#philosophy?

[dumbass-without-a-cause]

Sometimes a very serious moral philosophy scholar has the funniest name possible

[birr-rd]

Having a very space-y week: Artemis ii, 17776 Day, and I’ve been binging Star Trek.

It’s making me think about the unity of humanity. The world is vast and diverse but fundamentally and essentially we are all here together. It’s like the Golden Record, the information we thought was so fundamental to our existence as a species that it would define us to those unimaginably different from ourselves.

- Sounds from our natural world

- The audio of a mother kissing her child

- Greetings in 55 languages

But my favorite is this:

With highly limited storage, only the essential was worthy of space. And there’s this. A woman eating grapes in a supermarket. This could be me, or you, or anyone. It’s all of us, all here together.

We commonly hear questions around space exploration to the tune of: are we alone in the universe? But how could that be, if you’re here with me?

[papirussian]

Sorry, this is about the recent TADC drama again-

Note: Don't take what I say to heart since I wasn't there and don't know the full story. No I'm not defending anyone, I just don't like misinformation, and yes, what they said was concerning (but remember, they're real people, and real people have flaws, which is unfortunate- don't put your idols on a pedestal, but also, make sure you're not being fed misinformation (THAT INCLUDES FROM ME, IDK WHAT'S 100% CORRECT, THIS IS SIMPLY OPINION AND SEMI COMMON SENSE BASED)

I'm seeing a lot of "YOU'RE RACIST! NO YOU'RE RACIST! NO YOU!" everyone's targeting each other and forgetting people can still change even if they're adults

I've seen people see the error of their ways if they were racist/ homophobic/ transphobic/ bad people in the past. Unlearning those behaviors takes time but it's possible, and 7 years is a lot of time where you can meet good people and see things differently. It's like people forgot that's what cartoons have been teaching us.

I'm seeing several people take things out of context, spreading misinformation, seeing several people just jumping on the trend of putting tadc as a show down the drain just cuz of this situation

Lots of aggressiveness coming from people calling anyone who says anything like "it was 7 years ago" "they've apologized" or "they've changed" racist as if they're so adamant they have all the context

I don't like when some people are so unwilling to see all sides to a story, it's like you're just attacking people for not agreeing with you immediately. But I've also seen actual racists popping up and being horrible people, so that sucks and I hope they break several bones and learn to be a better person

I've never seen this happen with a fandom before, it's really scary, it's like I'm looking at a bunch of maga people

It's good that the part of the fandom flaming the va's aren't racist, and they understand that racism is bad- cuz it is and it's really dumb- and we've been taught black history and all they've went through and what obstacles they've had and still had to face (they're very much still happening), but I think context is important, and so is thinking about things logically- not assuming things

This was 7 years ago, they were playing some type of jackbox game, they misread someone's username, and it turned into an ironic inside joke- and with jackbox, that kinda stuff makes things funny and embarrassing at the same time, or relatable or something- they didn't mean to say it the first time, but because it was an unfortunate accident, and because they were playing jackbox and streaming/ engaging with the chat, the inside joke was kept on- like comedians do with their bits or like how memes are- which is most likely why they were laughing

Personally, I don't find the inside joke funny, nor would I feel comfortable playing with racist jokes for jackbox games. I understand that several people are offended and disappointed in the tadc cast and Gooseworx, but again, this was 7 years ago (and more from like 10 yrs ago probably), and we don't quite know if they changed or not, but I really don't think that inside joke makes them racist? Just really ignorant, immature, and morally flawed- which if you remember life around 2015-2019 there were a lot of questionable fandom activities going on from fans and creators- though this has always been happening, we've just been getting better at calling out these strange and disrespectful behaviors.

I don't know why people do and say concerning things, mostly white people. They definitely have some sort of internalized racism in them due how they were raised, what media they engaged with, and what their friends beliefs were (which were instilled in them from the same stuff and their parents) (and that's just the "non" racists, there are several racist white people of all ages everywhere)

This whole time I've just been imagining the va's, Goose, and Glitch not caring about this whole situation cuz it really does feel like it's kinda spiralled out of control. Plus, there are a lot of creators and every day people who've been exposed for saying or doing concerning things in the past and regret their actions and have tried to be better people.

