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Humans are Terrifying

Statistically, the odds are next to nil that we're the only intelligent life... Especially considering we as a race are so damn stupid. However, we are great survivalists. So why haven’t we as a human race seen more aliens? If you look at the reasoning behind why more people haven't seen aliens, the reason is obvious. Humans are terrifying monsters. They're probably the boogie monsters that alien parents warn their children about. Look at us. To escape predators, we can just outlast them. We actively breathe in and survive on a gas that is highly and explosive and can be toxic at higher concentrations. In fact, O3 is called Ozone and

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Does God Hate People With Depression?

That teen who finally crafted the strength to Tell his parents that a family friend reached into His sanctuary to rip out the flowers that were Just starting to bloom, only to be told... "Boys can't be raped. Especially at such a Sexually ripe age" by his mother and, from his father, "At that age, I was getting beaten on a daily basis by My family; I'd take getting laid over that shit any day-- Stop your fucking bitching" They all say that he's burning in Hell now; Being fed to Satan's beasts repeatedly for Having the audacity to seek a way out of The depression, the phobias, the PTSD, even After begging God to take the agony away or Explain why He let it happen But he kept his faith throughout the entire journey, From the moment the door closed to when he kicked the Chair out from under his trembling feet And that lady whose husband left her for a 19-year-old blondie who made him feel like a High-schooler a few times at work; a decade Of unhinged love shattered by a couple of Winks

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Time Disillusion - Inspiring Sparks

In Depth Thoughts

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Ancient Myth and the Ego

There is a trauma embedded in the human species as we know it today, that I believe we are on the cusp of overcoming- but first, we have to understand it. We have sought to resolve it in our mythology, our religion, cultures, and societies, in our art and literature. The trauma I speak of is the essential character of the personified idea I call the Orphan Man. I am arguing that at the beginning of civilization, humans had evolved into a place where the ego took over. The Orphan Man is made an Orphan by his own egotistical tendency to disdain nature around him, and even the nature of his own animal self. He is an Orphan from the universe, wh

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Story of the Wolves

Story of The Wolves In the beginning the Sun watched the all worlds, and the Moon watched the Earth. Both watched the life beginning to develop on the blue world beneath them. The Sun only really became interested when men discovered fire, and taught them the use of it. The Moon on the other hand had always been interested, loving the world and all of its creatures. After men learned the many uses of fire, the earth began to suffer. So the Moon gave a gift of her own, granting some wolves the ability of change, and setting them the task of protecting the earth. The wolf, in the shape of a man, came to the humans, asking them to calm

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Ancient Myth and the Ego by JuliusSPeyton, literature

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Ancient Myth and the Ego

OrphanManSays#3 Ancient Myth and the Ego by JuliusSPeyton, literature

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OrphanManSays#3 Ancient Myth and the Ego

There is a trauma embedded in the human species as we know it today, that I believe we are on the cusp of overcoming- but first, we have to understand it. We have sought to resolve it in our m.mythology, our religion, cultures, and societies, in our art and literature. The trauma I speak of is the essential character of the personified idea I call the Orphan Man. I am arguing that at the beginning of civilization, humans had evolved into a place where the ego took over. The Orphan Man is made an Orphan by his own egotistical tendency to disdain nature around him, and even the nature of his own animal self. He is an Orphan from the universe, w

FlashSummary#1 By MoldYourMind by JuliusSPeyton, literature

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FlashSummary#1 By MoldYourMind

Aristotle- Eudaimonia and Energia- FlashSummary #1 Energia is a word coined by Aristotle based upon the Greek ‘ergon’, or work. Because the philosophy of Energia is discussed mostly in the excerpts on Physics and Metaphysics, this word can be made to be understood as, ‘thing-in-practice” or “thing-in-motion”. The distinction I want to make here is that Aristotle’s Energeia should be understood as both ‘actuality’ or what Aristotle might also call ‘practicality’; or, to use a universally microcosmic version of that, ‘things in motion.’. Aristotle applies the meani

What Anti-Transgender Hysteria Reveals About Gende by Rogue-Ranger, literature

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What Anti-Transgender Hysteria Reveals About Gende

Recently several states have proposed so called "bathroom bills" following the passages of a bill in North Carolina that requires transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate. This would mean that transgender men (those whose birth certificate says female) , often indistinguishable outwardly from cisgender men (those whose birth certificate says male), would be forced to use women's restrooms and transgender women, often indistinguishable outwardly from cisgender women, would be forced to use men's restrooms. Although this caused a lot of backlash, it also garnered support from many people, in

Zeno of Elea: His Worth in the Classroom by ron953, literature

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Zeno of Elea: His Worth in the Classroom

Many important philosophers and people are frequently spoken of in various textbooks that are used throughout the world. Regardless of how much some of these people have influenced history, many of them are not taught in the schools of the world. One of these unknown people was a philosopher, the best of the Eleatic school in ancient Greece, named Zeno. His life influenced thinkers after him that have affected how the human race views the world. At the start of and before Zeno's life, Greece was in a time of war against the Persian armies. King Darius I, the ruler of Persia at the time, was wanting to punish the Greek city of Athens at the t

Dogmatic materialism by a-nameless-one, literature

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Dogmatic materialism

I was sifting through the phylosophy forum threads, and considering the ridiculous amount of religion based discussions, I often encountered atheists mocking, belittling and treating religion like some dogmatic superstition to be done away with. Atheists in the forums here on dA continually use materialism, lack of evidence and falsifiability as arguments against 'ignorant' and 'dogmatic' beliefs. It is my personal belief that at the core we all hold ridiculous, dogmatic beliefs that define the way we view reality, and that a little more tolerance is in order considering that we are all on equally arbitrary footing. As an atheis

Equivalence a phantom concept? by a-nameless-one, literature

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Equivalence a phantom concept?

Equality has become quite the prevalent word in our modern age. Some say that people should be treated equally, others that all people are born with equal rights. The symbol of the justice system is a blindfolded lady because all (presumably) stand equal before the law. Furthermore, we hear constantly of the financial inequality in our society; socialism and communism are based on the notion of repairing the inequality between social classes. But our inherent understandings of what 'equal' means starts long before the political discourse becomes part of our lives. We say that some sentences are equivalent like: "I owe you something." and "I d

Why Free Market Capitalism Fails by BatmanWithBunnyEars, literature

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Why Free Market Capitalism Fails

In this essay, I expose the flaws in the two mechanisms that are supposed to power the free market: Adam Smith's invisible hand and trickle down economics. The notion of the invisible hand holds that in a free marketplace, the buyer's self-interest will tend to drive the price down, while the seller's self-interest will tend to drive the price up, so that both parties' self-interest will naturally cause the price to settle on an amount that both find reasonable. Trickle-down economics maintains that the rich are the ones who start and expand businesses and hire employees, so the laws should favor them increasing their we

Property Dualism, Epiphenomenalism, Brain and Mind by Liedy, literature

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Property Dualism, Epiphenomenalism, Brain and Mind

“She does not understand, why? Is it the wine? No...what is it then? What is the reason? But soon it does not matter. Soon the why and the reason are gone, and all that matters is the feeling itself. And this is the nature of the universe; we struggle against it, we fight to deny it, but it is of course pretend, it is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is we are completely out of control. Causality. There is no escaping it. We are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the why. Why, is what separates us from them, you from me. Why, is the only real source of power, without i

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