August 2011
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Catching a Hurricane's Leftovers (And What to Do...
1. Sleep - because god knows no one ever gets enough of it. NO ONE.
2. Don’t go to work - just don’t.
3. Read - because you have at least 3 partially read books and you know if you read more than 40 pages it’d probably result in some grand life-changing epiphany.
4. Indulge and have an existential crisis or two - because you’re in you’re 20’s a human being. ...
July 2011
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Alright alright so I haven’t been posting much recently (read: at all)… And for that I am sorry.
This summer has been one of many amazing ups and a few really, really bad downs. My brain is literally like a tangled ball of six others balls of yarn. So until I can untangle one strand and put it on the internet (I’m not sure where this metaphor is going), I’m afraid...
Out in the Woods, Carved on a Tree, Two Little...
“Remember me”.
I miss you.
The Beauty of Belief: Coffee Cup Analogy →
clairestewart:
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot…
June 2011
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I Would Totally Kill to Have a Bankable Talent...
Or any talent and/or skill really. But money always helps.
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SHALOM
Oh, shalom, didn’t see you come in.
Alright so I’ve been thinking about how to format this post for almost the entirety of my four weeks in Israel, and I realized since when the shit do I care about formatting. So here’s the deal, from May 11 to June 9th, I hung out in Israel and ate. The first ten days was an organized free tour for Jewish 18-26 year olds. Right off the bat...
May 2011
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The Following are Reasons Why Everything is...
1) It’s sunny.
2) I’m wearing shorts.
3) I am currently enjoying a latte and free internet at a cafe around the corner from my apartment.
4) I made a motherfucking omelette this morning.
5) I ate it on my balcony.
6) I listened to ‘Sons and Daughters’ by the Decemberists.
7) I just received my schedule for my new (hopefully awesome) job.
8) I’m almost done...
onthought asked: An unfollow then refollow? Somehow I think this may be related to my less than intelligent drunk raving earlier :P
April 2011
8 posts
adayinthelifeofcolor asked: 26. You have 26 followers. n_n
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Appreciation Post
I am writing this to tell all of y’all that I appreciate each and every one of you so much. While I only have a modest 25 followers, it warms my heart to know that a handful of people out there kinda like what I’m writing about (or laugh at the same memes that I reblog from people much cooler than me). Anyway, you guys rock, and I love you.
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“Philosophy never makes things easier, but only more difficult… Burdening...”
– Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
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“Not because I’m studious, but because if I ingest any more alcohol before...”
– Me, telling my friend Steven why I shouldn’t go out during exam week
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“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
– Mark Twain
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Green Grass*
I am never satisfied with where I am. And I think I speak for a number of people when I say that I wish I was on a fucking beach right now. This rings especially true when one has to deal with Montreal winters which seem to drag on for 3 months too long. Now, today is honestly a pretty sweet day. Minimal wind, minimal clouds, sunshine, about 13 degrees, no rain… but I’m still not...
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'Can Man Move Faster Than Time?'
If you even got past the title, congratulations, I salute you. But this is pretty much the canonical example I use when I need to explain to someone the extent of the pretentious bullshit that is brought up in my philosophy classes.
Now, for a while I kind of just wrote it off as some goatee-sporting egotistical jerk trying to sound smart because there are few things he enjoys more than the...
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Get Your Shit Together, Bookstores!
I will forever resent bookstores for putting their philosophy books in the same section as religion/cosmology/astrology/mysticism/wicca (seriously?)/other equally weird shit/lady gaga’s biography/anything ‘new age’.
March 2011
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“I can see everyone is pretty excited… Spring is almost here, and the quest...”
– Andrea Falcon, professor of my metaphysics class, which is basically an analysis of Barry Stroud’s Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour
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Emotional Hangover
(phrase; English)
The emotional hangover is often brought on by an interaction between two or more persons, in which one or more of the parties in question pours their heart and soul out to the other. It is initially set off by seemingly unproblematic issues, such as a previously viewed movie or the weather, but the conversation will eventually take a sudden turn towards the dark and depressing,...
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Life's Scapegoat
The field of philosophy seems to get attacked endlessly and deemed utterly useless by, well, pretty much everyone.
“What has philosophy shown us about the world today?” “What has it done for the economy lately?” “Philosophy won’t solve –insert global crisis here- (Choices include, but are not limited to: global warming, earthquakes, world hunger, my hunger, overpopulation, genocide, Justin...
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“There should be a rule: Just because you’re smart, doesn’t mean you...”
– Sruti
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So after attending a conference recently, the topic of which was “Public Philosophy”, I was somewhat disappointed to learn that everyone seemed to be looking for the “goal” in philosophy - some kind of end, some kind of utility.
