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Yes, life is chaotic. And yes, the major choices in life are difficult or impossible to work out and get right. And yeah, nature is unpredictable and even though we came from it, we still try to work it out. And mmmhmm girrrl, we know nothing about death, and can not know anything about from anyone else who’s done it,…
This is one of the things that Massimo Pigluicci’s about: And in his article, “How to Live (Like a Stoic)” in the latest issue of New Philosopher magazine, Massimo Pigliucci said this: People think that philosophy is about pondering, and ideally answering, questions like the following ones: Does life have meaning? What is a life worth living? How can we best deal with…
The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Rumi It’s the trials and the suffering that make the good times truly sweet. And it’s the trials that lead to the best times of your life (they may even be the best times of your life, whether now, without realising, or later, in reflection.
Now look at your nightmares And all of your worst fears Your car and your house And your girl And it stops there All these things You can’t imagine losing Like oh no What if that happened to me From Soja’s Everything Changes At any moment you can choose to be happy. And you can be happy because you are happy. You…
One of the most common regrets of those in the final stages of their life is: ‘I wish I’d lived the life I’d wanted.’ That is, a life based on how you want to live it. Not how society, your family, your friends, your ‘friends’, or anyone else expects you should. In this scene from The Last Kiss, Izzy tries to…
Here’s the philosophy of: William Shakespeare pt.1 Can you say what you want with only a few words (or even one?) Or even none? Saying what you want with as few words makes what you say more meaningful, and may allow others to express what they want to say better too. And in the end, developing the skill to say what…
Learning how to live life matters shit if you don’t actually live it. You can read all the books you want, all the great wisdom from all history’s clearest thinkers, but if you don’t actually live life, enjoy your existence (which is a privilege) and do philosophy (as in putting into practice the approach you have to dealing with difficult times, stressful…
This is Ricky Gervais and his actual philosophy on Philosophy, if you were a mind in a tank, and why or why not this isn’t a dream. And Karl Pilkington on that we do need the bad to appreciate the good (at 11:30)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-v3ngHykP4
In this quick interview with The New Philosopher, Ricky Gervais answers questions with his usual Ricky Gervais genius. But it’s his answer to the last that stands out as most significant and perhaps his most thought out and most heavily contemplated. 13. What is the meaning of life? To learn and understand as much about the world as possible. To have…
The point of writing (whether just for yourself or publishing it) is to document what you do, why you did it, and then reflect on it to see how it went. And it’s also to make sense of the mess. Your mind is full of random thoughts, things people said to you 6 minutes ago, 13 years ago, 4 seconds…