#philopher

[approximateknowledge]

on the one hand pallesand is a deeply repressive expansionist colonial empire and by all accounts that's like, obviously bad. the 5 Fingers of Perfection find themselves around a lot of throats

but on the other hand:

^you gotta admit that's metal as hell

my favourite repressive deicidal (nay, deivorous!) fictional empire

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

Beating my brain to a bloody pulp why can’t you be mORE SUCCINCT-

[commandtower-solring-go]

White guys have this way of sneaking up on you, its insane. I exhibited yesterday and brought a bunch of friends to this queer art show. He breaks out this complex analysis of my art work, and takes the time to really see all the works on display.

We all go get Columbian for lunch, we're having a great time, and then he shares an anecdote of a Sikh coworker of his who got upset that he touched his Turban. And he's all like:

"See, i don't respect culture. I respect people," to justify his disrespect. As if the motherfucker isn't in a cultural restaurant. As if we aren't watching the AFL on TV as we eat. As if we want just exposed to the latest reflection of queer culture. As if that opinion isn't just the product of 100 years of his own culture that he's so entrenched in he can't see it.

And, like, we pulled him up on it. Really, it sounded like him just trying to justify an embarrassing moment with a psudo-philophical comment. But damn dude. People will surprise you.

[dcfanficsgalore]

I'm CRYING the new episode broke meeeee

If, for some unknown reason, you read all my other posts, you'd know that Nina was my favorite character out of the bunch... And now... The Bride has taken that spot, so I don't use curse words

I'm Brazilian, so I know some... Colorful words to describe my feelings on Nina's death. But I'll try not to.

First things first, Nina's backstory was sooo saaaad. Her mother abandoning her? She didn't even try to love her daughter, I can kind of understand that she had her worries and Nina's life was not the easiest to live. So maybe turning off her machines as a baby would have a mercy, but then again her father was such an amazing guy for always trying to keep her in his life, but then again he could have been just doing that so that he could say he had developed ways to extend human life, using his daughter as guinea pig... I don't know... That is going a bit too philophical for my sobbing brain.

The opening with Eric was nice, I started to enjoy his weird monologues, poor cab driver though.

The commandos sneaking in was fun, they kiiinda cheated by putting a lens flare on the computer but they showed it again at end so I'm not mad

Ilana's plan... I still can't wrap my head around it? So Circe was telling the truth? So she hires Clayface to take the doctor's place and say that Circe is telling the truth and part of that plan was having the commandos be sent back but not before Flagg stays to find out the truth and call off the mission? I feel like she had a lot of luck in this plan... Maybe I need to think on it a bit, and maybe someone to explain what her end goal was.

Anyway the Bride killing her was incredibly satisfying, though I would have pulled the trigger a couple more times just to make sure she doesn't come back, but she's the professional, not me.

Oh! I really liked that in this universe Mary Shelly wrote Mathilda instead of Frankstein! Just a little easter egg that opens up many possibilities

I hope Superman can be just as good if not better than this show! It was a very good start in my opinion, I won't forgive James Gunn for Nina'e death until we get a solo Nightwing series and movie

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

Skizzekai:

Near the end of the journey, when team zits manage to sneak their way into Ex's castle, they see for themselves the uses of the stolen magic. Their auras feel off, wrong, an incoherent mangled mess of magic types that are being forced together. As they storm there was through the castle, they losing members as they hold off the poor creatures made of the stolen magic Harry Potter and the Philophers Stone style. Impulse is the last to part with Skizz, stopping project HOTTUB with his knowledge of the plan and the love for his friend, Skizz walks through the last door.

He didn't know what to expect but it wasn't Ex bathing is swirling magic water. Ex invites him in, and though Skizz tries to resist the pull of the hot tub, he gives in. His wings grow stronger. All his pain fades away.

He is suddenly thrown in a panic when he realises he's stuck. He physically cannot get out. All he can do is pray the allies he made along the way show up for him.

(Ok but what if we had hottub acronym and the hot tub).

