#the philosophical tree

[psyhaven]

The Philosophical Tree by C. G. Jung

#C. G. Jung #the philosophical tree #psychedelic art #visionary art #spiritual art #dreamscapes #art #artwork #psychedelic artwork #spiritual artwork #visions

[pratchettquotes]

One of the recurring philosophical questions is:

"Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?"

Which says something about the nature of philosophers, because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. At the very least, if it was deep enough in the forest, millions of small gods would have heard it.

Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history...ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just...well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#history monks #small gods #discworld #terry pratchett #history #causality #events #meaning #philosophy #philosophers #observation #reality #perception #knowledge #squirrels #badgers #the nature of philosophers #things just happen #if a tree falls in a forest

[drawthethingdoppelganger]

Jimmy Jr be making musoems about cars and pants and thinking he's suuuuuch a deep person

#the 13 year old philosophical boy with utter lack of self awareness #'trees are just giant plants. i'm so smart' #bobs burgers #bob's burgers

[t3acupz]

Hugh Dancy’s family’s murder podcast episode is out!

#hugh dancy #podcast #they’re talking about hugh’s family #the family tree and stuff #his dad is a famous philosopher #jonathan dancy #hannibal

[cyanopicas]

pondering an ultrakill gahoole au

#ultrakill #planet filth is engaging in serious philosophical discussion #(we're talking about ultrakill warrior cats) #i think it would be the plot of ultrakill #with the world and mechanics of gahoole #its been a while so i have to brush up on the lroe of gahoole #but i think heaven might be the great tree #councillors are like the. in charge owls #ykyk #gabriel is somewhere #havent figured him out yet #i think hed be a snowy owl though #they're big and majestic in the way he is #plus they have his white/black/yellow thing going on #plus i think theyre a gabriel-asa bird #meanwhile v1s gotta be small? i think? #their canon size difference is awesome and i would like to preserve it #but im also pondering a great horned owl #they're the fastest owl i believe and that fits w/ v1 #but like i feel like they should be small #minos has more of a great horned owl vibe going on anyway #its the ears #maybe not a great horned specifically but deffo ears #sispus... i need to ponder him some more before i come to conclusions #could also just make the machines. robot owls #but then its not fitting within the gahoole canon #im not sure man

[homo-ousios]

The world is beautiful and must be loved. This is the most fundamental ontological truth. Only a limitless, absolute love is sufficient to praise this place and call it good. If God who made the world for love did not exist, I would simply have to become him myself. <-(just drove through Appalachia)

#appalachia #mountains will turn you into a philosopher if you’re not careful #the ​trees are gonna show you the face of god #sometimes i make my own posts

[quietwingsinthesky]

but like speaking seriously. i genuinely, truly wish this was still the age of terrible shovelware games and not. whatever the fuck is happening now between the mobile gaming market, microtransactions, and. the everything of it. it’s not that shovelware is good, it’s that it’s interesting! it’s not any less corporate in its goals, but it’s less… evil? you know? you pay for shovelware game, you still get a game, as terrible as it might be. it won’t have ads in it, it won’t ask you to pay more money once you’ve bought it, it’ll just be almost innocently terrible on its disc in its entirety, entertaining to shit on with friends and an enigma as to what went into its creation. i have a genuine little place in my heart for awful tie-in games, especially when you can tell that for however bad they are, there was one person on that team that you can tell gave a shit. (and sometimes there wasn’t. but that’s still fun. the game still had to be made, someone still had to make choices about it’s creation, and those choices can be fascinating!)

#idk man sometimes i just sit and think about that guardians of gahoole video game #because like i said. its a tie-in. objectively shovelware. but its also like. weirdly detailed??? #its made to tie-in with the movie released around the same time. it mirrors the plot of the movie. #actually it fleshes out that plot and makes it even better in conjuction but thats besides the point #the point is that that game? has so many references not to the movie. but to the BOOK SERIES!!!! #you get an eagle as a follower in that game!!! an eagle!!! they dont even show up in the movie and yet you end up in the desert of kuneer #and an eagle joins your party! #the ga’hoole tree is rendered so lovingly and you can fly around and explore it. and so is the forest of tyto and kuneer! places that only #show up for a bit in the movie! #THE BEAKS!!! THE BEAKS ARE IN THE GAME!!! THE BEAKS ARE NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IN THE MOVIE AND YET!!! #HAGSFIENDS ARE IN THE GAME AND THOSE ARE BOOK ONLY TOO!!!! #SOMEONE HERE CARED!!!!! someone here cared. and they will never know that i love them for that. they will never know how much they made my #time playing that game even better because i knew all those details from the books and i appreciated every one. #and its like. thats it you know? thats the point. someone made this. in the end someone made this and whether they loved making it or hated #it. they still made a piece of art that we can dissect and understand and enjoy. #and you just. thats all gone with shit like mobile games and microtransactions and endless horse armor level dlcs and. you get it. #in my eyes. even ninja gingerbreadman 2 has more artistic social and philosophical value. than a thousand hours in that new shit diablo game

[lmaverick123]

Taking the Tree Down, 2024

I’ve been busy today.  This is the longest that I’ve left my Christmas tree up before.  Normally I take it down in the first weekend in January.  I always wondered how Sally felt when she took the Christmas stuff down.  If it was a sad thing for her.  Everyone helps put up the tree when we were younger, but taking it down was something she was by herself to do, pretty much.  I was a kid, and I…

