#Philosophers

I am not perfect. I don’t want to be perfect.When I reach heaven’s gate, I want the scars of living my life to its fullest to be reviewed by the
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Albert Mohler said recently: "While we affirm the sentence “black lives matter,” without hesitation and with full enthusiasm, we simply cannot use the sentence, because it will be heard, nearly
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okay the more i'm thinking about this thread, the more names i'm coming up with, because the less constrained and strict the term "philosopher" even feels. bc this title comes
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Absolutely Teertha...what a balanced piece. The invaders and imperialists did their bit. But in independent India there was a decided diffidence about our culture and history. Forget political narratives, right
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In this 'Vanitas Still Life' (1603) by Jacques de Gheyn II he uses the symbol of Homo Bulla, "man is but a bubble" above the skull. Human life is vanity
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With the shift from in-person to Zoom over the past months, I’ve been wondering how much we’re changing not just our activities but our intuitions and even language. It might
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Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi (Al-Khwarizmi/Algorithmi) the great #Persian Muslim mathematician of the celebrated Golden Era. Born and brought up in Khiva, modern day #Uzbekistan, #CentralAsia; he later moved to the
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I just got offered my first guestlist to a virtual festival What a time to be aliveIt’s 34 a ticket, limited capacity AND they sold early bird tickets!Genuinely interested
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Six months ago, populations across the world went under lockdown to fight Covid-19.Amid confusion and horrifying death tolls, the default position was to protect the elderly and minimize loss of
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:deep breath:A year ago I watched Adam Curtis’s “HyperNormalisaton.” This clip is the only thing that has made sense to me the last 4 years. It’s one of the few
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The thing I hate most about philosophy is the ways that “older” traditions seem hell bent on snuffing out “younger” traditions before these traditions have a chance to contribute to
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It's time to discuss a point academics do not understand when dealing with woke professors. STEM people listen up: The woke are not trying to intellectually defeat you with arguments
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okay so here’s a thread about the story i got from stray kids most recent kingdom performance this thread is in no way based on facts purely off what their
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Riots are not directed violence, it is senseless violence that releases the heartfelt emotions of a scarred and angered community. Targeted violence is what Malcolm X and other Pan Africanist
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If you're reading this thread and you've not seen SovCit/FotL before, all the stuff about crowns and oaths and homophones seems random. What holds it all together (apart from self-interest)
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As folks have noted, Butler’s commentary on interdependence really sounds a lot like Indigenous philosophy/cosmology. After a friend pointed this out, I purchased Butler’s new book on nonviolence: she does
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