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A yearn for a tickling. By an angel or fairy. This is the philosophy of love. To tickle or be tickled by.

Warm and smooth. Fierce and passionate.

The zeal must burn brighter than the sun

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2025/01/31
18:00 UTC

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What doth life?

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2025/01/31
14:25 UTC

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My future self is my enemy

When I was a teenager I used to joke that i lived my life by one rule: The future version of myself was my sworn enemy. I thought it was fucking hysterical. Used it to justify all sorts of unhealthy behavior.

Years later...it wasn't the smartest philosophy. 😉

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2025/01/31
03:58 UTC

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Centrists have 14 words but with the status quo instead of racism. 28 words

We must secure the existence of the status quo and a future for children because the beauty of the status quo must not perish from the Earth's Nations.

This is who they are.

Scratch a centrist and an extremist bleeds

3 Comments
2025/01/30
12:34 UTC

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"religious beliefs have been disproven for tens if not hundreds of years. we don't need to be keep doing work that was done before we were even born."

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2025/01/29
15:31 UTC

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Resilient Realism is the path to world peace. Sisyphus said so. He gave me a medal of honor

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2025/01/29
05:16 UTC

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Lacan, edging, busting, and jelking.

Desire: edging: dopamine

Jouissance: busting: oxytocin

Bared subject: jelking/aheagoing subject

Desire and the symbolic order: signifiers enter into the Symbolic Order through route repetition. Desire reifies the signifier.

Jouissance as transgression: busting is an end to repetition, a beginning of some new desire.

Jouissance as the driving force of Desire: the desire of jouissance is the desire for an end to repetition, for a complete order, for an end. A perfect bust. This end is impossible.

Post nut clarity: where one finds themselves after "achieving" jouissance--an end to repitition: see, the French revolution. When faced with the void of desire, the subject quickly invents a new image for jouissance, and proceeds to edge. Nevertheless, this shift in object is, in effect, Real.

Jouissance and capital: capital demands constant desire, constant enjoyment. Jouissance is fully encorperated in capital. As soon as a new thing emmerges [the Real product of jouissance], it is co-opted into the symbolic order, through the name-of-the-father. There is no post-nut clarity under (imagined/ideall) capitalism. The nut is framed through capitalist realism as a "disruption"; post-rationalized as a starting point for some new "paradime shift." Example: the new tech-billionares, having achieved the "nut" of disrupting capital's farce of stability, go on to create the "new" symbolic order to be further disrupted.

Application to neurosis: while the obsessional edges, the hysteric jelks. The obsessional imagines complete joussance, to bust perfectly, but finds himself avoiding the bust, precisely so that he may continue edging.

The hysteric's desire is to be desired by the other, to be recognized as a "true" subject, the source of the nut. Symbolically, they seek to extend their faculty to desire. They seek to posses the phallus, for the sake of the phallus's gaze. We might also see the hysteric in the expression of aheago. In the cross-eyed gaze, the hysteric seeks to pin-point the phallus, to question the phallus. In this questioning, the hysteric presents a lack, which intends to be filled with jouissance, but evades such busting. They wish, in a sense, to facilitate the bust of the other, by extending their edge, pushing the development of the real by demanding joussance: a perfect bust from a genuine phallus, one which may recognize the hysteric as, in themselves, true bust material.

Under capital, it is the hysteric, rather than the obsessional, which is the source of symbolic order. While the obsessional may reinforce this order, they lack the position to elicit busting. If they manage, by sime intervention of the Real, to achieve jouissance, their bust is quickly signified, and reincorperated. The bust of the hysteric, the identification of the subject, never occurs due to alienation. They do, however, warp the signification of other busts. It is the hysteric which points at a bust, and declares disruption. In their imaginary, the capital's busts are a new source of symbolic enjoyment, a further question which demands further busting.

