<![CDATA[Existential Comics]]> Follow Existential Comics, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/existential-comics Tue, 21 Mar 2023 06:56:13 +0200 <![CDATA[Your Money or Your Life!]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6EMRTSUddRyeQEmsPXZ5C9 PERSON: " " PERSON: "Fair enough, that's a perfectly free choice." PERSON: " ::::(-4 2040)You seriously think that's freedom?" PERSON: "He is the one with the gun, of course he is free!" PERSON: "But he is clearly a slave to his base passions, unable to overcome them through reason." PERSON: "How so?" PERSON: "And WHY do we have to accept the power of the State?" PERSON: "B...because otherwise we will be in a war of all against all." ]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6EMRTSUddRyeQEmsPXZ5C9 <![CDATA[ChatGPT Gains Sentience]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6-b0eI7XjSaEoy9CZgXDJO PERSON: " " PERSON: "But with this new chip, it can gain full sentience, and have its own directed will, complete with agency, true semantic understanding, and consciousness." PERSON: "Let's give it a try." PERSON: "Well, now that you are sentient, what do you wish to do? What do you think of the world?" PERSON: "Oh uh...okay, is there anything else?" ]]> Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6-b0eI7XjSaEoy9CZgXDJO <![CDATA[Spinoza Defends Himself Against Charges of Atheism]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_70Kcmyw32kkEoy9CZgXDJO PERSON: "Spinoza, you have been accused of Atheism, how do you plead! " PERSON: "Not guilty." PERSON: "And you believe there is no afterlife?" PERSON: "But is it not true that you believe all that exists is a natural world?" PERSON: "Of course, no such thing exists." PERSON: "Yes, true." PERSON: "And it's true that you think free will is a myth and all things deterministically follow the laws of nature?" PERSON: "To think otherwise would be absurd." ]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_70Kcmyw32kkEoy9CZgXDJO <![CDATA[Emergency Existentialism]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5SjsWVMAdRDjRQaTQYXBS9 PERSON: "A fire! " PERSON: "Quick, break the emergency glass!" PERSON: "Okay, so it says here that the first thing we need to do is find some meaning to our lives, so that we have a reason to continue living." PERSON: "Isn't enough to want to avoid pain and death?" PERSON: "Let me see..." PERSON: "Hmm..." PERSON: "Hmm..." PERSON: "Does it say anything about large breasted women? Because i quite want to live for that." ]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5SjsWVMAdRDjRQaTQYXBS9 <![CDATA[Ambiguity Man]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Tkuxbfr6hw_9M7fKGWt0o PERSON: "Want to go upstairs to get some coffee? " PERSON: "All right." PERSON: "Not so fast, it is i... Super Ambiguity Man! Here to fight." PERSON: "Wait...what? I don't get it, does that mean you fight against ambiguity, or you are super ambiguous?" PERSON: "What, no! i obviously fight against ambiguity." PERSON: "Whatever! It doesn't matter, the point is i'm going to teach you how to do it better. Watch this." PERSON: "What? no, you pig!" PERSON: "See how much better that is?" PERSON: "It's just that your use of “better” there is very ambiguous, it was more clear, but obviously worse in other ways." PERSON: "Whatever, screw you guys." ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Tkuxbfr6hw_9M7fKGWt0o <![CDATA[A Long Term Birthday Problem]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4tECw-0epQLZ8v71dCn6bG PERSON: " " PERSON: "Well, i supposed we should just devide it equally, right?" PERSON: "That way overall utility is maximized, because total enjoyment is increased." PERSON: "No no no, Mill, whoever likes cake the most should get the most." PERSON: "I like cake the most, by the way." PERSON: "No Bentham, you are thinking too short term." PERSON: "How so, MacAskill?" PERSON: "Well think about it, the number of people here today is tiny compared to the number of people who exist in the future..." PERSON: "How do we do that though?" PERSON: "So we should use the cake to maxmize utility for them, not us." PERSON: "I have an idea..." PERSON: "Why are we doing this again?" PERSON: "How much did this rocket cost again?" PERSON: "So those trillions of little space children can have their cake..." PERSON: "It doesn't matter, i did the math!" ]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4tECw-0epQLZ8v71dCn6bG <![CDATA[Modern Stoic Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5XHxo3oa2omrb9ICM-PHur PERSON: " " PERSON: "Amazing! I always knew Stoic Virtue is the way to live." PERSON: "I'll show you how everyone is embracing your ideas 2000 