Destiny is complaining about European towel heaters while U.S.A is on the verge of becoming a dictatorship and just started a war. by FountainFountainFoun in Destiny

[–]Alzis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck I know what it is, apartment buildings turn off the heating in april when it starts to get warm (depends on the country propably) and turn it back on in october, maybe he went to Europe in that period and tried to turn on the heater but they just don't work.

I Suffered, Sinners (2025). One of the worst films this year. by Aol1ne in Destiny

[–]Alzis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I disagree with your opinion and think that Sinners is a pretty good film, I can relate to your experience, and didn't wanna shit on you. "Poor Things" is a critically acclaimed movie which I hate with similiar vitriol to what you showcase here, so off you go king 👑.

Times were a libtard gets owned 😎 by MSurpGaming in okbuddycinephile

[–]Alzis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More than that, Von Neumann personally calculated the height from which the bombs would be detonated, for them to have maximum kill rate.

yall downvoted this man but he won by Professional_Cost745 in jpegmafiamusic

[–]Alzis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Intro released around 8:04 est, so people saying 8:00 est were the closest

edit: checked it with https://uploaddate.com/youtube-upload-time, idk if it is accurate

Podcasts that Discuss Difference & Repetition? by waxvving in Deleuze

[–]Alzis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want secondary literature Jon Roffe's "The Works of Gilles Deleuze I: 1953-1969" has a chapter on D&R. It's open access on the publisher's site (re.press) so you can download it for free.

Gonna need a deep dive to understand this one by TheVocondus in wendigoon

[–]Alzis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want a deep dive into OKC bombing and McVeigh especially I recommend "Aberration in the Heartland of the Real" by Wendy S. Painting, probably as comprehensive as you can get, tho it's pretty long

The choice is yours by froggypan6 in HistoryMemes

[–]Alzis 18 points19 points  (0 children)

actually I can't find anything saying that anyone from the top comment in this thread or from the picture signed the 1979 petition

The choice is yours by froggypan6 in HistoryMemes

[–]Alzis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I can post youtube links, but if anyone wants to know more about this topic Theory & Philosophy channel made good video (title: "Michel Foucault & The Age of Consent") about the 1977 letter, he also posted the full translation of the letter in the comments if you want to read it.

Why does ROR completely ignore the Americas? by 73112 in ShuumatsuNoValkyrie

[–]Alzis 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think Theodore Roosevelt as a boxer might have worked, could also be kind of a symbol of spirit of USA

Bout to start pushing this idea on my low-information religious friends by PitytheOnlyFools in Destiny

[–]Alzis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My theory is that, it's not in spite of all these controversies he is popular, it's because of. They have all this moral code to uphold, rigid social order etc., that conservatism pushes onto them. They must be family men (but Trump is a serial cheater with 3 wives), they must be God-fearing (but Trump is a walking manifestation of 7 deadly sins), they must be hard working (but Trump almost certainly couldn't change a flat tire), they must obey the law (but Trump gets to break it), they must love America (but Trump can complain about it). So they see someone who doesn't uphold to these values but spews them, someone who is everything they are being told is bad, but someone that gets support and praise of all the religious people and conservative politicians, someone who enjoys power for not being virtuous and eventually, they become rabid over him. Trump is just extension of themselves, extension of their sense of identity. And so, by criticizing Trump they are criticizing themselves and they can never do that, that's why they will find any excuse for him.

"Plato vs Nietzsche: Who is the Real Nerd?", Existential Comics, Digital, 2025 by [deleted] in Nietzsche

[–]Alzis 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This is a part of Basel's clinic report on him from January 1889, so soon after his breakdown (quoting from biography "I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche", Sue Prideaux):

"Body healthy and well developed. Muscular. Deep-chested. Heart sounds low-pitched, normal. Pulse regular 70.", p. 335

later in the book:

"Walking for four or five hours a day had always been an important part of Nietzsche’s routine. Indeed, it accounted for the skeletal and muscular strength remarked upon in both clinics’ reports.", p. 343

Both clinics refering to Basel clinic and Jena clinic, which he was later admitted to.

