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mostly music and philosophy

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Why is it so easy to accept that there was a world before we were born, yet so unsettling to contemplate a world that will continue to exist after we're gone, when our non-existence is essentially the same in both cases? :/

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@NotRealMusic LP1

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@matt_olma that is what makes them so analytic!

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@untimelysalts @m966021 Wittgenstein isn’t that popular

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@m966021 Nietzsche is basically the Machiavelli of philosophy. He’s often misquoted or misunderstood by people who like the idea of being into philosophy more than they actually enjoy philosophy itself.

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@ethan_scraggy we have the same lana and madonna top 3 😁

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@syruphoneybee For non-fiction, I usually create my own table of contents based on my notes (and sometimes even my highlights), then journal anything I find important in an organized way.

For fiction, I’m content with just the latter.

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@thorouqhfare

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@sephir01h @clockteautwins no… normie is so incel-coded

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@OwaisAlQarani1 @pomegranatist @ayatr0llah Did you even read the article? It discusses the Bukhtishu family’s contributions to Abbasid medicine, not evidence that the House of Wisdom was staffed by Gundeshapur graduates. You’re conflating physicians serving the Abbasid court with scholars employed at the House of Wisdom.

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@OwaisAlQarani1 @pomegranatist @ayatr0llah Actually, the most famous phases of the Islamic Golden Age coincided with the rule of Arab leaders. Not to mention that the court language was Arabic anyways.

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@JacobALinker @ayatr0llah Pre-Islamic Iran didn’t invent anything outside of architecture and *modest forms* of hydraulic engineering prior to the Islamic civilization. Where is the rich tradition of innovation that you speak of? Even Sassanid literature is lacking :/

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@OwaisAlQarani1 @pomegranatist @ayatr0llah then why weren’t there any Persian mathematicians during the Sassaniad Empire?

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@OwaisAlQarani1 @pomegranatist @ayatr0llah Except he wasn’t apart of the Persianite cultural sphere (whatever that means)

His primary works are in Arabic and he’s a product of an Islamic civilization that wasn’t spearheaded by Persian cultural traditions or language. If Persians have a rich tradition of mathematics

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@ayatr0llah He was a product of an Islamic civilization spearheaded by the Arab rule & the Arabic language. He wasn’t a product of Sasanianad Iran. Anyways, the contribution of Islamic civilization to math & science is significantly overblown so it’s not something to split hairs over.

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@darryltwt @dealtinsilver No.

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@divaagurlxw Madonna, Mishima, Merleau-Ponty…