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Tranquil’s Study & Self-Care Challenge | Day 3

Today I choose to take care of myself

Today my goals are to look into metaphysics and do a bunch of lessons on WK. To enjoy the rain and maybe watch a movie. (Maybe I want to learn more about Kane’s libertarianism? I’ve read a lot about determinism lately and would probably do well to learn about an alternative viewpoint.. And maybe I want to read L'Étranger by Camus? I’ve wanted to know more about him and his philosophy for a while now.)

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Day Three: Share some pictures from your favourite vacation or travels. What’s your favourite part of this place? (Or, if thinking of travelling makes you sad because of covid restrictions, take a picture of your study area and tell me what you love most about it!)

Oh wow, where do I even begin!

As you can see I’ve travelled around Europe a lot, but there’s still so much more for me to explore. 🌍

Do you want to join in on the fun? Take on a challenge? Get to know some new people? Become a fellow #tranquilstudybuddy! 🍉

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10-22-20// Sitting in Dr. Martens w/ some Foucault

Well, I disappeared for a bit, but! In that time I:

-Wrote two essays for my classical phil. class

-Read (and finished): St. Augustine’s City of God, Thomas More’s Utopia, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis .

-Studied for and took two exams

And through all of that, I forgot to jot down my progress. But it’s fine, we’re doing it now! Hope you guys are doing well✨

Currently reading: Foucault’s Essays on Power.

[pens-and-flowerss]

30-9-19

Ah oh my goodness it has been so long but I have been neck deep in A Level work!! I adore my courses whole heartedly and here are some of my notes from Philosophy🌛

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early mornings and philosophical essays ~

[thecursivecat]

New Year, New Semester!

Hi!! Hope everyone had a great semester, but even if you didn’t there’s always hope for this next one coming up!

I just wanted to make a post asking what courses everyone is taking.

I am in English II, Philosohy, Indigenous Studies, Classical Mythology and Botany!! I’m super excited and hope all of you are as well.

Let me know what you’re taking!

[chipslater]

Some Problems of Philosophy ♦ By William James ♦ Philosophy ♦ Full Audio...

Some Problems of Philosophy ♦ By William James ♦ Philosophy ♦ Full Audiobook

Title:  Some Problems of Philosophy

Author:  William James

Genre(s): Philosophy

Language: English

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For several years before his death Professor William James cherished the purpose of stating his views on certain problems of metaphysics in a book addressed particularly to readers of philosophy. He began the actual writing of this 'introductory text-book for students in metaphysics,' as he once called it, in March, 1909, and to complete it was at last his dearest ambition. But illness, and other demands on his diminished strength, continued to interfere, and what is now published is all that he had succeeded in writing when he died in August, 1910. - Summary by Henry James, Jr.

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Lot of thoughts and reflections down here:

Materialism vs Spiritualism: doesn’t surprise me, I do consider myself a miser but not because I can’t live without meaningless material objects but because I live afraid that if I spend money in the wrong way I’m going to lose it all and live in poverty and I’m not talking about “Mm, maybe I should invest or buy a house” but I feel this with a stupid decision such as “I’m hungry, should I buy that thing that I really really like? No, I probably should buy a tasteless piece of gum because it’s the cheapeast option ever”. Yes, it’s kind of extreme, it’s based on trauma and I haven’t learnt to do anything about it yet.

Egoism vs Altruism: I call myself selfish a lot and yet I know I’m not a selfish person even though I do feel like I am sometimes, it’s kind of convoluted. I guess we all have moments when we want something in particular, material or maybe just someone’s affection or attention, and we put ourselves down saying that we don’t deserve it and we’re just thinking about ourselves when it’s not like that, because it’s completely natural to feel that way. But being truly self-center would be caring only about oneself, without even considering other people’s feelings and I honestly think about that a lot. Sometimes I put how others feel before me in unhealthy ways too.