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2025/01/29
00:36 UTC

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Abysmal Aphorisms: Biweekly small posts thread

All throwaway jokes, memes, and bad philosophy up to the length of one tweet (~280 characters) belong here. If they are posted somewhere other than this thread, your a username will be posted to the ban list and you will need to make Tribute to return to being a member of the sub in good standing. This is the water, this is the well. Amen.

Praise the mods if you get banned for they deliver you from the evil that this sub is. You should probably just unsubscribe while you're at it.

Remember no Peterson or Harris shit. We might just ban and immediately unban you if you do that as a punishment.

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2025/01/28
13:35 UTC

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Illusions of freedom : the search for the self in a determined existence

Freedom

  • Freedom is nothing more than an illusion. A man can never truly be free as long as he exists, unless he is wholly ignorant, a state that is unattainable. Even within sacred teachings, humanity is portrayed as bound, a servant beholden to their divine obligations and responsibilities toward their community.

To be truly free would mean liberation from all forms of duty or responsibility, unencumbered by the burden of consequence. In essence, freedom is synonymous with death. In sacred texts, it is equated with the perfection of heaven.

From another perspective, however, such absolute freedom is an open invitation to chaos, a descent into disorder without the structure of accountability or purpose.

  • When a man stands before two choices, he will inevitably select one, rendering the other path nonexistent. In essence, the alternate path holds no reality because we are destined to traverse only the route we ultimately choose.

Self

  • The self cannot be constructed or altered, it must be discovered. Yet, the fundamental question persists: where can one search for the self when freedom remains elusive?

  • The answer is far from simple. We are neither free beings nor do we know where to direct our search. Is this pursuit tied to fate? If freedom is beyond our grasp, could it be that religion offers the guidance we need to uncover our true selves? Or must we seek freedom through ignorance, a path that inevitably descends into chaos?

  • And yet, perhaps chaos is not merely destruction but a ladder, a necessary upheaval that leads us closer to discovering who we truly are.

  • In my perspective, events do not define or shape us; rather, they serve to unveil our true nature. When a man is confronted with two choices, there is only one path he can take. This decision does not transform him but merely reveals who he was always meant to be. We are not free; we are confined. We do not choose who we are, nor do we possess the power to change it, for we lack true control over our thoughts and actions.

  • Thus, we can never fully comprehend our true selves; rather, the path we choose unveils only fragments of our essence.

  • Ultimately, we are not the architects of our thoughts and actions, rather, we are mere observers of our own existence.

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2025/01/27
23:57 UTC

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On The Prospect Of Black Grimes

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2025/01/27
12:45 UTC

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What fallacy is this? How do you defend against it?

There's a dichotomical argument. One side thinks a thing is purple, the other think it is green. One side says "Yellow isn't required to make purple so it must be green". This issue is the other side can equally say "red isn't required to make green so the it must be purple".

Edit: This is an analogy and the point I am focusing on is that party A's dismissal would also dismiss party A's claim. But they use it to discredit party B.

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2025/01/26
15:53 UTC

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Could something be made to exist by defining itself into existence?

Let's say there is an hypothetical real material object with the following essential properties:

  1. It exists absolutely no matter what exactly the way you want it to exist
  2. It exists even if it's existence is disproven
  3. It exists even if it doesn't exist
  4. The object is a real paradox
  5. The object still exists no matter what even if something unknown and/or incomprehensible were to disprove the existence of the object or invalidate the framework of the object itself.
  6. It exists hidden in a realm of impenetrable Incomprehensibility
  7. Part of the object's core identity is such that it creates doubt as to its existence
  8. The object exists even if no one is thinking about it and if language didn't exist.
  9. It's inability to be disproven is the cause of its own existence

Now although it is a fictional object it seems like defining it this way makes it almost seem to exist in a strange way. It's fictional but who's definition is such that it's characteristics don't conflict with reality. Could this object be said to exist or even transcend the dichotomy of existence/non-existence? Can we just create God by definition God as this object?

