There is no perfect person. We all do absurd things and have neuroses that make no, or very little, sense to others. From time to time, some of these may be
Category: On change
‘It is your life. Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself; don’t swim in the same slough.’ – The philosophy of: Charles Bukowski (Is a life stripped of goals and dreams a meaningless one?) + The philosophy of: Modest Mouse‘It is your life. Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself; don’t swim in the same slough.’ – The philosophy of: Charles Bukowski (Is a life stripped of goals and dreams a meaningless one?) + The philosophy of: Modest Mouse
Is an ambition-free life, one ‘free’ of dreams a meaningless one? Is existence completely in the present a purposeless one? In Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, a man is sentenced to death
The Philosophy of: Daniel from Everybody Loves Somebody – Does standing still mean you not only resist (natural) change but also become incapable of handling and adapting to it?The Philosophy of: Daniel from Everybody Loves Somebody – Does standing still mean you not only resist (natural) change but also become incapable of handling and adapting to it?
Some of the greatest, most significant and most powerful moments in your life may be the ones where you just stop, breathe, live and take in where you are in
Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey.Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey.
When someone tells you ‘Don’t panic!’ or ‘Don’t get stressed’ or even ‘Don’t worry’, the last thing that your brain hears is: ‘Panic!’, ‘Get stressed’ and ‘worry’. But it doesn’t
Maybe living the good life is not about being invincible but about being adaptable.Maybe living the good life is not about being invincible but about being adaptable.
Your body will fail you, at some point. So maybe being invincible isn’t realistic. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe instead of saying ‘Nothing will ever hurt me’, it’s healthier and
The Philosophy of: Triple J’s Alex Dyson – New Year’s Resolutions are dumbThe Philosophy of: Triple J’s Alex Dyson – New Year’s Resolutions are dumb
If you want to change something, or do something better, you a) don’t have to wait until an arbitrary time marker (a new calendar year) to do it. Additionally, if
A Deep Dive into: AI [pt.1] – It’s good that humans only live to about 80 right now because robots are soon going to first fuck up our lives, and probably not long after the human race will be completely wiped out. (+ the philosophy of: Sophia the sassy robot)A Deep Dive into: AI [pt.1] – It’s good that humans only live to about 80 right now because robots are soon going to first fuck up our lives, and probably not long after the human race will be completely wiped out. (+ the philosophy of: Sophia the sassy robot)
If intelligence is the processing of info, and computers can already do it a fuckton quicker than us, we’re fucked. For thousands of years people have communicated and tried to
The philosophy of: inertia (& the philosophy of: Paul Rulkens – If you want results you’ve never had before, you have to start doing things you’ve never done before. And why the majority is always wrong.)The philosophy of: inertia (& the philosophy of: Paul Rulkens – If you want results you’ve never had before, you have to start doing things you’ve never done before. And why the majority is always wrong.)
Philosophy and physics are like 2 twins separated and birth and brought up in different families – at the heart of it, they’re fundamentally similar. If you understand physics, you
Change is neither good nor bad, it just is. And it can’t be stopped, so embrace it.Change is neither good nor bad, it just is. And it can’t be stopped, so embrace it.
You yourself are a part of [this] universe; and for any one of nature’s parts, that which is assigned to it by the World-Nature or helps to keep the whole world
Maybe knowing yourself isn’t important, but knowing that you’re maybe you’re not right about ANYTHING isMaybe knowing yourself isn’t important, but knowing that you’re maybe you’re not right about ANYTHING is
You change every second. Every split second. Because every second, every split second you come closer to the end of your life. So if you’re changing every split second you
Is it ambitious to aim to be completely unambitious? [I have no ambition.]Is it ambitious to aim to be completely unambitious? [I have no ambition.]
I have no ambition, or at least that’s my goal. My ambition’s to be completely without ambition. When I was 21, back in 2004, one day after uni during rush
Change your life now!!! Yeah, and if you don’t want to?Change your life now!!! Yeah, and if you don’t want to?
Everything changes, but ‘Change’ and especially voluntary change, is not always good (Also, climate change. Not that good.) So when self-help gurus tell you ‘You can change your life!’¹… What
Time Travel – Probably the hardest thing to do.Time Travel – Probably the hardest thing to do.
Going back in time is really, really hard. Even Cher couldn’t work out how to do it. These guys (the two up the front) did it: But it’s not the same.