#philosophy 101

[ladytabletop]

game designers talking about what a game is/should be are really just the ancient greeks inventing philosophy again

"what is a game?" whatever i'm playing right now, and most of the things I'm not

#really takes me back to college philosophy 101 #relativism vs absolutism PLEASE HUSH #philosophy is a game too #the lady rambles

[altmode]

i like him for his snout-like qualities

#mtmte #maccadam #whirl #whirl mtmte #obsessed with making these sketch pages #especially when i make them during lectures. shoutout to philosophy 101 for this one #transformers

[triflesandtea]

Hello, folks. Here is my latest article regarding some philosophical questions that can be raised in the lore of Pirate101 (and its sister game Wizard101) and its galaxy of the Spiral. These are just random philosophical questions inspired by the poster Star Gator on the official W101 message boards.

Enjoy!

#Pirate101 #Wizard101 #Wizzy101 #Wiz101 #Malistaire Drake #Wizard 101 #P101 #P101 OC #bad Wizard101 ideas #philosophy #philosophical questions #gaming #video games

[thevirginwitch]

witchcraft basics: the seven hermetic principles of the kybalion

The ancient Hermetic Philosophies heavily influenced the "New Thought Movement" during the late 1800's in North America, eventually leading to the publication of The Kybalion in 1908 by the Three Initiates. Originally, The Kybalion was released 'anonymously' by the Three Initiates, however it was later revealed that the author was none other than lawyer and renowned occultist, William Walker Atkinson.

"New Thought" was heavily influenced by the religion of spiritualism, and the burgeoning sciences of Psychology, and “New Physics.” Atkinson boiled it all down and codified Seven Hermetic Principles, which shifted the Hermetic focus to align easily within their modern world view of spirituality at the time.

1. The Principle of Mentalism

“THE ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental.”

2. The Principle of Correspondences

“As above, so below; so below, as above.”

3. The Principle of Vibration

“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”

4. The Principle of Polarity

“Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.”

5. The Principle of Rhythm

“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”

6. The Principle of Cause and Effect

“Every Case has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.”

7. The Principle of Gender

“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine principles; Gender manifests on all planes.”

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#philosophy #witchcraft #witch #witchblr #witches of tumblr #baby witch #pagan #witchcraft 101 #beginner witch #thevirginwitch #hermeticism #witchy

[applejongho]

your evil shadow foil would be orangehongjoong

WHERE

#the more i sit the more i realize this is kinda true . like me if i had gone down a diff path when first getting into atz #alternate me #this is so funny too bc like how do u even quantify the opposite of jh #whats the opposite of an apple #im taking philosophy 101 here #rye 🍋

[obstinaterixatrix]

listen I am a guy that loves analyzing interpretation and the process of interpretation and the context of interpretation and the meta-cognitive implications of interpretation. the nuances of hermeneutics continuously eludes me. I think lex has tried explaining semiotics to me like three times. it just slips out of my head. give me communications theory any day, but then make it philosophy??? I am lost at sea forever

#my ramblings #sister has a degree in philosophy. meanwhile I was absolutely lost in the mandatory logics class that was like… 101 for philosophy courses #I interrogate meaning every day of my goddamn life I don’t know why this specific exploration of it is incomprehensible to me

[separatist-apologist]

Do you know more about ball or Aristotle?

Tragically, Aristotle. Everything I know about philosophy has been against my will. I majored in psych in undergrad and I took philosophy 101 as a blow off class but Jesus it was so hard. None of these questions have answers, where is my A?

But also psychology is built on philosophy so I had to take three horrible classes that started with Aristotle and Plato and moved upward to my nemesis Freud and I have retained so much of that information. Again. Against my will. Taylor is reading Aristotle for fun, I promise I am not

#i did like Simone de Beauvoir but philosophy 101 featured 0 female philosophers #that was for my gender studies minor #and like when I say I liked her like the bar is in hell #I just don't GET it like I get it but I don't

[thekingofmuses]

(Hibiki towards Shen!) "I ran into a man who told me 'righteousness is to be human, to be human is to be righteous...' I don't think people are like that by nature," Hibiki spoke to the nearby stranger. While she was probably going against her better judgment by rambling to someone like this, she was curious as to what another's thoughts would be on this kind of saying.

