If you didn’t know what love is, and you observed someone who was going through the pangs of love you would best guess that it’s some kind of crippling disease.
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If someone points out a flaw in you, you can either get upset (which may mean you acknowledge it) or you can actively try change it. & what humour’s got to do with it.If someone points out a flaw in you, you can either get upset (which may mean you acknowledge it) or you can actively try change it. & what humour’s got to do with it.
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
Fuck consequences (?) + The Philosophy of: Bernard Black from Black BooksFuck consequences (?) + The Philosophy of: Bernard Black from Black Books
If all significant events in life are transformative, where you can never know or explain what it’s like to have a kid, feel what it’s like to be married, get divorced,
A Deep Dive into: Sex – The pleasure of keeping clothes onA Deep Dive into: Sex – The pleasure of keeping clothes on
There might not be a word more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language than Love. But actually, no, yes there might. And its definition,
IT’S OFFICIAL!!! – Apple releases the new iPhone XS Max – ‘Everything you love just got necessarily fucking massive.’IT’S OFFICIAL!!! – Apple releases the new iPhone XS Max – ‘Everything you love just got necessarily fucking massive.’
Just when you thought the images on your screen were as life like and as fucking massive as possible, the iPhone XS Max has made them even more necessarily fucking
A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.10] – Even with rules, sex with a friend you love and admire will at least change the friendship and at worst, ruin it.A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.10] – Even with rules, sex with a friend you love and admire will at least change the friendship and at worst, ruin it.
This is a deep dive into the one word that may be more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language: Love. What does it really
A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.9] – If the strength of a friendship is based on how vulnerable you can be with each other, and if sex is the most vulnerable thing to do with someone (naked with no clothes on, nowhere to hide, or no weapons to protect you), why can’t friends have sex?A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.9] – If the strength of a friendship is based on how vulnerable you can be with each other, and if sex is the most vulnerable thing to do with someone (naked with no clothes on, nowhere to hide, or no weapons to protect you), why can’t friends have sex?
This is a deep dive into the one word that may be more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language: Love. What does it really
A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.8] – Is true love about admiration (of a friend)? + The [super fucking cool] Philosophy of: ‘Being just good friends’A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.8] – Is true love about admiration (of a friend)? + The [super fucking cool] Philosophy of: ‘Being just good friends’
This is a deep dive into the one word that may be more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language: Love. What does it really
Is a life lived guided by your head (and not your heart) a life worth living?Is a life lived guided by your head (and not your heart) a life worth living?
Even though life (and love) is absurd, if you live your life based on being rational, as opposed to following your heart (even if it leads to heartbreak, anguish and
Is it possible to exist both in the moment and with a part of you in the future too (whether worried/anxious or hopeful about it)? Is that an inherent condition of being a human (which makes it okay)?Is it possible to exist both in the moment and with a part of you in the future too (whether worried/anxious or hopeful about it)? Is that an inherent condition of being a human (which makes it okay)?
Can you be completely present in every moment? Is that the perfect life? But, if it is, are you sacrificing the joy of building something with others? Conversely, if you
Be Here Now. – Why is it so hard to be completely present in the moment? (And maybe this is how we can do it)Be Here Now. – Why is it so hard to be completely present in the moment? (And maybe this is how we can do it)
At any given moment, you may be with someone you care about, but your mind is going over things in your past, your ambitions for the future, your fears about
How can we quickly bounce back and move on when things don’t go as we expected or hoped?How can we quickly bounce back and move on when things don’t go as we expected or hoped?
Imagine them going wrong. Visualise what you hope for not happening – in every little detail. Imagine the thing most wish for not happening. What would that look and feel
IT’S OFFICIAL: There’s Officially Nowhere on Planet Earth Left Where You Can Walk Outdoors. The Only Area Left on Earth Available for You to Walk In? A 2m x 2m Patch In Your Living Room.IT’S OFFICIAL: There’s Officially Nowhere on Planet Earth Left Where You Can Walk Outdoors. The Only Area Left on Earth Available for You to Walk In? A 2m x 2m Patch In Your Living Room.
Planet Earth has officially run out of any public space bigger than 2m x 2m where you can actually walk. But luckily, this device, which scientists are at the moment
Is it better to ‘be alone than to WANT to be alone’? – The argument for being single.Is it better to ‘be alone than to WANT to be alone’? – The argument for being single.
If freedom is important to you, it may be far better to be single (with its uncertainties and anxieties) than to be in a relationship where you wish you were single.
Has music ever brought a tear to your eye? When (and why)? & The philosophy of: This girl at 4:19 at a Soja showHas music ever brought a tear to your eye? When (and why)? & The philosophy of: This girl at 4:19 at a Soja show
Has music ever made you cry? When was it last time? Was it because you were thinking back, forward or just because of where you were at that moment?
Could death possibly be a boat? – On the absurdity of: Death and the absurd but brilliant philosophy of: Rosencrantz & Guildernstern [pt.4]Could death possibly be a boat? – On the absurdity of: Death and the absurd but brilliant philosophy of: Rosencrantz & Guildernstern [pt.4]
This is part 4 in a series on the absurd but brilliant philosophy of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern in Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are Dead. Here’s the rest, and why those guys are
Do you ever think of yourself of not having been born? Of course not, right? Because how could you imagine yourself as not been born? You wouldn’t know you hadn’t been born. It’s absurd to think about. Which is also why I don’t think about it. – Inspired by the absurd but brilliant philosophy (and wisdom) of: Rosencrantz and Guildernstern [pt.2]Do you ever think of yourself of not having been born? Of course not, right? Because how could you imagine yourself as not been born? You wouldn’t know you hadn’t been born. It’s absurd to think about. Which is also why I don’t think about it. – Inspired by the absurd but brilliant philosophy (and wisdom) of: Rosencrantz and Guildernstern [pt.2]
This is part 2 of the absurdist but brilliant philosophy of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern… here’s part 1. All the medical progress that’s been made over the years is good, right?
Do you ever think of yourself as dead, lying in a box? Would you rather be dead lying in a box, or alive and in a box? Well, for one, if you choose dead in a box, you won’t even know what you’ve chosen, since you’re dead. Oh, and is life in a box better than no life at all? – The Philosophy of: Rosencrantz & Guilderstern (On the Absurdity of: Death, and our futile attempt to understand it)Do you ever think of yourself as dead, lying in a box? Would you rather be dead lying in a box, or alive and in a box? Well, for one, if you choose dead in a box, you won’t even know what you’ve chosen, since you’re dead. Oh, and is life in a box better than no life at all? – The Philosophy of: Rosencrantz & Guilderstern (On the Absurdity of: Death, and our futile attempt to understand it)
We don’t understand death. It confuses the shit out of us. And by the very definition of life, in which it can not co-exist with the state of being dead,
IT’S OFFICIAL!! The Weather Finally Snaps, Guns Down 35 (Killing 21) in Local Shopping Centre, After Being Called ‘Shit’ One Too Many TimesIT’S OFFICIAL!! The Weather Finally Snaps, Guns Down 35 (Killing 21) in Local Shopping Centre, After Being Called ‘Shit’ One Too Many Times
In today’s news, local natural phenomenon The Weather, 4.5 billion, has wandered into a local shopping centre with an AK-47 and mowed down 35 men, women and children in cold
Just when you think things are shitty… The philosophy of: Hassan, the airport prisoner.Just when you think things are shitty… The philosophy of: Hassan, the airport prisoner.
In those times when one thing seems to go wrong after another, and particularly those times when bearaucracy and superficial decisions made about your status or ‘worth’ are decided by