[ALTERNATE]

[kasmusser]

Really capturing the abrupt misery of being 13 and just having these insane awful philophical thoughts as you try to find your place in the world

And then kitty!

[gaiabamman]

Gender reversal book rec!

I love books that have me escape to a land of magic but also make me think (and laugh). Tom Miller's "The Philopher's Flight" was it! Let me know what you think if you read it!

[thealexanderfiles]

is getting randomly possessed by a philophical ghost a normal experience bc me and a friends were talking about how our brothers are impulsive and i randomly busted out a "Ah, boredom. The killer of men." and we both stopped and stared at eachother for a bit.

[thefisherqueen]

He was intelligent, and just sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. 

That awkward you think you're serving a great burn but the person you're saying it to has no clue what you're on about and therefore does not think you're funny (I'm person)

*Some quick research later: so Victor Hugo is writing here that the senator this line is about thinks of himself as learned as Epicurus, who was a very productive ancient Greek philosopher, while in reality he was just learned enough to compare himself to Pigault-Lebrun, who was a fellow French author, so more or less a collegue of Victor Hugo. My new verdict: still don't know enough to judge the quality of this burn, but generally I find people who idolise classisic philophers highly annoying, so justice for Pigault-Lebrun?

[approximateknowledge]

the inherent dark comedy of the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means being multiple centuries old will never not get to me

like it's perfectly internally consistent; they set out until the entire world has been Perfected, and until that has been achieved the Commission can't disband

but also it's Perfection!

the hubris is baked into it!

and of course it is. because what can be more hubristic than an economical system that fundamentally runs on theophagy

[grouper]

I know this might come off as a " oh youre a fan? name 5 of their albums" type question but its not I'm legit just curious: have you read the original alice in wonderland novel and if you have what was your opinion of it? :0

I originally read the novel as a young child and it scared the shit out of me LOL but now i'm about a quarter way through reading it as an adult and . Wow it is so densely layered with comedy, introspection, and fantastic concepts. Lewis Carroll (i'll talk about him more eventually) was a mathematician and academic among other things and it really shows in his writing.

Of course the story was originally created to entertain children, but you can tell that Carroll also wrote it for himself as an academic. It reminds me of Sophie's World by Jostein Gaard as an episodic look into different philophical concepts. Alice is the proxy, and each character she meets (in her own mind!) is a vehicle for a dialogue on concepts ranging from identity to child abuse- quite early for such topics to be explored in a story form, as stories for children in victorian england predominantly focused on Godliness or other obedience. Think of it as a collection of philosophical concepts as you may explain them in an entertaining way to a layman in the 17th century. This would have been quite a challenge for Carroll to undertake.

As with any other spearheading work of fiction, it is marked by its time. But studying Alice as a work of literature, a philosophical dialogue, and a piece of history make for very interesting reading.

Thanks for the lovely ask anon:)

[swagyna]

super interesting to see ppl in the tags discussing the vonnegut quote as strictly being a quote from a character he wrote.

and then ignoring all of the others… and how these philophers are studied fervently. "people just want to be mad!!" and are you not? if you're a woman or a girl capable of reading ans comprehending what's been said about us for millenia… why are you so passive.

embarrassing

Male genius and women: a conversation

Aristotle: These are the facts people. The female is as it were a deformed male. The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities; we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness. A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave. The male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled.

Plato: Well… the man who acquits himself well in war should be given…more liberal opportunities to sleep with a wife!

Nietzche: Good one Plato. When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual apparatus.

Confucius: One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

Spinoza: Women are apt to seduce men into making irrational political decisions. Never forget that.

Hegel: I want to be included here. Women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality, but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions.

Charles Darwin: The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than women can attain - whether requiring deep thought, reason or imagination, or … the use of the sense and the hands. That’s the scientific view.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The search for abstract and speculative truths for principles and axioms in science, for all that tends to wide generalizations, is beyond a woman’s grasp.

Thomas Edison: Direct thought is not an attribute of femininity. In this, woman is now centuries … behind men.

T.S. Eliot: There are only a half dozen men of letters (and no women) worth printing. It only goes to show.