Idealism vs Pragmatism: I sometimes don’t like the definition of idealism because it makes me feel like people are considering it to be stupid to dream of a perfect world. Yeah, it’s not possible but it shouldn’t be bad to strive for it, should it? I don’t know. Perhaps it’s seen as a lost cause but I think it can be practical. It does depend on what your concept of ideal is but for me it’d be a world where people are kind to each other, even if this sounds like Miss Universe saying that she just wants world peace but you know, what advantages are there in a world where people are rude or make others feel bad just because? But if you’re kind and others are kind to you you want to do more for them and they’ll want to do more for you and society would just progress a lot better because in this “utopia” we will feel like the effort is worthy, there is a purpose and we all deserve nice things and I’m not just talking about material stuff but nice treatment, you know? Am I making sense? I don’t know if I’m getting my point across.

Hedonism vs Asceticism: I feel kind of weird about this one. I really wouldn’t call me an hedonist at all but with asceticism winning over hedonism here I feel I’m not actually reflecting a pursuit of spirituality as I guess it should be? But I’m just that harsh with myself that I don’t allow myself any pleasure (not sexual, I’m indifferent about that), like I mentioned on the first point, I don’t even allow myself to get something that I like because not only I’m scared of spending the money but I also don’t deserve that. It’s not like I voluntarily renounced to material goods, I just don’t allow myself to get any. I didn’t renounced to physical pleasures (sensual, not sexual) I’m just not good enough to have someone voluntarily wanting to hug me. I’m like the fakest asceticist ever, I’m not looking for enlightenment here I just hate myself that much.

Nihilism vs Moralism: Pretty even. I’m not sure of what to say about it. I consider that I have morals and having strong morals is important but there’s no inherent morality... I mean, I do believe that life inherently has no meaning. I don’t find meaning in my life or not a significant one. It’s all a construction we make. It’s like people say “We all have to believe in something”, right? That’s what gives us meaning or helps us to create one for ourselves, which I haven’t managed to do. 

Rationalism vs Romanticism: The brain vs the heart. Pretty even too but romanticism wins by a little bit. While I was studying philosophy I think I enjoyed reading about rationalism the most, which was something my best friend would kind of joke about, because I was all the time reading detective stories because I love trying to deduce who the criminal was and all that and she only read romantic stories so it was like we’re the opposites even if in philosophy it’s not reduced to thinking versus love. But I guess I’m slowly paying more attention to my emotional self-awareness and not trying to turn everything into something very structured for my brain to work with it in an abstract way of reasoning as I used to so that's why rationalism lost for that little bit?

Skepticism vs Absolutism: I don’t think I ever studied absolutism as a philosohy, but only as a political system but I guess I get what it means here. I’m kind of surprise the skepticism wasn’t higher but it’s pretty even just like the previous one. I don’t know. I have no thoughts about it.

[beevean]

Hey there! #11 and #21?

Hey :D

11. favourite native writer/poet?

I always had a soft spot for Giacomo Leopardi. He’s very unpopular among classic poets because his philosohy is similar to Schopenhauer’s - you know, the guy who said that life oscillates between boredom and pain. At his worst Leopardi was convinced nature was an evil stepmother who doesn’t care about the pain of her children. But that’s exactly what drew me to him, I related to his depression and frustration with existence. Poor guy. (also if I remember what I studied he got better in his later years and adopted a more anti-nihilistic approach, so not all hope is lost)

Also I like his writing style, really sweet and melancholic but not pretentious.

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

FUCKING ORGANIZED CRIME. That inclued mafia, camorra, ‘ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita and everything else I’m missing. Piss off.

Also, uhhhh honestly i’d send pretty much all politicians away, but that’s cheating soooo if I had to choose I’d send away North League, fuck those guys

Thanks for asking!

