Category: roasting series
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Buddha: Just Step Out of the Wheel, Bro
Siddharta Gautama (later known as Buddha), a prince, saw rather ordinary sights: an old dude (reminder of time marching on perhaps), a sick man (a reminder of fragility perhaps), a dead man (literally “you will die, my dude”), and an ascetic, literally something he was not. Someone living differently (spoiler alert).These 4 sights literally gave…
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Stoicism: My Chemical Virtue (I’m Not Okay)
Whenever I want to read about how to cope with my emotions, I don’t want to read it between the word virtue as if it were a whitespace. Yes, Stoicism is all about the virtue. The Stoics have virtue’O’s for breakfast, don’t cut themselves, but virtue themselves. They go to the Virtue Parade. No, they…
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Socrates, Plato and Diogenes: the Philosophy Gigachads of Yore
Ah, Plato. The philosopher everyone points to when they want to sound like they’ve read a book. The guy with the perfect public image, so polished you could mistake him for an ancient Greek influencer. I mean, he’s the one everyone quotes, right? I’ll leave my favourite one here. “The untrained mind keeps up a…
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Remixing the Greatest Hits of Philosophy and Religion
Alright, time to make some people angry. People love their schools of thought and religions, their esoteric practices, their philosophical idols —and for many, those ideas are their personality. Their identity. Their safety blanket wrapped in Latin quotes and Sanskrit verses. But we here, we’re gonna sample, mix, remix, loop and put a fat beat…