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In this day and age, memes are basically whatever we want them to be. Funny, terrifying, a way of passing on news or just a means of putting a familiar frame on some of our ideas. Don’t let the simple images and short captions fool you, there is a lot of thought that can go into the most simple online post.
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which apocalypse? Nuclear war, Zombies, Pandemics... so much possibilities nowadays

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Philosophy, or, from Greek, “'love of wisdom,” is one of those concepts where we all sort of know what it means, but actually defining it can be tricky. Some enjoy vague platitudes like “philosophy is thinking about ideas,” which is so vague as to encompass nearly every single thing you can imagine.

There are and likely will be countless texts on what philosophy actually is, but one, more concrete detail that we know, is that the term was likely coined by Pythagoras of Samos. Some of you might be familiar with his theorem for calculating the three sides of a right triangle.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people just can't let a decent joke stand (albeit in this case a hoary old cliché) without ruining it with explanation.

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In English, the word, as usual, was “loaned” from the French language in roughly the 11th century. Even then, its meaning differed from person to person. Some wrote that it was the "advanced study of the speculative subjects (logic, ethics, physics, and metaphysics)," while others believed that it was best described as “deep wisdom consisting of love of truth and virtuous living.”

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Which is all well and good, until you actually ask for specifics, then you will get as many suggestions as there are people. Maybe even more, as some people are just indecisive. This is not a criticism of philosophy as a concept, but just a reminder that it’s a constantly shifting and evolving field.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." - Hegel, himself

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With mass media, the internet and a comprehensive system of universities, academies and schools across much of the world, it’s really not that hard to get some recognition if you have an idea. You’ll just have to push your way to the “front of the crowd” as ideas and theories are a dime a dozen now.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Simplified English is a set of approved words and writing rules. Its makers made it to help engineers write manuals (instruction books) so that people all over the world can read them. Is there a google translator option that can translate Philosophy into simple english for us dumb dumbs?

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3 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how at 1:16 AM all of the comments were posted less than 30 minutes ago. Pandas with a poor sleep schedule, unite! Edit: Yeah, I probably should've remembered that time zones are a thing before posting this. I'm so sorry!!

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Similarly, as low-brow as they might seem, memes are a wonderful way to spread ideas. After all, a meme contains a kernel of shared knowledge or understanding, so a joke or concept can be communicated with a very simple image. Blocks of unparsable texts are out, memes are in, for better or worse.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats (or any animal) always increase my serotonin levels. Hard to have a bad day with goats and ferrets and cats and dogs and ponies and pigs and bun buns

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Philosophers ca 350 BC: can't be headmaster of your sodding academy? Whelp, I'll just invent biology then.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you realize that you don't have to be a good person to get into a heaven that doesn't exist. You just have to be a good person because it's the right thing to do.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I could discuss cosmology with other friends, but they only seem to be interested in who's being voted off love island. :(

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know about this love island, but I'm still upset Pluto is voted off the list of planets, just because it isn't attractive enough (doesn't have gravitational dominance).

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked as a janitor at the UsGS astrogeology department when they were doing the first surface exploration of Mars via the Sojourner Rover. So I got to see an watch how planetary maps are made. The best part was having conversations with the scientists. They were just as excited to talk as I was. It was so freaking cool. I still follow Cosmology pretty closely. It's strange that for me reading the studies and the science actually stimulates the more creative and out -there writing so win win.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only once. I was invited to a "get together" of college students at a bar downtown. They were all 3rd year and over 30 but only one had a class that I was also taking elsewhere. We sat for 3+ hours discussing ethics and totally boring the others at the table. Neither she nor I were invited back, lol.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At 16, I crushed on a 13. She was later Dean of Mathematics at Wm and Mary.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no i js keep yapping and they smile and nod with an occasional “wait what??”

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"normal" people talk to me about a movie and i end speaking by myself 15 minutes about the past and future projects of the director. Damn me.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That great golden past never existed. Our ancestors were horrible racist people. The food was terrible, and everybody stank like unwashed socks.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact: Captain Haddock cannot drink water. It is, for whatever reason, bad for him.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would love to say that Freud was more interesting than that but really he wasn't. We really should celebrate that the world is NOT the way Freud saw it.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dont wanna but I naturally do. Since forever. One good thing that came out of it was I exploited this condition to do PhD.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plato deciding only philosophers should be kings, and then arguing with himself.

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