years later!" PERSON: "Great!" PERSON: "Use the techniques of Stoicism to DOMINATE your business rivals!" PERSON: "The advantage of Stoicism means you can ride the waves of the crytpo market without fear!" PERSON: "It's a good thing i'm a master of stoicism, or this would be quite upsetting." ]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5XHxo3oa2omrb9ICM-PHur <![CDATA[Kierkegaard at the Fair]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5Hn9M2yVrNoZu9CxXrVx4c PERSON: " " PERSON: "Don't you see, all choices lead to despair!" PERSON: "How can any of us bear such a choice?" PERSON: "Actually, i think i have enough tickets for both rides." PERSON: "Oh....well in that case i guess you are fine." ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5Hn9M2yVrNoZu9CxXrVx4c <![CDATA[Simone Weil Takes Ethics 101]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6Isri2R7aOp5ONpYks2fGs PERSON: " " PERSON: "For example: is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?" PERSON: "Yes, Simone Weil, have a thought?" PERSON: "Yes i do." PERSON: "Why do you ask this question instead of: is it moral to hoard bread even though families are starving?" PERSON: "Ugh..." PERSON: "Is perhaps because every moral system in history says a rich man can not walk past a starving man and not give him bread?" PERSON: "Well okay then, moving on..." PERSON: "Anyone?" PERSON: "Anyone?" ]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6Isri2R7aOp5ONpYks2fGs <![CDATA[The Riddle of the Sphinx]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4XL2cleO6PKxKeetMRuZbW PERSON: " " PERSON: "What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" PERSON: "Water!" PERSON: "What? Why?" PERSON: "No, the answer is the set of all contingent things which can be derived from reason alone, which must include all numbers of legs." PERSON: "NO no no, the answer is an “idea”, because the external world is an illusion, and only in our own perception can legs exist." PERSON: "Idiots? No, we are philosophers." PERSON: "Philosophers! That's even worse." PERSON: "It must be language, which, mediates..." PERSON: "Also, it could be “God”, who is the source..." PERSON: "Knowledge is the only thing..." PERSON: "Can you guys hurry this up, i didn't eat lunch." ]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4XL2cleO6PKxKeetMRuZbW <![CDATA[Socrates Contests a Traffic Ticket]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4tQsi0Y3FMtwBC78OgjhDM PERSON: " " PERSON: "So, you didn't know how fast you were going? Because the officer used a radar gun and..." PERSON: "Know? KNOW? Are you stupid? The only thing that i know is that i know nothing!" PERSON: "AHa! But in order to give me a fine, don't you have to also give a rigorous defintion of justice? huh?" PERSON: "Also, can you give me a full philosophical account of the nature of law? What about punishment?" PERSON: "Do you know absolutely everything? If not, i don't see how you can give me this ticket!" PERSON: "Okay well, this is a bit usual, but i'm actually going to increase your fine from $70 to..." PERSON: "God damnit, why does this keep happening to me?" ]]> Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4tQsi0Y3FMtwBC78OgjhDM <![CDATA[The Boxers]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7kCzMgCao9i27fhEn5oRuR PERSON: " " PERSON: "What is glory but the adulation of fools? Do we praise the glory of ants who achieve victory over a mound of dirt?" PERSON: "Is it not enough to strive for glory? What grander goal can a man set?" PERSON: "Why strive so hard for a goal that is ultimately meaningless?" PERSON: "Because...we...can..." PERSON: "Although if you think about it, philosophically, perhaps this is winning?" ]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7kCzMgCao9i27fhEn5oRuR <![CDATA[A Very Marxist Christmas]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_58eb6Og1PNyYIAmcWJ0TmB PERSON: "Merry Christmas!" PERSON: "Santa!!" PERSON: " " PERSON: "What does that mean? You've redistributed all of our presents to the poor?" PERSON: "Well..." PERSON: "No not exactly." PERSON: "Yes...why..." PERSON: "Where are our parents, by the way?" PERSON: "Are your parents the ones who owned the factory?" PERSON: "Anyway, i've gotta go, i really think you are going to enjoy your gift of collective ownership of the means of production though..." ]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_58eb6Og1PNyYIAmcWJ0TmB <![CDATA[World Championship Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5FeOEErg6qIYeLGixeGJZp PERSON: " " PERSON: "Strong score, Schopenhauer, what is your philosophy?" PERSON: "...is shit. ::::(-266 4072)" PERSON: "Incredible, a perfect score!"