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2025/01/25
15:44 UTC

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Death anxiety, synthesizing existentialism and psychoanalysis: discussion

I wanted to open a discussion thread on death anxiety by sharing my thoughts on it. To preview, I make a (pretty informal) attempt at situating the unconscious in heidegger's being in time. My reason for doing so, is the belief that the unconsious is fundamentally simular to death in its relation to dasein.

This discussion was originally a comment-response on a therapy subreddit, so I end up framing myself central in the discussion. I should say, I have a tendency to use terms before I fully understand them. Anyways, here's my idea:

Existentialism's solution to death anxiety is to transform/elevate/embrace it. Death anxiety (heidegger would call it being-toward-death) gives our projects meaning, because it defines life's horizon. If life's possibilities are unlimited, there wouldn't be a need for care, or planning, or asking existential questions. In contrast with his authentic subject, "dasein" (literally translates to "here-being"), Heidegger imagines that most people supress their anxiety towards death, and cope by living in a "fallen" state. They follow the projection of the collective (das Man), rather than their own, authentic projects. So he would say being in proximity to death, rather than suppressing it's innevitability, makes you authentic to yourself. It's a useful construction but I also think it has some problems. For one thing, I think existentialism falsley conceives of dasein as being spontaneously free in its determination. We can describe the rational outcomes of a proximity towards death all we want, but in practice: when I think about my mortality, it generally doesn't compel me to start authentic projects, it usually confines me to my bed.

Camus' absurdism is a bit more radical towards death, I think, but maybe to the point of hysteria? Camus demands that for a practice of good faith, the individual must abandon any hope of universal meaning or transcendence, and instead commit to unrestrained rebellion against the absurdity of existence by living an absurd life. I find him useful because he never looses my inner depressive, but ultimately finds optimistic resolutions to painful contradictions. Again though, I think he's a bit hysterical. In both existentialism and absurdism, there's this repetitive cordioning off of symbolic influence towards the empowerment of the will. I mean, Sarte wrote a whole book on affects while activley rejecting the unconscious. Despite being very confrontational towards norms in some regards, I think existentialism is limited in its conception of the subject as being inherently rational and self-determined.

So my new project is to find a working framework for thinking about the unconscious/subconscious, while still prioritizing death as a fundamental limit in the imaginary. I've read a few existentialist authors with more of a psychological bent, like R.D. Laing, but even with them, I don't think there's a very "useful", positive structure to replace the conventional one. I've settled on psychoanalysis as my new "pet-framework", though I'm only about ankle deep in my readings so far. What I like about the approach, is that it prioritizes antagonism within the self. When I think about my relation towards death, there's a lot of guilt and shame associated with that behavior. Existentialism can't really make sense of those associations, but psychoanalysis gives a lense for analyzing unintuitive, unconscious drives and object relations.

If I were to synthesize (in a very superficial way) the approaches in my thinking:

Existentialism has no theory of the unconscious, but challenges the symbolic order in its monopoly of meaning, and is fundamentally concerned with rediscovering meaning through authentic expressions of being.

Psychoanalysis also challenges the symbolic order, but by elucidating repressed or obscured structures, namely psychosocial drives and relations.

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I re-imagine heidegger's dasein as being "phenomonologically" free, but "thrown" (how one finds themselves) into an unconsciously active mind ultimatley restrained in its imaginary space by the negation of all projects: death. In this view, the concept of Das Man is essentially a diluted recognition of the symbolic from Lacan, which subsumes it. If integration with das man is seen as a kind of symbolic death you can avoid in existentialism, its seen as an innevitability in psychoanalysis. So what I'm saying is missing from existentialism is a regonition of unconsciouss drives and structure, even at the expense of free determination.

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2025/01/25
03:19 UTC

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Musk, Transhumanism, and the Modern Personification of Ahriman

A Discussion on Elon Musk, and "The Ahrimanic Deception" Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Musk, Transhumanism, and the Modern Personification of Ahriman

Rudolf Steiner, a spiritual thinker and founder of anthroposophy and the Waldorf schooling tradition, had some fascinating insights about the future. He warned us about forces that could challenge our spiritual growth, tying us down to materialism, fear, and mechanization. One of these forces, Ahriman, symbolizes cold intellect and the suppression of divine wisdom, threatening to cut us off from the spiritual realms.

