#Enlightenment

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sharvanishiv_

#Thread | Pride and Illusion- Chains that bind |Take no pride in your possessions" When one achieves something, one need not feel proud about such achievements. A true spiritual person

Mike Carpenter

FanboyCarp

Today was jarring. I’m still processing it.What I will never understand is how a malignant narcissist could inspire the kind of loyalty that would lead to an insurrection.I’ll also never

VeritasVital

VeritasVital

This is important. The CATCHING YOURSELF thinking about the past and future IS being aware of now. You begin to see those thoughts as just another illusion, in a way.

Melissa Ryan

MelissaRyan

Some day an investigative journalist is going to write one hell of a book on the Neoreationary movement, its influence in Silicon Valley, and the funding and influence it clearly

Dr Naomi Wolf

naomirwolf

1/Just had an interview scheduled with @goddeketal, Dr Simon Goddek, the post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics in the field of biotechnology, at an unnamed Dutch university.

Vapor Weyve

Nymphomachy

thinking abt @saintwalker98's thoughts about the balkanization of gaming discourse away from any kind of coherent anti-corporatist message toward a more lowbrow "hardcore gnat vs art gamer" message: honestly it's

Jess 🇺🇸

jessiprincey

Hart InterCivic Company (Voting System) was purchased in *SILENCE* on 9.12.20 right before the 2020 election by Enlightenment Capital. One of the co-founders is Devin Talbott son of Strobe Talbott,

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

We need to get something straight.This is propaganda. It's also popular. It misrepresents Popper (reasonable) and sneakily forwards Marcuse (radical totalitarian), specifically his Repressive Tolerance. Popper has a much more

brad.

privbrad_

If you asked 16 yr olds who just finished school to name a successful black person pre-slavery or a black inventor, how many would actually be able to give an

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp: why didn't the ancient Greeks write science fiction?That's a good question. No, really. Come this way... Drama, poetry, rhetoric: the ancient Greeks not only created wonderous art

Nathan Baschez

nbashaw

This whole NYT / SSC thing is so depressing. I’ve been an avid SSC reader for years and the portrait @CadeMetz paints of his writing feels unrecognizable.I want nothing to

Camp Naturist

CampNaturist

In our delirious, reckless rush to commodify naturism, we’ve diluted or abandoned altogether its philosophical principles in order to broaden its marketability. In doing so, we’ve removed our voice from

Silvano | Side Biz Master💸

bizontheside

A book every week, because if you are looking for a mentor, probably you may find it in your bookshelf!THREADBOOK!Let's continue with a book that had a lot of success

jana

janaunplgd

Here’s the real on the symbology behind this Indian cosplaying douchebag aka “QAnon Shaman.” Buffalo horns + fur hat + feathers are all used to convey a wild west message;

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

Some favourite masterpieces of early Buddhist art. Over the last week I have been researching the diffusion of early Buddhism. Here are some favourites I dug out from my travels.1.The

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Recent rhetoric about “The Enlightenment” is bizarre. A major strand of the Enlightment was about the Perfectibility of Man through Reason. The revolutionary reconstruction of society. The French Revolution is

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