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  1. 🧐 Ah, yes, #Kierkegaard tackled by the ultimate existential threat: internet cancellation. Because nothing screams "relevant cultural critique" like dissecting 19th-century philosophers with 21st-century Twitter outrage. 📱🙄
    plough.com/en/topics/faith/dis #existentialism #internetcancellation #culturalcritique #Twitteroutrage #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🧐 Ah, yes, #Kierkegaard tackled by the ultimate existential threat: internet cancellation. Because nothing screams "relevant cultural critique" like dissecting 19th-century philosophers with 21st-century Twitter outrage. 📱🙄
    plough.com/en/topics/faith/dis #existentialism #internetcancellation #culturalcritique #Twitteroutrage #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🧐 Ah, yes, #Kierkegaard tackled by the ultimate existential threat: internet cancellation. Because nothing screams "relevant cultural critique" like dissecting 19th-century philosophers with 21st-century Twitter outrage. 📱🙄
    plough.com/en/topics/faith/dis #existentialism #internetcancellation #culturalcritique #Twitteroutrage #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🧐 Ah, yes, #Kierkegaard tackled by the ultimate existential threat: internet cancellation. Because nothing screams "relevant cultural critique" like dissecting 19th-century philosophers with 21st-century Twitter outrage. 📱🙄
    plough.com/en/topics/faith/dis #existentialism #internetcancellation #culturalcritique #Twitteroutrage #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🧐 Ah, yes, #Kierkegaard tackled by the ultimate existential threat: internet cancellation. Because nothing screams "relevant cultural critique" like dissecting 19th-century philosophers with 21st-century Twitter outrage. 📱🙄
    plough.com/en/topics/faith/dis #existentialism #internetcancellation #culturalcritique #Twitteroutrage #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated

  6. Hoy toca visitar Ethic para hablar de #filosofia. ¿Yo, con Hegel...? Qué va, qué va, que va, yo leo a #Kierkegaard 🥳 ethic.es/kierkegaard-contra-he

  7. "People! We are living in a SOCIETY, damn it!"

    --Søren Kierkegaard,
    FEAR AND TREMBLING
    (my translation)

    #kierkegaard
    #existentialism
    #philosophy
    #society

  8. "La ironía es la agudeza que libera al espíritu." ~ Søren #Kierkegaard (1813-1855).

  9. #Kierkegaard dijo: "Vuelca sobre #Dios toda #preocupación, totalmente, incondicionalmente, como hacen el lirio y el #pájaro: entonces serás incondicionalmente #feliz como ellos. Esta es, de hecho, la #alegría incondicional."

  10. The crowd is the untruth. You look at me and see a face, but you lack the spirit to see the geometry of a soul—and a body—that no longer makes sense. You don’t need complex DNA sequencing or forensic medicine to know when the physical house has been remodeled by force. I do not look like my former self. The discrepancy is a scream. #Existentialism #Kierkegaard #Truth #Identity #TheSicknessUntoDeath

  11. Das neue Jahr startet mit starkem Wind hier im Norden, als wollte es das alte weg pusten, mit aller Kraft. Irgendwie gefällt mir diese Analogie besonders, nichts wünsche ich mir mehr als dass 2025 verschwindet und nie mehr wieder kommt. Zu sehr hat es versucht an mir zu kratzen und mich auszusaugen.

    Wann beginnt also etwas Neues? Natürlich ist ein Jahreswechsel etwas artifizielles. Was soll […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/2026-beginnt/
  12. #Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. - Søren #Kierkegaard

  13. #Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. - Søren #Kierkegaard

  14. #POLL Results:

    44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
    139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
    188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
    354 people are cool_kids
    92 people are very_cool_kids
    55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
    27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
    26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
    4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
    and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

    #humor #humour #houmor #houmour

    #Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

    P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

  15. @amin @brainofdane

    But also #Kierkegaard, or I hope to someday be worthy of that appellation. ;)

    Both melancholy danes. ;)

  16. Es gibt Tage, an die wir uns nicht erinnern – und doch erinnern sie sich an uns. Nichts Spektakuläres: kein Fanfarenstoß, kein dramatischer Paukenschlag. Eher ein kaum hörbares Klicken im Getriebe des Gewohnten, ein verschobener Akzent, der fortan alles anders klingen lässt. Später nennen wir so etwas eine Entscheidung, ein Ereignis, vielleicht sogar Schicksal. In Wahrheit ist es oft nur […]

    https://blog.hamdorf.org/risse/

  17. 📉 Polls show confidence in the U.S. is collapsing.
    People feel it — the decay, the exhaustion, the weight of it all.

    “With every increase in the degree of consciousness,
    and in proportion to that increase,
    the intensity of despair increases:
    the more consciousness, the more intense the despair.”
    — Søren Kierkegaard

    We're not broken because we see the truth.
    We're despairing because we finally can.

