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I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
--Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001
#Freedom #Zoo #Philosophy

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

In the beginning was Chaos.
So...what's new? Longer legs?
Magnum Chaos design, as shown in a 16th-century design in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy
#Religion #Chaos #Philosophy

Can you imagine Sisyphus as a happy man?
Did the gods accidentally give him joy and meaning hidden in his never-ending focus?
Or is this a grand deception, and the recipe for a factotum?
#philosophy #purpose #happiness

It ain’t necessarily so—
The things that you’re liable to read in the Bible—
It ain’t necessarily so,
—IRA GERSHWIN, 1935
#Philosophy #Religion #Music is the Best

In the midst of our plastic dystopia,
I take a moment to reflect.
Look at how you go - Oye como va...
Love, forgive.
Rinse and repeat until you see yourself in every face you meet.
Compassion is the rule your life is measured by.
Expand your horizons with kindness.
Blessed be, and grace to thee!
~
#unsolicited