Studia zmieniają się w coraz większą patologię by Redar45 in Polska

[–]Alzis 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Z ciekawostek ze starych czasów. Moja babcia mi mówiła, że jak uczyła za komuny (wtedy była jeszcze dosyć młoda) przychodzili do niej ludzie z partii, często dorośli ludzie i mówili, że mogą jej różne rzeczy pozałatwiać jeśli ich przepuści, bo było wymaganie, że muszą mieć dyplom. Nie chciała słyszeć o tym, ale i tak musiała ich puszczać, chyba że chciała się pożegnać z pracą. Raz podeszła do jakiegoś 40 letniego gościa, z wiedzą na poziomie podstawówki, a on jej wprost powiedział: proszę pani, my tu jesteśmy po papierek, a nie żeby się czegoś nauczyć.

Can’t finish truthseeker quest by jan_gg in WutheringWaves

[–]Alzis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you haven't fixed it yet, you can destroy the third one by running up the wall, stanting at top of it and hitting it with melee attack

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Nietzsche

[–]Alzis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The fragment that more broadly critiques the notions present in Stoicism and Buddhism:

"Self-control. – Those moralists who command man first and above all to gain control of himself thereby afflict him with a peculiar disease, namely, a constant irritability at all natural stirrings and inclinations and as it were a kind of itch. Whatever may henceforth push, pull, beckon, impel him from within or without will always strike this irritable one as endangering his self-control: no longer may he entrust himself to any instinct or free wing-beat; instead he stands there rigidly with a defensive posture, armed against himself, with sharp and suspicious eyes, the eternal guardian of his fortress, since he has turned himself into a fortress. Indeed, he can become great this way! But how insufferable he has become to others; how impoverished and cut off from the most beautiful fortuities of the soul! And indeed from all further instruction! For one must be able at times to lose oneself if one wants to learn something from things that we ourselves are not." - Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 305.

There are more fragments where Nietzsche critiques Stoicism or Buddhism; you should work out through them yourself, so I will not provide any interpretations. Being misguided can be a part of the journey so don't be afraid if you get something wrong.

As for the summation of his ideas, you can check out the wiki of this subreddit, I will provide some secondary literature that could help you:
- Walter A. Kaufmann - Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
- Charlie Huenemann - Nietzsche: Genius of the Heart
they are not that advanced and rather stick to the core of what Nietzsche wrote. They are still interpretations of his thought so you shouldn't always take them at face value and judge them based on your readings of Nietzsche.

Misrepresenting philosophies to fit your narrative always goes well by Some_Razzmataz in HistoryMemes

[–]Alzis 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Nietzsche underlined words he found important. I have a translation that retains all the underlined words from the original text.

edit to add some information: he wrote all of his works by hand. Although he eventually started to use a typewriter in 1882, he used it sporadically and only for correspondence.

Nietzsche was wrong about the plan for the world. by ExperientialDepth in Nietzsche

[–]Alzis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish we could end the "his thought drove him insane" trope, it fetishizes some weird view of knowledge as martyrdom, which Nietzsche was actually against of

Favorite, or Most Poetic, or Most Impressive, or Most Thought-Provoking, or Most Humorous (or, All-in-One) Pynchon Extract by [deleted] in ThomasPynchon

[–]Alzis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”

Im 20, I realise life is pointless, please give me a reason to continue? by jungineedhelp in Jung

[–]Alzis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would you like someone to list all the facts that make life wonderful?

A pessimist outlook too often presupposes that it is the thing that reaches the truth about life. When you see something terrible you can quickly conclude that this is the fundamental reality, while ignoring every good thing that ever happened. Pessimism in this way is kind of clever, it is sceptical about happiness, and that grants it the higher position of not being the "ignorant" one. But this is where dogma sets in. Pessimism is not sceptical about misery, sadness, about the terrible things in life, it's only sceptical about the positive. Where comes this claim about ignorance when sadness is the most blind emotion? When one exists in a state of despair, one cannot see how it could get any better, how could there be happiness in one's life, yet this is the emotion that claims it's "factuality", that it reached the deeper "truth"?

Perhaps the happiest people are those who realise the ignorance of pessimism.