[kennnysparks]

It’s hard to find ppl who are free thinkers and who have not been brainwashed. Win u believe sumthin u have not saw are u brainwashed? Win u believe lies and illusion have u been brainwashed or programmed. How come we can’t teach genius? How come no matter how much a person reads or studies or learns they Kennot learn they way into becoming a genius? It’s like u Ken teach a parrot to repeat words and things but u can’t really teach a parrot how to think. The world no offense is filled with parrots who repeat what they have been taught to repeat. The Big Bang theory is a theory but ppl speak about it as if it’s fact and they seen the Big Bang happen. Education is like parrots u Ken get degrees get good grades but that doesn’t mean ur genius it just means ur a good parrot ur good at repeating what u been taught, they have given u the answers and u repeat them in writing and test. They tell u the definition of words and u repeat them to gain vocabulary. They teach the history and u repeat it like a parrot for the history test. They teach u the scientific theories and u repeat them for the science test. They show u the mathematics and systems for solving problems and u repeat them for math test. Education is essentially advance parrot crap. U will not become a freethinker by learning but u might become a freethinker by u learning. Socrates is cool because he was like “ I KNOW NOTHING “ and me if I adopt his philosophy then I’d be like “ I DONT KNOW IF SOCRATES PHILOSOHY WAS THAT HE KNEW NOTHING because I never met Socrates I can’t be sure he said those things I can’t even be sure Socrates even existed I can’t be sure about anything, I know nothing “ a person who adopts Socrates philosophy doesn’t have the answers they have questions they don’t know anything. It’s truth in not knowing nothing. It’s like some ppl argue about if the world is flat or if it’s round, a Socrates type would say “ I KNOW NOTHING “ and wouldn’t agree to either theory. A kid might believe Santa Claus lives in the Joey pile because they been expose to tv and shows and even teachers who teach Santa propaganda and a kid might THINK Santa exist.., https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx0VdXGAIfT/?igshid=1dcoeen84t4rf

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171013- saturday a rant dnt bother reading