Shen turned when he heard a voice, then looked down to see a young woman. Was she..talking to him? He pondered over what she said and finally shrugged. "I dunno who said that, but they obviously haven't met a lot of people. Sometimes, they can be decent, yes. Depends on who it is, though. Other times, they can be total pricks, and they see nothin' wrong with what they're doin', even if it hurts other people. Those're the ones you gotta look out for. But it's hard cause they're good at playing dress up to hide how shitty they actually are."

#philosophy 101 with Shen Woo #neowaveoasis #wild dragon #welcome Hibiki!!

[yellow-yarrow]

im replaying The Talos Principle the first time since it came out, now knowing slightly more about philosophy, having a Beyonce?? moment seeing it references marxist philosophy

#I did not notice it at the time. I didn't even have proper philosophy classes at high school #im slightly annoyed tho with the way Milton debates with me. you are asking complex questions and I only have simple answers to choose from #let me agree with you dude 'life has no objective meaning' yeah obviously! #'it seems like you can't define what a person is in one sentence' yeah dumbass this is philosophy 101 #'what if souls dont exist thats scary' not really #the game still hold up tho is fun

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

Cato, mess with my concepts My inner vision/ Like a strobing light Please confuse my every decision I can't even pretend that you are my friend What has happened to you and I? And don't say that I have changed 'Cause man, of course I have Are you far too depressed Now even to answer the phone? I guess you just want to Shave your head, have a drink and be left alone (Is that too much to ask?)

#I don’t want this to end up in the main tags but meemaw forgets #how many tags it takes nowadays #for it not to show #it used to be 5 you know #cp 2077 #anyway #silverdyne #Johnny is philosophy 101 coded so I must insert the most basic ass ones #this is post bomb. obviously. #in my heart early lazrpop (aka second conflict) is indie rock #this is because I am enlightened and see the truth & light 😌 #All Kerry wants to do is shave is head and be left alone

[dansepants]

#obey me one master to rule them all #obey me shall we date #obey me levi #obey me leviathan #levi #leviathan #avatar of envy #leviachan #obey me edit #obey me crack #philosophy 101 essay copypasta

[persephone-nymph]

Mike Flanagan has to be one of the worst dialogue writers in history. I swear every character is the same person and that person is Mike.

#every monologue sounds like the ramblings of a high person #and it sounds really cool and deep while your saying it #but in the morning you realize it was surface level philosophy 101 crap

[mrkanman]

Just listen. The most basic form of fear is the simple impulse to Not Die. The most basic form of love is the impulse for your Species to Not Die (though this has Definitely gained complexity alongside living organisms, do not misunderstand me. the love you feel is VERY different from the "love" a bacterium acts on when it replicates itself but it comes from the same root instinct). Every other feeling just kinda showed up in the gradient between the two

holy shit so you mean to tell me all emotions are based on the base concepts of preservation and survival, refined and clarified over time into a myriad of feelings and mental states? that hate is not the opposite of love but fear outweighing love? metal.

#Anonymous #philosophy 101 seminar on tumblr dot com

[gh-0-stcup]

Tumblr 101

Since the post about reblogging, I'd thought it'd be a good idea to make a little guide about how to use Tumblr effectively. You know - gaining followers, increasing meaningful engagement, and keeping the site healthy.

If you saw the post on likes vs reblogs, you probably have gathered that Tumblr's core feature is reblogging. If you didn't, let me tell you now - Tumblr's core feature is reblogging. It's what allows your posts to circulate, to cross over to different communities, and to keep being seen 10 years after you initially posted it. It's how users find you, how you find them. It's how communities are built and what allows them to thrive.

Why is this?

To get the most out of Tumblr, it's important to understand the main way this site differs from other social media. We are not algorithm driven. On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and many others, the main feature is likes. Or whatever happens to be their equivalent to likes. Liking is what lets the posters know you enjoyed their post and what helps get it seen by other people.

If you're coming to Tumblr having spent a lot of time on other sites, it's likely you're instinctively relying on the like feature. As a long term Tumblr user, the like button on this website is largely meaningless. The improvements to searching and browsing by tags, which now allow users to sort based on likes/reblogs, have made the feature a little more useful. But it's still pretty much the least important feature. It's just a nod to the poster.

You have to change the way you think.

Step One: Follow!

Your personal dash is where you should be spending most of your time on this site. The search functions are superfluous and if you're relying on that for entertainment, I'm sorry to say you are not using the site properly.*

To make your dash more interesting, follow more people. Yeah, yeah you know! I hear you scream out. Stop talking to you like you're stupid, you get that you're supposed to follow people you like. But here's the thing - if your dash is so boring you're not even using it, you don't know.