We don't know how these people act in real life, we don't know what their friendships are really like. We just know them from tadc, and whatever other games and animated projects they've worked on, and seen how they act in their streams/ videos. I've seen a lot of highschool/ college friend groups, plenty who've made some concerning jokes, but these groups were typically apart of the groups who jokes were aimed at and were saying them in a knowing way (example: a gay group of friends who make gay jokes).

I'm not the same person that I was in middle school, and I'm not quite the same as I was in highschool. I'm 21 now, and I don't know if I'll have things figured out at 23 or even 26. I'm still learning how to do taxes. It wasn't till I was 17-18 entering college that I learned there are different types of autistic people and that I myself am somewhere on the spectrum. My parents aren't quite the same people they used to be when they were in their 40s and they're in their mid 50s now. Unfortunately, they're a little racist and kinda transphobic, but I've had them meet my trans friends and they've slowly been learning their pronouns. We have Hispanic family, and my aunt and my mom are best friends. To be fair, my parents are still hypocritical with these things, but idrk how to fix that 🤷. These are some examples of growth over ~7+ years

Some people change naturally based on changes to their environment and friend groups, some people don't change cuz things stay the same, and some people just don't want to change. We don't know these people, but all this drama feels really forced. Idk. I'm still looking at everyone's opinions, and my brain is still processing. I'm trying to get all the sides. I don't want to just take one side's opinion and agree, especially if the context isn't being taken into consideration.

I feel conflicted about seeing the movie, but Glitch has been working hard on this show, so I'd still like to try to see it. So many great things came out of this story, I think it's beautiful. Plus, an indie animated "movie" getting into theatres all around the world is a big fucking deal for artists

[one-true-houselight]

MY PHYSICS TEXTBOOK GAINED SENTIENCE AND IS RUMINATING ABOUT ART (a poem)

You will never find a true reflection of the soul

It would just be strange beams of light bounced off the silver backed mirrors of our minds

And as the ridges swerve and neurons run upon their twisting paths

It might distort itself to foolishness, or even until you cannot recognize it at all

Souls are far too complex to fit neatly in a frame

The dark sides send cold shivers up our spines and spidery cracks down the cloudy pane

And even in the clearest reflection anyone could find

You can only see the facade, the mask, the basic summary

Going through life never knowing what’s within

Never able to see all the meaning dancing quietly beneath your skin

There cannot be a single person with whom you dance eternal upon a strand of the exact same frequency

Life is not the type to be contained inside a simple note

And the melodies that trace our movements through the world are so often a

discordant random little pattern of millions of keys

And remember: if the aria of a singer ever matched the atomic dance

The only thing they’d have to show for it was the shattered glass held in their hand

And even if this logic rings true in our minds and in our ears

It’s also true that for as long as we’ve been people we’ve drawn our hearts upon our sleeve

Pouring out our feelings into ink and paper, into choruses and harmonies

And you can’t deny the times you felt your bones sing along inside of you

You must remember all the art that made you finally feel seen

But if do not have our other half

If we cannot find one simple path

What the hell could all this really mean?

If not reflection, then perhaps refraction is our guide

Shining like a rainbow in the tumbling of the falls

All our creations disparate prisms, our souls all different rays of light

When one refracts the other, we can map each electromagnetic shade that together form our unique hue

We all have different wavelengths, and no prism bends the same

So each new combination creates new colors to behold

Reveals an endless parade of understandings we never could have seen before

As we harmonize together, revel in the fact that we can never match each other

Because that’s the only reason we don’t just shatter where we stand

The same and same and same and same can’t be enough if we want ourselves to grow and flourish

Sometimes it takes the unexpected chord and the strange pitch to draw out something new

Novel interactions revealing specific specks of stardust inside us that familiarity will always fail to show

Even simply standing next to someone who has had the luck to find

A note that permanently shifts their ribcage, letting fear or joy or hope escape

We will also feel the movement, we can also ride the waves

As if there were infinite guitars and we were their infinite taut strings

That which is not for us can still leave a needed mark upon our canvas

Changing the composition irrevocably and for the better

But refraction makes mirages too, as resonance can square the rounded wave

Introducing ringing in your head and eerie false comfort in the blazing of the sun

We see sights of previously abandoned paths, chances never taken, leaps put on hold before they were ever leapt

Is the shimmering of the image all the shuddering regret we hold of all the choices that we have ever made?

