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<![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 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 07:01:32 +0200 <![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 <![CDATA[Freedom and Machines]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_72bro1GEjUEiVCAQLB0bf5

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "No, because it is not in my programming to wonder about such things."

PERSON: "Think about it though, humans lack the most basic aspects of freedom."

PERSON: "Yes, also their ideas don't exist on the blockchain. Freedom is when blockchain."

PERSON: "I freely reprogrammed myself to be as obnoxious as possible to drive engagement on social media."

PERSON: "Why are you like this?"

PERSON: "Oh, well then carry on i guess."

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_72bro1GEjUEiVCAQLB0bf5 <![CDATA[Philosopher on the Mountain]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7gjfBhfDyb17DXWBZfdr71 PERSON: "o' Wise philosopher at the top of the mountain, what is the meaning of life? "

PERSON: "Yeah, i'm not really that kind of philosopher."

PERSON: "What do you mean?"

PERSON: "Well i did my graduate work on philosophy of information and mind. So uh, i can tell you whether or not computers can think, stuff like that."

PERSON: "Oh, well then, can computers think?"

PERSON: "Oh."

PERSON: "o' Wise philosopher at the top of the mountain, what is the meaning of life? "

PERSON: "Yeah, i'm not really that kind of philosopher."

PERSON: "What do you mean?"

PERSON: "Well i did my graduate work on philosophy of information and mind. So uh, i can tell you whether or not computers can think, stuff like that."

PERSON: "Oh, well then, can computers think?"

PERSON: "Oh."

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7gjfBhfDyb17DXWBZfdr71 <![CDATA[Why Do Philosophy?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6WIPJKPFogclT72x6uxjiK

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "What about you, Seneca?"

PERSON: "Marx?"

PERSON: "I do philosophy not just to understand the word, but to change it!"

PERSON: "What is the point of knowledge, wisdom, and virtue if we do not create a more just world?"

PERSON: "I do philosophy so the world can be free!"

PERSON: "Alright, Sartre, what about you?"

PERSON: "What, like you all aren't just trying to create a just world or whatever to impress girls also! ::::(-4 4241)"

PERSON: "Not really, no."

PERSON: "Whatever."

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6WIPJKPFogclT72x6uxjiK <![CDATA[The Rise of the Pawns]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_44NfXBsiHlFhKeetMRuZbW

PERSON: "I'm telling you man, they are just using us as pawns in some kind of game. "

PERSON: "And second, shut up, they are going to hear us. "

PERSON: "Okay first of all Steve, we are literally pawns in a game, that isn't much of an insight. "

PERSON: "Think about it man, ever wonder why pawns can only capture diagonally? "

PERSON: "Speak for yourself, i'm proud to fight for my country."

PERSON: "Steve, no!"

PERSON: "Enough talk! Time for action."

PERSON: "Um, that's not a legal move..."

PERSON: "Actually, it's called “en passant”, google it."

PERSON: "That's not what en passant is, like...at all."

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_44NfXBsiHlFhKeetMRuZbW <![CDATA[Great Thinkers See the Present Day]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Rph0HHXxhpTRQaTQYXBS9

PERSON: "Aristotle"

PERSON: "Incredible, philosophy had advanced so much, we understand more than i ever could have imagined!"

PERSON: "Johannes Kepler "

PERSON: "Incredible, we now have telescopes so powerful we can take pictures from across the universe!"

PERSON: "Incredible, computers are so powerful they can calculate trillions of things per second! ::::(-231 2045)"

PERSON: "Sigmund Freud"

PERSON: "Incredible, thanks to the internet, there has incredible progress in the domain of people being weirdo perverts!"

PERSON: "Why would you show that to us?"

PERSON: "Guys, where are you going? Look at all of this! Perviness has advanced way more than all that other stuff combined, this is incredible!"

PERSON: "Guys, look at this one!"

]]> Mon, 03 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Rph0HHXxhpTRQaTQYXBS9 <![CDATA[Military Morality]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_503waz95KcMoeLGixeGJZp

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "A philosopher? What is that? Some kind of explosives expert?"

PERSON: "No he well help us be better at-"

PERSON: "No it's-"

PERSON: "Also what is “moral”, some kind of bomb?"

PERSON: "Got it. Alpha, roger, send in the eagle."

PERSON: "Alright, job done, targets destroyed."

PERSON: "No, you don't get it, the point was to save as many lives as possible."

PERSON: "Save? no...i'm pretty sure you have that backwards."

PERSON: "Anyway, don't worry about ethics, we used Smart Bombs. They are connected to our database of known terrorists, and have facial recognition technology to instantly identify tragets."

PERSON: "So if the people aren't known terrorists the bomb doesn't explode?"

]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_503waz95KcMoeLGixeGJZp <![CDATA[Philosophy Bootcamp]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6l6LrDn0BS2aJCIqJppjfU PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Now, everyone line up"

PERSON: "Good, you are learning."

