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★★★★★ "Rayner is brilliant! His writing is a strange and exhilarating mixture of the cerebral and the entertaining ... Alpha Max is a crazy and wild ride. I enjoyed it very much. –Karen Molenaar Terrell, author of Cosmic Connections: Sharing the Joy
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★★★★★ "Mark A. Rayner writes in gorgeous prose and has a unique gift for plot ... and creating characters that are rock-solid and relatable." –Matthew Novak, The Book Commentary
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★★★★★ "Funny, yet deep, this is definitely worth venturing into the multiverse for." –Natasha Ward, Reedsy Discovery
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Sometimes I think about #Gattaca and how we all leave our DNA all the fuck over the place and it kind of squicks me out a little on both a stomach-churning level and an existential dread level.
I need to introduce 12yo to that movie. It's so damn brilliant and prescient, and it's been way too long since I've seen it.
I just came across a web article about Lana Del Rey and Philosophy, Existentialism.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, intellectuals, but these kind of media publications are useful to spread philosophy conversations.
They are welcome.
P.S. Lana Del Rey is great, if you disagree then go study Aesthetics other than Existentialism.
Don't even get me started on how hard it is to stare into the inaccessible void.
#art #history: 'when the rich go to war, it's the poor who pay.'
jean-paul sartre, born #otd in 1905, will always be relevant - & this rumination of his is one of many reasons that i embraced existentialism over nihilism.
it instructed me that 'being' is an individual's responsibility, but that we all, as humans, have a collective responsibility to each other.
anyway, j-p was a righteous dude.
#jeanPaulSartre
#sartre
#philosophy
#illustration
#france
#existentialism
Just published something I’ve wrestled with for months:
Neo-Superdeterminism: Understanding Choice in a Causally Closed Universe.
If causality is closed, what becomes of choice, ethics, design?
For those who feel the weight of freedom — and wonder if its collapse might be a kind of liberation.
Read: https://philpapers.org/archive/MENNUC.pdf
#superdeterminism #freewill #philosophy #ethics #causalclosure
#agency #designethics #systemsthinking #existentialism #writinginpublic
There are aches we carry that don’t ask for cures, only for recognition. Living with what cannot be named is its own quiet strength. Sometimes witnessing is all the medicine there is.
https://www.clickworlddaily.com/2025/06/the-diagnosis-was-life-cure-was-never.html
(Contains symbolic imagery embedded in the article.)
No Kings In America
We allow no kings in America
for we are land of people who live free
with justice and equality for all,
at least those are ideals we cherish most,
though some greedy people, weak and afraid
attempt to
https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-in-america.html
"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗."
─ 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘴
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆” 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 -
Bellow's brief and incisive novel of a single day at the end of a series of "carpe diem" failures offers an ambiguous and elusive escape from tragedy; worth every moment of reflection on it.
I didn't expect to wake up yesterday morning and watch a video about the meaning of life as examined and explained through video games. I especially didn't expect that this was something I really needed and which both comforted and moved me.
This video by Juniper Dev is a so very well put philosophy lesson - communicated in a captivating and beautiful way. Definitely a recommended watch.
https://youtu.be/f5R26shc-7I
#JuniperDev #philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #nihilism
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Douglas Adams
Scientists Discovered Something Kinda Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Actually Exist –Popular Mechanics
Empty Sky Of Faith
Oak trees that arch over the home-lined lane
conclave our neighborhood with ambience
that shines with grand cathedral elegance
of calm security which shields our lives
from political turbulence
https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/04/empty-sky-of-faith.html
Instead of asking like Sartre did, "what would happen if everybody did what I'm doing?", we should instead ask, "what would happen if nobody else did this but me?" It's a far deeper question with a much more profound answer.
"The abyss is expanding.
Cracks in the old world are surfacing.
New lifeforms are not yet fully hatched."
#Philosophy #Nietzsche #Existentialism #Cyberpunk #PostHuman
