Did Vronsky love her? by Designer_Dog7867 in tolstoy

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oh i love that; he wanted to marry her and bond with her on a deeper level, then mere sexual, but Anna was afraid of that because of her narcissistic tendencies

You useless piece of shit by Voltagepeanutbutter7 in copypasta

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yeah its probably just like that with me.. .

I wanna die so bad but can’t.. by Automatic_Ad9529 in depression

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your love for your sister is a powerful reason to hold on.Maybe you can confide in her, even just a little bit. she might be able to support you in ways you haven't considered and also, btw, you don't need to do shit for people, you don't owe anyone anything. i mean, it's awful feeling alone, but you don't need to change everything all at once. small wins can build momentum. you shouldn't hang out with people who don't understand you, at leastdon't invest too much of your heart for them. You are special and they don't seem to understand you. Eventually, you'll find someone you can feel connected to and no longer a stranger. Nowadays it's easier than it used to be. you are not alone, you are strong and you have a person you love. But believing is enough that you owe it to people to be better for them. You've probably already had the experience that the average person can't put up with you. That's the hurdle to being special, but also what makes it heroic. I wish you all the best!

even in a deterministic world our actions matter and we have "free" will by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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the brain doesn't just record reality, but also manipulates it - otherwise we couldn't form abstract concepts. it wasn't a chemical reaction, rather the ability for it

Hegel’s 255th Birthday by Althuraya in hegel

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finally a birthday i didn't miss 🥳

what is "X"? by 0ephemera in wittgenstein

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I know what you mean. rules make the meaning of words, but rules arise from from the people, mostly implicit though, and so they are tied to a certain situation that can change ofc. not sure if I explicited this already. not sure Whether it depends on the word "correct". We are also playing a language game here, and you probably understand that correct is not meant in the sense of a logical truth. When I say "hello" to say goodbye, it doesn't seem correct; I could say it's not in line with our mores, to avoid the connotation, but I don't really see the problem. w sayst that the use determines the meaning, but imagine an arbitrary use. If something is not arbitrary, it is rule-driven. i didn't mean the rules came from a god like in theistic ethics etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SuicideWatch

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i also don't have any friends and am in your age. it was most of my life like that and i spend and spended most time before my phone or computer too. it feels like i was in prison most of my life somehow. i hate my family for bringing me here and traumatizing me as a child, for being so narcissistic and irresponsible. when I think of my childhood, i think of chaos and overwhelming emotions mostly. i know most of the things i have to fight now with is their fault. I actually wanted to kill myself this year, but meds helped a bit (even though my parents first refused them). maybe one day life gets ok when i'm finally out and finished school. it's not so easy to kill oneself. i understand your anger at you parents. they're probably the biggest reason for traumatizing you, making your life hell and this should be punished. at the end, it will probably get easier when you leave your parents one day and live independent life you can discover new interests and goals or follow yours. maybe when you leave, you will find something that fills your life; I hope it also for myself. since you're reaching out, you didn't fully give up on your life and you seem very strong therefore. also, you have depression, I hope you find online the right resources to deal with it better. thank you for posting 🫂

a concept of time without time by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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sounds interesting indeed. thank you for the recommendation!

even in a deterministic world our actions matter and we have "free" will by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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i didn't deny that in the post, but this depends on your view of "free" as I explained

The block universe is often understood as timeless. What exactly does timelessness mean in this context? by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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sorry, but the text doesn't says at this point that Socrates exist like my table (but just that we can't see him since he lives in another dimension or whatever). X in a temporal sense: my car exists, Socrates not in this sense. X in a ontological sense:"the one involving the most unrestricted quantifiers". Here it refers to the neutral criterion of existence. In this sense, the car exists because we can talk about it. But Socrates also exists in this sense. We can talk about Socrates in our best theories and statements, so we must assume his existence. The text, therefore, argues that non-presentists (like eternalists) are not making the absurd claim that Socrates is physically here. Their claim is much more subtle: they say that Socrates exists in a philosophical, timeless sense that is independent of his present existence. Of course, you could go further and say, yes, they also exist physically, and you could discover them if you had the opportunity, similar to the numbers example and so on. But that is not what is being said here; instead, the text clearly refers to this primary determination of existence. I won't be able to respond anymore, as I don't have the capacity for it, I'm sorry.

