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I think that intersectionality is one of the best things that has ever happened to feminism. The idea that our experiences differ based on overlapping…
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I’ve been listening to a very annoying argument between different groups of people involving trans people and sports. I’ve been thinking on it, and I…
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Almost two years ago, I had an episode of psychosis. During this episode, I “heard” “God” talking to me. It was not like a “voice” in my ear or in my…
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I think that there are some forms of cultural appropriation that are undeniably offensive. Something like blackface, for example, has a long history of…
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“Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing…
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Of course, there are valid reasons to lie. Your six-year-old wants to know if the food they made tastes good (it doesn’t). Your husband wants to know if…
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Once upon a time, there was a philosophy professor. He loved Nietzsche. The professor had a habit of developing close relationships with certain…
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Roy Sullivan was a park ranger who was struck by lightning seven times. He was born in Virginia on February 7th, 1912. The first time he jumped out of a…
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I’m against the ideas that we should try to be in a loving mindset at all times and that things like anger, fear, and hatred are inherently bad. I think…
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Hegel called it the master-slave dialectic. Nietzsche described it as the conflict between master morality and slave morality. While they aren’t really…
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I always watch TV with the subtitles on. I’m not sure why. I think it aids my comprehension. Sometimes certain words swell up larger than the other…
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“But all the patterns?” “Yeah, here’s the thing about the patterns. Sometimes they’re there and sometimes they’re not.” “The sunrise seems pretty…
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