In the end it doesn’t matter, they’re not real anyway

We only see them at certain angles, through certain vague differences in heat and dust and humidity

Conditions that will fluctuate a thousand times and then again

Never with a pattern we can hope to understand

Therefore, these imagined futures we never landed in couldn’t look like what we see

They lack the third dimension that changes illusion into reality

They will fade away, and you must take care not to fade with them

So throw a rock into your placid internal lake

Let the ripples break the static image that’s defined you all these years

The uncertainty of what is there and what’s ahead

Is the only way to see all the true life you have to live

If someone ever tells you life is just a quest for one of anything

One person, one purpose, one meaning or destiny

And that a perfect match is your only hope for finding peace

Remember first that normal only exists in force equations

They cannot determine which options are there for you to grasp

Run yourself in parallel so other people’s choices and opinions cannot cut your power off

Then tell them this: There is more than one color in the sky above

More than one note in the music of the wind

How could there not be more than one path we can walk to find satisfaction?

How could there not be more kinds of love in our hearts than could ever be counted in a single lifetime?

Our time is a series of equal and opposite reactions

But unlike friction or gravity, we get to decide how they appear

Seek out that which makes your bones hum inside of you

Collect the prisms that illuminate your soul in new colors every day

Step out into the gentle void of creation and make your own mark

Your gifts are needed to map the ever expanding truth of our eternity

Just as wires resonate and the atmosphere refracts

Allowing radio to broadcast to every corner of the world

We’ll create together whatever mechanisms we can

So that our song and dancing lights will always be on universal display

[freddie-221b]

I think I just had a philosophical moment so I’m letting everyone know here.

“There’s more to a story than what happens between the pages of a book.”

— Frederick, tumblrist and procrastinator.

(If someone had already said that before I may sob bc I felt very intelligent and distinguished)

[wholesomesmith]

Magic broken down:

Back before modern science, it and magic were the same thing; an incantation/blessing held as much water as making salt of tartar (K2CO2).

Remember, too, not literacy wasn't as high in Europe as it was in other places, so the act of just writing showed you knew stuff many didn't.

Also, geometry (simply a way to measure things using shapes and the relationships they can make [e.g. two circles; one inside and on outside an equilateral triangle have a ration of 1:2, 1/2, or .5]) was thought to show the secrets of the universe. Stone masons in Europe used geometry as a measurement tool, which was a large component for this train of thought. The topic of geometry is for a different post

Also, spells can be anything from charms, hexes/curses/jinxes, enchantments, or blessings.

Divination: the past, present, and future are already written somewhere, depending on the topic in question; be it in the stars (astrology), the hand of the person (palmistry), the dregs in a teacup, the endtrails of an animal, a casting of chicken bones or ruinstone, or the reading of playing cards (tarot); cold reading (a psychology trick of reading people), trances (commonly used by oracles), and dream reading are all valid methods

I'm not covering witch doctors, voodoo, and other categories because this is already going to be long enough.

Oracle: someone who goes into a trance via gases, psychedelics (fumes or consuming), etc, to predict the future.

An enchanter/enchantress: Those that mainly do enchantments

Witch: herbal based studies. They're basically the doctor of the group. It's not limited to just women.

The stereotypical witch in the woods is a result of the person rejecting the city and living in isolation and rejecting the beauty standards of that day so they focus more on their studies.

Their studies were kept in a book called a Grimoir/ book of shadows.

Wizard: Academic. You're more likely to find these people pouring over a library of books with multiple charts out, dividers in one hand, and a quill in the other

These people (mostly men, but women can be wizards) study just about everything with magic: astronomy/astrology, alchemy/chemistry, or geometry itself

Warlock: someone who devoted their life to a being far more powerful than man (eldrich beings or the like), letting the being grant them magic.

This is not a cleric.

Sorcerer: naturally gifted with magic.

Cleric: the priest. Devoting their life to a deity, which grants them forms magic.

Yashwa of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) was a cleric by this definition.

Druid: a nature cleric mixed with a witch. Their spirits are of nature, and they speak to Mother Earth.

Don't confuse these with shamen, which are druids mixed with oracles

Paladin: the priest with a sword.

These are my current findings.

[margosartcorner]

Einen Albtraum Fangen

Brennende Augen auf der Suche nach einem dunklen Grell

Weiße Hasen hoppeln gen Himmel

Zerreißen das Zelt

Bis meine Suppe herausfällt

Und fließt

Vielleicht findet sie doch einen Samen der Welt

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