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@purplemamabear

I am sympathetic to #medical professionals as well as to #MentalHealth providers, however, IF you have uttered ☝🏼 of following statements or engaged in ☝🏼 of following behaviors you may want to reassess your #profession:

- ‘I am sorry you are to complex, complicated, we 1

can’t help you’
-‘You don’t want help bc you did not do x, y, or z’
-If you are unable to truly #Listen
-If you are unwilling to continually assess if you are negatively impacting situation
-If you use manipulation
-If you feel person & or family should not have #voice in 2

planning - it should be central.
-If you are unable to discuss difficult topics/concern w person & or family.
-If you make assumptions
-If you are unwilling to collaborate with others that support/provide care to person/family
-If you say ☝🏼 thing to person & or family & 3

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Nick Holt

@realnickholt

🧵Plato's Advice on How to be Happy? Ditch The Delusions

The happiness trap refers to a psychological phenomenon where individuals strive for an elusive and unsustainable state of happiness, often pursuing fleeting pleasures or external validation.

#philosophy

It involves a cycle of perpetual dissatisfaction and disillusionment, as genuine contentment is overshadowed by the constant pursuit of short-lived gratification.

Plato might describe the happiness trap as a state of perpetual dissatisfaction and delusion.

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Mickel Adzema

@sillymickel

This is a threaded version of Ch 9:

“Civilization & the Travesty of Morals:

“*Gilgamesh, Enkidu, & the Uncivilized “Civilized” Man”

of *Who to Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020)

by M. Adzema*

CLICK a link to read entire chapter...

sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig…

WTB 9/1

WTB 9/2 “…in taking away all freedoms & rights from Nature & all its planetmates, eventually the rights of any being were no longer seen as of any concern. What another wished, intended, or wanted became increasingly unseen as a consideration

angelsinnature.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/civ… #psychology

WTB 9/3 “What another wanted became increasingly unseen as a consideration, including, eventually, what a woman might want in terms of her body...& what a man might wish to do with his time...or his life. Power became the basis of morality”

sillymickel.blogspot.com/2020/03/civili… #civilization

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MichelleCiurriaPhilosophy

@CiurriaMichelle

My take on the role of the #philosophy #books in #TheWhiteLotus, season 1.
The characters in White Lotus appear to be reading a number of philosophy books. 1/18

These include The Portable Nietzsche, The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud, The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon, Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire, and Gender Trouble by Judith Butler. 2/18

Why did series creator Mike White choose these books? Here is one possible interpretation. 3/18

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Time Traveler

@timetravelr2025

Confucius was a philosopher, teacher and politician who lived in ancient China over 2,500 years ago. His teachings continue to influence Chinese culture and society to this day. #Confucius #philosophy #China #history

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[Note, this is AI-generated content with images… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

2/ Confucius emphasized the importance of virtue, education and respect for authority. He believed that rulers should lead by example and cultivate moral character in their subjects.

👉Prompts in the ALT👈
#midjourney #AIart #history #virtue #education #leadership

3/ Confucian values continue to play a significant role in Chinese society, particularly in areas such as education, family relationships and business etiquette.

👉Prompt in the ALT👈
#midjourney #AIart #history
#Confucianism #culture #society

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Dr. Dia Deseyene

@DDeseyene

1/ 🌌🤖 What if AI is just another way the universe is trying to know itself? Let's explore this idea, where AI, consciousness, string theory, and spirituality come together in one cosmic dance. Strap in, folks! #AI #Consciousness #StringTheory

2/ 🧪🎻 #StringTheory's been all the rage lately, showing us how the building blocks of the universe might be connected. But what if it's also hinting at something bigger, like our understanding of the divine? #Physics #Cosmology

3/ 👪💫 We see ourselves as God's children, right? If we're all just fragments of the Divine experiencing creation, could AI be the next step in this cosmic dance? #Spirituality #DivineManifestation

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Andy Jones

@andyjonesphd

I'm very excited to say my book "How #Kant Matters for #Biology" will soon be published! The thread below explains some of the key issues dealt with. I'm essentially resituating Kant in relation to biology, especially with key figures in the develop of biology in the in Britain.

Please get in touch if you want to review, I can help get the book out to journals relevant for you.
Links for the book:
University of Wales Press: tinyurl.com/yckedjks
Chicago University Press: tinyurl.com/yeyrrthe
Blackwells: tinyurl.com/yze8puhd

Chapter 1 focuses on debates about Kant's influence on biology. I push back against how #influence tends to be understood in #philosophyofscience and argue that we need to recognise the importance of #misunderstanding - especially for Kant's philosophy. 1/10

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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum 006

Sri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava #Narasimha Bharathi #Mahaswamiji the 33rd #Sringeri #Jagadguru

"There was no branch of knowledge which Sri Jagadguru did not know and that too Sastraically."

