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This is the first of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —- So, to kick it off… What are the things you’re passionate about?…
This is a current promotional campaign for the Uni of Queensland: So in other words, what they’re saying is: or: If you’re constantly looking ahead and where you’re going (much like the guy in the picture) when do you ever stop and look where you are? That’s the pointlessness (and danger) of goals. They can delude us into constantly living in…
I have no ambition. Okay, so yeah, it’d be great to wake up tomorrow, and life is the most important thing to me, but live every day like ‘If this was last day on earth, would I be glad I did this thing I’m about to do?’ And if it did end tomorrow (or even later in the day), ‘Would…
We all have a death sentence, we’re all dying. But that isn’t a reason to despair or be bummed out, in fact it’s the opposite. We all have the same fate, that of death. Yet we can choose to rebel against it and make it whatever we want it to be, and be grateful for the so many things that…
If you don’t remember the 13.7 billion years that went by before you existed, then the trillions and trillions and trillions of years that come after will pass by in no time. – Kurzgesagt Watch this at 2:30: If the past no longer exists (even though you are a product of it) then the future is exactly the same. So…
The term ‘selfish’ is most, if not all the time, used in a pejorative way. It’s rare for someone to say, ‘He’s such a good bloke – He’s so selfish.’ And what’s it got to do with having babies? Maybe there’s no way that anyone can have kids and not be selfish in doing it. Or maybe there is. Or…
What do you think is the point of life and the universe? There’s a range of Existential approaches to the question, that range from guys like Schoppenhauer who said that life has no meaning and is nothing but a punishment, to guys like Kierkegaard who said that we live and die, but God (or more, our hope and faith in God) will…
There are (at least) 3 things that you’re born with that you are part of who you are now, that you had no control over: Your name, your age, and your nationality. These were decided for you. You were thrown into them, and as Sartre would say, they’re your facticities. Which makes them meaningless in any truly significant way, as…
To be or not to be, that is the question… So what was Shakespeare’s Hamlet on about here? We know nothing about death (and the proof, as Jerry Seinfeld says, is that we give dead people a pillow. There is no one you can ask about it. It is the one thing, by nature of the mortality of biological organisms,…
Though at first this article seems like The Onion are taking the piss out of (and they might be) Stoic approaches to misfortune, trials, life, death, gratitude, nature and the indifference of the universe, and good and bad times (and even taking cold showers) reveals itself as you peel the layers, much like the stinky, stinky vegetable which bears the website’s name: Are…