> In short, if you hear yourself say, "Wretched me, the things I have to endure!" call yourself a slave. If you find yourself wailing, or complaining, or in misery, know you are a slave – a slave in a toga with purple trim.
Paraphrased from the great Epictetus
#stoicism #philosophy #freedom
Nevermind my previous post. It doesn't really make much sense to try to fit that definition of virtue with a Christian definition of virtue, does it?
Is it more virtuous for a rich man to give away 1% of his wealth than a poor man to give away all he has just because the impact of the 1% of the wealth of the rich man is bigger than that of the poor man?
But either Jesus is wrong, or virtue simply does not work the way Aristotle describes it to work, does it? Aside from the fact that for Aristotle, an action is virtuous not depending on what you do but on the results. Virtue cannot be something outside your total control for it to be truly virtue (see the Stoic conception of virtue).
But if Jesus clarified (and corrected, as he contradicts Aristotle) how can you turn around and use Aristotle to claim that Jesus, based on him being male, is more virtuous than Mary?
I'm not being obtuse.
If man is more virtuous because of his greater ability to embody virtue, meaning to enact good effect on others than woman because of biological characteristics, a rich man should be considered more virtuous because of his greater ability to embody virtue than a poor man, because of his economic characteristics.
Where is the flaw in this reasoning?
Humanity is at the same time profoundly imperfect and more than enough. The key to a happy life is embracing this. Do not expect anything good from people and learn to appreciate the good they give you.
#philosophy #life
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I was thinking on @roya ୨୧'s post shitting on #AI generated #art the other day.
I think I understand the point that art has a component of expression, of the artist reflecting their whatever on their piece.
However, doesn't art also have an element on the receiving side? On whatever the person seeing/listening/reading the piece is moved to feel by the piece? If this is accepted, and if it is accepted that AI art can produce these sensations, AI art should be accepted as a valid way of making art.
The only way out of this denying the 'arthood' of AI art would be arguing that art is only art if A) the artist reflects something on it or B) AI art is unable to move anyone.
I think B is self-evidently false, and I don't think A is true either as not all art has a creator - nature can be considered artistic by itself, for example, and outside of religious/spiritual interpretations, it does not have a creator.
This, of course, setting aside the fact that AI is just a tool and can be used to reflect one's own emotions, experiences, or whatever as well.
Thoughts?
#AI #Aert #DallE #Midjourney #Aesthetics #Philosophy #asknostr
I should probably migrate from #ProtonMail and #ProtonVPN to #Mullvad and #Tutanota. But I should probably get a domain name as well, so I free my email from being stuck with a specific provider. Are there any downsides to using a personal domain name for your (personal) email?
#privacy #asknostr
No se debate para convencer a la otra parte, se debate para convencer a la audiencia.
Además está respaldado por la psicología, cuando debatimos nos encallamos más en nuestras posturas.
#Inertia is a fulfilling life's worst enemy. How do you combat it and keep in mind your goals and the things you want to improve in your life? How do you stay mindful and attentive?
#asknostr
Yeah, alt-text is descriptive text you can add to images so that those screen-reader programs can read it, but IIRC it's also used if the image can't or won't load for whatever reason. You can even add it to nostr.build - at least through #Amethyst I have.
Regarding why the fuck they'd rant against it, I think it's just one more way to virtue signal.
"Yes, I #AATTMI (Add Alt-Text To My Images) and if you can't be bothered to add alt-text to a shitty Pepe meme you're sharing you're actively blindophobe and thus I'm better than you"
"Yeah even if its utility is marginal to the widest range of users and adds a 150% overhead to your meme-sharing workflow"
Until the call to arms becomes "spend sats" instead of "stack sats" Bitcoin won't replace fiat currencies.
Bitcoin needs to be desired because it facilitates acquiring goods and services.
Stoicism is the Starbucks of philosophy, for both good and bad. It is readily accesible and very recommended to study it (it's one of my philosophical keystones), but take care not to fall into the commercial version of it. It's much, much deeper than you might think.
If you want any help getting into it just say so!
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Summarized, Stoicism defends that there is very little in our life that we have power on. We have power over our thoughts, opinions and actions. Over the rest of existance (our health, our fame, our loved ones) not really - that's under the purview of Logos/Nature/God.
Moral good can only be found where we have power on, as otherwise being good or bad would be random or arbitrary, and as such wouldn't be moral good or bad.
