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  1. “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

    ~ E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

    #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism #EMCioran #nihilism #quotes

  2. “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

    ~ E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

    #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism #EMCioran #nihilism #quotes

  3. “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

    ~ E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

    #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism #EMCioran #nihilism #quotes

  4. “Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.”

    ~ E. M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

    #quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #EMCioran

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  10. CW: CW: Suicide / Self-Harm (Metaphysical Discussion), Nihilism

    With some assistance, I was able to go into detail about my philosophical positions on things! Here's what I learned about my belief system and how it fits into the Zeitgeist! I'm pretty excited about it. 😊

    Apparently, I'm a Naturalized Ethical Theorist whose normative system is Neurobiological Constrained Utilitarianism, grounded in the metaphysical foundation of Nihilistic Absurdism. My system of beliefs attempts to resolve the conflict between cosmic meaninglessness and the imperative for human action. Albert Camus would've been like, " 😔 🚬 "

    I'm not sure I would've know what that means, but I would've thought it was a very cool answer. 😅

    ▶ Metaphysics

    Nihilistic Absurdism
    Ultimate Autonomy: The universe is acknowledged as fundamentally indifferent, offering no external meaning. This grants the individual ultimate autonomy, establishing the right to decide that the confrontation with the absurd is not worth the effort, making suicide a metaphysically valid "opt-out."

    ▶ Ethics

    Naturalized Ethical Theory:
    Core Belief: Morality is a rational construct based on observable, empirical facts about humanity, specifically our neurobiology and psychoemotional needs.
    The Absurdist Revolt: Since no cosmic meaning exists, meaning must be created. The system grounds this created meaning in observable reality—the universal, empirical facts of human biology and psychology.
    The Five Core Neurobiological Needs (The Neurobiological Minimum): These are the empirically-defined constraints that must be met for all people to ensure stability and psychological health, serving as the absolute floor for utility maximization:
    Care/Harm: The desire to protect kin and avoid suffering.
    Fairness/Reciprocity: The need for justice and proportional treatment.
    Loyalty/Belonging: The need for in-group cohesion and security.
    Authority/Respect: The need for social order and legitimate hierarchy.
    Sanctity/Degradation: The need for purity, dignity, and bodily integrity.

    Neurobiological Constrained Utilitarianism
    Ethical Duty: For those who choose to live, the duty is to maximize the greatest good (utility) for the collective, but this goal is strictly constrained by the absolute requirement that the species-wide Neurobiological Minimum of all people must be met.
    The Ethical Contract & Defense: This system is an "all or nothing" contract. Active violation of the Minimum by an individual agent results in the forfeiture of that individual's protection, allowing for self-defense and institutional justice.
    Restriction on Harming Populations vs. Individuals: Harming an entire population is strictly forbidden, as it constitutes a systematic and unjust violation of the Neurobiological Minimum for countless innocent non-agents within that group.
    Eudaimonia: Human flourishing is achieved when one lives authentically by engaging in one's own ethical system; adherence to these self-created, rational duties fulfills the core psychoemotional need for integrity and meaning, generating the highest personal utility.

    So... what about you? 💙 😺

    #Philosophy #NihilisticAbsurdism #NaturalizedEthics #ConstrainedUtilitarianism #NeurobiologicalEthics #Existentialism #EllisArcwolf #DeepThoughts #AcademicMastodon #SelfReflection #Metaphysics #Camus #MeaningOfLife #PhilosophicalZeitgeist

  11. In yet another thrilling episode of "Tech Drama for Bored Coders" 🙄, we explore Dan's riveting tale of copy-pasting licenses and pretending AI is a sentient coder. 🎩✨ Who knew rewriting libraries could spark such a philosophical debate?
    writings.hongminhee.org/2026/0 #TechDrama #BoredCoders #SentientAI #CopyPasteLicenses #PhilosophicalDebate #HackerNews #ngated

  12. Freiheit atmen, in Alternativen denken – Philosophie-Lesekreis im Murx


    Du am Ufer des Neckars, wo Gedanken frei fließen: Entdecke die Welt mit anderen Augen! In unserem wöchentlichen Lesekreis begegnest du mutigen Denker:innen – zum Beispiel Hannah Arendt über Verantwortung, Simone de Beauvoir zur Selbstgestaltung, Mary Wollstonecraft für gleiche Rechte, Albert Camus zum Aufstand des Alltags, Ernst Bloch zur Hoffnung und Karl Marx zu alternativen Welten.

    Gemeinsam liest du, zweifelst du, träumst du Alternativen herauf: Was befreit deinen Alltag?
    Wie entfalten sich kritische Flügel im Hier und Jetzt?
    Ein Raum für deine neugierige Seele, lebendige Freiheit und inspirierende Stimmen – mitten in der Heidelberger Altstadt.

    Wenn Ihr vorbei kommen wollt, meldet Euch gerne unter [email protected] an.

    Wann: Jeden Montag um 11 Uhr

    Wo: Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg (Altstadt)

    ÖPNV: Bergbahn/Rathaus, Heidelberg und Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

    Barrierefreiheit: Für Menschen in Rollstühlen weitgehend barrierearm

    Wichtig: Solltest Du Dich krank fühlen, dann bleib bitte daheim um andere zu schützen, wir freuen uns Dich gesund beim nächsten Treffen zu sehen. Solltet Ihr Euch nicht sicher sein, haben wir vor Ort auch Corona-Tests, und Masken.

