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The Fatal Flaw of the Red Age

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i'm v sad and i think that's v funny
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Anonymous asked:

Hey!! I know you’ve answered this before, but what philosophers/people in general do you think is essential reading? I’ve followed you for a while and I really admire you and your ideas, so I wanna get more of a solid basis for philosophy to understand your writing. Thank you and have a wonderful day!!! 🙏🏼 😊

aly-semi-archived-deactivated20 answered:

This is very eurocentric but try this order for some bare bones crash course shit that reflects how I came to where I am. Includes theology cuz thats just the philosophy of the time. 

Plato > Aristotle > Pseudo-Dionysus > Various Dessert Fathers > Abelard > Aquinas > Luther > Calvin > Descartes > Bacon > Spinoza > Leibniz > Hobbes > Locke > Hume > Kant > Hegel > Schopenhauer >  Nietzsche > Marx > Lenin > Luckacs > Adorno > Derrida > Foucault > Butler

If you do all that, you will have a foundation to build off of to read most things in the western canon. I’m gonna be honest, this is about as bare bones as I can make this, but this is a curriculum I would teach as a like 2 year crash course in western philosophy 

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Like if you read this its not that you will be done, its that you will know most the important thinkers and shifts in ideas which most people are replying to, and certainly will be able to dabble in contemporary philosophical literature

I can’t attest to these translations but try this out, added a few figures:

Plato: Symposium, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Physics

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Mystical Theology

Dessert Fathers: Selections From The Sayings of The Dessert Fathers

Augustine: City of God, Confessions

Abelard: Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Story of My Misfortunes

Aquinas:  Summa Theologica 

More to come…

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autogalatea

I’M GAY AND BROKE! pls buy my poetry book and writing services!! <3

hi bugs, my current situation is that i’m about $140 behind on may’s rent, $65 behind on bills, my SNAP just ran out, my disability is locked up in appeals, and FOSTA has totaled my job prospects. rough month lmao

as some of you know, i’ve been selling copies of MAD(E)WOMAN, my poetry collection, as a 118-page PDF. if you or someone you know could use an art fix for transition, developmental trauma and recovery, diaspora, sex work, and family building, please buy my book on a name-your-price basis!

i’m also offering a few inexpensive writing services, such as:

  • proofreading (~$0.0075/word)
  • editing (~$0.015/word)
  • critiques of work you want to submit for publication!

i was a science writer for a few years, professionally edited a literary journal for two years, and have published a fair amount of poetry, so these are things i’m actually pretty good at. if you’re about to submit poetry or prose for publication and want feedback from a former journal editor, let a girl know!! shoot me a message and we can work out pricing. all my rates are negotiable!

i’m also taking poetry commissions again, which i’m excited about because some of my best work has started out this way. message me here or at autogalatea@gmail.com to talk about your ideas!

thank you so much for all your support—i wouldn’t have made it this far without you!! <3 <3 <3

name your price for my book at:

paypal.com/LeylaColpan cash.me/$LeylaColpan venmo.com/Leyla-Colpan

[please include an email address where i can send your copy in your payment description and message me if you don’t receive your copy within one day!]

~ L

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choline-dreams

Please help me get stable during this move

I’m a neurodivergent, transgender woman, and sex worker. I recently moved to a new city for work and have been having a very hard time financially and have been suffering in multiple ways as a result.

I think things are finally headed towards stability but I still need donations. I never reached my goal for the deposit on my apartment and as a result I had to spend almost all my money for food/toiletries/medication on it and now I’m broke.

I need $140+ a month for prescriptions, at least $20 a week for food, and enough to go buy some drugstore makeup, shampoo, conditioner, etc. and $400 for rent.

I haven’t had money for my anxiety meds so I had to cut back, making my agoraphobia worse and giving me night terrors, and I haven’t been able to get progesterone which is very valuable for both my anxiety and endocrine system(as well as dysphoria bc my tits shrink without it). And that’s just off the top of my head, feel free to message for more details.

I started training at a new job but it will be 3-4 weeks before I get a full paycheck, and since SESTA/FOSTA I haven’t been able to get new clients that are safe and I don’t really have a way to do digital sex work seeing as I don’t have a computer. Basically I have no source of income and only $60 to last me the next month which isn’t even ¼ of what I need.

My PayPal is PayPal.me/ElyssaPalmer

My cashapp is $elyssapalmer

My Venmo is @Elyssa-palmer

I also have nudes and videos to sell, dm for specifics.

Please help if you can, reblog if you can’t, my well-being depends on me making it through the next month. I don’t know what will happen if I get evicted.

Anything is helpful.