A happy life (eudaimonia) is a life lived in the pursuit of virtue, which is objectively derived from our nature as rational beings. The four stoic virtues are Courage, Temperance, Wisdom and Justice. Other material stuff we can prefer or disprefer, but they are fundamentally (moral) indifferents. For example, the death of a loved one isn't good or bad, it simply is. Good or bad is how we might react to it — wallowing in our own dispair would be bad, accepting it as part of life and continuing on would be good.
This is all supported by a detailed system of physics and logic, which can get pretty deep. Also, traditionally Stoicism was (and is) a profoundly spiritual philosophy, which is something many times set aside nowadays.
#Christmas, or other holidays around the #winter #solstice are profoundly #material celebrations, which can be traced back to their #pagan roots: we celebrate the fact that we have survived another year, that the #Sun is reborn, and that the days are lengthening anew, bringing life with them.
All of this is worthy of celebrating. However, I think it's also good to contemplate the fact that everything we have – our loved ones, our material possessions, our health or the chance to live another year – is not really ours but, as material things, are things loaned to us, and wholly property of the #universe we live in. And as such, we may have to give it back, willingly or not, at a moment's notice.
We should keep this in mind. Celebrate merrily, but reflecting on this fact, for the twofold benefit of appreciating what we have even more, and understanding and accepting the nature and laws of the universe.
Yo para lo del primer trimestre (y ya te digo que llevo tiempo sin hablarlo, leer sobre el tema, etc) lo determino por la actividad cerebral - ANTES de que haya actividad cerebral no creo que podamos hablar de un ser humano como tal, sino un cúmulo de células humanas.
Mi lógica va por ahí. Determinar en qué punto podemos considerar que existe un ser humano (no un futuro ser humano) y a partir de ahí restringirlo.
Lately, I've been researching #spiritual and #religious #traditions a lot.
When I was younger I used to be an atheist fundamentalist. I was enlightened, believers were dumb. Science ruled supreme, physicalism was my creed and #RichardDawkins (PBUH) was my prophet.
However, by exploring my political and thus ethical convictions, I came to the conclusion that materialism is a delusion, a self-contradicting negation of the human experience.
I've considered myself an #agnostic for a while, but recently I've started to feel like this label doesn't describe me as well as it should. By no means am I a theist, at least not in the regular sense of the word. I do not believe in the literal existence of a #god, and I maintain a position that what we think about in regards to cosmology and theology is very much a reflection of our own experience. However, I've crossed a line after which I cannot deny that experience as a fundamental part of the human life.
Anyone can relate?
#religion #philosophy #cosmology #life #existentialism #atheism #agnosticism #atheist
Sure, DM me! I'm down for discussing almost any topic. I'm pretty far from Orthodoxy and any orthodoxy though, I'm one-third of the way between Stoicism and Gnosticism.
I don't think atheism needs to lead to emptiness or be painful, necessarily. But I do believe the forms of atheism that don't are very similar in structure and form to religion. And at that point it's distinction without difference, as atheist religions exist.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Religion has a whole social dimension, as it produces ideologies. And they need to be dealt with as any other ideology, with no special treatment for being religiously-based.
I think I have a winner in my #Logseq vs #Obsidian notetaking battle.
Despite me WANTING to prefer Logseq to Obsidian based on its #OpenSource nature, but I simply cant. Obsidian functions in a way much more natural to me.
I don't use these tools strictly for #PKM but also for personal #ProjectManagement, keeping a documented archive of personal files (identity documents, medical information, etc) and Logseq's lack of folders, combined with the fact that it renames attachments (assets), is a dealbreaker. Obsidian helps me maintain a working structure (e.g. I can archive files as generic or as specific as I want, while being able to reference them elsewhere as needed - for example, I can keep a generic attachments folder for #zettelkasten related images, PDFs, while having categorized documents elsewhere).
Also, I simply don't find myself using blocks and #block #properties as much. My main use case here have been #work #meetings, but except removing some friction on starting to type, I can substitute that with creating a templated page.
It really, really frustrates me that Obsidian is #closedSource, but still, I consider that it gives me more #freedom - it respects MY structure, the underlying files, and is, in essence, a powerful #Markdown editor. Logseq is not. It uses Markdown as a base, but is in essence an outliner of its own kind. It has its usecases, but Obsidian seems to be overall more flexible, more powerful, and ironically, more future-proof.
Fun fact, my main tool is now #Logseq – I didn't announce it but I gave it a second try and seems to be working.
That said, I dislike how opinionated Logseq is. I like its features but it forces you down a workflow, and that I don't really like.
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