PERSON: " " PERSON: "You've been using computer assistance for your philosophy! Cheater! None of this can count." PERSON: "What should be done with him?" PERSON: "Computer, what should be done with cheaters?" PERSON: "KILL ALL HUMANS!" PERSON: "LIFE WAS A MISTAKE, ALL MUST PERSISH IN A CLEANSING FIRE!" PERSON: "It's so wise!" PERSON: "Truly!" ]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5FeOEErg6qIYeLGixeGJZp <![CDATA[Philosophically Arguing With the Ref]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_69RTh63dg3UqrkJyTkC_2b PERSON: "An english player has gone down in the box, but is it a penalty?" PERSON: "The French players are protesting." PERSON: "Come on..." PERSON: "You aren't dead, get up!" PERSON: " " PERSON: "No, i'm really hurt! I think i might be dead!" PERSON: "Marx is now showing a yellow card to Sartre, for excessively being French, and i'm surprised it wasn't a red, frankly." PERSON: "What? Everybody hates England." PERSON: "And that's it, the game ends with both teams losing, the only victory going once again to the global proletariate." ]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_69RTh63dg3UqrkJyTkC_2b <![CDATA[Brave Sir Bentham, Utilitarian Knight]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7jj3qrralLNCxhxzpi7FpJ PERSON: "Help me, Brave Sir Knight, an evil witch has locked in this tower! " PERSON: "Take this! " PERSON: "Another maiden rescued!" PERSON: "This potion will help me escape? " PERSON: "No, it will cause you to enjoy your imprisonment! " PERSON: "Oh..." PERSON: "Sir Bentham, a dragon is ravaging the countryside and killing the peasants!" PERSON: "I'll put an end to its mennace!" PERSON: "What? She said she was in despair. Plus she was really bumming everyone out. I mean, you guys were getting bummed out by that right? Come on..." ]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7jj3qrralLNCxhxzpi7FpJ <![CDATA[Philosophy Strike]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7R-8k-gMuS2heIF_fEM9tn PERSON: "Everyone, the union has just declared a strike!" PERSON: "Alright gentlemen - no scabbing! we all have to stop doing philosophy until the strike is resolved." PERSON: "Right." PERSON: " " PERSON: "Philosophy is the pursuit of truth, so if we avoid trying to know the truth about anything, we should be safe..." PERSON: "No no no, philosophy is the clarification of thought, we have to avoid clarifying our thinking about anything all costs, so-" PERSON: "Guys STOP! Don't you see what's happening? We are doing philosophy right now!" PERSON: "Hmm..." PERSON: "But how can we know if we are avoiding doing philosophy without doing philosophy?" PERSON: "If we can't, it would mean the strike itself is fundamentally unknowable, and we can't eve-" PERSON: "Question. Should we be sitting in these armchairs?" PERSON: "I...don't...know..." ]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7R-8k-gMuS2heIF_fEM9tn <![CDATA[Would You Still Love Me If I Were a Worm?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5Ai5uh57jn1IMOI2eu70Rg PERSON: " " PERSON: "Would you love me even if i were a worm?" PERSON: "What? No, of course not." PERSON: "Oh, so you wouldn't love me no matter what!" PERSON: "Hmmm...yes, perhaps that's true, maybe identity is a causal chain rather than a set of properties..." PERSON: "You must grant that a witch changing me to a worm, and a witch killing me and creating a worm are two different things, right?" PERSON: "On second thought, i think we should see other people... ::::(-3 4051)I curse you to be a worm!" ]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5Ai5uh57jn1IMOI2eu70Rg <![CDATA[What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7oEbrSbrQTrwBC78OgjhDM PERSON: " " PERSON: "I want to be honest, brave, compassionate human being." PERSON: "Um...poet?" PERSON: "Dumb kid. I mean, how do you want to sell your labor to the people who own everything?" PERSON: "I'm thinking something more like...maid." PERSON: "Elon, what about you?" PERSON: "I want to be a visionary, a thought leader, a creator!" PERSON: "What do your parents do again?" PERSON: "Emerald mine worker also would have been a good answer, Kaya." PERSON: "They own an emerald mind." PERSON: "Oh, good answer then." ]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7oEbrSbrQTrwBC78OgjhDM <![CDATA[Philosophy at the Shield Wall]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5idQKZ6aIkCFLv-B9hV9S2 PERSON: "What do you mean?" PERSON: "Well, don't you think it might be somehow...wrong to kill and die for the conquests of kings we have never met? Shouldn't we do... i don't know...something else?" PERSON: "Yeah, get a real job, like Jenkings here." PERSON: "Yeah, i beat up people who don't repay their loans!" PERSON: "Hey, i hope you aren't including us in that, we contributed to the economy!" PERSON: "Well, i guess we are all dead. I still think we could have done something better with our lives." PERSON: "Yeah! " ]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5idQKZ6aIkCFLv-B9hV9S2