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Monthly Philosophy Challenge for April.
Give us Spinoza's take on humanity in 2024, but make it yours, also... Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -Stare through us through him.
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Mavia in Philosophy

Spinoza

God is not

the Spider

(weaving)

nor

its Web

and prey

(woven)

__but Space__

( . )

in which hangs

...A L L...

(as possibility)

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7v7 in Philosophy

The 24 Spinz

maybe Spinoza would 360

in the grave today...?

change his mind

split hairs

with God

for hygienic

distance

draw a blind

or a double,

hide his head

in the sands

of the glass

While tipping

upside down

refute existence

of either this or that

as all influx...

Ostrich like,

from China

to British Columbia

disputing

which way

is up...?

...and

humming

in the calcium

of eternal sleep

he would dream...

It's the Spin

it's the sPin

it's the spIn

it's the spiN...

04.09.2024

Spinoza turning in his grave challenge @Prose

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Sandlot in Philosophy

A Rejection Letter

From: WSQPA

To: Mr. Baruch/Benedictus Spinoza, philosopher

April 10, 2024

Dear Mr. Spinoza,

Stop.

Do not bother us again.

We, the Board of the World Status Quo Protection Agency, reject your unsolicited critique of our twenty-first century.

You were the seventeenth century’s problem. Not ours.

How dare you ask questions and seek to arrive at beliefs and truth individually through reason. Citizens today have banded together in groups to hear the truth and facts from sources that comport with their worldview. We have no need of philosophers in 2024.

Thus, our status quo is groupthink.

Yes, our groups clash and there are wars that are political, spiritual, and militaristic. But they are part of our status quo.

You are free in your ivory tower to sneer at our way, and claim we are pursuing false “knowledge from random experience.” It is no wonder that you were excommunicated for your radical ideas.

We know that you worked with lenses for microscopes and telescopes. But you have no right to put our status quo under your microscope.

Warmly,

WSQPA

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TamaraReid in Philosophy

society is

the spider,

it's Web,

prey and

space and,

which carries

all of possibilities

and sense

of oneness

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Lincoln in Philosophy

Kids In The Schoolyard

It doesn’t matter what religion you believe in: Buddhism, Catholicism, Taoism, Communism, Hinduism, Druidism.

It doesn’t matter if you have led armies, cleaned shoes, split the atom, influenced millions, rode in a rocket to the moon.

You are still that little kid running with all the other kids in a schoolyard. That’s always there, that’s you, that’s what humanity is, that’s what the world is, that’s existence, that’s what we all really are, working it all out because no one really knows everything. Everybody questions, why a bumblebee’s flight is scientifically impossible, but they do. Humanity is a sure bet at the end of the day, its real, it’s there, it’s the only thing that’s going to save this planet, and when you die don’t be afraid because you don’t know anything anyway, but you will always be loved and remembered here. That’s life, that’s what it’s all about, live now because you, me, them and others are all just human beings right here, right now. People are their own gods, terrible, beautiful, cruel, kind, powerful, omnipotent, everything, but mostly just little kids running around in that school yard that’s always there. Fingers crossed.

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Ellie1995 in Philosophy

Unselfish heart

In considering humanity in 2024, it doesn't have to be driven by ones desires or passion for doing something, but it has to be based on empathy. Doing unto other people as you would want them do unto you. In this way one can be selfless. Today

Having all these worldly crisis's, the interest is to better oneself and often times, it ends into selfishness. Spinoza would likely remind us that while our passions can lead to progress, they can also cloud our judgment and lead to conflict. But if one has it in them to do good unto others with just expecting that good will be done to them, this brings a good foundation for a harmonious society.

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Erussell in Philosophy

Pain of disciple or pain of regret.

What resounding theme do we hear when people are dying. “I wish I would have….. I don’t want that phrase hanging from my lips. I don’t want family and friends reiterating comments like “what happened? She had so much promise.“

I chose to live with the pain of disciple NOT of regret.

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FarrellTimlake in Philosophy

Lesson at the Cesspool

A teacher, a professor, and a student walked up to a cesspool. The student asked, "What do we do now?" The professor proclaimed, "you will have to jump in, do your best to learn to float, and hopefully if you paid close attention to my lectures then you can make it across and get out on the other side."

The student was about to reluctantly jump in. The teacher held the student back, but for good reason. "Wait" the teacher said, "Soon the season will change and it will freeze solid, then you can walk across it easily".

The moral to the story... It is better to help others walk on water than it is to make them feel like shit.

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Ravenths in Philosophy

A Tantrum

One look at post-modern thinking

One more drink of beer for the day

They might argue for subjective truth

But what blasphemy they do say

One look at atheism today

One more hand to the head

How can anyone, let alone millions be like so

His atheism saw God as nature led.

One look at reality as conceived

The amount of shock on his face

How can there not be natural order

In this human race?

One look at learning and development

Besides the unheralded progression

Of learning for the popular masses

Surely, you must be joking of such regression.

One look at truth and epistemology,

Oh boy, he looks like he might cry

How can anyone know through senses

Only reason can prevail—oh my my!

One look at what some people want,

A destruction of the line between church and state

No—this is where I shall make my stand!

No intersection because that is what I hate!

One more look and I don’t think he’ll still stand

The modern world is just too much

And Spinoza is no fan

Poor Spinoza, dug from his grave

Says goodbye and jumps right back in

“There is no retribution enough to be saved!”

And out he goes—there are no more debates for him to win.