Philosophy

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Petals of the Lawless Dawn

9 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

She came in silver hush,a specter draped in tattered glow,her shadow long as winter’s breath,her eyes a cratered gleam. Men of stone and law stood fast,edicts carved in thunder’s tongue,yet bowed their heads to hear her scorn—a thorn that wept in cu...

A thought experiment about apparant design

9 Mar 2025 1 minute read 8 comments Yttrandefrihet

Imagine yourself walking on a deserted road you've never taken before. After you have strolled for a bit, you come upon a huge building, right out in nowhere. You didn't expect it to be there. As you come closer, you realize that the front door is op...

Cemetery with history "Hollywood Forever"

9 Mar 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z81PktQrhChgKE46 Without truth, there is no freedom and it is difficult to choose between good and evil. I have no illusions, but truth is a blessing for every single person, because, like Plato...

The Cosmological Constant proves that the Universe is designed

7 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

The cosmological constant, also known as Einstein's cosmological constant, is fundamental for our universe. We don't fully know what it describes, if it is dark energy, or something else, but it is central for the shape of our universe. For life to b...

SELF-FLAGELLATION: The Drug of the Modern West

7 Mar 2025 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Scrolling is fun... I mean, it's not, but we seem to do it a lot. Like, a lot - 99% of people who scroll can't even remember the post or short they saw five scrolls ago. Seriously, next time you're scrolling, try and remember what you saw 5 to 10 pos...

COLLECTIVISM VS INDIVIDUALISM: Humanity's Greatest Struggle

5 Mar 2025 11 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

What's more important: the individual or the group? Is it more important to judge and act upon the issues of people based upon their individual needs or their collective, shared needs? Is the individual tree more important than the concept of the for...

BYZANTIUM: The Empire that Never Existed

4 Mar 2025 9 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Ah, the Roman Empire - well and truly, my intellectual, mental and spiritual comfort zone. And maybe when time travel becomes a thing, my physical comfort zone too. It's often regarded as one of humanity's peaks, at least for its time, encompassing...

Euthyphro’s False Dilemma

26 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

"Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" This is what Socrates asks Euthyphro in Plato's dialogue bearing in the latter's name. Gottfried Leibniz formulated the monotheistic version as: "Is...

ATTENTION, FLAT EARTHERS: This is What You Need

25 Feb 2025 3 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked

I remember many years ago on Facebook (tells you how long ago it was that I was actively using Facebook as a teen) I joined a Flat-Earth group for fun. I didn't ever believe the Earth to be flat - because, y'know, I have a semi-functioning brain - bu...

The dream of a life full of days

24 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z6s4L3V-RRWLoAkt When my financial life is fully adjusted and I will be looking from the observation deck of my house at the ocean, near the pool, grilling an appetizing steak. I'm going to miss...