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  • yetAnotherUserto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSelf Acceptance [Rule]
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    12 days ago

    I’d say you can fix that by realizing that the world was already on fire anyway and that there’s no time like today to start appreciating yourself. Once you do, you’ll find more inner strength to survive and help others survive in this burning world, and you’ll almost certainly find way more inner strength than what you might be expecting.

    The world will keep burning, but unfortunately there is no time to cry about it. What we must do now is grab the fire extinguishers and get ready for a hell of a ride. We need people with resolve, self-confidence and determination, and feeling good about yourself definitely helps with that.

    P.S.: hope this comment was at all helpful and that it didn’t just sound like a bunch of bland words to you!












  • yetAnotherUserto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulé Descartes
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    27 days ago

    Not sure if this is the right place for questioning philosophical theories, but I have a few questions about this one.

    • The sentence is “I think, therefore I am”. What if we don’t think? Let’s imagine, for example, that there is a god or gods, that are the only beings capable of thinking, and that everyone just recieves those thoughts from the god(s), just gets them delivered right to the brain. In that situation, we wouldn’t be capable of thinking, would we? (iirc this was one of the main critics to Descartes’s chain of to thought. In this situation, I think the sentence could be generalised to remain valid.)
    • The sentence is “I think, therefore I am” (or if we generalise it to remain valid due to the previous point, “if something thinks, it exists”). Why can’t it be “I eat therefore I am”, or “I breathe, therefore I am”? What makes thinking more valid than any other action we can do when trying to prove our existence? How is thinking capable of proving our existence at all if nothing else is said to be capable? In fact, what shows that thinking can prove someone’s existence? (this one feels like a reworded common critic, although I’m not sure)

    I would like to invite anyone to comment/evaluate/counter/correct what I wrote here (just pls don’t attack me (>~<), attack the content instead). I know I could just research these things on my own, but I have a bit of trouble understanding the formal language that is used by specialists when discussing this type of problems, and I find it likely that others feel the same, so it felt cooler to talk about it here.

    P.S.: it’s kinda sad that this theory doesn’t quite prove the existence of our brainrot homies :3