A take I find tempting: I have a feeling most people are put off from the Stoic view of the good life because of a knee-jerk reaction to how austere it seems from the outside rather than any kind of distinctly philosophical reason. People don't wanna lose what was never theirs

Idk how else to do it. I just read, think about it, and then go talk to people about it. Sometimes, I don't even take notes 😱

Ontology: Monism Epistemology: Social Epistemology Philosophy of religion: Spinoza Theology: Pantheism Politics: Anarchism Moral philosophy: Stoicism, Confucianism, Virtue Ethics Meta-ethics: Ethical Naturalism

Has anyone ever tried to resolve the "problem" by suggesting that God is just evil? Like, sure, that's still a problem for triple OOO God, by what's stopping us from imagining God as a cosmic mustache twirler? They/it can even still be all-powerful.

One of the most damaging aspects of electoral politics is how it completely overshadows all other political discourse and makes everyone forget about the more important work that must be done on the ground. It is a never-ending, cyclic distraction.

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Everyone loves to be cynical and apathetic until it's time to actually be Cynical and attain Apatheia. 😒

kamala harris is not your mother, or aunt. not an embodiment of experiences of ordinary black womanhood, or the time you experienced a micro-aggression in the office. she is campaigning to be the face of empire so unless identify with that, there are no parallels to be drawn!

Plato's Socrates

that one specific piece of YTP sentence mixing that never leaves your brain for the rest of your life

Today, I wondered: who would win in a kaiju battle? Hobbes's Leviathan or St. Thomas Aquinas? We can imagine they are scaled to the same size for some fairness (ex. King Kong v. Godzilla). I've included my rendering of what the fight might look like as well.

Me, literally *any* time I have to get into a car: "I HATE THE AUTOMOBILE! I HATE THE AMERICAN HIGHWAY!"

Adorno = Secret Confucian??? 🤔🤔🤔

My first Khornite Berzerker. Blood for the Blood God as they say 😊

Remus, last words:

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