i feel like i wanna talk to someone but then i think about it and what am i even expecting ? whenever i say smth i regret it immediately so just thinking abt expressing whats bothering me to others i just know ill regret adn feel guilty and embarrassed about it later so i never talk to anyone abt anything that goes on in my mind and it gets to the point where its so over bearing i feel like its drowning my head somehow , im so.. lonely wld be the word but lonely in my thoughts but like that doesnt even make sense idk im just writing here bc i need to let my feelings out somehow and i’d usually do it on twitter but like the 140 characters thing anyway i just feel like i want to let things out but whenevr i do i never like the answer i get, like if they give me advice i feel annoyed cus i wasnt asking for help i was simply stating how i felt (and most of the time its stuff that cant really be fixed?), if they tell me stuff like “i love you !” its like ok? ik its mean but someone elses love does not affect my situation at all since its an inner issue that doest rly have to do with self-esteem, and if they just are like ‘yeah’ or ‘thats so bad:(’ ijust feel like theyre not paying attention (even if they are) which makes me regret opening up, so i dont really know what im expecting when i vent to someone i guess i just want to feel like someone is listening to me idk im like so full of thoughts and feelings. writing this feels like its calming me down a little bit so i think im just gonna keep writing, in english (its funny how id rather open up in english since its my second language i feel more alienated from it so it feels less real? what im talking about seems less seriousdk) so whats circling in my mind is that i dont have anyone im urging to meet i dont have anyone i truly like anymore and that my ladies is so fucking sad and frustrating that ive mentally grown apart from my friends im just not myself when im with them and sure my fake-extroverted persona ive built throughout highschool is good at doing her job and she still gets along with them so well but now it feels like that side of me, the fake one, is another person like we used to share some “mental common ground” but not anymore i just dont have anything in common with that persona anymore so whenever im with my old friends i just become her it’s like i completely leave reality it makesme so lonely inside. and i cant help it its unvoluntary how i switch places with the other me i cant stop it and i hate it because i feel like its drowning me alive, along with my personal issues. lately ive been isolating myself a lot, i stay in the classroom during recess and i havent gone out in like a month.actually last time i went out i decided i just wont go out anymore i just think its not for me i truly dont have fun. is that okay like is that normal? like is just dont enjoy the loudness and the kind of jokes that go on, i think if grown too fast. i justdont wannatalk about drinking andsex and how evil the math teacher is, like its fine once ia while but iwanna discuss science and philosohy and share thoughs too,  anything else is so irrelevant it’s so sos irrrelevant to me. not that i dont enjoy good laughs anddrinking, but for that i feel like i wanna be with someone who is special to me? like someone whoi respect intellectually first, and then we can laugh at dog memes. someone i can show my realpersona to,and the thing is i have my best friends she’s literally so perfect bc she’s smart but also silly so we can talk abt hitler but then we can talk abt that one episode of sponge bob ? but the thing is shes graduating this year, and she has like an almost boyfriend, so i decided i should start getting used to her not beingwith me, but thats way more lonely than i thought. the guy thing, it wasnt planned, and shes with her crush most of the time which i totally understand i watn them to be together and stuff but i dont have anyone else but her- that is the real me not the fake persona, the fake persona hasmany people- but i though “she deserves this” so decided to step back so they can concentrate on each other. she ofc wouldve never asked this of me, but it seems like it was the best, sometimes i feel like a huge burden to her. but now imrealizing how lonely it has made me, being with her is like letting go of a breath that ive been holding and im realizing how much i need her. so i thought of like ‘slipping’ back in but im faced with the fact that we will infact part ways when she graduates because we’re attending universities in different parts of the country so maybe i should be getting used to the solitude, until someone else comes. and someone else seems to be here, this one friend i have in my new class, but im so scared of opning up to her, im scared of her kindness to me. i always think “why is she so nice? why does she stand up for me” at first she wasa bit too rough for me but as we spent time together i think she realized what kind of person i am and changed her ways so now were getting closer and closer and it makes me so 불안해 and 두려워 (idk how to express the sentiment in english) i dont even know what im scared of, it;s not like ive been hurt before in that way i think? maybe i have i cant remember. the point is, i know i should let this person in because she’d help me but i just cant seem to opne the freaking door its like my hand is shakinly holding teh doorknob without actually twisting it. i do think i will eventually tho. anyway. i was saying i spend alot of time alone these days, reading,studying, twitter, watching stuff, and its really nice i really do enjoy being by myself but i honestly dont have manyb things to do? so eventually the Thoughts come, and lately what ive been meditating is how the reason why i dont get close or attached to people (again the fake me might get closed but not me) is because simply no one is as good company to me as myself? which is fine wyou know many people feel like that, but i hate that if im alone poeple thinkg i dont have friends or that im sad and they think its bad that i am alone which is really not the case. i could be with ppl if i wanted to i just chose not to. theres this particular guy in my class actually, who thinks he has to be my friends bcim often alone and it irriates me so much bc 1. hes interrumpting my enjoyable me-time 2. he does it out of pity and boi do i hate pity like sometimes i just stay in the classroom doing homework or reading and he comes in likw “why are u always alone:(” because i want to you fucking dumbass andtoday or maybe it was yesterday particularly he said “why are you always alone is it becayse you dont have freinds bc you went on exchange and dont know anyone” llike um no im alone because i literally want to be alone you absolute dipshit and ido have 10 times more friends than you i just dont feel like being wit hthem you fucking asshole it pissed me off so much as if he’s ?? helping in anyway ?? i just wish anyone whosaw me alone wld tjust think ‘i guess she likes being alone’ isntead of thinking that im alone bc no one is willing to keep me company. isuddenly got really mad writting this. i think this really calmed me downishould do it more often its not like anyone who follows me here wld open it, like ideally this is whatdiaries are for but i dnt like to waste paper. im gonna write the date as well