Fast forward to today, and we have Elon Musk—a figure whose influence, wealth, and transhuman projects seem to echo many of the Ahrimanic traits Steiner warned about. From his ambitious tech projects to his provocative social antics, Musk’s actions eerily resonate with Steiner’s depiction of Ahriman’s influence. In simple terms, Ahriman is evil (or the Devil) incarnate, though not always in human form. It can be an institution, a mindset, or an energy that pervades society. Indigenous philosophy calls this “Wetiko.”

Steiner described Ahriman as a force deeply rooted in materialism and mechanistic thinking, aiming to reduce humanity to a purely physical existence. He warned, “Ahriman has the greatest possible interest in instructing men in mathematics, but not in instructing them that mathematical-mechanistic concepts of the universe are merely illusions.” Musk’s projects, like Neuralink and Tesla, highlight the mechanization Steiner cautioned against. Neuralink, which aims to merge human consciousness with AI, epitomizes the Ahrimanic ambition to transform human identity into a computational entity. This shift risks diminishing our spiritual depth, as we focus more on technological augmentation than introspection and spiritual growth.

We've been hearing about this mechanistic vision for humanity since the 90s, with Ray Kurzweil's books (*The Singularity is Near* and The Age of Spiritual Machines) predicting and warning us about what's coming. Steiner, a visionary and mystic, warned us nearly a century ago about this dangerous future. In an anthroposophy book group I used to sit with, Elon’s name often came up when discussing Ahriman and Lucifer.

Some anthroposophists believe AI is the modern manifestation of Ahriman, but I am not so sure. Musk seems to fit the bill more closely, especially as we watch him rise to immense power, flaunting Nazi salutes so confidently. This reality is becoming quite real. Throughout this post, I'll explain why Musk fits the bill. Steiner warned that “Ahriman’s influence manifests through excessive intellectualism and spiritual dryness.” Musk’s worldview, which often prioritizes material solutions over moral and spiritual considerations, mirrors this description. By advancing technologies that fundamentally alter human nature, Musk’s ventures reflect the crystallization of human potential into over-hyped science fair projects, detached from divine wisdom. It’s worth mentioning that it was Elon’s dire warnings that AI is coming for us, and is in part responsible for sparking the contagious fear that has pervaded the collective. 

Central to Steiner’s teachings is Sophia, the divine wisdom that connects us to the spiritual cosmos. Ahriman’s influence disrupts this connection, replacing Sophia’s intuitive guidance with technical, soulless constructs. Steiner illustrated this with the metaphor of Isis, the goddess of wisdom, whose body is killed and placed into the void of space: “Lucifer kills Isis and then places her body into the infinity of space, which has become the grave of Isis, a mathematical abstraction.” Musk’s Mars colonization project serves as a literal enactment of this metaphor. By envisioning humanity as a multi-planetary species, Musk prioritizes survival through technological means while severing humanity from Earth’s spiritual essence. Mars becomes a barren expanse reduced to engineering and survival metrics, devoid of the sacred connection to the cosmos. This venture encapsulates Ahriman’s agenda, where technological mastery eclipses divine wisdom, and the pursuit of progress becomes an escape from spiritual responsibilities.

Steiner also warned that Ahriman’s influence disrupts the harmony of thought, feeling, and will: “Thinking, feeling, and willing were threatened with disorder through the entrance of selfishness. […] The human being would have intended this or that, and followed this or that impulse of will, while his thinking would have impelled him in quite a different direction, and his feeling in still another.” Musk’s advocacy for transhumanism, particularly through Neuralink, echoes this fragmentation. By externalizing human potential into machines, Musk risks disassembling the delicate unity of spiritual, emotional, and intellectual faculties. Neuralink promises to augment cognition, yet it also embodies the Ahrimanic temptation to prioritize scientific enhancements over inner growth. It's like getting a Brazilian Butt Lift instead of working out everyday. This reduction of humanity into fragmented parts reflects the disintegration Steiner warned against.

