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With all due respect, what does philosophy have to offer to Black women? It’s not obvious to me that philosophy has anything special to offer Black women today. I make this provocative claim to shift the burden to the discipline to explain why it is good enough for us; we should be tired of always having to explain how and prove that we are good enough for the discipline.

Anita L Allen

Western philosophy offers very little in ways to ease the lives of people, especially oppressed people. Partly because of how inaccessible it is, partly because of how theoretical it is, disinterested in lived experiences and subjectivity of the cultures. It tries to be or pretends to be above cultural variance but is hopelessly trapped by its own myopic vision of possibilities of thought-action dual:

One such assumption within Western philosophy is that philosophy is a propositional discipline that aims at the establishment of true doctrines. But such a conception of philosophy has not been dominant in all philosophical traditions. In the Chinese tradition, the notion of philosophy as aiming at the establishment of true doctrines (a Truth-seeking paradigm) has historically been superseded by the notion of philosophy as a way of life (a Way-seeking paradigm).

Such a Way-seeking paradigm can also be found in Buddhism. It is a religious and philosophical tradition that focuses more on practice than on doctrine. In religious studies, a distinction is made between orthodoxic religious traditions that put an emphasis on correct belief in theological and philosophical doctrines, and orthopraxic ones that emphasize correct practice. Buddhism stresses orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy. It is therefore characterized by a kind of spiritual pragmatism that is intensified in Zen. As the thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen wrote, “a Buddhist should neither argue superiority or inferiority of doctrines, but only be mindful of authenticity or inauthenticity of practice.”

As Pierre Hadot has argued, in ancient Western philosophy such a Way- seeking paradigm was common. Philosophy was practiced by the ancients as a form of áskesis—a practice of continual self-overcoming and self- transformation. With the rise of Christianity in the West, philosophy became an orthodoxy, a quest for correct doctrine. Philosophy was no longer practiced as a way of life because the Christian way of life was already established as the only true one. Philosophy became a theoretical practice aimed at the justification of the revealed truths of Christianity. In the Chinese tradition, the reverse occurred: Truth-seeking philosophies (such as the Mohists for example) were relegated to the countercultural margins of the tradition.

Andre van der Braak, Nietzsche and Zen

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Usually companies making memefied ads is awful as fuck but this made me laugh

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The rise of furries, therians, and otherkin in modern alternative spaces can be directly attributed to the rise of modern Christian nationalism and humanism, which stands in direct opposition to integration and association with the natural and animal world. Whereas in the animistic past, association with fellow animals was commonplace, modern white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism sees nature as a thing to dominate, and totemism and druidry as Satanic.

Not endorsing this theory, but a fascinating thought

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Fascinating

REALLY depressing read though

Team, need to clean my old n64. Just to make sure, 99% isopropyl is the right tool for the job, right?

Update: The issue wasn't even the dirt, just that my AV cables are fucked up. Thank god Ebay sells them for like 10 bucks

In other news, ecology is one of the most rewarding things for me to have a hobbyist interest in, I love learning about this shit

Budget bill passed the senate, call your representative now. Especially if you're like me and live in a red district

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