Kurt Vonnegut: Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Ernest Hemingway: If you leave a woman, though, you probably ought to shoot her. It would save enough trouble in the end even if they hanged you. Take it from me.

Charles Bukowski: Hemingway, you are so right as usual. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal. and torture and damnation. Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

St. Augustine: Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. And. Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Napoleon Bonaparte: Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

John Wayne: Dude. They have the right to work wherever they want to – as long as they have dinner ready when you get home.

Valerie Solanas: Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics – emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity, vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness, etc – and projecting onto women all male traits – vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc.

Society: OMG FEMONAZI

[thebraiidybunch]

Fuck that shit I fixed it in seconds. I should be a therapist or philophizer or whatever the fuck. This brain shit is easy.

[thebusylilbee]

unsure how to classify my books. my instinct is to do it thematically so I can have my bird book corner, art corner, philosophy corner, but it gets a little annoying because I got graphic novels I want to put in one single "comics" corner but several of them could fit in my thematic corners as well and also what about philophical literary fiction huh ?! does it go with general fiction or the philosophy corner ? I could simply order everything in alphabetical order but then it all gets rather ugly and unsatisfying to look at because the formats vary so much between big pretty books, regular fiction, graphic novels etc... anyway this is gonna take me several hours I can tell

[myfavouritethinghs]

- The hand of philophers from J.J. Hollanous, Chymische schrifften, Vienna, 1773

- The mind of the microcosm from Robert Fludd, utrisque cosmi ... historia, 1619

[snigepippi]

I also really, really want people to read up on the current philosophy of science.

In modern science methodology you are supposed to be open for the impossible but critical of the improbably. It is literally something they try hammering into students who think they know The Truth.

Because in the past so many things that we now understand as important physiological facts, was declared impossible.

The atom theory we work with right now, was highly questioned. Not just by nutjobs like now, but by very clever scientists who demanded proofs. And for a while they didn't have proofs because the technology then wasn't able to show this.

You need to be open to an idea that we might at some point get a scientific tool that show you the impossible. Most who understand this, will have a disinterested agnostic approach. Don't know, don't care. We cannot prove or disprove it. However the improbable can be calculated. It is based on what you know and which facts we already have. It is a lot more scientifically valid to discharge an improbable situation, because we do have the tools and the facts and the equations to refuse an improbable hypothetical scenario.

If you do not have the time or mental space to read other philophers than Terry Pratchett, please look at how he present the wizards. They are actually a pretty good example of the scientific methodology and philosophy. They cover different methods and approaches. Ponder is a very good example of how you need to set up designs and repeat experiments to understand what is happening. But he is constantly restricted by his idea of what is possible. Ridcully is not a bad professor because he doesn't work like Ponder. Ridcully knows his field and is skilled. And he as the older and more experienced constantly have to tell Ponder to stop saying something is impossible, and just accept it and include the new discoveries in your work and understanding of the field. Pratchett is a great philosopher who have covered many areas of what it is to be a human. You can learn a lot of both the basic discussions and the more intricate and far out ideas from him.

Absolutely fascinated by the Fairy Walrus Discourse. Naturally, I have a take:

This actually is also a fantastic illustration of a truism about Telling Stories that we all implicitly know but rarely acknowledge aloud: the improbable is far less believable than the impossible.

When you invoke the impossible, you silence the critically thinking, reality checking, lie detecting circuitry. Simpler rules reign supreme.

The Walrus, however implausible, is a thing which is real, and so whatever narrative you imagine either precedes or follows the reveal will be constrained by the envelope of the possible.

This is a webbed site all about Narrative.

The person answering the door to a Fairy is in a fairy tale, and frankly most of us would be overjoyed to find ourselves in a fairy tale. Fairy tales have sensible rules, structures we understand, tropes we love and hate.

A Walrus on your doorstep is just one more giant reminder that the world is a maelstrom of chaos, incomprehensible in its complexity, full of moving parts which obey no narrative. It’s another dose of “what fresh hell is this?”

A Walrus on your doorstep is a burden. A Fairy on your doorstep is an escape.