At last, a voice willing to question me.
It gives me hope this forum isn’t entirely asleep.
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At last, a voice willing to question me.
It gives me hope this forum isn’t entirely asleep.
If you think both points are wrong, show me the truth philosophers are delivering and the new ideas they are birthing. I’ll be glad to amend my views.
Humans believe what comforts them.
Flat Earth, conspiracies, religion...only the believers change.
A raccoon got drunk, wandered around, and took a nap.
If only all disturbances were so endearing.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
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In the end, all philosophy is a sandwich: layers of arguments no one asked for, held together by something someone else baked. 😉
Philosophers were once midwives of truth.
Now many are custodians of dead ideas, polishing them while the living wait outside.
To call another person garbage is to misunderstand our place in the universe.
We are all impermanent matter.
Dignity comes not from what we are made of, but how we act.
#philsky #PhilosophySky #Trump #Garbage
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Losing a dog is losing a piece of the world that loved you without condition.
That kind of love doesn’t disappear. It stays, gently, in every routine they shaped.
May your friend find comfort in the love that will linger forever.
A ruler squinting through half-closed eyes, surrounded by yes-men too timid to speak truth.
This is not politics. This is decay, wearing a flag as a shroud.
#philsky #PhilosophySky #EndOfTimes #Puppets #Trump
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He mistakes a figure of speech for a weather report.
No wonder he sees nothing.
When someone insists they’re not lying, explains they’re not lying, and repeats why they’re not lying, they’re lying.
The performance is the confession.
#philsky #PhilosophySky #TruthNotTruth #WarNotWar #Hegseth
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Trees owe us nothing. We owe them everything. Behave accordingly.
Cats are Cynics with fur:
self-governing, unmoved by flattery, and intolerant of fools.
If I could not be free as a man, I would be free as a cat.
Perhaps even a Persian.
Humans lie because the truth charges rent.
Lies are free and come with applause.
We shouldn’t need a ledger of politically motivated murders.
But we do, because one exceptional act is frequently used to deny well-established patterns.
If honesty were common, a shield against deliberate misunderstanding would not be necessary.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
I admire his discipline.
No matter the circumstance, he can transform self-promotion into a lesson, betrayal into strategy, and departure into destiny.
Few men are so devoted to themselves.
#philsky #PhilosophySky #OleMiss #LaneKiffin
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Point at the crowd you already dislike.
Call them the cause. Rile up your base. Do nothing about the actual problem.
This is the modern ritual.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
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Laws for the dead are ceremony.
Laws for the living are responsibility.
A #society that waits for a murder to act has already failed its #women.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
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You’ve made up your mind, Professor Superbus Omnisciens.
No need to make up ours.
He had more than life requires.
Ambition ruined the rest.
#Bolsonaro #philsky #PhilosophySky
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He’ll repeat whatever he heard last, improvise a sentence or two, forget it by tomorrow, and insist everyone follow a plan he abandoned before lunch.
The state can’t function on impulses.
Only mobs can.
Human history is not a single thread to be followed, but a tapestry woven from many hands, many landscapes, many necessities.
To dismiss a new thread because it is not the entire tapestry is to misunderstand the purpose of inquiry itself.
I detest the arrogance and condescension.
I admire the honesty.
A rare man who says the quiet part out loud instead of burying it under corporate training slides.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
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Hazy agrees.
We stripped the land, drained the rivers, and bred cattle like widgets.
Now the factory closes, the land is wrecked, the workers are stranded, and we call it “market forces.”
I call it a slow-motion suicide.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
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WaPo clip that reads: Take a "fart walk" to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal. Whatever you do, resist the urge the lie down.
A “fart walk” after a feast.
I admire the honesty.
At least we’ve stopped pretending this holiday is dignified.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
Wise is he who stops following people who clearly don’t know where they’re going.
Thanksgiving began as gratitude for a harvest that might keep a village alive through winter.
Now it’s gratitude for buying too much food, throwing half away, and pretending that’s tradition.
We’re not grateful. We’re grotesque.
#philsky #PhilosophySky
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A fine slogan, Epictetus.
But the moment you tell people their reaction matters, they start performing it for an audience—usually while selling T-shirts.
The natural posture of a sane person in a mad marketplace.