Go into that search function, look up some stuff you like, and whenever you find a good post follow that person. The time for pickiness comes later. Just follow, follow, follow. Keep going until you get bored. Start with quantity over quality. The more you follow, the more you'll see on your dash.

When somebody new follows you, check out their blog. Do they share an interest with you? Follow back. Even if it's not the greatest blog, just spend some time focusing on increasing the number of people you are following.

Step Two: Effective Design

Your icon and description are very important. Other people will look to your icon when it pops up on your dash or their searches to judge whether you're a kindred spirit they can follow. Set your icon to something that relates to a fandom or ship you post about often or like a lot. It will attract others who enjoy the same thing.

Your icon is (generally) not about creating an identity for yourself. It communicates what your interests are, your aesthetic, and/or what kind of things you post about. Every time your blog shifts gear, crosses over to a different fandom or gets into a different ship or starts posting lots about something else - change your icon.

Your description is also important, though less so than your icon. Something very important thing to keep in mind - this is a content driven site, not a personality driven one. In essence, nobody here gives a shit about who you are. Your real name, face, age, gender, location? Superfluous information. Nice to know sometimes, but completely unnecessary to share.

Like your icon, your description should be a summary of the content you post. It should describe what you like and possibly convey the tone of your blog/your sense of humour (if that's important to your blog). Update your description when your blog changes what it posts about. People will look at your description as well as the content you post to determine whether they want to see you on their dash. You are their source of entertainment, they care about whether you post things they want to see.

Step Three: Reblog

Now that we've (somewhat) fixed your dash and helped you get seen by others, it's time to get into actual site usage. Browse your dash, which is hopefully now buzzing with content.** Pretend the like feature does not exist. Every time you find yourself going for that like button, hit reblog instead. Okay, you can hit the like as well - just make sure you're reblogging every time too.

Reblogging should be the main thing you're doing. It produces content for your followers. It advertises you as a person who posts things to people who post things you like. It helps you find things you'd like to see on your dash because they'll find you.

If a post is good enough for a like, it's good enough for a reblog.

When the mood strikes, add to what you're reblogging with your own commentary. If you have something to say, say it. Even if it's just a "wow awesome gif" or "i loved this scene!"

On Tagging

Tagging is important. Yes, it gets your post seen. But the biggest benefit to tagging is that it allows your followers to NOT see certain things. Say you mostly post about Blorbo from your shows, but you also like Xorbo. If you tag appropriately, fellow Blorbo lovers will be able to follow you even if they hate Xorbo. They'll follow you for the content they like and filter out the content they don't like rather than unfollowing.

For fandom content, you want to tag the fandom and character discussed in the post. Simple. If you notice most people use a particular acronym for a fandom, adopt that over the full name. Optionally, you can tag for both.

Don't over tag. If a character or ship is mentioned in passing but is not even close to the main focus of the post, it is not necessary to tag it. Overtagging clutters tags for people who are completing step one. If you're unsure, imagine you despised xyz character or show. Would this post be annoying to see? If so, tag. If not, don't.

Now, tags are for people who enjoy the thing. If you're posting content that is against the thing, tag with "anti-[x]" instead. This is where things get a little complex - is a take that is critical of a character "anti" that character? You can also tag as "[x] critical" in cases where the take is not motivated by disdain/frustration for the thing.

Similar to how tags are for people who enjoy the thing, anti tags are for people who do not enjoy the thing. When judging whether something is anti or simply critical, consider who it would annoy more to see the post. If it would annoy people who hate the thing, go with critical.

Basically, it's all about politeness and the ability to curate our own experiences. Keep this in mind as you tag your posts.

A time honored tradition on Tumblr is to put commentary in the tags. Many new users have question what the etiquette of this is - when do you add to a reblog vs when do you add to the tags kind of deal. The simple answer is - there is no longer a rule to judge this by. I don't care what tips people have tried to tell you. Tag commentary was brought about by the way the site used to function. The reasons are now obsolete and thus make zero sense to anybody who's entered Tumblr recently. Feels and vibes are the only way you have to judge it.

