Philosophy

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The Wrist Test — on the love that kept happening after its reason ended

20 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam $0.01

She still runs the inside of her wrist under the shower water before I step in, waiting for it to stop feeling like anything at all. That's how she knows it's ready. I stopped needing her to do this a long time ago. Three years, maybe four. I have ne...

The Four Words I Never Told Anyone I Was Still Paying For

18 Aug 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam $0.04

Her name was Deb. She ran the hardware counter at the back of a garden center on the edge of town, the summer I was nineteen and needed somewhere to be five days a week that wasn't my own house. A bell hung over the door there, an actual bell, not an...

Proverbs of Smog #81

15 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Eighty-One 1. Take off your see-thru darkness. 2. Go bowling with your tombstone. 3. Beware the burning word-swallower. 4. Bear the heavy light. Proverbios de Smog Capítulo Ochenta y Uno...

Without Truth, Might Makes Right

12 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.04

Over the last few posts, we’ve looked at how postmodernism fails logic, crashes into science, and falls for obvious hoaxes. But the most dangerous consequence of throwing out objective truth isn’t academic. It’s moral. Many people like postmodern ide...

The Ultimate Academic Prank - The Sokal Hoax

9 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.03

In my last post, we looked at how postmodernism crashes into the hard reality of physics and engineering. But you might wonder, do postmodernists really believe science is just a cultural myth, or is that a caricature? In 1996, a physicist named Alan...

Morality and freedom beyond performative nihilism

9 Aug 2026 3 minute read 22 comments Gnx888 $0.07

Within my lifetime, a slow realization has been developing since I started becoming more solitary, more self-restrained, and looking inward more often: that true freedom is never about having the most luxurious worldly possessions or holding the hig...

Gravity Doesn’t Care About Your Perspective

6 Aug 2026 1 minute read 6 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.04

In my last post, we looked at how postmodernism falls apart logically. But philosophy eventually has to leave the classroom. When the postmodern view of truth hits hard reality, it shatters completely. To a strict postmodernist, scientific facts aren...

When the Sky Falls: How Rain and Nature Restore Peace in Uncertain Days

3 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments RodrigoCalabar $0.03

  It’s been a tough stretch of days. I won’t dive into the specifics because, at the end of the day, everyone carries their own weight. Problems are simply problems, regardless of their shape or size. As I often say, the universe has no favorites....

Don't Do Postmodernism

2 Aug 2026 1 minute read 7 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.02

If you spend any time reading modern cultural commentary, you will eventually run into a core premise of postmodern philosophy: There is no such thing as objective truth. Truth is just a social construct. It sounds incredibly edgy and sophisticated....

Arrival — the unexpected grief of finally getting exactly what you wanted

30 Jul 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Nurnobi Islam $0.06

The morning I finally got the thing I'd asked for longer than I've asked for anything else, I stood in my kitchen and felt almost nothing. Not disappointed. Just quiet, in a way I didn't have a word for yet. The porch light was still on from the nigh...