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Claire Hu

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on the atlas — 14

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  • He assumes that our first reaction would be utter despair: the human condition is tragic; life contains much suffering; the thought that one must relive it all an infinite number of times seems terrible. But then he imagines a different reaction. Suppose we could welcome the news, embrace it as something that we desire? That, says Nietzsche, would be the ultimate expression of a life-affirming attitude: to want this life, with all its pain and boredom and frustration, again and again.
    Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Return
  • The contrast here is with religions like Christianity, which see this world as inferior, this life as mere preparation for a better life in paradise. Eternal recurrence thus offers a notion of immortality counter to the one proposed by Christianity.
    Nietzsche's Idea of Eternal Return
  • Numerous participants developed problems after using Sam Harris’s popular Waking Up app
    When Buddhism Goes Bad - Dan Lawton
  • She said that many of the leading figures in the world of mindfulness meditation have had experiences like mine, but they just don’t talk about them. It’s an open secret of sorts.
    When Buddhism Goes Bad - Dan Lawton
  • People say the setting sun marks the edge of the sky, I look towards the edge of the sky, but cannot see my home. Now I hate the blue mountain which parts us from each other, The blue mountain still is covered by evening cloud.
    Homesickness
  • Lobsters don’t have much in the way of eyesight or hearing, but they do have an exquisite tactile sense, one facilitated by hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs that protrude through their carapace. “Thus,” in the words of T.M. Prudden’s industry classic About Lobster, “it is that although encased in what seems a solid, impenetrable armor, the lobster can receive stimuli and impressions from without as readily as if it possessed a soft and delicate skin.”
    Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com
  • After all, isn’t being extra aware and attentive and thoughtful about one’s food and its overall context part of what distinguishes a real gourmet? Or is all the gourmet’s extra attention and sensibility just supposed to be aesthetic, gustatory?
    Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com
  • I am also concerned not to come off as shrill or preachy when what I really am is confused. Given the (possible) moral status and (very possible) physical suffering of the animals involved, what ethical convictions do gourmets evolve that allow them not just to eat but to savor and enjoy flesh-based viands (since of course refined enjoyment, rather than just ingestion, is the whole point of gastronomy)?
    Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com
  • And it takes a lot of intellectual gymnastics and behaviorist hairsplitting not to see struggling, thrashing, and lid-clattering as just such pain-behavior.
    Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com
  • We are now learning that climate scientists have been underestimating the future displacement from rising tides by a factor of three, with the likely toll being some 150 million globally.
    The Great Climate Migration Has Begun - The New York Times
  • Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone.
    The Great Climate Migration Has Begun - The New York Times
  • By 2070, that portion could go up to 19%.
    The Great Climate Migration Has Begun - The New York Times
  • As defined by U.S. law and the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugees are migrants seeking entry from a third country who are able to demonstrate that they have been persecuted, or have reason to fear persecution, on the basis of one of five “protected grounds”: race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. According to the UN refugee agency, there were nearly twenty-one million refugees
    How Does the U.S. Refugee System Work? | Council on Foreign Relations
  • “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
    ambition as a fingerprint
  • . And I think that is perhaps why I was always so impressionable. I wanted to see what someone else was seeing, and understand it. I wanted to go places that reality wouldn’t let me into—fantasy worlds, starring characters that didn’t exist. I wanted to see what I could discover beyond the constraints of my own reality. And I think to really do that—to fall into someone’s world and truly understand it—you need to be impressionable. You need to immerse yourself in something that breaks your worldview.
    intellectual malleability - by Isabel - Mind Mine
  • he goes on to talk about how people who stay true to their beliefs continue refining themselves and remain sharp, while people who allow themselves to drift into nihilism lose their edge
    sharp and soft – A Slice of My Mind