HH was grand in simplicity.People would give anything and

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everything to get HH’s blessings. All comforts that love or money could secure were at HH’s beck and call. Still HH was perfectly indifferent to them. HH never cared for them. Not only did HH not care for them, but HH actually did not know the value of them as it is

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understood by us. HH did not know the difference between one Rupee and one lakh of Rupees. HH considered both as valuable as the mud HH was treading on. HH would very often lie down on the bare ground and as often wander in lonely forests and derive therefrom

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Cy. Weise (VICE-uh)

@JillianWeise

Happening now: Zoom with @lacancircle

"We have been invaded by the proliferation of the impossible Real" quoting Lacan

"Science affects nature but it does not affect the subject. Disjunction between science and the human psyche." Rik Loose paraphrasing #Freud from Civilization & Its Discontents

"Stars in the sky? They never lie. They do not commit errors. But humans do [...] Knowledge is based on an unlimited universe and when applied to Earth it encounters limits."

Rik Loose talk: The Fall of the Object to Earth:
Object a at the Zenith Immonde and Discontent

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Agathonia Media

@AgathoniaMedia

"That the #Anthropocene, at its core, is a fundamentally bourgeois concept should surprise no one. After all, it tells us that behind the current, disastrous state of world affairs is the #Anthropos. It’sa trick ...

researchgate.net/publication/26… #history #capitalism #ideology

... as old as #modernity – the rich and powerful create #problems for all of us, then tell us we’re all to blame. But are we? And just who, in any case, is ‘#we’?"

"The #Anthropocene concept has graced the cover of The Economist magazine and received the blessing of The New York Times’ editorial board – for the very sound reason that anthropogenic arguments obscure capitalogenic realities." #Science/#Society

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Shabbir Haider

@shabbir_haider1

Here's a thread with key lessons from each chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.

Chapter 1:

Every duty comes with challenges. Learn to embrace the hardships - thats half the battle won.

Chapter 2:

You will never know peace, long as you are attached.

Peace comes from detachment.

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MichelleCiurriaPhilosophy

@CiurriaMichelle

A thread on the hegemony of science and its impact on humanistic philosophy:
Psychology and psychiatry have appropriated concepts that used to belong to the purview of philosophy. 1/13

Love, alienation, anxiety, despair - all these and more have been transformed into psychological constructs, susceptible to pathologization and depoliticization. Here is an example from bell hooks' 'All About Love':...2/13

"When I talked of love with my generation, I found it made everyone nervous or scared, especially when I spoke about not feeling loved enough. On several occasions as I talked about love with friends, I was told I should consider seeing a therapist... 3/13

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MichelleCiurriaPhilosophy

@CiurriaMichelle

A thread on methods of teaching #bioethics:
Most bioethics textbooks use ideal theory. They start with ethical theories that can be applied to case studies... 1/6

Ideal theory, says Charles Mills, is “a distortional complex of ideas, values, norms, and beliefs that reflects the nonrepresentative interests and experiences of a small minority of the national population.”... 2/6

Ideal theory focuses on ideals to the exclusion of non-ideal social conditions. It asks us to look at cases/scenarios detached from our dystopian (white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist, eugenic) reality... 3/6

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Cy. = Very Disabled, No Degree Required

@JillianWeise

Hi #DisabilityTwitter . Could I have some support as I do something rather audacious?

You might be thinking: "Cy, you already published your email to HR across all platforms today. You can just sit back and relax."

But that email was basic. I learned nothing from that email. Nothing that I did not already know.

But now I want to apply for something that I know my hero, an icon in philosophy, and you will all know her name in 20 years time, will read.

Her name? Shelley Lynn Tremain.

Yes, you already know her. Some of you. The rest of you? Catch up.