    #Murx #Philosophie #PhilosophieLesekreis #Lesekreis #Montag #Heidelberg #Altstadt @heidelberg

  13. Freiheit atmen, in Alternativen denken – Philosophie-Lesekreis im Murx


    Du am Ufer des Neckars, wo Gedanken frei fließen: Entdecke die Welt mit anderen Augen! In unserem wöchentlichen Lesekreis begegnest du mutigen Denker:innen – zum Beispiel Hannah Arendt über Verantwortung, Simone de Beauvoir zur Selbstgestaltung, Mary Wollstonecraft für gleiche Rechte, Albert Camus zum Aufstand des Alltags, Ernst Bloch zur Hoffnung und Karl Marx zu alternativen Welten.

    Gemeinsam liest du, zweifelst du, träumst du Alternativen herauf: Was befreit deinen Alltag?
    Wie entfalten sich kritische Flügel im Hier und Jetzt?
    Ein Raum für deine neugierige Seele, lebendige Freiheit und inspirierende Stimmen – mitten in der Heidelberger Altstadt.

    Wenn Ihr vorbei kommen wollt, meldet Euch gerne unter [email protected] an.

    Wann: Jeden Montag um 11 Uhr (ab 11.03.2026)

    Wo: Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg (Altstadt)

    ÖPNV: Bergbahn/Rathaus, Heidelberg und Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

    Barrierefreiheit: Für Menschen in Rollstühlen weitgehend barrierearm

    Wichtig: Solltest Du Dich krank fühlen, dann bleib bitte daheim um andere zu schützen, wir freuen uns Dich gesund beim nächsten Treffen zu sehen. Solltet Ihr Euch nicht sicher sein, haben wir vor Ort auch Corona-Tests, und Masken.

    #Murx #Philosophie #PhilosophieLesekreis #Lesekreis #Montag #Heidelberg #Altstadt @heidelberg

  14. Freiheit atmen, in Alternativen denken – Philosophie-Lesekreis im Murx


    Du am Ufer des Neckars, wo Gedanken frei fließen: Entdecke die Welt mit anderen Augen! In unserem wöchentlichen Lesekreis begegnest du mutigen Denker:innen – zum Beispiel Hannah Arendt über Verantwortung, Simone de Beauvoir zur Selbstgestaltung, Mary Wollstonecraft für gleiche Rechte, Albert Camus zum Aufstand des Alltags, Ernst Bloch zur Hoffnung und Karl Marx zu alternativen Welten.

    Gemeinsam liest du, zweifelst du, träumst du Alternativen herauf: Was befreit deinen Alltag?
    Wie entfalten sich kritische Flügel im Hier und Jetzt?
    Ein Raum für deine neugierige Seele, lebendige Freiheit und inspirierende Stimmen – mitten in der Heidelberger Altstadt.

    Wenn Ihr vorbei kommen wollt, meldet Euch gerne unter [email protected] an.

    Wann: Jeden Montag um 11 Uhr

    Wo: Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg (Altstadt)

    ÖPNV: Bergbahn/Rathaus, Heidelberg und Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

    Barrierefreiheit: Für Menschen in Rollstühlen weitgehend barrierearm

    Wichtig: Solltest Du Dich krank fühlen, dann bleib bitte daheim um andere zu schützen, wir freuen uns Dich gesund beim nächsten Treffen zu sehen. Solltet Ihr Euch nicht sicher sein, haben wir vor Ort auch Corona-Tests, und Masken.

    #Murx #Philosophie #PhilosophieLesekreis #Lesekreis #Montag #Heidelberg #Altstadt @heidelberg

  15. 📚🤖 Ah, behold another philosophical soliloquy on AI ethics by someone who couldn't find the "Define Terms" button on their keyboard. Strap in, dear reader, for the riveting tale of why context matters—because who knew dangers could arise when pulling oxygen? 🙄🎭
    meiert.com/blog/ai-ethics-and- #AIethics #contextmatters #philosophicaldebate #techhumor #satire #HackerNews #ngated

  16. #Fachtagung am 20. und 21.10.2023 in Dresden an der TU Dresden

    Orte zwischen Utopie und Wirklichkeit - Philosophieren mit Kindern

    Unterstützt durch die Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Philosophierens mit Kindern und den Landesverband der Ethik- und Philosophielehrerinnen und -lehrer

    #PhiloEdu #FediLZ

  17. "As for real life, there is no deserving or not deserving, just as there are no values, no morals, no rights, none of that rhetorical debris that makes our lives a misery far beyond that ordained by the facts of our physical existence."

    —Thomas Ligotti, (from, Disillusionment Can Be Glamorous: An Interview With Thomas Ligotti)

    #Pessimism #Quotes #QuotesOfTheDay #PhilosophicalPessimism #Philosophy #WeirdFiction #Ethics #Morals

  18. “Being something of a pessimist, I tend to think, in those rare moments when I really think, that existence is by nature evil. And nothing is good.”

    —Thomas Ligotti, (from, The Language of Dread: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti)

    #QuotesToLiveBy #LifeIsEvil #Quotes #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism

  19. “In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: ‘Does not like to play with others.’”

    ~ Eugene Thacker, Tentacles Longer Than the Night

    #philosophy #quotes #philosophicalPessimism

  20. "Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."

    ~Ecclesiastes 7:3 - 7:4, The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New Revised Standard Version)

    #pessimism #bible #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism

  21. "’I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.’ This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.”

    ~ E. M. Cioran

    #quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Puppets #introspection