Tag: philosophy

• [writing] LitLectures – Mythology 101

  

  It’s 2020. As we grapple with changes to popular franchises and stories, we might wonder what is going on. Some may recognize ongoing negotiation surrounding concepts of myth and canon. What is myth and mythology? What role does have in modern society, if any? Base Definition According to the Oxford Lexicon, myth is described as:…

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  May 6, 2020

  culture, literary critique, literature, nonfiction, thought piece

  ancient myth, archetypes, carl jung, comparative mythology, david leeming, harry potter, joseph campbell, joseph henderson, kenneth davis, lord of the rings, metaphysics, mythology, myths, philosophy

• [review] Why Science Is Wrong …About Almost Everything (Alex Tsakiris)

  

  Recently, there has been an academic and social backlash towards the elitism of the scientific community as new slogans have arisen. “Science is a construct”, taken at face value, is one of those popular buzzwords that should – and must – be brought into question. A better statement to theorize is: the trajectory of current…

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  June 15, 2018

  book review, culture, literature, nonfiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, atheism, consciousness, culture, modernism, philosophy, postmodernity, religion, science, skeptico, social construct, social theory, technology

• [posting][review] Top Five Intellectual Anime Shows

  

  One of the common misconceptions about anime is that it is a strange and goofy genre designed for middle school students, but while that is true about quite a few that have had massive impact in Western culture (I’m looking at you, One Piece and Naruto), quite a few anime have been created specifically for…

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  May 26, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  AI, animation, anime, art, critique, culture, ergo proxy, ethics, history, ideologies, intellectual, japanese culture, japanese history, narratives, philosophy, psycho-pass, psychology, robotics, samurai champloo, sayonara zetsubo sensei, sci-fi, scifi, social issues, society, steins;gate, technology, time travel

• And yet, for Seneca, in so far as we can ever attain wisdom, it is by learning not to aggravate the world’s obstinacy through our own responses, through spasms of rage, self-pity, anxiety, bitterness, self-righteousness and paranoia. A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions.

  -Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy, 81.

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  May 20, 2018

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  frustration, overcoming, philosophy, quote, reality, seneca

• [posting][poetry] 华山 – Hua Shan (Mount Hua)

  

  华山 步步登山。 由灰及蓝。 触尽天空。 夜尽日开。 生走向死。 我的人生 在两天理， 历久弥坚。 by 田思月 Hua Mountain by Tian SiYue (my Chinese pen name) Step by step, scale the mount, the grey path to the Blue. Touch the sky. The stars turn to sunrise. Birth passes into death – my life in two days grows more resolute with time.…

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  March 15, 2018

  original fiction

  china, chinese, inspiration, mandarin, mount hua, nature, philosophy, poetry, vision, writing

• Maturity

  A discussion on maturity with one of my reviewers. The initial question on maturity was: Q: On Byleistr, is he older than Loki? If so, he acts less mature, and I’m wondering if the way Jotuns normally mature is different from Asgard? or was it because Loki had to deal with so much that he…

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  December 11, 2013

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  fanfiction, ideas, loki, loki fanfiction, maturity, odin, philosophy, thor, what is maturity anyways?