth." - me lol
"There are no laws, only limits." - My philosophical brain
Wait i just realized how wrong this sounds. I don't mean break the law i mean you shouldn't think something is impossible because it's never been done before.
Uh basically bees. Bees fly though they shouldn't be able to, basically that.
watching pole vault instead of revising for my upcoming philosophy test like the heathen i am
currently me studying a philosophy text for a graded homework.
the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating
brb guys, gonna invent some festivals of atonement, maybe some sacred games too…
there is no permanent state of self. this idea has been around for thousands of years, it's one of the fundamental philosophies in Buddhism. but that doesn't mean there is no identity. on the contrary, it means who you are at this very point in space in time IS your identity, even if you've never been that person before and you never will again. Who you are in this moment in time is just as much a part of your identity as any other, even if it's only here for a short while. all that to say, it's not a phase mom
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
But I read this fantastic article that pretty much said the opposite, so I'm torn between a 19th century gay romantic or a Scottish philosopher.
𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓹𝓮 𝓓𝓲𝓮𝓶🕯
who ever said humanities and social sciences was easy and is for underachievers, I am gonna hit u in the neck
if you think about it, all religions and philosophies are basically elaborate fanfictions about the OG Creator and the creation story.
some are canon-compliant. some are wildly canon divergent. some are fix-it fics trying to rewrite “what went wrong.” some are fluff. some are angst. some are smut. some are full-blown parallel universes with different worldbuilding rules. some are written in metaphor and poetry (10k words of mystic pining). some are just meta commentary in disguise.
you’ve got -
canon-divergent AUs
crossover fics (syncretic religions mashing up pantheons like nobody’s business)
intense ship wars (wars have literally been fought over theology)
mystic fluff (divine love as the ultimate soulmate trope)
smutfic level intimacy (let’s not offend anyone but believe me there are some hardcore shit out there)
philosophy as fan essays debating the creator’s intent
crackfic cults that somehow still have a niche following
humanity’s been adding chapters to the same sprawling multi-universe fanfiction for thousands of years, and honestly? some of the worldbuilding is insane in the best way.
P.S just like the other canons, nobody is interested in this canon.
What is it when. There is no purpose in the universe and for its irrationality. And that is comforting in the sense that. All that i have done is me and me alone. When you realize god means nothing, pride is the only thing i could feel. Psychology side of tumblr. Philosophy side of tumblr. What
Who would you think would win five Disneyland employees or three Universal ones in a death throw down in like a field, one one hand Disneyland employees deal with a lot of hassle and crazy shit on top of their souls being owned by Disney, and on the other hand Universal employees are encouraged to keep the crazy but contained, they contain the crazy to a certain extent, shit is wild at night. So idk but I definitely feel that at least two Disneyland park employees would die first. Also a lot of Universal employees are on something, so there's that to consider.
Hello kitty girly? Nay, Garfield cunt.
I recently had an epiphany about the nature of adulthood. It's kind of like an oak tree.
In botany, the term "tree" does not describe a type of plant. In fact, many different plant groups have evolved into "trees". The term "tree" is a description of a shape/lifestyle that plants can take so you wouldn't really call a freshly sprouted acorn a tree yet. It is a sapling. I think adulthood is similar but kind of the opposite.
Adulthood is not a description of shape but a description of behavior. I have seen many adults who still acted quite childishly and many supposed children who act very adult-like. And no I am not meaning adults who have fun or otherwise don't fit society's arbitrary description of adult behavior.
To better define it, adult behaviors are ones that are motivated by an understanding of the existence of self, and an understanding of the existence of others.
Adults understand that they, themselves, do exist. They understand that they can perform actions that will change their environment. They know that those actions will have consequences. They know that those consequences will, in turn, impact themselves. I have seen many adult-shaped people who did not understand this and thus acted as though they were not under the effect of their own actions, which is untrue. I have also seen many adult-shaped people who acted as though they could not perform any actions to cause a change in their environment which is untrue. Both of these behaviors are very childish.
But to clarify, I am not talking about people who are struggling. I am not talking about people who don't know what to do. I am not talking about people who are trapped in terrible situations with little chance of escaping without outside help. I am saying that if you are asking questions like "What will I do?" or "What am I doing?" or "How will I get out of this?", then, by those very questions, you are displaying one-half of the mentality that proves that you are an adult.
The other half is the understanding of the existence of other people. Other people exist, and on the surface, many adult-shaped people will claim to understand this, but they don't understand it. They know it, and they hate it. They disregard or don't understand the fact that other people exist and are just like themselves. They are people who can affect their world and cause change, who have their own view of the world and feel things just like everyone else.
It is the combination of these lines of thought that leads to more adultlike thinking. Such complex thoughts like "If other people exist and are as unique as I am, then I have probably felt things that other people haven't felt, and other people have felt things that I could never understand. Both of these things co-exist and are both okay. Experiences that I don't understand are still valid." This kind of thinking is what makes you an adult. If you cannot think like this then you are not an adult, but an adult-shaped child.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
Critique away.
fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach
I just had a realization. If we all have consumed our mothers breast milk at some point in our life, then it means that nobody has ever been vegan from birth. Since humans are also considered animals.
I feel like my brain just got heavier.
Hey guys I want to get into more into Philosophy and I’m wondering if y’all have any pieces of media that I could read/watch to get educated in it! Thank you!!!
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."