Religion for the Nonreligious – Wait But Why
Step 3 is also the answer to anyone who accuses atheists of being amoral or cynical or nihilistic, or wonders how atheists find any meaning in life without the hope and incentive of an afterlife. That’s a Step 1 way to view an atheist, where life on Earth is taken for granted and it’s assumed that any positive impulse or emotion must be due to circumstances outside of life.
Sehr lesenswert!
Life is not about controlling our emotions. That’s impossible. Emotions come and they go whether we want them to or not.
Life is about channeling emotions. And each emotion is almost its own skill. Like learning to fight with nunchucks and sweet ass bo staffs and samurai swords are different skill sets within the realm of fighting, channeling each of our emotions for productive action is its own skill to be practiced and mastered through the experience of life.
The surprising benefits of anxiety
And she inadvertently echoes Kierkegaard, noting that anxiety used to be a motivator to change one’s path in life, rather than an emotional experience to be eradicated.
“I don’t know why anxiety is not more appreciated as an emotional state,” she says. “We seem to have culturally developed a fear of fear.”
A Brief History of Romantic Love and Why It Kind of Sucks
The painful truth about love is that the real work of a relationship begins after the curtain closes and the credits roll. The real work of a relationship is all the boring, dreary, unsexy things that nobody else sees or appreciates. Like most things in the media, the portrayal of love in pop culture is limited to the highlight reel. All the nuance and complexities of actual living through a relationship is swept away to make room for the exciting headline, the unjust separation, the crazy plot twist, and of course everyone’s favorite happy ending.
Auch sehr lesenswert – sehr viel wahres drin.
Compatibility and Chemistry in Relationships
Lesenswerter Artikel, den ich gerade per Zufall ausgegraben habe.
What’s the Problem with Feminism?
Thus, today feminism has a measurement problem. It’s easy to measure whether boys and girls are receiving the same funding in schools. It’s easy to see whether a man and woman are being paid appropriately for the same work. You just pull out your calculator and go to work.
Sehr lesenswerter Artikel über die Probleme so manchen Feminismuses heutzutage.
The Responsibility/Fault Fallacy – Mark Manson
A lot of people hesitate to take responsibility for their problems because they believe that to be responsible for your problems is to also be at fault for your problems.
Anhand eines schönen Beispiels wird hier sehr schön erklärt, was der Unterschied zwischen “ursächlich/Schuld” und “verantwortlich” sein ist.
Faszinierend guter Talk über AI, Bewusstsein, Sinn, das Leben, das Universum, Nerds und warum wir womöglich Roboter sind. 😉
Mal wieder so ein Artikel, bei dem der Inhalt toll ist, aber er ein wenig anstrengend geschrieben ist.
Runtergedampft sagt er:
Einfach ganz lesen 😉
Ein wirklich ausgesprochen gut geschriebenes Essay darüber, dass sich Lebensrealitäten einfach unterscheiden können. Wirklich wahnsinnig und lesenswert! (Es hat nur bedingt mit Trump zu tun)
It feels good to dismiss people, to mock them, to write them off as deplorables. But you might as well take time to try to understand them, because I’m telling you, they’ll still be around long after Trump is gone.
Nicht nur das, es fühlt sich auch meistens nicht wirklich gut an. Es macht einen einsamer, andere auszuschließen. Und wer ist schon gerne einsam?