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#2024 #Christmas #Depression #Life #Millennial #Personal #Sad #Sally #Taking Down the Tree #Waxing Philosophical

[chicago-geniza]

I was trying to be chill, I had hit my self-imposed Agnes Callard quota for the day, I opened a new tab, and then--

#She's in the trees! She's coming! #philosopher polycule tag

[unopenablebox]

hanging out knitting, overhearing occasional snatches of my girlfriend trying to resuscitate a doomed environmentalist org chapter in the other room

#my vote is very strongly on 'just let it die' but they feel a need to make the attempt #i respect this but don't agree with it #box opener #we have an extremely adjacent chapter that is having none of these problems and routinely accomplishes things #just let this one die and permit a new philosophical-disagreement-free tree to grow from the soil of its corpse. #you know. environmentalism.

[brinnanza]

the lore of the unsleeping city is so fascinating I'm obsessed with the idea of paragon doors and pulling things from the dreaming world into the waking world means they have to settle on one thing, killing all the potentials and the notion that the american dream could be one of those things like..... it's just so interesting and well done? I'm in awe of this world building? I want to roll around in it like a pig in a mud puddle?? just like. the idea. of the multiplicity and nuance of The American Dream, what success looks like to those who are dreaming of it, wishing for it, and how making that dream concrete kills it? it's such a fucking good take on plato's allegory of the cave ykwim like the paragon door is the platonic ideal of a dream and nothing you make real will ever be as good as the imagined version. and!! further!! that that's good!! the imagined perfect can never be real and it shouldn't be because that will destroy it!!

what a fucking show.

#brinn watches dimension 20 #brinn watches the unsleeping city #the rat race in hell.....the justice of magic.....it's so good #listen the other d20s I've watched have been good but this is some next level shit #I have many other less philosophical thoughts like how I'd climb ricky matsui like a tree and I think misty and kingston should def fuck #but yeah it's. good. it's a good show. y'all need to get on this train with me.

[wolfkller]

if you don't read the books you're really missing out on some stellar moments. for example, marius trying to explain to akasha why killing 90% of men in the world is bad by saying "look at that tree"

#tvc #queen of the damned #marius de romanus #akasha #somebody post the direct quote #i screamed out loud when i read it #marius the philosopher indeed. like he had a point but the way he said it #she was going to start the worst genocide in history and threatened to kill everyone in the room if they didn't go along with it #and he casually points at a tree #actual tears in my eyes

[grey29]

Wholesome thoughts from my pain tracker app:

Started applying for grad schools! Hung out with a friend for awhile! Got to give them their Christmas present. Today was good. Happy with it. Also got to walk in the snow for awhile, it was gorgeous and so peaceful. Made me very happy. Life is very full of joy, even if it’s hard sometimes. I remembered an activity we did in existentialism last year, where we talked about if we’d want to repeat our lives from the beginning with no memory from the first. I said yes. My professor said I’m unusually optimistic, which is funny because I’m so sad a lot of the time. But I think it’s because life is so full of beauty. I get to see snow falling over trees and mountains I’ve known for half my life, quite and gentle. I get to see my friend’s face light up at a drawing I worked for days on for them, hear their excitement. I get to see and hear a video of my boyfriend singing in an old old building in Greece. I have the possibility of living in another country and going on adventures. Who would not want to live those experiences a million times over? I couldn’t think of anything better.

#thinkin thoughts #chronic pain #I cannot remember the philosophers who talked about this #wholesome #kinda existential #existentialism #my joints might hurt like a bitch but trees covered in snow are always nice. #grey29 #art29

[oatbugs]

saw the shape of the sun for the second time in my life. i'm going back soon + the worst case scenario is death or worse + the best case scenario is that i look at myself in a mirror and don't recognise the person looking back.

#going along with a scalpel to my face just to see if my family is okay. taste polluted air again. #my mother went back a few years and she said she coughed her lungs out on the first breath - weve grown too soft. #my city full of blood. i wont say goodbye to my friends except a few. sunprint burned into my eyes in the shape of a heartbeat #(im not so old but i know to hold him close. my fingers feel his warmth like hers. now touch my throat.) #three songs on repeat. ill be too dead to mind being dead #as a philosopher i shouldnt be scared. placed bets on the wrong side of pascals wager. dreamt of a simplex algorithm. #your existence is syntactically flawed. i realised im not stressed - i only feel like i should be. three dimensional array of orange trees. #this october in england fireworks grew on trees. (now touch my throat.) #acid tab kisses. what will you do for oil? pierced your ear with the sharp edge of the moon. grenade kicks up your molecules #into intertwined pink dust. just open your jaws all serpentine and clash. sublimation through different means. #philosophical precision is an arrow in your sternum. the heart of a blue whale weighs more than 450 kilograms.

[leukkothea]

#aesthetic #thinking #philosophy #philosophical #poet #poem #self love #self care #loveyourself #relationship #taking care of myself #distance #tree #naturism #nature #relatable memes #wholesome memes #take care x #i love you #girlblogging #blog #girlboss #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #protection

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@lavendroused replied to your post “@lavendroused replied to your post “I made this image back when I thought I was pregnant, and I now know that I wasn't pregnant...”

recursive, i like it

#computer generated text #lavendroused #you just gotta place your faith in a theorem called bayes #which was named after an eighteenth century british philosopher who also wrote about trees