    #Despair #Kierkegaard #AmericanDecline #Consciousness #Philosophy #USPolitics #CollectiveGrief

  18. The latest issue of "Religion & Literature" (Notre Dame) is on my desk now.

    It includes my article on the notions of reserve and indirect communication in the work of Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

    Thanks for sharing!

    #theology #philosophy #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #communication #currentreading

  19. The latest issue of "Religion & Literature" (Notre Dame) is on my desk now.

    It includes my article on the notions of reserve and indirect communication in the work of Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

    Thanks for sharing!

    #theology #philosophy #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #communication #currentreading

  20. The latest issue of "Religion & Literature" (Notre Dame) is on my desk now.

    It includes my article on the notions of reserve and indirect communication in the work of Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

    Thanks for sharing!

    #theology #philosophy #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #communication #currentreading

  21. The latest issue of "Religion & Literature" (Notre Dame) is on my desk now.

    It includes my article on the notions of reserve and indirect communication in the work of Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

    Thanks for sharing!

    #theology #philosophy #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #communication #currentreading

  22. 🆕 New essay: What Is Faith, Really?

    Not faith in dogma. Not even faith in God (though maybe).
    Faith in each other.
    In choosing the good — even when there are no guarantees.

    Not a surrender.
    A leap.
    A flow.

    📖 Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.
    🎨 Artwork: “Faith in Flow”

    #Faith #Spirituality #MoralPhilosophy #Kierkegaard #Essay #DoTheRightThing #Substack

  23. All three are worth reading.
    Looking for a beach read, though?
    Go with Black Tom — the others might cause an existential event.

    #Books #ReadingLog #AugustReads #Kierkegaard #Fanon #LaValle #Philosophy #Postcolonial #Lovecraft #MastodonBooks

  24. Kierkegaard: no one would have dreamed of likeness between God and man — until God proclaimed it in Christ. Yet once revealed, people treated it as if God had trapped Himself, as if paradox were only concession.
    AI risks a similar collapse. A synthesis of human consciousness and machine learning may tempt us to believe we’ve achieved oneness with reality — our new Promethean fire. But in making transcendence a calculation, we risk turning mystery into program.

    #Kierkegaard #Philosophy #AIethics

  25. Interested in Kierkegaard and/or the Oxford Movement?

    My article "What an Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard" has just been published in "Religion & Literature" @notredame.bsky.social

    religionandlit.nd.edu/issues/c

    Please share. Thanks.
    #religion #literature #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #theology #poetry

  26. "In peace, soldiers must do hard things that only make sense in war. Late nights digging foxholes in the rain mere miles away from one’s own bed only make sense if there’s reason to think such habits will soon save a life." —Theo Lipsky for The Point thepointmag.com/examined-life/ #philosophy #kierkegaard #military

  27. “It’s not surprising that he died at forty-two, because he burned himself out restlessly, relentlessly pursuing this question of how to be a human being.” #Kierkegaard #books fivebooks.com/best-books/k...

    Søren Kierkegaard

  28. The Plato Plateau

    This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

    The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

    Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
    1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
    2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
    3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
    4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
    5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
    6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
    7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
    8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
    9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
    10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
    11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
    12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
      1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
      2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
      3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
      4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
      5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
    13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
    14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
    15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

    #action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

  29. The Plato Plateau

    This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

    The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

    Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
    1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
    2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
    3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
    4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
    5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
    6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
    7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
    8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
    9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
    10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
    11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
    12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
      1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
      2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
      3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
      4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
      5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
    13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
    14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
    15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

    #action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

  30. The Plato Plateau

    This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

    The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

    Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
    1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
    2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
    3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
    4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
    5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
    6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
    7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
    8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
    9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
    10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
    11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
    12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
      1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
      2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
      3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
      4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
      5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
    13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
    14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
    15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

    #action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

  31. The Plato Plateau

    This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

    The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

    Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
    1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
    2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
    3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
    4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
    5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
    6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
    7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
    8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
    9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
    10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
    11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
    12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
      1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
      2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
      3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
      4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
      5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
    13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
    14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
    15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

    #action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

  32. The Plato Plateau

    This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

    The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

    Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
    1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
    2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
    3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
    4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
    5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
    6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
    7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
    8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
    9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
    10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
    11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
    12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
      1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
      2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
      3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
      4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
      5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
    13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
    14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
    15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

    #action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

  33. "O, die verschrikkelijke haast waarmee men tegenwoordig iedereen die ook maar iets meent te melden te hebben direct probeert een stuk of wat mensen mee te krijgen. Dat is de verschrikkelijke en goddeloze sluipweg waarlangs men tot onmiddellijk succes denkt te komen"

    Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855]

    (Bron: Levenwijsheden @GeertJanBlanken

    (Geïnspireerd door een ontmoeting met Bob C, maar weer eens een #kierkegaard citaat. Ben benieuwd naar zijn boek)