#Entes

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«El “ser ahí” tiene, en suma, una múltiple preeminencia sobre todos los demás entes. La primera preeminencia es óntica: este ente es, en su ser, determinado por la existencia. La segunda preeminencia es ontológica: en razón de su ser determinado por la existencia, es el “ser ahí” en sí mismo “ontológico”. Al “ser ahí” es inherente con igual originalidad  —como un ingrediente de la comprensión de la existencia— esto: un comprender el ser de todos los entes de una forma distinta de la del  “ser ahí”. El “ser ahí” tiene, por ende, la tercera preeminencia de ser la condición óntico-ontológica de la posibilidad de todas las ontologías. El “ser ahí” se ha mostrado así, como aquel a que se debe preguntar ontológicamente con anterioridad a todos los demás entes.»

Martin Heidegger: El ser y el tiempo, Introducción, cap. I.  Fondo de Cultura Económica, pág. 23. México, 1951.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

[bellaaroom]

¿han interactuado con las víctimas?

dylan:

no, tampoco está interesado en una interacción.

eric:

tiene muchos pensamientos/imágenes clavados en su mente los cuales no puede ni describirlos, no puede sacarlos de su mente, por lo mismo él no se ve iniciando ninguna interacción, pero si la otra parte lo hiciera, lo aceptaría, aunque esto para él es una fantasía (o sea, nunca sucederá). aún hay cosas ocultas (pensamientos, emociones) pero prefiere no hablarlos (por lo mismo de que es un tema fuerte y le genera incomodidad).

¿han visitado a sus padres?

dylan:

cada vez que los ve es un gran dolor que lo saca de sí, y solo puede aferrarse a la idea que es un karma, que es el efecto de lo que hizo (‘lo estoy pagando asi’). incluso en momentos que fue a verlos intentando buscar la calidez de ellos de alguna manera, esta ya no estaba.

eric:

siente que los traicionó, traicionó lo que sus padres le inculcaron, le enseñaron; traicionó sus valores. a él le afecta muchísimo el ir a verlos. sin embargo, llegó a enviarle mínimas señales a su madre, e incluso ella le duele hablar (sin saber que él realmente la escucha), esto lo hace sentir en familia. sus padres supieron continuar con su vida y él está orgulloso de eso.

esto es uno de mis capitulos de mi borrada historia (‘questions to...’) publicada en wattpad. cada quien elige si creer o no, nadie está obligado/a a nada. en fin, si desean preguntar algo, pueden hacerlo <3.

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Enterprise // S02E14: Stigma

[cronicasdeunserincoherente]

Ømento.

Justo en el que podría considerarse un verso es cuando el exacto estar es un intermitente permanecer en el espacio de un pensamiento. Si no se es más que el tic y el tac de un ni siquiera me interesa mirar. La categoría de una jerarquía no me es asfixiante, ya que antes que el después ni para qué te explico el vacío de una entidad aislante de luminosidad. La respiración es un producto carente, en caducidad de hablantes. El gramo se reparte en partes ausentes de entes pensantes farsantes del memento cambiante de mentes atrayentes de esferas planetares. Cantares y vibraciones perpendiculares a divinidades profundas.

[muitocurioso]

Mais da metade dos americanos acreditam em visitas de entes queridos falecidos, revela pesquisa

Uma nova pesquisa indicou que mais da metade dos americanos acredita que seus entes queridos já voltaram para visitá-los após a morte. É talvez um dos tipos mais comuns de histórias de fantasmas – alguém que você conhece, seja um amigo, animal de estimação ou membro da família – se manifestando em sonhos ou até mesmo pessoalmente após o falecimento. Agora, de acordo com uma nova pesquisa do Pew…

[vangoghcore]

by andydoughty_bravewode

[autistook]

Dom Monaghan and Billy Boyd on Merry, Pippin and the Ents, the Two Towers, Cast Commentary

[ghostly-atv]

The Two Towers is so funny because Tolkien was such a tree-lover he was basically just like “actually we should give every tree a gun.”

[crystal-mouse]

Hey, don't cry. 900 star trek episodes, many good, okay?

[entguarde]

Something about the inherent anger in optimism.

[Id: A fully rendered digital drawing of Merle Highchurch from The Adventure Zone.

He is a fat, Black dwarf man with long, wavy gray hair and a full beard. He has a nicked ear and a small scar on his shoulder as well as otter-like whiskers and a protruding fang.