To further elaborate, Michio Kaku's 2015 book The Future of the Mind discusses trans-human efforts to revolutionize mental health care. Kaku talks about a future where we might eradicate mental health struggles through technology. By manipulating neural circuits, it could become feasible to alleviate symptoms of mental illnesses or even prevent their onset. For instance, implanting positive memories or reinforcing certain neural pathways could counteract the negative thought patterns associated with depression. While these possibilities are intriguing, they also highlight how humanity might skip inner work and spiritual growth. Suffering could become a fragment of our past evolutions, with so-called "mental illness" a thing of the distant past. What they fail to realize is that suffering is oftentimes a part of the human experience that makes it so beautiful and nuanced. I don't know who I would be without my pain. Most certainly incapable of the deep empathy that has arisen from my suffering. 

To read the rest, go here: https://www.drhollyflammer.com/post/musk-transhumanism-and-the-modern-personification-of-ahriman

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2025/01/25
02:28 UTC

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Epictetus was an epic philosopher but he was also actually tetu.(a French word for stubborn)The s at the end of tetu is a symbol/represents stoicism. His name is epic stubborn stoicism. Stoicism is technically a form of positive stubbornism so it makes sense.

Epicurus was epic and curious. Curiosity is a bit similar to hedonism. Ignorance does also play a part in hedonism but yeah idk.

The point is that both of these guys are EPIC awesomesauce.

Epic curious and epic stubbornism

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2025/01/24
19:22 UTC

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AITA for leaving my bf cause he gave me Sisyphus?

Ba

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2025/01/24
10:35 UTC

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I have an epistemological problem with learning.

The problem is that I feel that nothing I learn has a “real” basis other than a temporary certainty (both mine and of the ideas I learn).

This feeling arises from seeing the many ideas that have arisen throughout history, that have been contradicted and that have been overcome.

I feel that I am wasting my time (vanity, vanity...) but I still have the curiosity to keep learning even if it is in vain.

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2025/01/24
03:56 UTC

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Is History Happening Right Now?

Can it please stop? Fucking Godzilla and King Kong going at it in downtown Moscow Idaho. That's how this is happening huh?

Somebody put on the Goddamn breaks and flip this bitch. Pull the lever on this merry-go-round. Oh fuck! Now it's spinning faster. It's going so fast the passengers are flying off, but they can't escape. They are being spun in a viscous circle getting organized like a blood sample in a centrifuge.

Things are getting very Orderly in this bloody centrifuge. The white and the red blood cells are separating and everything will be violently placed where they belong in this social order. The third, second and first class passengers living in their respective slums, prisons and gated communities.

This is what history wants at the moment

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2025/01/23
05:09 UTC

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Evolution Happens in the Balls

There is something that you folks don't realize. You all need to gather around for the important news. Evolution Happens in the Balls.

Generation after generation for millions of years balls have produced spermand eggs. These sperm and eggs (I include ovaries in this definition of balls) has our genetic material and an incredible diversity of DNA. This DNA spreads and multiply's through good old fashioned penis and vagina sexual intercourse. Driven of course by the individuals throbbing Libido.

As the continuation of life humps along through the passage of time and space, sometimes an accident happens. You have mutations and bastard babies acting like chad fucks strolling around with their Libidos hanging out of their jockstrap.

And, at the same time the plumped up Velma's are bouncing around beta cucking the losers who come up with these kind of stories. Procreation is a Fuck and I hope the human race goes extinct from everyone voluntarily giving up the struggle to swim upstream.

