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Today, the third Thursday in November, World Philosophy Day is celebrated. I will wear the same shirt in RL with the image of Betrand Russell. The pic is taken in the Library of Alexandria, where Hypatia researched, wrote and taught her classes.
SAPERE AUDE!
For my Mother on Mother's Day 2023.
I wish all mothers a happy day today. They often do not realise how much they are a guiding light in our lives, shaping our hopes and dreams from the earliest of days. Today is particularly poignant for my Mum. This is her first Mother's Day in 67 years that she has not shared with my late father. Hard to believe it has been six months already since he died. You are loved Mum.
Tracks vanishing in the mist have a strange symbolism. Like to never take a train to some other world as master Miyazaki had portayed. The train would be full of spooky strangers anyway. Only ghosts could travel to such a mist. And yet, the hope lingers. Or is it a fear of that actually happening one day? To fly away or to become a ghost, there is no difference...
As every year, on the third Thursday of November, we celebrate World Philosophy Day. We are few philosophers and not very well known, but our activity of reflection and teaching of this wonderful discipline is increasingly important in these complicated times we live in.
I personally teach philosophy to young people and it is the most exciting activity I have ever done.
Socrates, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant are the great minds that will help us to understand ourselves. Sapere Aude!
Happy World Philosophy Day
“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Paul Russell is a professor in philosophy at Lund University, where he is Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project [LGRP]. Paul Russell is also a professor in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he has been teaching since 1987.
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Just a little fun with philosophy :)
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you stare at the abyss, the abyss will sure as hell stare back at you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A cheery, humorous, slightly altered and horribly misinterpreted portrayal of a fairly dark passage and theme from the German philosopher (and moustache legend), Friedrich Nietzsche.
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As the sun goes down on another day in the suburbs, the lights come on. All is calm as people return to their meals and television entertainment.
These photos are taken from my series "Suburban Dreams 65 Photographs". www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/52638166831/in/datepost...
Oh yeah, it's that stink bug again.... we were chatting for a while a few days ago... and no matter how small the little rascal was, it felt like it was constantly looking down on me.... well, not as a person then but as a human being... as a representative of the idiocy of evolution.. and/or the creator's bizarre humor... and once again it felt like we need to do more to care for our dear planet, our mother Gaia... and it feels like we're on the right track.. NOT!!
Think about how strangely unexpected encounters can make thoughts fly.... Show less
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One of my favorite movie series :)
Red pill or blue pill? Wake up, or go back to the dream?
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This recently rejuvenated hotel has a history that goes back to 1854. But here is a sad story. Whereas now it is a drinking and gambling venue (pubs can rarely survive these days without gaming or gambling), in the 1970s to the 1990s it was also a major hub in the live music industry.
Solid rock: Reliving the glory days of Hobart's pub rock scene www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-09/hobart-live-bands-venue-hi...
These places were opportunities for new bands to develop a following and become a part of the music industry. But there are very few pubs offering their stages to rock musicians these days.
Taken with my Nikon D850 using a Black Diffusion Pro Mist ¼ filter.
The photograph being looked at here is actually very important. Unfortunately the name of the photographer is unknown. It was taken in 1912 and shows a women's life drawing class at the Launceston Technical College where Lucien Dechaineux (1869-1957) had been in charge of the art department. Dechaineux taught composition classes to the Tasmanian photographer Jack Cato. Have a look at this brilliant Cato portrait: searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/155474
But we know Cato didn't take this photograph because he was already working in London at the time.
eprints.utas.edu.au/18371/1/Lucien_Dechaineux_1869-1957_F...
However, the real significance of this photo is, (1) that the artists' model here is actually Lucien Dechaineux, and (2) that it shows Hope Evershed, the first female art teacher at the Launceston Technical College, guiding a group of female students in a lesson.
Information about the Launceston Art Society:
Driftwood Spirit and The Outlaw Rhythm.
Rock and roll was forged as a soundtrack for youthful rebellion, but its core philosophy has proven completely indifferent to the calendar. Age presents no boundary to the genre because rock is fundamentally defined by attitude, expression, and spirit rather than youth.
Chard Rock. Chard, Somerset, UK.
On the beach at Tidal River in the Wilson's Promontory National Park one is drawn to the knob-like rock formation on the horizon. These rocks were once a land bridge that linked Tasmania with the Australian mainland before the end of the last ice age.
The way of blue philosophy in a mind district.
From scene to scene the view will be increasingly restricted,
Up to a deep minimum focus.
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Minimal Landscape is a photographic meditation on stillness, impermanence, and the quiet spaces left behind when the world recedes. Captured during the dense, brief windows of seasonal fog, this body of work utilizes high-key minimalism to strip away the chaotic visual noise of daily life, inviting a profound confrontation with the void. Here, the environment acts as a philosophical canvas—a visual representation of tabula rasa, where the boundary between what is present and what is absent becomes entirely blurred.
The series occupies the poetic threshold where the rural, the industrial, and the ephemeral collide. Towering concrete flyovers, disappearing railway lines, and geometric utility wires cut through the heavy mist, serving as skeletal monuments to human ambition. Yet, wrapped in fog, these massive structures lose their permanence, appearing like architectural ghosts fading into the ether. Beneath them, the human element remains small but resilient. Captured primarily as stark, anonymous silhouettes, the subjects become archetypes of the existential journey—wanderers navigating the hazy, uncertain expanse of time and progress.
By utilizing a high-key black-and-white palette, the environmental fog functions as a tool of radical reduction. It forces the viewer to confront the beauty of what remains when detail is stripped away. The work evokes the classic philosophy of the sublime, highlighting the fragile scale of humanity against a vast, indifferent infinite. Ultimately, Minimal Landscape is an exploration of ontological transition; it captures a world caught between being and non-being, offering a sanctuary of quiet introspection in an age of sensory overload.
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#1 Believe and it shall be yours.
#2 Where there is hope there can be faith. Where there is faith, miracles can occur.
#3 Hope is desperation. Faith is relaxation.
#4 May we grow beautiful as we grow wise.
#5 The one great thing about life is laughter
#6 How you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. And, so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. In the end, it all comes down to one word. grace. It's how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light.
#7 One of the best tools for longevity and good health is not just taking a walk outdoors, but taking your walk while holding the hand of God. When we walk in gratitude for each and every moment, we empower ourselves by empowering our spirits. When we breathe in nature through our eyes, ears and lips, we become certain that not only are our souls eternal, but that God knows how to manage our lives, our troubles, our worries and our days better than we do. So today and everyday "let go and let God".
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford. It argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth. Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists, and the outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans.