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odinsblog · 8 months
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nobeerreviews · 4 months
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When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.
-- Haruki Murakami
(Paris)
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philosophybits · 24 days
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Ideals that seem unattainable to themselves are for that reason not ideals but mathematical phantoms of a merely mechanical mind. Whoever has a sense for the infinite and knows what he wants to do with it sees here the result of eternally separating and uniting powers, conceives of his ideals at least as being chemical, and utters, when he expresses himself decisively, nothing but contradictions.
Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments
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birdydreamer · 9 months
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It's hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
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escuerzoresucitado · 11 months
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thirdity · 1 year
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One of the roles of philosophy is to play the fool, or idiot. From its inception, philosophy has been closely tied to idiotism. Every philosopher who has brought forth a new idiom – a new language, a new way of thinking – has necessarily been an idiot. Only the idiot has access to the wholly Other. [...] Socrates knows only that he does not know; he is an idiot. Likewise, Descartes – who casts doubt on everything – is an idiot. Cogito ergo sum is idiotic. It takes an inner contradiction of thinking to make a new beginning possible.
Byung-chul Han, Psychopolitics
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samijami · 10 months
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JK Rowling: Trans people are trying to get rid of what makes us women; our femininity!
Also JK Rowling: *proceeds to bash woman in her writing for being too feminine*
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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I have an innate passion for contradiction—my whole life has been nothing but a series of melancholy and vain contradictions of heart or reason.
Mikhail Lermontov, from ‘A Hero of Our Time’, tr. J. H. Wisdom & Marr Murray
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nando161mando · 4 days
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stoicmike · 2 months
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Strange that no matter what the humans are talking about, they are always contradicting each other. -- Michael Lipsey
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mystical-blaise · 1 year
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Some of you all in the fandom claim Gwyneth Berdara needs some extended, arbitrary amount of time to heal from her trauma yet didn't bat a fucking eye when Rhysand not only got his mate the day after he was free from 49 years of sexual trauma, he went for it when Feyre was ready...mere months later...
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rosedhall · 30 days
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nobeerreviews · 9 months
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When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
-- Haruki Murakami
(Bern, Switzerland)
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scytheral · 10 months
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✦ㅤENNORMiSSEㅤA gender That feels / is Paradoxical. A enigma Of ambiguity , Evident anomaly && incongruousness , A contradiction of Puzzles , a Numb mystery At it ' s Journey , anomalous Essence && Similars.
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[ PT / Ennormisse: a gender that feels/is paradoxical. a enigma of ambiguity, evident anomaly and incongruousness, a contradiction of puzzles, a numb mystery at it's journey, anomalous essence and similars. / END PT. ]
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─── ✦✦✦ ───ㅤCoined by The Prince.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ─── ✦✦✦ ───ㅤRequested by Noboo.
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pratchettquotes · 10 months
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"I dinna want to hurry ye!" said Rob Anybody. "But hurry!"
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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girl4music · 5 months
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I think what gets me most is the “I am a demon” and “there’s a demon inside me” contradiction. Spike owns up to his own evil behaviour. Angel doesn’t. Spike always owns up to his own actions and choices but yet he is not the vampire seeking a redemption.
Spike takes accountability.
Angel says it’s someone else.
Sure Angel feels guilty for the things that Angelus has done but the problem is it’s not HIM that did them. So how can it be a redemption story? It isn’t. It’s an absolution story. So long as the man and the monster are separated, it cannot be a mission of redemption.
If Angelus was the one who was making amends for the things he has done… then it would be a redemption. But that never happens. Angelus doesn’t give a shit. He revels in the damage and pain he causes. He loves it. There’s no morality in the man. He is just a monster through and through. Nothing else.
I do not understand how a guy who is a whole ass other fucking person has to pay the consequences for some other guy’s actions and choices. It’s not his problem so it’s not his fault. He just makes it that way.
The only reason ‘AtS’ works is because Angel feels responsible for Angelus’ 500+ years of carnage but he shouldn’t because Angel is not Angelus and vice versa.
Spike on the other hand chooses to be ensouled even when soulless. It should be impossible for him to feel any remorse whatsoever. He shouldn’t be capable of empathy or free will if he isn’t capable of selfless love.
But that’s just not how it works with him at all. Does the chip train him to be this way? No, I don’t think so because even before that he still can go against his own demonic nature. Yes, for selfish reasons but nevertheless… he shouldn’t be able to choose at all. His evil demon should control and rule him just the same as it does with Angelus. There should be no difference. No leeway whatsoever. No morality.
That’s if the lack of soul is the factor.
It’s clearly not.
He just acts like a selfish and warped person with a screw loose every now and again. He doesn’t act like the devil incarnate has taken over his entire identity.
Redemption truly only works when you’re the same entity when evil as you are when good. If you are literally a different entity… then it doesn’t and it can’t because “I don’t understand why I did this” and “I didn’t do this but I feel responsible” are not the same.
You can feel responsible for something someone else has done but that doesn’t mean that you should. If you did literally do them and have actively stopped doing those things out of your own volition - different story.
It has to be your choice. You can’t be compelled. Redemption doesn’t and cannot work that way.
This is the fundamental flaw of ‘Angel the Series’.
Separating and differentiating the man from the monster by way of “he has a conscience now”.
HE doesn’t have a conscience. HE just has his identity back. He’ll lose it again when his “conscience” goes bye bye. How can THAT work as a redemption story?
You can say you’re not that person anymore. But that’s not a literal statement. You are still that person but you’ve chosen not to be. You’ve chosen to change. If you can’t choose. If you’re forced into changing … then it’s not on you because you’re not that person.
When the soul is a factor - it’s not choice. It’s compelling. It’s forcing the person to change. This would be a problem for both Angel and Spike if Spike did not choose to change while he was soulless. The very reason he gets and now has a soul is the very same reason why he doesn’t actually need one. He fought for his soul so he could be a better person.
He already was simply because chose to fight for it. Angelus never ever makes that same distinction. Ever. Angel does. But Angel shouldn’t have ever had to because Angel is literally an entirely different entity. He shares his body with a demon. He isn’t that demon.
His hands drove the car but “he” was not the driver.
So it’s not a redemption because “he” doesn’t need to be redeemed. “He” is not the one that needs redemption because “he” is not the one that is evil.
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