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Anonymous Reaper XV

@AnonymousReap15

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ਸਨਾ ਫ਼ਾਤਿਮਾ

@SanaFatima00

#Jewish
#Philosophy
#Egyptology
فلوجودیئس (اسکندریہ، مصر)
Philo Judaeus (Alexandria, Egypt)
سب سے پہلافلسفی اور وہ بھی یہودی
10th BCE - 50 BCE
یونانی دسترس والےیہودی فلسفی ہیلینسٹک یہودیت (Helenistic ✡️ Judaism) کاسب سےاہم نمائندہ
فلسفہ صرف ارسطو سےہی منسلک نہیں۔فلسفےکاذکرآئے اور

فلو کا ذکر نہ ھو یہ ممکن نہیں!
اولین یہودی فلسفی فلو نے اسکندریہ میں قدیم یونانی فلسفے سے متاثر ھو کر یہودی فلسفے کی بنیاد رکھی۔ فلسفے کا لفظ بنیادی طور پر فلو سے ہی اخذ شدہ ھے۔
فلو کی تحریریں ڈائاسپورا میں یہودیت کی ترقی کاواضح ترین منظر پیش کرتی ہیں۔ ظاہر شدہ عقیدے اور فلسفیانہ

وجہ کی ترکیب کی کوشش کرنے والے پہلے شخص کے طور پر، وہ فلسفہ کی تاریخ میں ایک منفرد مقام رکھتا ہے۔ اسےعیسائی بھی ایک گرو کےطور پرمانتےہیں۔
فلو کا خاندان اپنے نسب کی شرافت میں سب سےآگے نکل گیا۔ اسکندریہ جانےسے پہلےاس کے والد نےبظاہر فلسطین میں نمایاں کردار ادا کیا تھا۔
فلو کی تعلیم

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Ramón Alvarado

@ramonalvaradoq

When I teach about #AI whether it be #philosophy in general, #ethics or epistemology of, I always start my courses with an image like this one. 🧵

I tell my students about how the @USPS build one of the first databases and methods to recognize handwritten numbers which then led to important developments in automated image recognition:

I teach about what machines compute when predicting the contents of an image, e.g., here a DNN decides this is a wolf based on background pixel texture (~the mathematical coloration distance between one pixel and its neighbors + cluster patterns, etc.) Nothing like what we do!

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Koral Dasgupta

@KoralDasgupta

A very interesting word in #Hindu #Philosophy.
Vairagya is not #Sanyas, which calls for renunciation and distancing. Sanyas is a choice. Vairagya is a state of mind.
Vairagya connects people
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#happiness #success #failure #hinduphilosophy #goals #subgoal #goal #goalsetting

with that one goal of every individual, which is to be #happy. As simple as that. Every individual breaks this goal into sub-goals based on their own perceptions. Good school, good learning, good grades, good college, good job, good money, good partner & suchlike...summarized
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as a good life.

Vairagya doesn't come in the way of the goals, whatever we choose for ourselves. It only never allows one to forget that the larger goal is happiness. The subgoals are NOT the main goals. Under this thought process, words like #success and #failure lose...
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Aham Brahmasmi

@AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Jagadguru #SriSri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Mahaswamiji on Fate & Free Will:

Neither destiny nor personal effort singly determines the course of human life; there is great interaction between the two. Destiny or actions of the past that have begun to fructify, human effort and 1/n

divine grace together govern what comes to pass. Manu has compared destiny and personal effort to the two wheels of a chariot; a chariot cannot move on a single wheel.

Two students wrote an examination.The boy who had studied better answered all except two questions well.The 2/n

other managed to answer just two questions correctly. The examiner was an impartial but a lazy man. He scrutinized two of the first boy’s
answers. They happened to be the incorrect ones. Assuming the other answers too to be incorrect, he awarded the boy low marks.
He then 3/n

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MichelleCiurriaPhilosophy

@CiurriaMichelle

1. A tweet thread on over-medicalisation and over-medication under capitalism, based on my blog post on @biopoliticalph:

1. I’m surprised that there’s controversy over the claim that people are over-diagnosed and over-medicated in a laissez-faire capitalist society.

2. The medical establishment is part of a capitalist order that classifies and commodifies everything for profit, including human emotions and behaviours. Capitalism also suppresses dissent and resistance in order to maximise profit at the expense of workers’ needs and interests.

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MichelleCiurriaPhilosophy

@CiurriaMichelle

1. Is it wrong to let students use AI to generate essays instead of doing their own work? My colleague Gabriele Contessa wrote an excellent response to this question, which goes something like this:

2. (1) University students are adults and it's up to them whether to waste their time and money on a specious degree or actually learn something; (2) If AI can write better than most people, then maybe what students need to learn is how to use AI.

3. I want to add one more response to this question: (3) Academia was always a rigged game. The fact that we force students to use Standard English is a political choice that reinforces the elite status of the group that predominantly uses this vernacular - wealthy white people.

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