philosophy

I'm not sure I've ever written about DLE before, but I figured this would be a good place to write up a basic introductory guide- what DLE is, how I discovered it, and why I now use it as a guiding philosophy in all fields. DLE stands for "Direct Life Experience," and I present it as an...

Horrible fucking title, I'm bad at this. So, I've been told that I live like a monk, hermit, crusader, etc. They call it "hunger amidst plenty". Just recently, in philosophy class, we learnt the definition of "asceticism". I technically knew it, but my former classes had made it something so...

PLOTINUS It is for the gods to come to me: not for me to go to them -Porphyrry, Life of Plotinus, §10 This reply, given by Plotinus to Amelius, who invited him to approach the gods with the prescribed Rituals, reflects the spirit of the Solar ☉︎ path. The surpassing of the religious...

Spoiler alert: Eggplant isn't actually about Eggplants—Or dick emojis for that matter—what it's about are the hurdles of a struggling artist trying to make sense of her calling in a world where art has become a weapon. The protagonist, Arda, a failed painter with family traumas takes the...

Hey folks, long time no post. Anyways, this is an idea that came to me in a bout of introspection (mild foreshadowing, that big introspection post is still coming some day), and I'll fully admit that it probably says a lot more about me than it does about the population at large. Nonetheless, I...

Video to explain the thought experiment View: https://youtu.be/XeSu9fBJ2sI Here's how I see it: There are three outcomes possible. Heads is as likely as tails, but tails splits into two outcomes of equal likelihood. Overall, there is a 50% chance of M/H, 25% M/T, 25% T/T. Therefore the...

(This was originally going to be a simple profile post, but it got a bit long and I realized I could expand it to include a chance for discussion, so preemptive apologies for this being a lot about me) Howdy, fellas, I've been a bit absent due to trying to not be so online, but I had an...

Is it worth it bros?

...is something that has always been the source of frustration for me. Because on the one hand, it absolutely true; Picasso's Ma Jolie is my favorite painting because of a deep seated emotional response I had upon viewing it, but I would never claim that it is unambiguously the best painting...

I recently watched the first season of psycho-pass and I was genuinely impressed by the way the anime approached a lot of philosophical concepts as well as its huge (and blatant throughout the show) overall influence from Western philosophy and, even though I'm soon going to binge the second...

I am interested to hear what other people think about learning theory and fundamentals of a given medium/art versus just feeling out a piece of art. In my mind I am always balancing whether I should spend time doing artistic endeavors in a structured way or just jazz it. In my more comfortable...

Although I haven't studied the sacred Vedas in depth, I believe that most of us westerners have at least a grasp of how the concept of reincarnation works. You do good, you go up the mystic progression, You do wrong, you go back. As such, it is not much different than climbing up the corporate...

Something which has occupied my thoughts recently is the value of truth and one's own ideas. More specifically when it is and is not necessary for one to fight for their beliefs and when it is necessary to instead allow others to be ignorant of them. It can be argued that it is only necessary...

One of the main conspiracy theories is that some planes are spraying us with toxic chemicals spreading them in the atmosphere with white trails. Many experts claimed that is fuel residues and they are visible because of the temperature of the high altitude. Personally i agree with this statement...

i watched a movie a few days ago. it was a somewhat anime/animation movie kind of thing. It was called "children of the sea", its on Netflix and it was very confusing for me. I had to look up its meaning and it had something to do with seeing us as the universe. We are made up of the same...

This is more of a personal question for you guys. I'm just curious as to what your answers will be. You have the option to plug into a virtual world where your dream life awaits you, but once plugged in you can never return to the real world. Do you do it? Why or why not? What if, once you...

I did a search of the forum and was surprised a thread about this wasn't made. Basically, a UCLA philosophy postdoc gets shitcanned for exposing his students to porn then has a total psychic break a year later with an 800 page manifesto and a bunch of bizarre youtube vids. Cops tracked the guy...

-Loveletter From the Fifth Era What follows is a semi-intelligible summation of pseudo-psychedelic thoughts influenced by Discordianism, Gnosticism, Elder Scrolls Lore, Solipsism, Jung, Thelema, long hikes in the woods, five tons of flax, and the brain of a super-egotist with an id-feriority...

Did you know that God is a girl and her name is Eris?? Yeah, I didn't think so. On the off chance that you did, please mail a local housewife that the deep state would like to recruit her, I bet that'd be downright hilarious when she posts on Zuccbook that Q was right. If you weren't aware...

(Note: This analysis includes full spoilers for the game!) First thing after finishing this visual novel, a sudden urge to go outside and get so much vitamin C till I get sunburnt, then to browse eBay for retro PC's. Digital Seclusion tells the story of a nameless and isolated protagonist who...