existentialism
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“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine."
- Alan Turing 🧐
- Alan Turing 🧐
“To put it country simple, Earth has a lot of things other folks might want. Like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes made.”
"He who hates himself is not humble." - Emil Cioran
We click, therefore we exist 🖱️
wind eye II
art by Gio Mariani
"tell me, what do you seek while looking into the past?
do you think guilt leads you anywhere enjoyable?
there is no way to know any of this you are wondering.
why would you choose the way of thinking that makes your life miserable?"
art by Gio Mariani
"tell me, what do you seek while looking into the past?
do you think guilt leads you anywhere enjoyable?
there is no way to know any of this you are wondering.
why would you choose the way of thinking that makes your life miserable?"
“We do not learn from experience.
We learn from reflecting on experience.”
We learn from reflecting on experience.”
“We live in a world where there is more and more information,
and less and less meaning.”
- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
and less and less meaning.”
- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
"Of course I'm afraid of death. I've never done it before."
From this interview with a diagnosed sociopath..
https://slate.com/podcasts/death-sex-money/2024/04/diagnosed-sociopath-violence-shame-guilt
From this interview with a diagnosed sociopath..
https://slate.com/podcasts/death-sex-money/2024/04/diagnosed-sociopath-violence-shame-guilt
"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone,
and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.”
- Junji Ito
Everything passes.”
- Junji Ito
“Distracted from distraction by distraction.”
- T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
"The river's all wet / You're all chrome" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself."
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
I mustn't forget who I am
by I am the Astra (@IamtheAstra)
"Grant me the strength to change the things I can,
the serenity to deal with the things I cannot change,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
by I am the Astra (@IamtheAstra)
"Grant me the strength to change the things I can,
the serenity to deal with the things I cannot change,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
‘Future Pleasures’
Dopamine, entertainment, emotions, sex, anxiety, pain, tears, suffering,
love, life, more pain, death, copy, paste and start again: Dopamine, entertainment, emotions, sex, anxiety, pain, tears, suffering ,love, life, more pain, death, copy, paste and start again.
Art and text by @yanlucasmigone
Dopamine, entertainment, emotions, sex, anxiety, pain, tears, suffering,
love, life, more pain, death, copy, paste and start again: Dopamine, entertainment, emotions, sex, anxiety, pain, tears, suffering ,love, life, more pain, death, copy, paste and start again.
Art and text by @yanlucasmigone
You are stronger than you think.
"Mothers are like glue.
Even when you can't see them,
they're still holding the family together."
- Susan Gale
Happy mother's day! 🤱❤️
Even when you can't see them,
they're still holding the family together."
- Susan Gale
Happy mother's day! 🤱❤️
Inner Demon
by Oelhan
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Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons. 👹
by Oelhan
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Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons. 👹
They say "Time is the king of all humans",
and they also say "Time is money",
so you can draw your own conclusions.
and they also say "Time is money",
so you can draw your own conclusions.
Indestructible Object (my escape into fantasy)
by Dax Norman
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality.
It's a way of understanding it.”
by Dax Norman
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality.
It's a way of understanding it.”