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Sisyphus Finds Happiness - Existential Comics
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Although to be fair to Hegel if you have to eat Danish food every day it is quite rational to be sad.
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"Yes we destroyed the planet, but for one beautiful moment we were able to create fake images of hot MILFs with huge honkers..."
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We've all thought about it at some point, the difference is he had the guts to do it...
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Honestly that Prince WAS pretty sus though. Like, what exactly did he love about her? Her strict adherence to traditional patriarchal norms?
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Big Bird: "The next letter is G. God is for God, who doesn't exist, and if God doesn't exist, that means everything is permitted..."
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I don't care how much of a "sckeptical stance" you want to take. Bruce. Lee. Is. Cool.
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"Oh and another thing, since you've been gone we've abolished the Monarchy and organized society as an anarcho-syndicalist commune, with no hierarchy, I hope you don't mind."
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Aristotle really doesn't get enough credit/blame for being the first true nerd in the history of Philosophy. Not only did he write philosophy similar to Plato, but he rigorously cataloged the natural world, more or less writing the first known books on biology/zoology. He also formalized logic, and categorized every fallacy. He also, quite strangely, went out of his way to make arguments that women (and other races) should be considered "natural slaves", i.e. obedient to people like him. No one can really say why he felt compelled to make these arguments, but one theory is that he was that kind of Nerd.
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Aristotle: the First Nerd - Existential Comics
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"I was with Einstein last night, and let's just say he understood a thing or two about how long it takes for two separate bodies interact in space and time."
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Wittgenstein: "what if Metaphysics was stupid and this was all a huge waste of time?"
Everyone else: "shhhhhh, what are you trying to do, put us out of a job? In this economy?"
If you love stinging and irony enough, it all adds up. Plus it's a pretty funny way to die, so you've got that going for you.
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Am a cynical? Yeah maybe, the YouTube algorithm has been recommending me a log of myopic videos lately.
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Nietzsche said “to live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”, essentially believing that humans do not even wish to avoid suffering, but only find meaning in the suffering they endure. What's interesting about this, in the context of spicy peppers, is that humans actually enjoy eating them. Peppers evolved specifically to avoid being eaten by mammals, by activating our nerves with something called “capsaicin” that makes us literally feel like we are burning. Birds don’t respond the same way, so all the seeds get eaten by birds, which is better for the plant since birds fly farther away, and don’t chew the seeds.
As a result, all mammals (aside from the treeshrew, which seems to evolved an immunity) do not eat spicy peppers. All mammals, of course, except humans. Humans have a higher thought capacity that allows us to understand that we aren’t really burning, and there is no real danger. What’s interesting though is that this doesn’t just result in us bearing the suffering to reap the reward of the pepper’s nourishment. Humans actually enjoy the burn. In fact, in a strange twist of fate, the only animal on earth to enjoy peppers also made peppers one of the most successful plants on earth, because we also happened to be the only animal that cultivates plants on purpose. Chili peppers spread across the globe, and in fact were specially bred to be more spicy and burn us more. Humans seem to enjoy the very sensation of suffering.
Of course, everyone still seems to have a “limit” to how much spice they enjoy. Once you go past it, the physical reality of the pepper sensation overpowers the strange enjoyment we get from pretending our mouth is on fire, and it returns to the animal state of mere suffering. There is, however, an exception even to this. The premise of the YouTube show “Hot Ones” is of course based on this principle: it is actually pretty funny to subject ourselves to extreme pain on purpose. Ever since they bred spicy peppers that are too hot for anyone to reasonably enjoy, dudes have been daring each other to eat them for a laugh. So while humans have transcended the animal state, which responds to mere stimulus to make decisions (mouth hot! don’t eat!), and converted the pain to pleasure with knowledge, we can further transcend even our humanity and convert the higher level of suffering to pleasure, through will power.
This is why Conan O’Brian is the true existential hero of the show. Not only did Conan enjoy his suffering, because it was funnier the more he suffered, but his pleasure was directly tied to the suffering. He would have, in fact, been quite disappointed if he had not suffered, having been robbed of the goal of his directed will. He wished to suffer for glory, and to creatively construct a great episode and lasting memory for the show. This is Nietzsche’s rebuke of utilitarianism – mankind should seek to transcend lower goals of mere pleasure and pain so that they can instead create great art from their force of will. This is why we can say, I think quite confidently, that Conan O’Brian has at last achieved Nietzsche’s ultimate goal of transcending his humanity and becoming an Ubermensch.
Hegel’s philosophy was a sort of all encompassing philosophy, where he thought all human knowledge was progressively moving towards the truth, which he called the Absolute Ideal. He lumped in art, culture, science, philosophy, and even Christianity as fragments of this one single truth that we are slowly uncovering through rational pursuit.
Kierkegaard, on the other hand, believed that certain modes of being for human life were fundamentally different than others. For example, someone who pursues an aesthetic life (doing awesome shit because it is awesome, like for example the band AC/DC) and someone who is pursuing the moral life (like for example Greta Thunberg) are simply doing two different things. While AC/DC is undeniably more awesome than fixing climate change, and fixing climate change is undeniably more moral than badass guitar riffs, we as “rational” human beings ultimately have no way of deciding between which sort of life to live. The same goes for giving up on rationality itself to have faith in God. In his view Christianity wasn’t the culmination of rational thought, but in a way the rejection of it for faith.
Oh and also Hegel rather strangely said that German, aside from maybe Ancient Greek, was the best language to do philosophy in. Kierkegaard was so annoyed at not being able to do his dissertation in Danish (Latin or German were the choices) that he petitioned the King himself to get permission. Kinda weird but I guess the King wasn’t really as busy as you’d think back then.
Kierkegaard Reads Hegel - Existential Comics
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Nietzsche Discovers AI Art - Existential Comics
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Radical Skepticism and Its Limits - Existential Comics
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The Princess and the Frog - Existential Comics
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Some have even gone so far as to call Aristotle the first Gamer, but I'm not sure I would go that low...
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For Henri Bergson, there was a big distinction between time as measured by scientists (which uses motion through space to measure it) and time as experienced by human beings, which he called duration. For him, this couldn't be measured scientifically, couldn't be broken down into discreet moments, and could only be experienced. Furthermore, he emphasizes that the past and future are only imaginary states that exist in the present as thoughts, so in reality the only thing that exists is our experience of time in the present.
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Early Modern Brainstorm - Existential Comics
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The Frog and the Scorpion From a Rational Point of View - Existential Comics
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The History of Political Authority - Existential Comics
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The reason the English don't like spicy food is because they never evolved to be fully human.
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