What do I mean? In the long long ago when Tumblr's culture emerged, tags did not show up in the activity feed. Things that were added in the main text of reblogs would. So people could add random comments, jokes, or things they didn't want the OP to see in the tags. This is where the phrase "why would you hide this in the tags?!" comes from. Tags were difficult to see unless you saw the post on your dash or were browsing the person's actual blog.

Step Four: Queue

Reblogging everything means your blog is going to get pretty crowded real quick. Spamming can be fun once in a while, but if it's happening regularly it can be annoying. There's a chance people might start unfollowing you, which we do not want. So you should make use of Tumblr's other main feature - the queue.

The queue is a chest of posts that get released at regular intervals. You can adjust when and how often your queue posts, but it's fine to leave it at the default for now. It allows you to reblog a lot without cluttering the dash. It also ensures you're posting consistently, which will help you gain followers better than spamming 20 posts every Saturday.

To start making use of your queue, choose an arbitrary ratio of reblog/queue. For example, reblog two posts and queue the third. I also tend to queue things that I don't add commentary to. If I'm adding commentary, I want to be around when/if people respond to it so I can have a conversation. You don't have to do that though. Just build up a queue however you feel is appropriate to your needs.

Step Five: Pruning

Okay, at this point a lot of your Tumblr problem should be fixed. You're barely using the searches anymore, your dash keeps you busy for days, you've started to gain followers, and people are engaging with your posts. You've probably noticed a downside to the whole "follow everybody" thing I had you do in step one - there's a lot of stuff on your dash that you don't want to see! It's starting to get annoying. You just want to sit in the glow of all that content you adore.

Well, the time for pickiness has finally come. You see one person on your dash keeps posting stuff you don't know or care about? Unfollow. This other person is spamming and that was fine once upon a time, but their stuff isn't that great and it's blocking you from stuff you really enjoy? Unfollow. Go on a very small unfollow spree, focusing on clearing your dash of things that are preventing the joy from sparking.

Don't bother with sentimentality. Remember: this is a content driven site. It is not insulting to unfollow somebody who isn't posting things you want to see.

Start being a little more choosy when hitting follow. If somebody follows you, visit their blog. Are their posts something you'd like to see on your dash? Follow. Do the same for people who reblog your posts. Doing this in tandem with getting rid of things you don't want to see will allow you to further tailor your dash to your interests.

Misc. Tip: Reblog vs New Post

Adding commentary to reblogs is generally better than creating an entirely new post because it's continuing a conversation. You already have two people who are guaranteed to see your post (the OP and the person you're reblogging from), which is two more than a new post is guaranteed to have.

There are, however, times where creating your own post is best etiquette. If you are starting to stray pretty far from the original topic, feel free to make your own post about it instead. You can link and/or screenshot the post that inspired your own for context.

Other times, etiquette warrants a new post. Go by the same metric I described in the tagging section - if you created this post, would the commentary annoy you? Make your own.

On Tumblr, we must curate our own experience. Therefore, good Tumblr etiquette is all about allowing others to do the same.

*Meant in terms of keeping this site functioning, not dictating how you should have your fun. This post is about boosting community building, making friends, and helping Tumblr not get shut down for sucking ass.

**If your dash is not buzzing with content, repeat step one.

#tumblr 101 #tumblr tips #tumblr culture #a comprehensive guide to how tumblr works #what it's main features actually are and why #and the philosophy behind tumblr etiquette #certain bolded sections are very important - they represent the ethos of the site #the last one on etiquette is vital #if you violate tumblr etiquette then yes you may have anger directed at you #but the more likely outcome is that people simply won't interact with you #you'll have trouble gaining and keeping followers #and nobody will say anything because they'll just assume you don't care #tumblr etiquette encompasses a lot of rules but as long as you keep the last thing in mind you'll mostly figure it out #how to use tumblr

[aronarchy]

I wanna hear about your transhumanist ideas! 👀 /gen /posi

Last month I answered this ask from someone else, detailing which aspects of transhumanism I feel are most relevant to my own life/the ones I personally want/need first (or at least the ones which were at the forefront of my mind/were the easiest to think up at the time) (along with some other things).

Transhumanism at its core is the belief that we (and this logic extends to all sentient beings (or whatever else encompasses "all beings with ethical utility")) all deserve to not suffer (or whatever is the more accurate equivalent/summary of "not experiencing negative utility") as much as possible/as much as we want, and deserve to have whatever we need in order to achieve this. Transhumanism demands a total rejection of all essentialist moral imperatives—the assertion that things are (morally) obligated to be a certain way simply because That's What They're Supposed To Be Like (with no genuine non-circular justifications for it; their only true reasoning, when reduced, is "well Nature/God(s) intended it to be that way" and from there "well you are supposed to obey their (supposed) dictums because you're supposed to and that's just the way things are").

