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yea part of the reason i made that post this morning is because i was thinking about the time i was out sick and played visual novels in my room and was happy
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yea absolutely, like it’s just wack how theologically thin my parents are and they’ll onboard anything nominally christian
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the motivation was my parents were christian and they made it clear our team was winning so yeah, very cringe
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in my defense i was 13
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i remember watching the debate as a family and cheering when mr. ham landed a dunk
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there’s showing my dad ken ham instagram reels we’re so cooked
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why i’m not posting as much:
willowDec 2, 2024
this isn’t relevant but i’m painfully aware that the way i express my discontent has become more and more proximate over time and i hate myself for it
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another day another willow w
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it’s not looking good, the first meow on your account is a month ago 😭
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instagram messages from my brother (@thicc.boi.memez) You and Kasey meow at each other This is so you two coded ›start playing ff14 with brother ›playing female miquote (catgirl race) because cute ›finds me playing a catgirl cringe ›start meowing at him >he throws a fit ›do it every once in a while for a reaction >tell people at work about it >they laugh and call me a secret furry >do it to laugh with them ›weeks pass and this just becomes normal to me ›now have verbal tick where I periodically meow ›been like this for over a month Oh fuck I was only pretending to be retarded now l've caught it for real. actual4chan Anonymous 04/09/25(Wed)23:16:33 No.80928530 BRAIN PROBLEMS 21 KB JPG Average ff14 player https://www.instagram.com/p/DJoUGcdNgRG/
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anyways go follow the goat @izymuffen.bsky.social
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it’s so special how the various creative writing outlets for people to make fake short stories all have their own vibe 🫰💖🫶
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june ‘24 willow couldn’t be bothered to type “tired eye pencil sketch from Jaden Betancourt @jjbet on pinterest www.pinterest.com/pin/tired-ey... ”, it’s so sad
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blocking my lovely wife kasey @kasey.cafe chasing ghosts | she/her | ace sweetheart unorthodox individual interest promoter 106 followers 80 following 1.7k posts posts replies media feeds lists following share add to lists mute account block account report account
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william james, the meaning of truth, the will to believe, is life worth living Consider a poor dog whom they are vivisecting in a laboratory. He lies strapped on a board and shrieking at his executioners, and to his own dark consciousness is literally in a sort of hell. He cannot see a single redeeming ray in the whole business; and yet all these diabolical-seeming events are often controlled by human intentions with which, if his poor benighted mind could only be made to catch a glimpse of them, all that is heroic in him would religiously acquiesce. Healing truth, relief to future sufferings of beast and man, are to be bought by them. It may be genuinely a process of redemption. Lying on his back on the board there he may be performing a function incalculably higher than any that prosperous canine life admits of; and yet, of the whole performance, this function is the one portion that must remain absolutely beyond his ken. come to what is the soul of my discourse. Religion has meant many things in human history, but when from now onward I use the word I mean to use it in the supernaturalist sense, as declaring that the so-called order of nature that constitutes this world's experience is only one portion of the total Universe, and that there stretches beyond this visible world an unseen world of which we now know nothing positive, but in its relation to which the true significance of our present mundane life consists. A man's religious faith
broad. What then do we now mean by the religious hypothesis? Science says things are; morality says some things are better than other things; and religion says essentially two things. First, she says that the best things are the more eternal things, the overlapping things, the things in the universe that throw the last stone, so to speak, and say the final word. "Perfection is eternal,"-this phrase of Charles Secrétan seems a good way of putting this first affirmation of religion, an affirmation which obviously cannot yet be verified scientifically at all. The second affirmation of religion is that we are better off even now if we believe her first affirmation to be true. 'THE TRUE, to put it very briefly, IS ONLY THE EXPEDIENT IN THE WAY OF OUR THINKING, JUST AS THE RIGHT IS ONLY THE EXPEDIENT IN THE WAY OF OUR BEHAVING. Expedient in almost any fashion, and expedient in the long run and on the whole, of course; for William James January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology."