Evolution is Balls

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2025/01/23
04:51 UTC

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Catching Sisyphean Candidates

All of us I imagine at one point in time were children, and at some point relinquished simpler outlooks for doctrine from great commentators. Except today I get to compare Aristotle to XQC, Ben Shapiro to Zeno, and Jehovah to Martin Luther (not the civil rights one). You want to watch these men do what is so simple, and so accessible to you? To watch life live without distilling how to do the same yourself? Look at where in simple words they draw their strength. It is not the nuance of intellect that grants them grace. Each great man has at the root of his inspiration such simple and basic rules. If only we would suspend that simpleness to the loftiness of his riches.

- Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (Erasmus 1516)

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2025/01/22
01:04 UTC

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Is Tobias Funke actually Sisyphus?

A man who recognised the absurdity of pursuing meaning through traditional routes when the success of becoming the worlds first Analyst and Therapist (Analrapist) did not provide him meaning.

Instead, he embraces absurdity through pursuit of a failing acting career that will never succeed and he will always return to being unemployed with no roles.

Above it all; each atom of those hair plugs, each incredulous insult on his masculinity, forms a world. The struggle itself to the heights of fame is enough to fill a man’s heart. When Tobias tumbles through that glass table as Mrs Featherbottom, we must imagine him happy.

In order to make Absurdism more engaging to younger demographics, I propose we re-name the myth of Sisyphus to the Myth of Funke.

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2025/01/21
11:30 UTC

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Black pill and smv

Meet Me sub5 male. Although I frefer call myself an incel coz I'm out of female radar as a love interest. Resently I met my cousin a gorgeous girl. Well we are kinda close as a relatives. She was out of country due to the war. Her mom took her to the Europe. And she had returned as far as she got 18. So we were spending time together. Actually we were rent haunting. You know went to see house for rent. So at some moment she took me to the haircut, like a top professional kind. Then she took me to the mall and redo my style (mark she is working as an IT for USA company and the are a huge corency gab between USA dolar and uA geivna. So for her splash money no more the a hundred dollars so less the 0.1 of her salary). The after 12th adress we found her house for rent. Next day the girl that have frendzoned me for year called and asked for date. I just said that I can't coz have I work to do. Then some of my ex sant me massage asking how Am I? Obviously I am so facken tire so even did not replay. The chary on top is when my cousin saw all that massage. Then her took picture of us as and sant it back to all girls that frendzoned me. More over she posted it in her Instagram and TiKTok.
My cousin said me just wait and she will find me a date. What the hex is going on?

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2025/01/21
08:40 UTC

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Why do people never follow the philosophy of Doingism? AKA actuallydoingsomethingaboutitinsteadofsittingonyourass?

Throughout all methods,wether it be tear gas or water hoses,there is no greater anti-protest tool than the internet.

We should do a reverse enlightenment where you become the All-descending All-ignorant Throughout the earth and it's lifeforms. Do more than you think instead of thinking more than ypu do.

The buddhaistism did the thingy throughout heaven and earth but it was mostly peace for himself. He did teach others but yeah. Not a lot of action there.

So go forth,sacrifice and become the one who does,did and will do instead of the one who thought,thinks and will think.

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2025/01/21
04:06 UTC

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I'm irresponsible?

I'm a male 29. When I was 14 years old my parents went into spiral of chiting. My mom and dad had lover. To cut to the chaine my mother made romantic interest in a woman. One one day they had drank to much. So when I got home frome school my mother had helped her lover took advantage of me. In their login the wanted kids between them self and to eun away. And coz I took up mostly from mother heratige traits so that lover used me as a genetic donor. However my grandmother from dad side came to us with visit. And she so all didds. She came during the act so...she has bitten my mom and mom's lover. After that granmother had filed pokice reports. Cops at that time only laughted. However they did a picture as they was working. But allowed mom's lover left coutry. And now that woman back demanding child support. First I thoufgt it was a graze female coz I haven't had intercourse for years. So I stayted on paranrial test. So now I legally obligated to pay for kids I haven't seen yet. More over for the kids from rapist. The poit is there are no ligal way to add one and two. Just look at my passport and the birth certificate of kids. So I even look to the regiment to sign up for war. As I way to fuck a fucked up system.

