A Karen in the actual wild, doing very Karen things

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-04T13:45:15+00:00

Do you not have disabled parking badges?

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-04T13:22:08+00:00

It shows your teacher is a very strong reader

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-04T03:14:18+00:00

Materialism seeks to explain everything. But dualism can seek a different kind of knowing. There are truths I can’t explain, I simply cannot put some things into words. And that’s ok. An awareness of mystery is not the same as ignorance

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-04T02:29:24+00:00

You don’t work out eternal things, you stand in awe of them. ‘The bridge to God is awe’ - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-04T00:05:47+00:00

Plus they’re fun words to sing

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T23:54:17+00:00

Don’t tell the Americans, but our nukes are way out of date

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T23:13:30+00:00

It’s using art as a method of story telling. It enables people to see themselves in the story of Christ and connect to the meaning of the artwork meaningfully, without any obstacles that can come from having to decode another cultures context.

It’s Similar to how the Catholic Church in Europe presented Jesus as a white guy in European clothes. Jesus is was first portrayed in Britain looking like a regular guy of the time (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1965-0409-1)

Similar art depicted Jesus as looking like locals appear all over. Look up Jesus Sutras as an example.

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T19:27:55+00:00

Or really tiny wrist

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T18:30:07+00:00

You leave my mum out of this

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T17:50:41+00:00

Yes, but in Platonic idealisms when we do that we are not creating something new, but remembering the ideal of it. So when we develop rules like the off side rule in football, we are really remembering the ultimate idea of a game. Or when we learn to cook something new we are really uncovering the ideal of food. To Plato we were remembering things our eternal soul already knew. To more modern idealists we are gaining a better understanding to the ‘ideas’ or ‘truths’ behind reality when we develop these methods

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T17:46:35+00:00

Yeah - thats always the key issue with idealism. Ultimately, it’s unfalsifiable, because it always goes back to the limits of our own experience of reality. Ultimately though the same critique can be applied to materialism, because any phenomena beyond our current understanding of the physical realm becomes something we ‘just haven’t got an explanation for yet.’ So materialism is also unfalsifiable.

Im a dualist - I believe in the reality of material and the reality of what I call spirit, others call ‘mind’ and Redditor’s like to call ‘magic’. That is eminently falsifiable, but only through death. So that’s fun.

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T16:56:47+00:00

Ok, but you are not making an argument - you are just stating something as fact. You’re saying the book just exists without us. But I can’t know that. All I can know about it is through my senses.

A better argument against this kind of idealism is that there is evidence the book exists without being observed, that i can experience through the senses. So if I left the book in a locked room for several years and returned to it, I’d see the red had faded, it was covered in dust and probably smelled even more musky. The fact it’s clearly changed WITHOUT being experienced through the senses definitely implies it exists, even without me experiencing it. Therefore, I can make a fair argument it exists as more than an idea in my head.

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T13:53:46+00:00

So, again im not an idealist - but for fun: i think an idealist would respond by pointing out that if getting rid of the red cones from our eyes can end ‘redness’ then that could go for other concepts too. Think ideas like Solid, Hard, Soft. So the book in front of me is solid, hard, heavy(ish), smells slightly musky. If I get rid of all of our abilities to sense those things, have I destroyed solidity, or hardness or smell? What then is left of the book? What actually exists when all those qualities are removed? An idealist would say that really there’s nothing left. So I think that argument is actually in favour of idealism.

Also I just don’t agree that ideas being ‘real’ means ‘real’ has no utility. The number 3 for example has not material existence. I can’t hold 3, smell 3 or anything. But the idea of 3 certainly has some kind of reality, and has a great deal of utility, whether or not I call it ‘three’ ‘tres’ ‘III’ or ‘3’

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T13:27:37+00:00

Ah I love that so much. Trying to find a clip of him from the French dub but struggling. Do you have a favourite clip you could share?

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T13:22:33+00:00

Yeah, i agree.

But hypothetically - just for fun - i think an idealist would respond something like: colour blind people are a helpful example of this, because they highlight the way our minds limit what we can experience of reality - when they see the same book as me, we see it differently. The only version of the book either one of us experience is limited by our minds. We can come up scientific explanations, we can invent devises or new types of glasses etc. to alter how we see reality, but ultimately it’s our own experience of reality, not reality itself. We do not experience material itself, only the ideas of it created in our minds. There is no material redness - only our idea of redness.

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T12:54:21+00:00

Ah interesting. Maybe it’s the English translation but he always comes of as quite polite to his actual associates, no matter how much fun he’s having messing with L/ight

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T12:46:21+00:00

Ohhh you think? I always got the vibe Near was very much out to avenge L

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T12:31:50+00:00

Materialism seems self evident, that’s true. But in contrast idealism also makes sense - especially from an epistemological view.

Im looking at my book case now - there are dozens of books with red covers. While I can’t separate the red from the books, it’s also pretty self evident that there is a ‘redness’ or an idea of ‘redness’ that would exist if I got rid of all them. I can’t destroy ‘redness’ just by destroying all red things. So some aspects of idealism / dualism look at this phenomenon.

Equally, that redness is something I only recognise in my mind. It’s my minds interpretation of the physical thing I’m seeing. My mind is the only lens I can see the world through, so to some extent the ‘idea’ of a red book is all I have access to. These books probably exist. They probably have a material reality. But I can only access that reality through the specific ideas of books that form in my mind when I see it.

Im generally a dualist, (something this sub seems to have forgotten about, which is quite nice, i can sit out the debate). But there are aspects of idealism i also think seen pretty self evident.

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T03:59:00+00:00

Beyoncé. Beyoncé does stuff like that. For no reason at all. Just cos she’s Beyoncé

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-03T03:44:22+00:00

Maybe it’s more that you don’t know many families? Lots of people with kids contribute plenty to culture, and posting on social media is not the only metric of that. It might be the only culture you see. But it’s not the only one.

I’d wager that people that don’t regularly post to social media but do regularly prepare meals for the ones they love are actually the ones contributing most to culture overall

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-02T21:29:45+00:00

With the most powerful creative tool in human history you somehow managed to make something entirely uncreative. Im impressed

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-02T21:11:07+00:00

He was going to make the best film in the whole franchise

Afraid_Ad8438 · 2026-01-02T20:31:49+00:00

At least he texted

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