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Raymond Geuss, "Did Williams Do Ethics?", A World Without Why, pg 181 Williams used to say that the United States was the most eighteenthcentury country in the world; it was, he thought, politically, socially, and culturally caught in a kind of time-warp, an apparently eternal present that was actually represented by some point in time in the 1790s. Williams never expatiated on what exactly he meant by this statement—­I assume that the reason for this was he thought that this was a particular kind of interpretative statement: if you did see the point of it, you required no further elaboration because it would immediately ring true to certain experiences you had had, putting them in a certain intelligible order; and if you didn’t see the point of it immediately, then no amount of further elaboration on his part would convince you. And then the statement might actually have a more potential long-term effect, if it was simply dropped so as to shatter on the floor like a huge bit of unwanted crockery and the noise was allowed to reverberate through the room sans commentaire. Presumably part of what he meant, though, was that the country had never been able to move beyond a particularly archaic form of the struggle of the Enlightenment with its enemies. Nothing after Adam Smith and Kant really survived the Middle Passage to take root on the western side of the Atlantic, so the culture was stuck in a state of trench warfare between a party that identified itself (in some way or another) with Enlightenment Reason (either through commitment to the ideal rationality of “free markets,” to technologically rational solutions to all problems, or to vapid Kantian “norms”) and an obscurantist religious fundamentalism that was all the more dark for defining itself in contrast to reason. Bernard Williams
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Raymond Geuss, "Did Williams Do Ethics?", A World Without Why, pg 181 To say that the United States is an eighteenth-century country is to give a historical interpretation and perhaps also express an attitude, but it is not, of course, to make a moral judgement in the technical sense in which some have wanted to construe the term “moral judgement.” It is not to say that the population is vicious or the institutions corrupt. It is not the kind of statement one is liable to encounter in a book on “ethics” but rather the sort of thing someone like Herodotus would have said (if he had had a suitable concept of history and historical framework at his disposal). In his last book, Truth and Truthfulness, Williams tries to develop a theory about the relation between factual data and interpretation, which has always struck me as very close to the theory of the “constellation” one finds in Benjamin and Adorno. The stars that compose a constellation are physical objects of a certain kind and each has a set of empirically specifiable properties, a location in the sky, a certain relative magnitude, perhaps a colour. A constellation is not a mere collection but an organization of a set of stars into a recognizable and perhaps significant pattern: a bear, a hunter, a wagon, a set of twins. One cannot, of course, create constellations ad libitum, using stars that are not already there, putting together stars that are too far apart from the human eye to see synoptically, or creating patterns that make no sense to us. So we—and what we are, as the historically located creatures we happen to be—partly determine what constellations there can be (for us) by virtue of setting out the limits of what can make sense to us.
Raymond Geuss, "Did Williams Do Ethics?", A World Without Why, pg 182 “What can make sense to us” is neither completely pre-given nor fully indeterminate, and to the extent to which we can change it, this can be done only over time, and probably only collectively. The sheerly physical data about the distribution of stars does not require us to group them into this set of constellations rather than some other, and in fact does not require us to group them into any constellations whatever. We don’t invent or create stars by organizing them into constellations. Still—and this is the claim Adorno and Benjamin make—at any rate, in the realm of collective human action, culture, and politics, we are guided by constellations, not by the analogues of raw or theoretically manipulated astrophysical data, and there is no real alternative to that. It just is not possible to do without something like constellations. Similarly, Williams thought that there were facts that had the hard, unmalleable character we usually attribute to them and that could be discovered by “empirical” means (whatever they turn out to be). The U.S. Constitution had x-number of articles and article z was passed on such-and-such a day. On the other hand, the “positivist” dream that one could dispense with any interpretation and simply let the facts speak for themselves was just that—a dream. Similarly, no set of “facts” requires one to adopt a particular interpretation, but no interpretation that anyone would take seriously simply floats unconnectedly above the data or connects them in merely arbitrary ways.
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i was reluctant to post the follow-ups because i didn’t want the mucho texto to scare off people from reading root
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it was devastating
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my atproto ice cream,,,
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berserk, volume 9, page 17 (chapter 37) skull knight: so the gears have indeed begun turning. guts: gears?! what's that mean?! skull knight: you, struggler. take heed. guts: struggler?
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to be clear this was metaphor
willowMay 16, 2025
anorexia is my indulgence
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like it’s also literally true but only with a certain interpretation of indulgence
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well, interpretations y’all will get me eventually
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we gettin rowdy
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anorexia is my indulgence
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midwest girls hit different
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willow traits rubbing off on u
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harry potter of course
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they’re playing hatsune miku at the office cafe
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“willow what do you mean ‘office cafe’”
willowOct 13, 2023
⚠️this poster is a part of the labor aristocracy⚠️
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it would really be more accurate to say “one of several office cafes” but i couldn’t finish that sentence without throwing up in my mouth
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go for it queen
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i’m a squishy little autistic boy and that’s only conditionally a problem
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internal docs: “It is intentional that we don’t allow this. This is what we have always done. As to why this was done in the first place, I am not sure.”