As always, love y’all ❤️

And feel free to message me if you want anything clarified 🌹

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autogalatea

I’M GAY AND BROKE! pls buy my poetry book and writing services!! <3

hi bugs, my current situation is that i’m about $140 behind on may’s rent, $65 behind on bills, my SNAP just ran out, my disability is locked up in appeals, and FOSTA has totaled my job prospects. rough month lmao

as some of you know, i’ve been selling copies of MAD(E)WOMAN, my poetry collection, as a 118-page PDF. if you or someone you know could use an art fix for transition, developmental trauma and recovery, diaspora, sex work, and family building, please buy my book on a name-your-price basis!

i’m also offering a few inexpensive writing services, such as:

  • proofreading (~$0.0075/word)
  • editing (~$0.015/word)
  • critiques of work you want to submit for publication!

i was a science writer for a few years, professionally edited a literary journal for two years, and have published a fair amount of poetry, so these are things i’m actually pretty good at. if you’re about to submit poetry or prose for publication and want feedback from a former journal editor, let a girl know!! shoot me a message and we can work out pricing. all my rates are negotiable!

i’m also taking poetry commissions again, which i’m excited about because some of my best work has started out this way. message me here or at autogalatea@gmail.com to talk about your ideas!

thank you so much for all your support—i wouldn’t have made it this far without you!! <3 <3 <3

name your price for my book at:

paypal.com/LeylaColpan cash.me/$LeylaColpan venmo.com/Leyla-Colpan

[please include an email address where i can send your copy in your payment description and message me if you don’t receive your copy within one day!]

~ L

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taliaalghulism

Me getting ready to sell my labor power every morning bc it’s compulsory and my survival depends on it: wow cringe

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ithelpstodream

it’s really not. like this is definitely a good use of your high school years but it’s not going to endear you to the AOs I promise

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woman-respecter

a lot of (high tier) colleges are already saying that it will not negatively affect your chances of getting in if you get suspended for peaceful protesting. so like just get suspended and take the days off from school reprocussion free.

these are the same colleges who systematically discriminate against mentally ill applicants/students, use an admissions system whose only real purpose was always just perpetrating racism/antisemitism, and profit IMMENSELY from the mass hysteria they create in high school students. this is no more genuine or meaningful than mcdonalds turning the M upside down for women’s day

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statutesofboredom

this is soooo true. a lot of these universities saying that they will not penalize high schoolers for participating in peaceful protests are the same universities quietly intimidating their own college student protesters into silence by threatening expulsion/calling parents/having university police keep watch on their homes. don't believe shit that neoliberal profiteering institutions tell you about "your right to protest" because once you are on their campus they'll make it clear you have no right at all.

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Schizophrenic people are 14 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than commit one.

“(Schizophrenic) Individuals in this sample were at least 14 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than to be arrested for one. In general, the risk associated with being in the community was higher than the risk these individuals posed to the community”

This means that neurotypicals are a much bigger threat to schizophrenic people than schizophrenic people are to neurotypicals.

You can now shove all your “psycho killer” stereotypes up your ass.

I’d really appreciate if non schizophrenic people reblogged this cause the misconception that schizophrenic people are dangerous is so widespread and I really want people to see this post so that they won’t react with fear and apprehension when they meet a schizophrenic person.

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emchughes
Dear employers, I will have to take the day off today because:  ☐ It’s December and the streets are papier-mached with wet bronze leaves and it’s so dark outside that the cars have their headlights on at 3pm  ☐ I have recently been through a breakup, or I have been through a breakup at any time in my life really, and I woke up today with the absolute conviction that I will never be loved again ☐ A dog looked at me  ☐ I got a text from someone for whom I feel a mix of concern and frustration and recognition and longing that is both more and less than romance  ☐ Someone made a joke about dead pets meeting you in heaven ☐ Daylight savings time ☐ I passed a knot of flowers that were so bright they glowed through the dim grey water of the day and when was anything in my life last that luminous? ☐ Girls are too pretty ☐ For the first time I genuinely comprehend that there is not enough time to have all the lives I wanted ☐ I accidentally listened to Leonard Cohen

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today (via tetraghost)

Source: the-toast.net
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soft-butch-cassidy

depression tips™

  • shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.
  • moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over. 
  • put on clean, comfortable clothes. 
  • put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.
  • drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.
  • clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink. 
  • blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
  • make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something. 
  • make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.
  • go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
  • call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.
  • cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.
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astrologynshit

Reblog as much as you can

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statutesofboredom

i'm sorry but these all sound like the things i hate myself for not being able to do even though i desperately want to when i'm depressed

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