#seriousness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #seriousness, aggregated by home.social.
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#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Seriousness imparts an ethical imperative. There is an obligation to unlock the horizon and an obligation to do so in the correct way, so as not to lose sight of it. This comes from the seeming transcendent value bestowed on the object from the horizon. When one takes a job seriously, the obligation colors one's experience in a moral light, revealing coworkers who are not merely lazy but also immoral in their disregard for the work's importance, for example.
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A quotation from Robert Holmes
SARAH JANE: You’re serious, aren’t you?
THE DOCTOR: About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it.Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 11×01 “The Time Warrior,” Part 3 (1973-12-29)More info about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80074/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doctorwho #thirddoctor #actions #goals #gravity #manner #seriousness #style
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And therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #focus #frivolity #growingup #maturity #philosophy #retirement #seriousness #truthseeking #wisdom
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And therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #focus #frivolity #growingup #maturity #philosophy #retirement #seriousness #truthseeking #wisdom
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And therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #focus #frivolity #growingup #maturity #philosophy #retirement #seriousness #truthseeking #wisdom
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And therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #focus #frivolity #growingup #maturity #philosophy #retirement #seriousness #truthseeking #wisdom
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And therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #focus #frivolity #growingup #maturity #philosophy #retirement #seriousness #truthseeking #wisdom
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Vasco Matos: Santa Clara Must Stay Serious for Conference League Second Leg
#Secondgame #Seriousness #VascoMatos
https://blazetrends.com/vasco-matos-santa-clara-must-stay-serious-for-conference-league-second-leg/?fsp_sid=86531 -
Solemnity is the fool’s shield and buckler.
[La gravité est la bouclier des sots.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1637 / 1051 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78201/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #dolt #fool #gravity #idiot #momentousness #protection #selfrighteousness #seriousness #shield #solemnity #pomposity #pomp
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Solemnity is the fool’s shield and buckler.
[La gravité est la bouclier des sots.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1637 / 1051 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78201/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #dolt #fool #gravity #idiot #momentousness #protection #selfrighteousness #seriousness #shield #solemnity #pomposity #pomp
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Solemnity is the fool’s shield and buckler.
[La gravité est la bouclier des sots.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1637 / 1051 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78201/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #dolt #fool #gravity #idiot #momentousness #protection #selfrighteousness #seriousness #shield #solemnity #pomposity #pomp
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After slipping by Andorra 1-0, England boss Thomas Tuchel shreds squad saying it ‘lacked seriousness’ and ‘urgency’ https://www.byteseu.com/1088322/ #after #and #Andorra #bavarian #BayernMunichAlumni #boss #BY #England #FIFAWorldCup #football #FrontPage #GermanyInternationalSoccer #IT #lacked #saying #seriousness #shreds #slipping #SoccerSg #squad #thomas #Tuchel #urgency #works #WorldCupQualifying
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A quotation from J. M. Barrie
MRS. DARLING: (from the window) Peter, where are you? Let me adopt you too. (She is the loveliest age for a woman, but too old to see PETER clearly.)
PETER: Would you send me to school?
MRS. DARLING: (obligingly) Yes.
PETER: And then to an office?
MRS. DARLING: I suppose so.
PETER: Soon I should be a man?
MRS. DARLING: Very soon.
PETER: (passionately) I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. No one is going to catch me, lady, and make me a man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter Pan, Act 5 (1904, pub. 1928)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/76383/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #beard #boy #boyhood #childhood #fun #growingup #independence #job #maturity #office #play #school #schooling #seriousness #work #youth
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A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
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We should note that games are not games for children but are to be judged as the most serious things they do.[De vray il faut noter, que les jeux des enfants ne sont pas jeux: & les faut juger en eux, comme leurs plus serieuses actions.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/35686/#quote #quotes #quotation #children #competition #fun #games #play #seriousness
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A quotation from Colton, Charles Caleb:
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/34647/#quote #quotes #quotation #cheer #creativity #genius #goodhumor #gravity #greatness #meme #pomposity #selfimportance #seriousness #solemnity
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A loose realiztion today while writing: Rigor is making the method the object at-stake in order to open the horizon of the teleos. In this way a discipline becomes serious meeting the definition - taking an object as the means towards a further horizon, in which the further horizon is made at-stake in the object.
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Seriousness hurts philosophy in that it prevents:
1. wonder and curiosity
2. dialog outside of the Western Tradition
3. practical everyday resourcesTo name three off the top of my head.
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Today I start writing my Sabbatical Project: A Serious Dilemma for a Serious Philosopher. I am so excited to start to write a book I have been think about for over ten years. I am asking the questions: what is #seriousness? Is #philosophy #serious?
Expect to see a focus and discussion around seriousness and philosophy from my post for the next few months. I hope it is as engaging and interesting a questions for you as it is for me.
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Capturing the Quiet Intensity of MsSmith at the Botanical Arboretum A Portrait by William Albert Allard
See More Seeds: https://aidyslexic.raupulus.dev/collections/show/1391
#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #William-Albert-Allard #Botanical-Arboretum #Portrait #Seriousness #Style #Women #Photographer #Nature #Quiet #Intensity
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A quotation from Blount, Roy Jr:
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A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/blount-roy-jr/64426/#quote #quotes #quotation #books #drinking #reading #seriousness #summer
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Trump’s Lawyers Argue You Can’t Take His Property Values Seriously
#TrumpPropertyValues #LawyersArgument #PropertyValues #Seriousness #LegalDefense #RealEstate #Politics #News
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Trump’s Lawyers Argue You Can’t Take His Property Values Seriously
#TrumpPropertyValues #LawyersArgument #PropertyValues #Seriousness #LegalDefense #RealEstate #Politics #News
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Trump’s Lawyers Argue You Can’t Take His Property Values Seriously
#TrumpPropertyValues #LawyersArgument #PropertyValues #Seriousness #LegalDefense #RealEstate #Politics #News
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Trump’s Lawyers Argue You Can’t Take His Property Values Seriously
#TrumpPropertyValues #LawyersArgument #PropertyValues #Seriousness #LegalDefense #RealEstate #Politics #News
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Trump’s Lawyers Argue You Can’t Take His Property Values Seriously
#TrumpPropertyValues #LawyersArgument #PropertyValues #Seriousness #LegalDefense #RealEstate #Politics #News
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#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.
“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.
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#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.
“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.
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#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.
“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.
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#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.
“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.
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#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.
“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.
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I wish that "nice / fancy things" and "snotty people" were not so often paired together.
Examples:
- specialty coffee shops that roast their own delicious coffee
- interacting with others while hiking and biking in the #Oakland hills
- people who have a really nice butt (are themselves often snotty)
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Daniel Görtz: ”If we are not ironic about our goal enough, then it will collapse to fascism”.
This quote is of course out of context, and to fully appreciate i’d check: ”sincere irony” in #metamodernism.
But I find the point still quite understandable. Is not gnawed-teeth unwillingness to change when presented with human consequences, a hallmark of #fascism?
There’s no #play or #doubt in that. #Seriousness without #irony is dangerous.
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Sunday Morning Meditation Moment:
When people try to meditate with the mind they go mental. Meditation is truly about cultivating and allowing a meditative state of being. Being from the spirit which resides within the soul.
When we were growing up and the "spiritual leaders of the day" said it was all mind/body/spirit they didn't know better and were talking out their bum holes.
When in truth it's Spirit/Mind/Body. The origins of directionality are crucial in being spiritually consciously. Mentally conscious people have created insanity in society.
#Meditation #MeditativeBeing #Spirit #SpiritualConsciousness #BumHoles #Origins #Being #Humor #seriousness