He is sitting in an office chair, his elbows resting on a table. He is glaring at an off-screen character (John), pointing down at the table as if to emphasize a point. A text queue underneath him says: “- You can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong”. End description.]

[maureen2musings]

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[bocadosdefilosofia]

«La tercera es la que se deduce a partir de lo posible y de lo necesario. Y dice: Encontramos que las cosas pueden existir o no existir, pues pueden ser producidas o destruidas, y consecuentemente es posible que existan o que no existan. Es imposible que las cosas sometidas a tal posibilidad existan siempre, pues lo que lleva en sí mismo la posibilidad de no existir, en un tiempo no existió. Pero si esto es verdad, tampoco ahora existiría nada, puesto que lo que no existe no empieza a existir más que por algo que ya existe. Si, pues, nada existía, es imposible que algo empezara a existir; en consecuencia, nada existiría; y esto es absolutamente falso. Luego no todos los seres son sólo posibilidad; sino que es preciso algún ser necesario».

Santo Tomás de Aquino: Suma de Teología. Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, pág. 112. Madrid, 2001.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dies-irae-1

[bellaaroom]

la realidad es que tengo muchas más experiencias con entes más allá de eric y dylan (que son los que más me comuniqué en realidad); todos son entes de tcc porque no me interesan otros muertos lol, algunos les hablé primero yo y otros quisieron comunicarse conmigo, los cuales claramente fueron los más locos porque pensé que era bastante invisible para los fantasmas.

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Sexism in TOS: Worst Offender, or Progressive in Retrospect in Comparison?

I see a lot of folks claim that TOS was the most sexist of the Star Trek shows by a landslide -- and while I agree that it definitely suffered from the sexism of the times, I also have other perspectives to share to give some food for thought.

I am of course not insinuating that TOS isn't sexist -- it is, but I have to ask folks to consider the breadth and depth of Berman's sexism in his run and ask yourself: Was Gene Roddenberry genuinely more sexist in his storytelling and delivery than Rick Berman?

I'm not telling you to feel one way or the other, but all I ask is that you hear me out and consider some perspectives and make your own balanced assessments. Nobody is obligated to share my opinion, but it means a lot just to have folks hear it and see their thoughts on the subject. So here is what I was originally responding to:

Someone's response to this photo:

"Devil's advocate. This was a part of the popular form of cardio during the production time of TNG. Yes, it was heavily sexualised by men, but so is literally every other way women work out. Men have been caught taking pictures of women while trying to do dead lifts, running on tracks and working on sled machines. They post them online to share too. The fact is, there is no way a woman can be shown working out without it going there. And yeah,t hat includes the combat forms of workout they do in Star Trek. Just look at how Dax dresses when she spars with Worf. Yes, they're dating, but still, same goes when 7 does and any other female.

Aerobics routines like this were made dirty and cringy. This was what women wore then by and large. This is how the workout was done. We make it cringy."

My response to them:

"I respect your take, but I disagree on a few fronts.

The miniskirt was chosen by the TOS female cast, not the male cast, specifically requested by Grace LW and affirmed by Nichelle and Majel who would go on to vehemently defend the miniskirt over the years as comfortable and embraced by them.

Grace said it was comfortable and seen as a symbol of female sexual empowerment during the 60s and thought it would be a progressive garment (and turns out that it was, as it was later adapted and worn by male crew as a skant on TNG) -- FYI those were designed by a gay man and Gene approved them.

This was also supposed to be Spock's TMP outfit:

Literally lingerie.

We saw both Uhura (who saves Kirk in from Marlena Mirror Mirror) and Yeoman Landon (the first to initiate combat with a classic Kirk-esque kick to help the Captain being attacked in The Apple) carry out their combat training in their Starfleet uniforms without ever being made to change into any ridiculous workout gear.

In fact, I'd argue Jim Kirk was sexualized even more than the ladies of the week on the show and I saw his naked body more than anyone else's on a fairly regular basis. He wore red yoga tights while topless in Charlie X while the women wore full length gymnastic suits that covered their entire body. If anything, it went out of its way to avoid sexualizing women practicing fitness in those scenes and instead focused on Kirk.