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hbd danii
https://bsky.app/profile/labeler.flicknow.xyz danii 🐇 @danii.fi with a birthday label from mark
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alice robertsSep 30, 2024
correct and true and engels was right to be unhinged about it
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tristam hunt, introduction to engels’ the origin of the family communist society did not include homosexuality. 4 In fact, the private Engels was something of a homophobe. In 1869, Karl Marx had sent him a copy of the German lawyer Karl Ulrich's book Argonauticus, which argued that same-sex desire was inborn, that masculinity and femininity should be regarded as a continuum, and coined the term 'Urning' to describe homosexual and lesbian attraction. Engels, revealing all of his Prussian Calvinist upbringing, was appalled by such 'unnatural revelations'. 'The paederasts are beginning to count themselves, and discover that they are a power in the state,' he wrote back to Marx in a hyperbolic, homophobic rant. Guerre aux cons, paix aus trous-de-cul [War on the cunts, peace to the arse-holes] will now be the slogan. It is a bit of luck that we, personally, are too old to have to fear that, when this party wins, we shall have to pay physical tribute to the victors ... just wait until the new North German Penal Code recognizes the droits du cul [rights of the arse-hole]; then he will operate quite differently. Then things will go badly enough for poor frontside people like us, with our childish penchant for females. 50
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luv cr1tter
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i beat the allegations

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the incredibles teacher coincidence? i think not Dash Parr's teacher Bernie Kropp, remote control in hand, in front of security footage on a TV monday cutting
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cominsitu @Cominsitu I'm not an Adornian I just think he was right about everything 14:21 • 4/16/24 cominsitu @Cominsitu Negative dialectics means solidarity with the protestors even though they were wrong, and criticism of Adorno even though he was right https://x.com/cominsitu/status/1649824272515203074
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gorf Today at 1:13 AM i told yueshan how ur either gonna get fired or kys n all he said was "lol" gorf Today at 1:15 AM u still had a couple of good months but then shit really hit the fan gorf Today at 1:21 AM ur so sad to look at smh i miss old really autistic but at least was mentally here kyler cry cuz you're so worthless die without a purpose why do we do all this well, I can't tell Cuz I'm so bummed out My life's not fun now I'll just shut down Cuz I'm so bummed out I'm so bummed out Lie down forever Try but doesn't get better why am I so bitter Well I can't tell bummed out neet
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oh this was a repost
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honorable mentions
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THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! EH? I THOUGHT IT WOULD CALM YOU DOWN SOMEHOW... ACTUALLY, IT'S THE OPPOSITE!! IN THE FIRST PLACE, DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE DOING!? BUT MARA-CHAN DIDN'T MIND IT, YOU KNOW? THAT IS… LIKE HELL I CARE ABOUT THAT! ANYWAY, DON'T TOUCH MY EARS ANYMORE! OTHER-WISE, IT WILL… AS I THOUGHT… WH-WHAT'S WRONG? EVER SINCE YOU TOUCHED MY EARS... Futanari no Elf (Pages 11-20) 70K views 1y ago ...more Cstuu 466 Comments 3 Next: Futanari no Elf (Pages 51-60) Futa • 14/264 Cancel Post hell yea they are florence @morallawwithin • 12h Metaphors are the enemy of reason What the hell am I doing, anyway? [i don’t remember the youtube video this is from, kasey was the recommendation] Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995 ½ whatever. Overrated as hell Azumanga Daioh 2002 5 stars HOOOLY SHIT "I’m friends with pedophiles" ChaoticRat @IrradiatedRot • 15h I'm friends with people who have attractions towards things that cannot consent but would never actually commit the act of pedophilia, Beastiality, etc. And I'm friends with people who have schizophrenia and other "not so pretty" diso... 17:49. 9/30/23 from Earth • 1,287 Views 2 Reposts 56 Likes 1 Bookmark Mojo @00OM0J0000 •12h My moot already posted this but @so_lonely I dead know hella predators but I still hang with them just to see how they mind work 7:40 PM • 2/21/23 This Tweet has been deleted
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i want to shiver on a curb with pinkmoondoll9shihtzu while the night air bites our cheeks
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willowJan 20, 2025
We all feel this way from time to time <3 But it dont have to be such a bad thing. It's good to care & share & connect no matter what. Love u too xx
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What seems to me – if you will allow me to put it this way – what appears to me to be the danger in your position, in which, God knows, I cannot ignore the undercurrent of a deep despair, is this: I fear that you sometimes surrender yourself to this identification with the aggressor out of a kind of – yes, forgive me – metaphysical despair. That is to say, you theoretically identify yourself with the very power that you yourself, like all of us, fear; but in doing so you also side with a whole series of things, which I think – and which you would probably also think – are nevertheless tied to the disaster in a profound way. Adorno, "Is sociology a science of man? A dispute" Adorno and Gehlen 51:00 https://youtube.com/watch?v=pmL2eztve2Y
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willowFeb 11, 2025
someday i hope to liberate myself from metaphysical despair
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my body feels not my own
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