General and fundamental questions.
We thought we were born bourgeois, but instead we were proletarians dressed a little better. The old story of the field nigger and the house nigger as taught by Malcolm X.
Dormitory neighborhoods of the proletariat, but even the bourgeois city houses are dormitories. Only there are stores…
This view is a man made image.
The universe is not directly perceptible.
What we see is just photons captured.
Happiness doesn’t depends from how much money you make as individual!
Curious video to see how could be easy to grow a happy society.
“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”
Keanu Reeves
Can you imagine how your life would be without a car, personal computer, or access to the Internet?
Andy Puddicombe wants you to take a break — not just from work, but from your own mind, which is so full of anxieties about the world and anxieties about its own anxieties. To help you do that, Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, co-founded Headspace, a project to make meditation more accessible to more people in their everyday lives. Puddicombe also writes prolifically for the Huffington Post and the Guardian, on the benefits of mindful thinking for healthy living. […]
Source: https://www.ted.com/speakers/andy_puddicombe
How many times have we asked ourselves such questions:
“Does God exist? Is the soul immortal? Why do we sometimes do good for others and other times do evil even though we know it is so? Does destiny exist? What is faith?”
Philosophers in this comic: Thales, Heraclitus, Democritus, Plato, Plotinus, Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, George Berkeley, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Be cautious when you’re comparing yourself to others. You’re a singular being, once you’re an adult, you have your own particular, specific problems—financial, intimate, psychological, and otherwise. Those are embedded in the unique broader context of your existence. Your career or job works for you in a personal manner, or it does not, and it does so in a unique interplay with the other specifics of your life. You must decide how much of your time to spend on this, and how much on that. You must decide what to let go, and what to pursue.
Nowadays philosophy is seen as just an academic discipline for which you get a degree and then you have a certain set of skills to use in the …
Philosophy as a Way of Life
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