Fuck Margaret Fell (1614–1702)

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"In those days, when people were not wise like you young people, they were content to listen to a tree or a rock in simple openness, just as long as it spoke the truth, but to you, perhaps, it makes a difference who is speaking and where he comes from."

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"It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves."

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Two new essays, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞, diagnose a shared failure in contemporary political theory.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18476422
2. 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 argues that even where disagreement is genuine, political explanation increasingly focuses on beliefs and values while missing the structural conditions that shape outcomes before deliberation begins.

#philosophy #essay #politics #writing #theory #Enlightenment #conflict #ConceptualImpasse #mislocation #disagreement #beliefs #structure #deliberation

Two new essays, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞, diagnose a shared failure in contemporary political theory.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18476420
1. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 argues that much of what appears as left–right conflict is variation within a closed Enlightenment repertoire that constrains what can be thought and argued.

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"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

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"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers."

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"It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. (5) [tr. George Long (1888)]."

#philosophy #stoicism

The Great Philosophers From Socrates to Foucault by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey, 2018

The Great Philosophers traces the biggest and most influential thoughts in philosophy's long stride through history, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and Early Romans, the first philosophical thinkers in the West, to whom much is owed.

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"Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror."

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This wiki is a community-maintained resource for the 3D2A movement.

"3D2A"...refers to a community of hobby builders and activists who make use of consumer-grade technologies to design, build and publish 3D firearms, firearms accessories and their related technologies.

The major principles of 3D2A are: open-source, privacy, accessibility and internationality.

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #3dprinting #Guns #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy

https://wiki.3d2a.com/index.php/Main_Page

"Teaching by precept is a long road, but short and beneficial is the way by example."

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"The free man is a warrior"

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As a heterodox thinker, I notice a similar apophatic misalignment as atheists (which is also why atheism isn't a religion).
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/03/on-heterodoxy-near-misses-and-the-comfort-of-saying-not-this/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I lay out why heterodox connexions don't tend to last. It's a feature, not a bug.
#philosophy #paradox #heterodox #orthodox #bollox #atheism #religion #blog #podcast #connexion #community #unity #vision #divergence #disconnect #success #signals

Lessons in Practical Resilience — https://www.brichapman.com/p/lessons-in-practical-resilience?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
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After a longish day of screen battling debugging and troubleshooting, my eyes are tired my mind is melting, solved one issue the other is an ongoing issue with no simple fix, my body is in pain, I have been cold all day, exhaustion is second nature, thanks to some recent kindness I have a Stuffer's Macaroni and Cheese in the oven, in an hour or so a hot meal of comfort, my life is descinegrading within and around me, my needs far exceed my means, my anxiety is running a rollercoaster, everything is simply drained, to say I am a mere zombie, is putting my existence in it's entirety in a far to simplistic phrase, how my body continues to go on I simply have no clue, how my mind has not eroded to the point of pure failure I have no clue, scraping scarcity into function is beyond a skill I ever wanted to obtain, if only this "N of 1" could truly obtain the financial means to obtain property and build a forever home, filled with all one needs, including a nurse, a maid a cook all to take after me, I may have the chance to breathe and become more than a passive decaying being, but to dream of a better existence is nonsense in a world that simply does not care, for when my corpse finally stops, there will be no fanfare no farewell, the end will be as every day before, simply an endless void to endure;

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From the archive: "A Few Notes on Identity Politics", by Timofei Gerber https://epochemagazine.org/18/a-few-notes-on-identity-politics/ #Philosophy

"Whensoever by some present hard occurrences thou art constrained to be in some sort troubled and vexed, return unto thyself as soon as may be, and be not out of tune longer than thou must needs. For so shalt thou be the better able to keep thy part another time, and to maintain the harmony, if thou dost use thyself to this continually; once out, presently to have recourse unto it, and to begin again."

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