Luka Schulz
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Luka Schulz
to have loved is to have known the straitjacket of irrationality that slips over even the most willful mind when the heart takes over with its delicious carelessness.
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
On the bounds of morality and forgiveness: pain, suffering, and guilt
There are some pains in this life that are too great to be forgiven. And for every person, there exists within them a balance in which forgiveness can live. An edge whose murkiness is decided by that person where forgiveness begins and ends. Things such as murder and rape feel
... See moreThe thing is you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcast episodes, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Dylan O'Sullivanx.comThe thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.com17. All kids ever want is you. Your full undivided attention. Even twenty minutes of that in a day is better than a whole afternoon of scrappy conversations and phone scrolling.
Annie Macmanus • Life Lessons From a 44 Year Old.
“the longer the race, the less meaningful a head start is”
The present is not determined by the future as such... but by certain events which we hope for or fear from the future, and which we accordingly crave and pursue, or shun and avoid. Happiness consists in possession, in having and holding our good, and even more in being sure of not losing it. Sorrow consists in having lost our good and in enduring... See more
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
Reminds me a bit of Lacan (I guess also Schopenhauer and Harry Frankfurt)
We see curiosity theater all around.
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
We should gossip more!! #subwaytakes #gossip
youtube.comIt would seem she just wants people to talk more… I think? But I appreciate that her take led me to think about gossip. If I were to make her take my own, I would say that people need to talk more candidly about their thoughts. I do believe gossip (whether you like it or not) has a negative connotation. Maybe in some near future, the word can be reclaimed to be positive but for now I think if you gossip about someone, the feeling that conveys is a conversation driven by ego and backed by a tinge of hearsay. I have a hard time saying that its all bad but I do think if it crosses over into a morally gray/negative space if you are filling space with your thoughts on someone rather than just explicitly saying your belief. For instance “I hear those two are hooking up” feels a bit more malicious than “I don’t like casual sex” (or some other variant). I think gossip sometimes conveys a moral stigma that you hold. “They’re making 100k” versus “I believe I deserve to be paid more.”
Maybe its just about intentionality and where the focus of the conversation is?
For instance friends talking about other friends feels rather important. “John told me he’s gonna switch majors again” feels like gossip to me. The real objective of two friends saying this might be something more akin to “I think John would be better of sticking to his major rather than switching again because I believe he is waisting his time by not committing and giving an honest try.” It’s definetly easier to say the first thing than try and really tease out the exact sentiment that drives the gossip, but in this case if it comes from a caring friend who has their friends best interst in mind, it opens up the space for other friends to compare notes and see if they are on the same page. Gossip can unite and feel more smooth rather than having a state of the union every time you want to talk about somebody or something.
Based on a loose search it would seem she’s a bit off, they’re only connected in so far as they share the etymological root “god” > gos.
From ChatGPT (so take with a grain of salt)
Gossip (godsibb) originally meant a sponsor at baptism, a “godparent.” The meaning broadened to mean close friend or companion, especially women who attended childbirths together. Because these women would chat while attending births, the term came to mean idle talk among friends, and then rumor or talk about others.
While gōdspel literally means “good news.”