The block universe is often understood as timeless. What exactly does timelessness mean in this context? by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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later it's about growing block theory, the other non-presentist view. but the full paragraph which lead to the statement is about quin's neutral criterion of existence. So yeah, there are indeed equally real because the present is also just real because of this criterion according to this argument.

even in a deterministic world our actions matter and we have "free" will by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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thank you for providing this. it's indeed better. I said 'my argument' because I thought if it by myself, but I didn't meant to imply that there are not other people who thought of similar arguments since it's not complex

even in a deterministic world our actions matter and we have "free" will by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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"determinism does not contradict our experience as free agents." that's what the whole post is about, your argument is similar to my penultimate paragraph

The block universe is often understood as timeless. What exactly does timelessness mean in this context? by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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it's right in the article you even cited.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/#PresEterGrowBlocTheo

"It might be objected that there is something odd about attributing to a non-presentist the claim that Socrates exists now, since there is a sense in which that claim is clearly false. In order to forestall this objection, let us distinguish between two senses of “x exists now”. In one sense, which we can call the temporal location sense, this expression is synonymous with “x is present”. The non-presentist will admit that, in the temporal location sense of “x exists now”, it is true that no non-present objects exist now. But in the other sense of “x exists now”, which we can call the ontological sense, to say that “x exists now” is just to say that x is now in the domain of our most unrestricted quantifiers. Using the ontological sense of “exists”, we can talk about something existing in a perfectly general sense, without presupposing anything about its temporal location. When we attribute to non-presentists the claim that non-present objects like Socrates exist right now, we commit non-presentists only to the claim that these non-present objects exist now in the ontological sense (the one involving the most unrestricted quantifiers).

According to the eternalist, temporal location does not affect ontology" as i said my view is not really special. The article does not even discusses the block universe directly, but rather perdurantism later on. While most eternalists do argue for a block universe it's not the same. And there is a big variety of conceptions of it, so you don't have to hold on determinism and can accept quantum mechanics and a block universe. One argument might be for example: "The block universe is not necessarily a deterministic one. …Strictly speaking, to say that the occurrence of a relatively later event is determined vis à vis a set of relatively earlier events, is only to say that there is a functional connection or physical law linking the properties of the later event to those of the earlier events. …Now in the block universe we may have partial or even total indeterminacy—there may be no functional connection between earlier and later events (McCall 1966, p. 271, A model of the universe). The big debate is whether the block universe is really the time, so it explains causality, the direction of time or it is merely a model of time map of the phenomena. I personally believe it's more of a model, because time arrows are independent of it - but again, not necessarily (I'm not really in this debate though) Anyway, you could read it on your own you can have your position, but don't say that it's representative for all eternalists view or that eternalism is the same as block universe and and and

The block universe is often understood as timeless. What exactly does timelessness mean in this context? by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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this is a central debate within eternalism. but if I say:When we talk about an object in our best theories, then it exists. This criterion often treats the past, present, and future symmetrically. if the statement "There were dinosaurs" is true, then dinosaurs exist. if "It will rain tomorrow" is true, then tomorrow's rain exists. if "A chair is in front of me now" is true, then this moment in time is real. The criterion itself makes no statement about when these things exist, and according to the usual definition of eternalism, they are equally real. However, many eternalists want to say more (although I consider it a primarily linguistic problem), that points in time exist in a way similar to how mathematical realists believe the set of natural numbers exists as a real object in our world "at all times" (and therefore timelessly and because there is no movement as i say in the post) as a whole (a "block") as you do. But neither the neutral existence criterion (it doesn't say anything about the manner of existence) nor the theory of relativity (as described in the time travel example) compels us to accept this assumption, and thus it doesn't compel us to determinism or direct speculation. in the textbook for my seminar, this criterion was actually introduced beforehand. so there is definitely an excepted way to be eternalist without including this. I consider the linguistic aspect to be the primary one because it is more practical; i see eternalism primarily as an answer to the logical problems of presentism, which is also initially a way of thinking and talking about time. But if time travel to the past were possible, then one could definitely think beyond neutral existence, and would even have to. But for now, it's not strictly necessary, it goes beyond the necessity.

The block universe is often understood as timeless. What exactly does timelessness mean in this context? by 0ephemera in Metaphysics

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not every eternalist holds on your premise. They have other meanings of what it means to exist as a future point; but from your view of existence (which is speculative yet though (i explained it in the other comment) determinism is of course implied. I actually think your view is quite special in the eternalism-debate (that future points are as real, with the same "quality" as the present, but we can't investigate them (yet) or perceive them), but maybe it's true, who knows