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2025/01/21
02:35 UTC

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Nothing Ever Happens Because All There Is Is What’s Happenin.

I just took mushrooms for the first time and all you dorks need to get off your high horses cause I got this this whole philosophy thing on lock already. Nothing ever happens because all that can happen is that which is happening right now. Nothing has ever happened because history is a narrative and thus no different from a story in any other book. It’s written by some guy(usually a guy) telling a story. All WWII movies and Call of Duty games are as “real” as any textbook. One day we will all die just like my great-grandmother did when I was 12. At her funeral, my relatives were telling all these stories about her and my great father. I never met that man because he died before I was born. I realized that she lived a life far beyond anything I could have ever imagined, far more complex, complete, and full of love for life and others than my little child brain could ever imagine. She died and soon I wasn’t able to remember her voice, I wasn’t able to remember her favorite cigarettes, or what car she drove. What few stories I had of her were slipping away. It was then, at the short age of 12, I realized that I would die as well. That people at my funeral would tell stories of me, that the children wouldn’t know and would soon forget. Soon it would be as though my great grandmother never existed, because no one at the funeral would remember her and I would be too dead to tell her stories. If I still remember them to the end. Soon everyone at that funeral will die as well and be forgotten all the same. It will be as though they never happened. In effect, they won’t have. I could not contain the entirety of my great grandmother in my mind and so she exist like a character in a play for me, a piece of lore. If I wrote it, it would be no more real than any other character in a play. It may signify her. It may even(for those who knew her) carry the signified idea of her to mind. It cannot bring her back. No story can bring any of us back. Stories only bring the idea of us. There is no distinct difference in my mind between Abraham Lincoln and Batman. They are both characters, written in books and shown on screen. Similarly, our inevitable omitting from the happening of it all is still only that which we think will happen soon enough. Thus, the future is a story. A improv comedy that is yes anding itself forever. The final punchline for each of our respective characters is death. We are all “setting up” the joke. All a great big troupe in the set for the funniest gag there is. The joke will land, the crowd will howl and laugh, and it will be a memory in there minds. It will be as though it never happened. In the moment of remembering, that which “happened” is not happening again. All that is happening in a memory is that which is currently remembered being recounted. It didn’t “happen”, it’s recounting is happening. Nothing ever happens outside of all that is happenin.

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2025/01/21
01:35 UTC

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AITA for blocking my mom after she ontologically violated me with a heart emoji?”

So I (27M) posted that Sartre quote — ‘Hell is other people’ — with a deep caption about ‘the Look’ and existential dread. For context, ‘the Look’ is when someone objectifies you through their gaze, reducing you to a mere being-in-itself. Anyway, my mom (52F, thinks ‘phenomenology’ is a skincare brand) comments ‘❤️’ on it. Not the fire emoji, not the thinking face. A heart. The ultimate bourgeois gesture of flattening my radical subjectivity into her maternal they-self. So I blocked her.

However, I have a valid Sartrean justification: By ‘liking’ my post, she collapsed my transcendence into her immanent framework of ‘proud mom’ mundanity. Her emoji wasn’t just cringe — it was bad faith, a denial of my existential project. Blocking her wasn’t petty; it was an act of ontological self-defense. I have explained as much to my father figure.

But now she’s texting my dad things like, ‘Did he join a cult? Is this about the time I said Hegel sounds like a type of pasta?’ and I’m stuck debating whether to unblock her before she cuts off my phone plan. AITA for refusing to compromise my authenticity?

P.S. If she stops paying my bill, I’ll have to move back home. Please advise — the das Man is closing in.

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2025/01/21
00:27 UTC

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Guardians of the Galaxy: Just some thoughts about the Ideal Society.

And I think that our braver and better youth, besides their other
honours and rewards, might have greater facilities of intercourse
with women given them; their bravery will be a reason, and such fathers
ought to have as many sons as possible. 

