Category: Philosophy
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Old Friend
The arrival was always signaled by the splatter of drips. This time, the slow uneven squelch of congealed mud, and blood. There was often blood. Swirling to mix with the muddy pools in the tattered mess of what had once been a pumpkin farm, but had recently been tarnished by the battlefield. The sword had…
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Call of the Commune
My friends and I often joke about packing up and leaving the city to buck the trend by pooling our resources for commune living. Our joke has even gone so far as to have people picking out their desired roles & responsibilities within our made up pseudo-society. This musing isn’t unique to us; there is…
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Writing in a Post ChatGPT World
From the outset it should be said that I use ChatGPT pretty much daily and think it is an amazing piece of technology set to change the course of human history (as if it hasn’t already done so). But now the act of putting thoughts to paper in my own often grammatically dubious and bumbling…
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Solarpunk
What started as pure aesthetic has become social underground with books and manifestos building an optimistic ideological movement providing much needed hope for the future.
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What if There is Nothing After?
What if there really is nothing after? You close your eyes, fall off your perch and then, nothing. No more sense of self, no Valhalla, no pearly gates, or even the eternal torment of hell. What happens to your values if it turns out there is no weighing of hearts against feathers, no ledger of…
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AILS: Capitalism
Assumptions Before I began my quest to learn about one of (if not the) most prevalent economic systems in the world, I had some very specific ideas about what capitalism was. Firstly, I thought that capitalism’s main aim was to redistribute wealth amongst the population. Secondly, I thought it was the only market based economic…
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No Language
I worry there isn’t words to describe the depth of my feelings. One four letter word isn’t enough. It feels too small, too fragile, to contain such an ache. A strand that cuts through to the very core of my soul and anchors me to you. The breadth of comfort with you, the depth of…
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Knowledge is Power – Society is Weak
Never more true than today, knowledge is power. Or more aptly in today’s world the ability to provide & control the flow of knowledge is power. Recently there’s been several large course corrections occur, several years too late but hey, better late than never as the saying goes. This highlights one of the biggest and…
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The Worker Bee
Do what you’re told, follow the rules, don’t over step your bounds, stay in your lane. The true cornerstone of modern enslavement to work. “We can’t all live our dreams”, why is that? Because then we’d have to change, to collectively actually think and enact a way all people could realistically achieve a base standard…
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Burnout
After several months of near constant stressing about work deadlines & topsy-turvy project schedules, I finally came to terms with the fact that I had burnout. Recently I’ve had a growing sense of apathy & general disinterest towards work. A deep feeling that I can only describe as a feeling of treading water, with no…
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