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CATCH OF THE DAY ๐คค Thereโs little more exhilarating than fee..
CATCH OF THE DAY ๐คค Thereโs little more exhilarating than feeling a tug at your line and battling to reel in a fish.๐ฅ๐ฃ Whether itโs the one that got away or your biggest catch ever, either way, the highlight is the heart-racing thrill of the chase.๐คฉ To pursue someone we desire is much like fishing.๐คค Sartre warns that this turns people into an object to be possessed.๐ฅบ Though different to hooking a fish, we want the object of our desire to choose us freely and willingly.๐ The element of choice makes the game of seduction ...
PRACTICED AND PERFECT ๐๐ When looking at what we know, philo..
PRACTICED AND PERFECT ๐๐ When looking at what we know, philosophy seems to be stuck in the mind.๐ง All fucking facts and beliefs.๐ง But in life, most of the knowledge we use is how to do things, not what things are. Like riding a bike.๐ฒ You canโt study riding a bike.๐ค You canโt learn from reading or watching videos.๐ Hearing from world experts does little good either.๐ฃ๏ธ You donโt use your mind to learn skills, you use your body.๐คธโโ๏ธ You have to get on the bike and let your body figure out, in the real worl...
CULTURED COCK ๐ซ๐ โTruth is relative.โ Essentially meaning, w..
CULTURED COCK ๐ซ๐ โTruth is relative.โ Essentially meaning, with enough work, every opinion can be justified.๐ง The idea largely comes from the study of other cultures, which became popular in the early twentieth century.๐งญ At the time, the search for truth was focused on language, with great minds like Wittgenstein saying we canโt conceive of something we canโt talk about.๐ But when other cultures were studied, some languages were so different that doubt started to build.๐ฒ Then, when it was realised that we canโt even ...
WANT TO PLAY? ๐ซฆ ๐ฆ No one wants to fuck someone only interest..
WANT TO PLAY? ๐ซฆ ๐ฆ No one wants to fuck someone only interested in themselves.๐ Even when chances of getting off are few and far between, acting like a selfish prick doesnโt pay off.๐ Why? Ask Game Theory.โ๏ธ Hitting the bigtime in the 1940s when genius geek John von Neumann๐ค worked out the maths proof, the idea of Game Theory has been around since the Ancient Greeks. But it was Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century who set the scene when he very clearly showed that everything would go to shit if we only thought about ourselves, ...
SWING INTO SPRING ๐๐ We canโt escape the seasons, that 23.5-..
SWING INTO SPRING ๐๐ We canโt escape the seasons, that 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth means we are always swinging back and forth from the sun.๐ But smack bang in March we hit the sweet spot: a time when it all balances up and everyone has the same length day.๐ The equinox welcomed in spring and became one of the biggest parties of the year.๐ It was such a big fucking deal that the Pyramids of Giza, the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia and even five-thousand-year-old Irish tombs all have shit that line up with sun on this special d...
GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY ๐ซถ๐ฑ๐ฆ Itโs a fucking understatement to sa..
GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY ๐ซถ๐ฑ๐ฆ Itโs a fucking understatement to say a lot has changed in the last few generations.๐ A hundred years ago, if you lived outside of a dense city centre, you probably had connections to the land one way or another. You lived rurally or your backyard more than likely had a veggie patch.๐ฑ Today, youโd be lucky to find a vegetable growing in suburbia with backyards of domesticated grass, entertainment areas and swimming pools.๐ Our connection to the land is now the supermarket.๐ช๐ Does this matter?...
MINDFUCK TIME ๐ง ๐๐ Go look at the night sky and think hard ab..
MINDFUCK TIME ๐ง ๐๐ Go look at the night sky and think hard about what you can see. ๐ You may realise that youโre not looking at space at all but, actually, time in motion. โ The moon appears how it was 1.3 seconds ago. ๐ Venus, the brightest object after the moon, was 3 mins 46 seconds ago. The sun you see is from 8 minutes in the pastโ๏ธ, and Jupiter, 33 minutes. Outside our solar system, Alpha Centauri is how it was 4.4 years agoโญ, while a burst of light astronomers have picked up called GRB 090423 formed 13 whole fucki...
HAPPY VALENTINEโS DAY! ๐ฉท๐ซฆ Love as we know it is a relatively..
HAPPY VALENTINEโS DAY! ๐ฉท๐ซฆ Love as we know it is a relatively new idea. ๐ To fall in love, to adore from afar, to have a soulmate, just wasnโt a thing once upon a time. Why? Because we werenโt monogamous and could fuck anyone who took our fancy. Monogamy creates a tension between moral ideas on how we should live ๐ง and our primal instincts ๐ , creating a feeling we now call love. ๐ We didnโt use the word love โtil around 400 years ago. Before then, we only talked about romance. ๐ฉโโค๏ธโ๐จ๐ฅ But Romance lit...
HELLENISTIC THIRST TRAPPERS ๐ช ๐ โค๏ธโ๐ฅ The impression exists t..
HELLENISTIC THIRST TRAPPERS ๐ช ๐ โค๏ธโ๐ฅ The impression exists that the great Greek philosophers were a bunch of balding, tubby old men sitting around bullshitting while sipping wine ๐ท, when nothing could be further from the truthโ โผ๏ธ Socrates was famously short and ugly, but he was also a fucking muscle-bound war hero who charged headlong into the enemy during the Peloponnesian War to rescue captured officers. ๐๐๏ธ Plato wrestled competitively, his coach giving him the name Plato which literally means โbroad shoul...
IS HOUSEWORK SEXY? ๐งฝ๐งน โค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐ซฆ Maybe in raunchy underwear ๐ฉฒ, bu..
IS HOUSEWORK SEXY? ๐งฝ๐งน โค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐ซฆ Maybe in raunchy underwear ๐ฉฒ, but generally, the answer is no.๐ Philosophy disagrees, of course, and sees magic in mundane dusting and mopping. ๐ค๐ช Itโs easy to kill the mood if you have dirty sheets, leave your stuff everywhere and get the place smelling like garbage.๐คข๐ But there is much more to housework than clearing things away. Housework, or any work for that matter, transforms you. Using only our hands we can be pretty hopeless, but picking up a broom transforms us into a ...
TOO MUCH XMAS? ๐ ๐ฅณ I hope you didnโt overindulge this Christm..
TOO MUCH XMAS? ๐ ๐ฅณ I hope you didnโt overindulge this Christmas, but then, thatโs what itโs all about isnโt it? ๐ Pampering the senses with decorations, lights, carols and Christmas feasts. ๐๐ป Lavishing each other with parties, gifts, and oft-times, new experiences. ๐๐ And itโs something weโve been doing for thousands of years. To celebrate the passing of winter, the Ancient Greeks held the festival of Haloa around the same time as Christmas. While the men made all the preparations, the women drank and devoure...