True. 
And the proper officers, whether male or female or both, for offices
are to be held by women as well as by men -- 

Yes -- 
The proper officers will take the offspring of the good parents to
the pen or fold, and there they will deposit them with certain nurses
who dwell in a separate quarter; but the offspring of the inferior,
or of the better when they chance to be deformed, will be put away
in some mysterious, unknown place, as they should be. 

Yes, he said, that must be done if the breed of the guardians is to
be kept pure. 

Only the greatest philosophical badass could come up with this, no?

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2025/01/20
18:57 UTC

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Corporate Rats got another one.

It's already hard enough going to work every day.

The demands made of us are many! In inclement weather, through holidays, and on weekends. I spin on the top of my head and bend backwards for management iterating until I can't recognize what I started with.

Even if I can keep up with that, I see in the shadowy corners the glint of blades.

Your own fellow man, in the same chains as you, has just stabbed you in the back.

And now you find yourself discarded.

I am bursting with anger. I'd make like a saint and banish you all by the throat if I could. You subservient, ego obsessed, spineless bootlickers.

So lost are you that you'd secure the wealth of people who exploit you and cast your peer into derision. You'd rather ensure our shareholders OBSCENE wealth than keep a modest meal in the belly of your coworker.

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2025/01/20
15:41 UTC

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I hate parents for didn't talk to kids

I'm a male 29 years. I school teacher in Odessa. And I'm feed off of kids disrespect and misbehaving. The thing is kids to cool for knowing their right however oblivious to their responsibilities. I ain't best teacher for sure I have a lotta ro lean myself but... Why I have take I time to teach kids a basic ethical norm. I just can't yell on them constantly. So If they starfted going wisout permission or get late to the class I asked them about lessons subject. The one thing I can punish them on. Coz I have a right to judge their knowledge and skills. Well sometimes somekids cone well prepared so I alowed them slag off. The thing is most of kids don't wanna work even a bit. They can ask for bathroom and go to play in a corridors. Take along that a lotta leason just missed due to school other activities or air alarms.

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2025/01/20
05:36 UTC

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I'm an ashoole?

I few years back I worked as a teacher of chemistry. I don't get along with pupils coz I'm emotionally invaluable. However I never ever puted them down. So the got they could do whatewer they wanted. That turned out pupils ignoring the leason and sitting in phone or talking between themself. One day I had realy bad day, lost aclose friend and still suffered from broken ribs (Literally). So they build mountain from desks and chairs. So a ask them undo that and preare for leson. The kinda gthisted me. So I came close and hit their contraction hard. All of desk and chairs had cgambeled. Then I went out of class to take a brake. After several days our princepl called me and showed tick-tok with me smashing thad piramids of utensils. I admited that yes Ive done it. And said I knew it was unprofessional I will compensate for any dameged. However I explained also that I have reason why did it. Although maintaining discipline is my duty I told about students behaviour to their homeroom tachers.

Now I'm just stiked teacher with Defection of Etentiontion and hyper activism along eith some concation. And anytime class went out I give them paperwork with hard questions and time limits. And there are no way I will change that mark. Pupils forbiten to use phone only texbooks and their notes.

P.S I was asked to live firs shool coz any confrontation with parents my ruined reputation. Ah yes now I'm doing I therapy, when I can afford that. P.S we are all living in hard mod due to war in my country. Yep I'm Ukrainian.

I'm old giza ashool teacher?

Adit 1. That same year parents of one of that class kids made a statement that their kids has to be teeth technologist like a stomatological worker. And thay have to pass an exams of biology and chemistry. At a start of years I specify asked for any students wanted to go on a medical round and even ofer free private lessons for them. So nobody took an offer. That brat was slagging sll years. Moreover It was him whom posted vid with me taking down kids building. After all that parents had audacity asked me for help. So I did exem for their kids. I had an order from direct to do it to keep my reputation intact and have a job till the end of year anyway. So did what I said to do. It was technically easy coz exam was online and the lack of camera was explained as poor internet connection.

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2025/01/20
05:20 UTC

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