Gene confessed that he asked to have Shatner filmed in suggestive/provocative ways to "give something to the ladies", so he -- as he said -- liked to "film him walking away" or have him conveniently busting out of his shirts in just about every episode as it were, because Shatner apparently had great assets. LOL

Gene made an effort to at least sexualize both if he was going to sexualize one, and he carried that attitude forward in wanting the m/m and f/f scenes in the background on Risa for TNG. He also insisted that the men and women wear skimpy outfits on THAT TNG planet. You know the one. LOL I mean the dudes even had on less than the women:

Gene also gave permission to K/S shippers to have their conventions back in the 70s when he was asked for permission. Gene and Nimoy felt with all the skimpy outfits they had the ladies wear, why not let the ladies and gay men have their fun, too? It's how we ended up with moments like this:

Yes, those are two people dressed up as Kirk and Spock's penises doing interpretive dance. Gene didn't give two damns. LOL

In my eyes, that was a very progressive take on Gene's part for the 60s. It was actually PARAMOUNT STUDIOS who had the big problem with K/S stories and vehemently tried to shut them down. Gene literally hired slash authors on his payroll and even had several slash stories/writers published in his official Star Trek books (The New Voyages & The New Voyages II).

I feel I saw Uhura and women in TOS engaged in more physical combat/altercations defending themselves that Troi or Bev were shown holding their own.

In fact, Kirk used to get furious when someone would "dress up" his female crew members without their consent (Trelane episode, Shore Leave episode) because like his male crew members, he wanted them to be treated professionally and to also have his male crew act professionally.

Berman brought some of his own personal biases into Star Trek that in some ways regressed it. While TOS had blatant sexism and was called on it time and again, that show was made in the 60s -- a solid 21 years before TNG. We as a modern audience understood why some of it was cringe/sexist due to the time period -- look at any other media coming out in the 60s and Star Trek was miles ahead of what other shows were doing.

Compare that to Berman who was churning sexist stuff out when women like Starbuck and Scully were simultaneously on screen on other programs airing, and we had already had Sigourney Weaver and other strong women in Holywood playing respectful roles.

In my eyes, there was no need of the sexism seen in TNG but especially VOY and ENT. There was no excuse for it when other shows were writing women far better and a number of those weren't even set in the future like Trek was, making it age even faster due to having those dated perspectives frequently highlighted.

In the Center Seat documentary as well as "The Fifty Year Mission" book you will find cast members, writers and other studio alumni who attest to this. Some discussions from "The Fifty Year Mission":

"First, Berman was supposed to have been a real sleaze ball . . . According to Terry Farrel, he would go on constantly about how her breasts weren't big enough, how she should do something about it, and how his secretary was a good example to follow as she had huge breasts. She even had to have fittings to get larger bras, and that was all done at his behest.

Later Berman and Braga developed a name for Jeri Ryan's character prior Seven of Nine. They originally called the character "perineum" which if you look it up it is the area between the anus and the scrotum. Later they floated the name "6 of 9". I mean, what does it tell you about where these two were coming from in the development of this character if they had names like that put forward in all seriousness for her?"

Gene Roddenberry also had some of his own more progressive ideas for TNG cut or watered down by Berman. Roddenberry agreed TNG should have homosexual relationships and representation at a con in the 80s and insisted on it in a meeting with his writers -- something Berman later would not honor. Gene wanted the AIDS episode, showing m/m and f/f in the Riza scenes -- these were some of Roddenberry's requests to include in TNG that Berman later stonewalled.

Berman's era was sadly dated by his own misogynist bias, IMO, to the point that it can somewhat hurt the shows he worked on through his cringe egoism and blatant disrespect toward his female cast.

There is a reason why Gene could keep female actresses working with him and Berman had a revolving door of women that he couldn't seem to keep working for him -- he was abhorrent to women, on and off set. Gene wasn't perfect at all, he had a lot of issues himself -- but Berman was a whole other level. Just look at what he did to poor Jolene Blalock, Marina Sirtis and his toxic commenting on her body weight which exacerbated her struggles with eating disorders, or how he treated and talked to Terry Farrell.

Anyway, just some food for thought. I'm not saying anyone is wrong regarding a take like that, but there are a variety of ways to look at this. Gene Roddenberry isn't a saint by any means, but it definitely bothers me how folks will tote the Berman era as if it were the lesser of two evils or the more progressive depiction of women when I felt there were far more concerning portrayals of women in his era with far less justification.

(P.S: I don't event want to go near the sheer amount of "creepy old dude/villain preys on innocent/naïve/scared young woman or little girl" stories there were in Berman's era, either. But that's a whole other can of worms I can write about in a part 2.)

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