#existentialism

#existentialism

Perfectionism is philosophically encapsulated by an existential conviction. Many perfectionists are not only certain of the objective validity of their rigid way of living; they're also emboldened by the sense that their lives have an objective meaning, afforded to them in the way a god may grant his messiah a grand objective. Peers and loved ones question the perfectionist's obsessiveness because its root is often hidden, protected from the slings and arrows of reason. Perfectionism persists in large part because it remains unchallenged.

In Mahayana Buddhism, sunyata - often translated as "emptiness" - doesn't mean that nothing matters. It means nothing exists with a permanent essence. Everything is constantly changing and without fixed self-nature. Seeing through the illusion of an enduring, separate self can be liberating.

"The word for snow will be the snow," says one, foreseeing a time when language itself will be scorched away by some cosmic fatality.

In that sense, it's not so different from a lab experiment, where researchers set the stage and observe what unfolds. The aim of these often fantastical scenarios is just as serious: to test, stretch, or even shatter our intuitions about how the world works.

PUP confronts world-weary discontent with deadpan humor, hard-earned wisdom and a lot of heart, transforming existential dread into joyful and uplifting music.

Vivi thanks Zidane and his friends for the adventures, stating, "That's why we have to help each other and live life to the fullest."

If the world were to perish in flames, I'm pretty sure it would be no more than it deserved.

In this film, vampires serve not just as horror elements but as metaphors for institutional racism, illustrating how it drains the life and joy from African Americans.

Sigmund Freud mistakenly believed that human civilization would mature and outgrow childlike thinking in religion, but the Pew survey shows that spirituality remains deeply embedded in society.

The subject of saṃvega is a disquieting feeling that we all experience at some point, reinforcing our sense of unease about life's purpose.

"These scenes are something in Zsa-Zsa's brain - some neurological experience that he's having. Somewhere along the line, we realize this guy is being confronted with his own death so aggressively and overtly that it's actually starting to change his view of the world, which is not something he's ever been open to. And what he's learning in those moments I guess he's learning from himself."

Robinson’s characters constantly embody a Midwestern sense of impotence, vulnerably trapped in the contradictions of their environment, desperately crying for some relief from life's chaos.

Murderbot, a self-aware security cyborg, navigates its newfound freedom while hoping to pursue trivial pastimes instead of its programmed duties.

The loss of self regards the forces that tend to hinder our growth and disrupt our ecology of self, shaped by relationships, environments, and experiences.

In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry articulates that pain’s resistance to language not only makes sharing experiences of suffering difficult but also actively destroys the very language we use to convey them.

"which is to say wandering away from any self he might have spoken of the hour the foolishness with which we sculpt time into a life"