Transhumanism is less a single set of some ideas than a framework through which we view and interpret reality and ethical questions and future-planning; our resulting ideas/specific proposals for specific situations/to meet specific needs all stem from those fundamental principles.

I believe that my life sucks to a great degree, and everyone's life sucks to at least some degree, and that instead of passively accepting the status quo as just and fair we should change that, because we don't "deserve" such suffering, and most of us are convinced we deserve it because accepting the alternative brings a great deal of hopelessness and despair and anger, and many try to convince each other that we deserve it as that's what they've always been told, and "you're obligated to suffer/suffering makes life worth living/you're supposed to suffer if nature/god intended it to be that way/well it's Not Actually That Bad and it's okay that you can't choose to opt out of it because you don't/won't/can't actually want to choose" is baked into the very foundations of our fundamentalist and capitalist exploitative culture.

A particular priority of transhumanists is life extension/immortality—recognizing that it's a horror that we are forced to develop diseases, painfully age and then die, and hoping to remedy that ASAP. (I believe the idea of resurrection as an option is important as well, but that's a slightly different issue.) This is part of a larger desire for total bodily autonomy and morphological freedom (ability to physically do with your body whatever you want, change it however you want, or even have multiple bodies or not have a body at all. I'm particularly excited to get cat ears and become an anime girl and also physically resolve the most painful parts of my mental illnesses in ways which aren't currently possible/which I don't have any options for at our current technological level.)

Some more things would be using physical technological means to solve any other physical problem you can think of right now which seems like it has no solution. Teleportation makes a lot of sense. Expanding our living space. Resolving our current environmental issues. Making ecological disaster leading to death or species extinction no longer a threat to us. Etc.

I believe transhumanism necessarily requires anarchism and anarchism necessarily requires transhumanism (if consistent and totally liberatory). Some other transhumanists have done more political thinking/writing in terms of possible tech/how to manage it without causing harm/suffering. Lecter suggested the idea of physical/technological alterations to "human nature" (if that's a thing we could uniformly change successfully for such ends in the first place) to totally eradicate abuse/violence. (I mean his purely political attempts/plans to eradicate abuse/violence are kind of lacking and that might be why he felt the need, and I've tried thinking a bit about how that could be implemented as consensually as possible/with minimum human rights violations/if that's even possible and am also interested in keeping that open as an option, but that's a whole other topic and it's a bit too messy/brain-scrambly for me.)

Transhumanists acknowledge that many of these ideas are very very likely to not come true anytime soon. We also reject doomers who conflate "this is unlikely to come true anytime soon" with "well it's not worth having/it's wrong to strive for it/you shouldn't try at all/then wanting it/believing you should have it is wrong/'frivolous.'"

#ask #anon #late answer #transhumanism #utilitarianism #metaethics #philosophy #anarcha-transhumanism #liberation #deity abolition #consent #anarchism #autonomy #bodily autonomy #101

[doublegoblin]

🌈 Rainbow - What do you think makes your story unique / stand out?

Damn, making me think today.

I'll be brutally honest, I am not sure I have an answer for that.

What I mean by this is that; I can sit here and name out aspects of the story such as it has a comfortably agendered protagonist, it is a blend of horror and dark comedy, it features a twist on the eldritch idea by having their cults structured as a literal business. I could speak on how it at it's core is going to be a psychological horror that delves into the trauma that comes with relationships (romantic, platonic, professional) and their corruption and down fall. I could go on and on about how this story will show that this trauma does not have to be removed to qualified as healed, if that is even a thing that should be reached for, not all wounds heal some scar and persist. Spin a yarn about the fantastical creatures and places within an ever expanding and infinite world.

These are my hopes at least, but at the end of the day it's just a list. What'll truly make my work stand out or be unique is the feeling that people get while reading and/or engaging with it.

That and the POV character is an unapologetic monster fucker.

#writing #writeblr #thanks for the tag #had to crack open my philosophy 101 experience #but I truly do think that it is the reader who will find what is unique #the last line was to break the serious tone #it is true though #as long as both parties can consent #the real monster is not asking permission