#Suffering and Healing

[omegaphilosophia]

The Philosophy of Compassion

The philosophy of compassion explores the ethical, metaphysical, and existential significance of our ability to empathize with the suffering of others. Across cultures and traditions, compassion is regarded as a core virtue—a bridge between self and other, rooted in shared vulnerability and moral concern.

Core Themes in the Philosophy of Compassion:

1. Ethical Foundation

Compassion is central to many ethical systems:

In Buddhist philosophy, compassion (karuṇā) is one of the Four Immeasurables and a path to enlightenment.

In Christian ethics, compassion mirrors divine love and is embodied in the idea of agape—selfless love.

Utilitarian thinkers like Peter Singer argue for effective altruism, where compassion must be rationally directed to maximize well-being.

Here, compassion functions as both motive and guide, directing moral action and shaping how we respond to injustice, pain, and inequality.

2. Metaphysical Interconnectedness

Compassion implies a non-dualistic view of human existence. We suffer with others because we recognize our shared nature. In this sense, compassion reflects a relational ontology: the self is not isolated but fundamentally connected to others.

3. Compassion vs. Pity

Philosophically, compassion is distinct from pity. Pity can be hierarchical or distancing; compassion involves empathy, humility, and action. The Stoics, for example, warned against excessive emotional reaction but made room for sympatheia, or shared human feeling.

4. Schopenhauer and Existential Compassion

Arthur Schopenhauer, a rare Western philosopher who centered compassion, argued it is the only true moral motive. Because life is defined by suffering, ethics must emerge from the ability to identify with that suffering in others.

5. Compassion and Justice

There is a tension between compassion and justice: compassion is individual and emotional; justice is systemic and impersonal. Some philosophers argue for balancing both—ensuring empathy doesn’t override fairness, but also that justice is not stripped of humanity.

Summary:

The philosophy of compassion frames it as a moral intuition, existential truth, and social necessity. It asks us to see beyond the self, to acknowledge shared vulnerability, and to act with care. Whether as a spiritual path, a political ethic, or a personal virtue, compassion challenges the ego and expands the boundaries of moral concern.

[stil-lindigo]

recently, Israel sent down hellfire missiles near a hospital in Gaza, which are missiles that explode into blades that slam down and cut through anything in their way. (link)

There is a video of a man with his legs newly amputated, screaming in a pool of his own blood. I won’t share the video, because it made me vomit into a toilet, but either trust me it exists or go look for it yourselves.

There is another video of a young girl, crying silently after her legs were blown off in an explosion. She explains tonelessly to the camera man that she doesn’t want fake legs because they’ll just remind her of her real ones. She is 13. (link)

A hospital is told to evacuate and they do, all the while waving white flags in a show of surrender. The IDF shoot at them anyway. (link)

Meanwhile in Israel - they begin to enforce one of the most draconian anti-free-speech laws in history.

1.link | 2.link | 3.link

Israel also claims to be the “only democracy in the Middle East”.

Israel has bombed hospitals, fishing boats, schools, refugee camps, power sources, water tanks, evacuation routes. They have killed 80% of Palestinian journalists, they have killed 100 UN workers, they have murdered over 4,000 children in 34 days. Because of the lack of food and water, Palestinians have begun to die from starvation, cholera.

If you still support Israel after all this, I believe you’re completely lost. Utterly without any humanity. Nothing could ever excuse this.

In Australia, there is an ongoing list of protests planned, as well as a permanent camp out being set up in Naarm/Melbourne to block Israeli transport company ZIM from shipping weapons. Congressional staffers in the US are finally being gotten through to - in spite of their rampant greed and long-suffering inhumanity, even they can recognise when their phones won't stop ringing with people saying flat out they'll never vote for them again.

Find resources to help Palestine globally at Ceasefiretoday.com

[random-cockroach]

*slams the door open, walks in and stands in a clown suit* Bunch of doodles... mostly Rung... I mean... why not ahah

[spectrenun]

So I keep it, to myself— and it hurts.

Sylvia Plath

[howtomakeyousee]

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

To be clear, Jinx didn’t magically go from being schizophrenic and severely mentally unstable to “just a little quirky and chaotic” from season 1 to season 2. She’s just not living with and dependent on someone who is actively trying to make her mental health worse for his personal gain anymore.

Also, adopting a kid and receiving unconditional love again for the first time in almost 10 years probably helped a lot. As did reconnecting with her sister whom she was manipulated into believing was the cause of her problems and pain.

[sabrondabrainrot]

🩸🔆Woe Period Cramps Upon Ye🔆🩸

My period started and I did the very healthy and normal thing and gave him cramps too. Almost threw up at work 💗 The chair Sun was me at work for real.

Love ya Sun, this is like ibuprofen.

[dollya-robinprotector]

Dad Whitney being Dad...

...but still being Whitney too

[zeldalizzy]

Anything Wolfie 🥺

✨ The bestest boy ✨

thanks so much for your ask!! sorry it took so long! just a quick little doodle on this cold February day 😊🩵 i also need some doggo fluff in these trying times... hope you are well!! all the LU boys would likely not resist, except for Legend... but when he sees those puppy eyes, he'll probably just grumble and give up lol 😂

redraw of this meme

[toffeebrews]

DRAWINGS FROM MAGMAAAAAA

I'll post everyone else's drawings tmrw 🫡

As of posting you can still draw on it but I'm taking a break lmfao

Killer by rahafwabas

Color by superyoumna

Ink by comyet

Fell by underfella

Papercrane by littlenoko

[dykedvonte]

I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.

I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?

The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.

[spliqi]

i love you atsushi i love your vague and immeasurable purpose i love how fear motivates you more than your values i love how you can forgive any wrongdoing until it’s against you. i love how you carry guilt with you always. i love how your kindness is selfish and most of all i love how you’re too painfully realistic to fit the character archetype people want from you

[yes-no-maybe-soo]

This man is so love drunk here. He's completely gone. Lost to the whole world and everything in it except for the immense love that is consuming every fiber and neuron of his being.

[blackhholes]

Teen Wolf

4x03 Muted ⎮ 5x09 Lies of Omission

[tuckedawaytulip]

What if Jon was left handed until his hand ended up burned by Jude Perry and he was forced to end up using his right hand because his left never quite worked as well after as it used to? Like his ability to use his hand is just another part the fears have taken from him

[incorrectquotesconaisseur]

imagine meeting the love of your life, becoming hopelessly devoted to him since day one, not realising you're in love but loving deeply nonetheless, having the healthiest relationship with them out of every romantic relationship you've ever had before and it's technically not even romantic, existing in what you perceive as platonic domestic bliss while also being right on the gritty, dirty, painful edge of life - and this goes on for like a month and a half, then your soulmate whom you were not aware was your soulmate is gone but then comes back. he comes back wrong. then he goes missing. and you spend the rest of your life looking for him. for ways to bring him back. you mourn his loss more than you mourned the death of the woman you loved. then the narrative catches up to you too and you get ill so you go far away from the place you called home, the place where everyone and everything you loved was - so when things start happening again, you are not there. you are not there to help, to search. the love of your life comes back and leaves again and your paths don't cross. two ships in the night who shone in each other's light for a month and a half then spent a lifetime trying to find each other and failed.