But the thing is there isn’t. And that’s where all the beauty lies. It is the ultimate, self-sustaining thing. It stands up on its own. It...
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I want to write something so epic that it eventually becomes a cliché and everyone ends up hating it and teachers warn their students to never use it.
reasons why i'm single
i can’t date food
i can’t date the internet
i can’t date myself
i can’t date my blog
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“Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly,...”
– Steve Grand [Creation: Life and How To Make It] (via bringtheruckuss)
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Your Daily Nutritional Requirement of Rant
So I was supposed to go to some party last night, and I had some pretty ok expectations of how my night would go, involving friends and drunkenness, but unfortunately everything fucking sucked instead. I walked into this party feeling horribly out of place and every single synonym of awkward you can find in a thesaurus. Too many people there gave off this...
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February 2011
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“We have too much respect for ourselves to ever get laid.”
– Sruti
… christ.
lonelysamurai asked: Well, I'll be sure not to use my title or the associated powers for ill! As for not knowing what you want to do after your undergrad, that is perfectly fine. After all, philosophy is about seeking the truth. All the advice I can give to you is continue your studies and find something that you enjoy. If you don't find anything, wander the streets and question people without end. Socrates...
lonelysamurai asked: So, you are a philosophy major? What do you plan to do with that? (This is coming from a fellow major, so don't think I'm being a douche!)
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Momentum
Recently, or maybe not-so-recently but recently enough, a friend and I were discussing utilitarianism. Don’t get the wrong idea here though, we’re not smart. More often than not, our conversations usually take place electronically, and usually consist in both parties sending GIFs back and forth, and when we do have conversations in person, they are painfully socially-awkward, and consist mostly...
January 2011
19 posts
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Just Watched Catfish
The internet is scary and I don’t like it and I’m ready to go home now.
… but Yaniv Schulman is pretty fucking sexy.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
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I just dragged a file entitled 'Anna's Actual New...
I am okay with this.
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This Is Your Brain on Caffeine
I’m kind of considering minoring in psychology. I forgot how ridiculous the human brain is/human beings are.
I’m selfish.
But so is everyone else.
But whatever. It’s selfish to think you’re not selfish. I mean c’mon. It’s not our fault, really. It’s pretty much built into us to be that way, which brings us to my first (only?) feature:
Priorities...
Binge Eating
mybiggestregretever:
My biggest regret ever is binge eating. I don’t eat a lot of food for a week, then one day I just stuff my face with as much shitty food as I can.
[Female, 16]
See, personally, I file this under ‘My Biggest Accomplishment Ever’.
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This is real life
Nihilippie “You know, I really have to stop thinking I’m better than everyone.”
Failosophy “No, I know, me too… But look it’s just that everyone has to accept that they don’t know anything. But they don’t. And the fact that I do acknowledge that I don’t know anything makes me better than them. So I guess I’m no better than they are,...
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She gets it
“…but. if you insist on looking for problems in the grand scheme of GOOD things - i’m not only confused, and a little bit angry, i am mostly bored. older teachers keep yelling at me (okay, “yelling”). they’re mad that all i (okay, my generation, but i take things personally if you can’t tell) do is blog, and that we don’t do enough to change the...
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Wisdom Nugget
Contrary to popular belief, saying ‘Yeah but when you really think about it…’ before your sentence does not automatically make your sentence valid and/or true.
Reality.
expectations vs reality is the best thing to hit the internet since the internet.
theatregeekinthescarf:
Home alone. Dancing.
What you think you look like:
What you actually look like:
What I look like:
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The World is Flat
I feel like I’m experiencing life through a crack in the ceiling, with this much sunlight peeking through. The world is replete with potential and chances and maybes and maybe nots and guesses and choices, but I’m pretty sure that’s all it is anyway. And I think that’s okay.
(This is what happens when I try to make sense of anything at all.)
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Space
I wish I was more comforted by my insignificance within the world, but it just seems to amplify everything I do that much more - Because I’m so small, everything I do is, like, huge.
I’m significant because I’m insignificant because the world is enormous, and that’s really more terrifying than anything. Fuck, there’s no winning with you, life. I’m gonna go...
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Everyone just has to shut the fuck up for 15 minutes.
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Life
expectations-vs-reality:
Expectation:
Reality:
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Shit's Getting Real
So I’m reading a Paul Bloom article entitled The Moral Life of Babies, discussing whether or not babies are moral agents. In reading this, I came across an interesting statement:
“To have a genuinely moral system, in other words, some things first have to matter, and what we see in babies is the development of mattering.”
…Shit guys, I’m scared. I’ve been...