#practicality

[philosophybits]

Our language is either — mechanical — atomistic — or dynamic. But true poetic language should be organically alive. How often one feels the poverty of words — to express several ideas all at once.

Novalis, Miscellaneous Observations

[friendrat]

Picture for reference:

Please reblog for increased visibility (I really need to know which of us is insane and more votes will be helpful).

[bethanythebogwitch]

Wizard who uses mundane solutions as often as possible because magic is much more likely to go disastrously wrong than something mundane.

Wizard: I shall may my way to your tower posthaste.

Colleague: how shall you arrive? Flying carpet? Teleportation?

Wizard: and risk the aetheric winds throwing me off mid flight or re-materializing inside out? Nay. I shall walk.

Colleague: that will take too long. At least use a planar shortcut.

Wizard: Nay, if I but place one rune out of order I may be dropped into the outer darkness or rest asunder by the horrors of the astral realm. I shall walk.

Colleague: but it's so slow

Wizard: I shall smell the wildflowers along the way

[exhaustedpigion]

"Consumed by practical pursuits seeking practical results, and armed with pragmatic truth [], we have lost interest in objective, disinterested truth--as though useless if there's no practical benefit. We walk past the good itself, the beautiful itself, the real itself, if they do not work to practical purpose."

-Robert Gilgulin, "Why Philosophy Matters"

[dress-this-way]

Variables that Make or Break a Garment - YLF

[your-average-mess-on-all-fronts]

I love how some of you guys think that engaging with anything Harry Potter related is going to "give jkr more exposure", as if not LITERALLY EVERYONE HAS ALREADY BEEN EXPOSED TO IT, and that making sure you don't pay her any money personally is going to move a single cent away from everything she was already going to put whatever amount of money she was planning to for either way when she's A LITERAL BILLIONER, and then try to cry "collective action" as if that's a battle any of you could ever win in your fucking lifetime, and then NOT try and tell people to mass report far-right influencers with an actual massive reach off of YouTube and TikTok, where their content independently moves towards people who, and this is true, MIGHT HAVE NOT BEEN POLITICALLY ENGAGED SO FAR. The hypocrisy just actually makes my blood boil. You guys don't know what practicality is and I'm starting to think I actually hate you for that.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Tell me this is the Hanna-Barbera Funtastic aesthetic:

[philosophybits]

In the ancient world religion already was to a certain extent what it will become for us — practical poetry.

Novalis, Logological Fragments I

[intelligentchristianlady]

Bye bye democracy. Bye bye US Constitution. You and I are no longer entitled to due process.

[transport-methodology-101]

1976 Fiat 126 Vettura Urbana city-car concept, designed by Michelotti and presented at the Turin Motor Show. Based on the rear-engined Fiat 126. Early models utilized an air-cooled two-cylinder engine, 500cc which was replaced by a 652cc engine in 1977, and later a 704cc water-cooled engine in the Bis model.

Featuring greater interior space than the diminutive Fiat 500 and enhanced safety features like a more enclosed fuel tank, dual-circuit brakes, and a collapsible steering column. Later iterations, like the 126 Bis (introduced in 1987), included a water-cooled engine, a two-speed fan, rear wash/wipe, and a heated rear window.

Trivia:- The production Fiat 126 was introduced in October 1972 and manufactured until 2000, with the majority produced in Poland as the Polski Fiat 126p where it got the nickname "Maluch" (meaning "The Little One").

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/concept/seventies-fiat-concept-ripe-reboot This Seventies Fiat concept is ripe for a reboot | Top Gear

[brigitoshaughnessy]

One of the wild things about being a utilitarian who also happens to have a strong sense of individualism and believes in the interconnectedness of all things means that while I can’t personally justify the existence of flowers in my garden for visual enrichment of myself, I can embrace that they are a necessary part of my garden’s ecosystem and completely necessary to my pollinators.

And honestly, I wanted the flowers for myself, but they weren’t a ‘need’ until someone else in my ecosystem needed them. Thanks pollinators for being kinder to me than I am to myself.

And really, I think there is a lesson to be learned there.

[the-healing-mindset]

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The practical part is yours to do. With that, it may require some learning to work with the tools that you have been given.

[the-kiss-of-wet-asphalt]

Something i'm genuinely curious about and have been for a long time

[your-average-mess-on-all-fronts]

If you think that the statement "hard decisions are an inherent part of every aspect of politics" is ever, in and of itself (aka not in the context of it being used to justify a specific hard decision, but simply as a fundamental truth), illegitimate, you shouldn't be involved in politics. If you think intellectualism and rationality are, in and of themselves (as in, not referring to the deceptive appeal to them), condescending or pretentious, you shouldn't be involved in politics. If you think anything ever "demands" the flattening of nuance in discussion (and if you think I'm trying to say it's legitimate when someone is using the concept of nuance to try and claim harmful actions shouldn't be condemned in and of themselves, you are doing a bad faith interpretation of what I'm saying, c'mon now), you shouldn't be involved in politics. And if you think that the side of you that is now sounding its "liberal enlightened centrism" alert about any of what I just said is a good side of you that you should nurture and listen to, you might not necessarily be ill-equipped to doing politics, but I would HIGHLY recommend you reevaluate it.