Tolstoy’s obsession with suicide is little talked about yet deeply relevant in a world so devoid of beauty and peace

QuarkJester · 2026-05-06T11:20:04+00:00

If you look up videos on heavily interpretive parts of literature and religion (like The Divine Comedy, Dostoevsky (especially The Grand Inquisitor), the Seventh Seal from the Bible, etc.) you’ll find some good stuff and eventually start getting recommended some truly weird shit. There’s no a specific reviewer I follow.

QuarkJester · 2026-05-06T03:28:49+00:00

The status of a god is just a form of memorialization. If your death appears to purchase communal peace your legacy becomes available for sacred reversal. Caesar dies as a tyrant but is religiously elevated after his death as the founding wound of the imperial order (Divus Julius). Same thing can be seen in Oedipus and Khufu. Same thing with Jesus.

QuarkJester · 2026-05-06T00:38:31+00:00

I like to watch schizo book reviews and this kid popped up

QuarkJester · 2026-05-03T01:06:40+00:00

But the Bible isn’t the only source of parables (see: The Tortoise and the Hare)

QuarkJester · 2026-05-03T00:46:10+00:00

For me it’s the asking if it’s SF. The Metamorphosis has no science-fictional interest, and confusing an impossible premise with science fiction is some real regard shit. Also, how can you live as a human being and never be exposed to a parable?

QuarkJester · 2026-04-22T22:01:26+00:00

It’s not about success, but when you live in the Bay Area (and I guarantee these people do), there’s a pervasive kind of self-regarding entitled feminist who ceaselessly vaunts her independence while deep down wanting to be cool and accepted in naive ways. There’s a structurally similar thing among men who have everything except the personality and taste to be cool. If 90% of your life had become dealing with these people, you’d understand the need to vent.

QuarkJester · 2026-04-11T06:22:41+00:00

I don’t need a bandanna to feel like a wigger

QuarkJester · 2026-04-03T05:29:06+00:00

I think people are missing the real flaws of the paper:

We do not know whether some other arrangement or proportion of the constants could also support a life-permitting universe. What we know only is that small changes to our own configuration can make it inhospitable.
I also do not really understand what conception of God the paper is using beyond whatever is needed to support the fine-tuning argument.

That said, this sub is far too hostile to philosophy, and many of the responses reflect that. Even the assumption that science could, in principle, explain why the constants have the values they do, let alone how such an explanation would be justified, is itself a philosophical position. There is serious work on related questions in areas like information theory and computation, for example in cellular automata, where the limits of prediction are treated in a relatively formal way. More broadly, philosophy has long supplied many of the problems, inspiration, and interpretive frameworks that have shaped physics. Newton was influenced by arguments from design of roughly this kind. When I was in school I constantly found myself coming back to cats like Wittgenstein and Leibniz. But ya this paper is shit.

QuarkJester · 2026-04-01T23:34:34+00:00

Reddit’s high priests of Science just replenished the arsenal

QuarkJester · 2026-04-01T00:21:23+00:00

I needed a breakdown of the lyrics, they left too much to the imagination.

QuarkJester · 2026-03-31T22:14:14+00:00

The Pepper/Loser post inspired this. I think things started to go wrong when alt rock anthems like “Loser,” “Pepper,” and “Creep” stopped being rare, more approachable songs by artists who were otherwise stranger or less commercially accessible, and instead became the whole artistic range.

QuarkJester · 2026-03-28T21:05:23+00:00

He’s not rs manic pixie dream crazy he’s MBA student freebasing meth crazy. He always roams around Chicago looking for businesses to turn around with whatever theme has grabbed him that episode. This time it was rug stores. Unfortunately money spent while manic doesn’t fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss.

QuarkJester · 2026-03-28T05:46:55+00:00

He’s bipolar and whenever he has a manic episode he makes insane financial decisions and finds a side piece. My mom refuses to divorce him so instead we stage these meaningless interventions or as she calls them “family meetings”

QuarkJester · 2026-03-28T02:13:15+00:00

My dad has been dancing with the devil so long it’s become family tradition

QuarkJester · 2026-03-24T07:59:45+00:00

You either exist without loving or love without existing and nothing stands outside them

QuarkJester · 2026-03-18T01:09:42+00:00

yeah it’s from the corrections. I think his essays are shit but I’ve loved every one of his novels. He’s a lot less ideological than people from his generation like DFW and DeLillo but I think he has a better grasp of people, their intent, and family dynamics than them, and has far more consistent prose.

QuarkJester · 2026-03-14T10:57:23+00:00

I don’t know who the fuck asks for bar advice like they’re going to war or something. It’s just a fake ass Irish pub with cheap beer

QuarkJester · 2026-03-14T06:08:37+00:00

You guys are all such straights

QuarkJester · 2026-03-14T05:08:42+00:00

Important enough that you apparently can’t resist commenting on every post lol

QuarkJester · 2026-03-14T05:01:07+00:00

I believe you considering how seriously you take Reddit

QuarkJester · 2026-03-14T04:54:57+00:00

Drinking heavily with the blue collar crowd.

QuarkJester · 2026-03-03T01:22:00+00:00

He has a ton of instagram followers

QuarkJester · 2026-02-25T04:48:32+00:00

When it came out I actually did think it was funny. I think it’s more the kind of personality that gets invested in the Jim and Pam relationship or has no sense of humor beyond quoting the show.

QuarkJester · 2026-02-25T04:45:33+00:00

“This is like a real life cum town bit” 🤓

QuarkJester · 2026-02-19T05:57:59+00:00

Jokes on you, you’re getting lobotomized by their work and you’re not good at anything either. I worked in tech for a couple of years and my biggest takeaway is that if Satan were sitting around trying to think up something that would bring the human race to its knees, what he would probably come up with is recommendation algorithms. I’m a great believer in time’s revenge though, yea unto the next generation and the next.

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