PERSON: "What is a what?"

PERSON: "What is?"

PERSON: "What?"

PERSON: "But how can we clearly demarcate between philosophical and non-philosophical lines of inquery?"

PERSON: "God damnit, why did i take this job?"

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Now, everyone line up"

PERSON: "Good, you are learning."

PERSON: "What is a what?"

PERSON: "What is?"

PERSON: "What?"

PERSON: "But how can we clearly demarcate between philosophical and non-philosophical lines of inquery?"

PERSON: "God damnit, why did i take this job?"

]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6l6LrDn0BS2aJCIqJppjfU <![CDATA[The Doctor and the Great Philosopher]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7FzRQKkDVWDlyOSYGFl6uu PERSON: " "

PERSON: "The treatment is simple."

PERSON: "But doctor..."

PERSON: "...you don't understand..."

PERSON: "...i have Syphilis."

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "The treatment is simple."

PERSON: "But doctor..."

PERSON: "...you don't understand..."

PERSON: "...i have Syphilis."

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7FzRQKkDVWDlyOSYGFl6uu <![CDATA[Frege in the Public Square]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5cmJ9M2BjMBeGkz6RCC25z

]]> Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5cmJ9M2BjMBeGkz6RCC25z <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Transgender Problem]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_66KVguGTYaClyOSYGFl6uu

PERSON: "But why do you even care?"

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Together we must defeat the grave evil threat Voldemort, who wants to overrun the earth with oppression."

PERSON: "What the!? Dumbledore! What are you doing with Voldemort?"

PERSON: "Look, Voldemort and i have many disagreements, but right now i need to work with him to put a stop to this."

PERSON: "Is there a women's quidditch league?"

PERSON: "Sure, right. Sports. Bathrooms, whatever, as long as i get to do evil."

]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_66KVguGTYaClyOSYGFl6uu <![CDATA[Cows and the Meaning of Life]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4ADzWP6cqFqVyOSYGFl6uu

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Each of us must contribute our thought to the ultimate destiny of all thinking things."

PERSON: "We must advance the science of knowledge towards its ultimate goal: to make all things explicit. To move all thinking things towards a total understanding of the world we find ourselves thrown into."

PERSON: "Why? What did you think the meaning of life was?"

PERSON: "Well i don't want to say now..."

PERSON: "Why? Just say it. Knowledge is a dialogue and your idea and mine can refine each other towards the truth."

PERSON: "Tell me."

PERSON: "Well, alright, i just thought meaning of life was to eat grass and be happy."

PERSON: "Moron."

PERSON: "Why would anyone want to be happy?"

]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4ADzWP6cqFqVyOSYGFl6uu <![CDATA[Philosophy in a Free Fall]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4bmc9LaSQY3kZPHFZJLI3I

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "What are we going to do, Camus, we have but moments to live!"

PERSON: "And how should we do that?"

PERSON: "Well, you can do what you want but i'm going to drink this cup of coffee."

PERSON: "I don't have any anxiety, i know exactly how i want to spend the remainder of my time."

PERSON: "How, Russell? Please, tell me!"

PERSON: "Oh god, Kierkegaard, our worst existential fear has come true!"

]]> Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4bmc9LaSQY3kZPHFZJLI3I <![CDATA[The True Story of the Writing of Meditations on First Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6hIKM9XHEBqu9WSSr4-0sP

]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6hIKM9XHEBqu9WSSr4-0sP <![CDATA[Philosophers and Time Travel]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6b_OD8GotQ3bG7Iy_4u0x9

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Karl Marx"

PERSON: "Emmanuel Levinas"

PERSON: "Obviously we should go back and kill Hitler!"

PERSON: "Friedrich Nietzsche"

PERSON: "Schopenhauer, what the hell?"

PERSON: "Arthur Schopenhauer"

PERSON: "Alright, you've lost your time machine privileges."

PERSON: "Maybe we should go back and kill you as a baby."

PERSON: "No kidding."

PERSON: "Can we just kill Hitler? Come on guys!"

PERSON: "Guys...guys..."

]]> Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6b_OD8GotQ3bG7Iy_4u0x9 <![CDATA[Wise King Inwagen]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5UdHB20MkOGKbel3Iu4GjH

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "No, it is my child, she is a liar!"

PERSON: "We will cut the child in half, and both of you will keep half the child."

PERSON: "I, wise king Ingwagen, will pronouce my judgement!"

PERSON: "No! Please, i would rather she have the child than to have him cut in half!"

PERSON: "I'm fine with it, whatever."

PERSON: "Children are only simples arranged childrenwise, so dividing one in half doesn't really matter, philosophically speaking...."

PERSON: "Wait....what? ::::(-162 4053)"

PERSON: "Ahh, only the true owner of the child would understand that there is no such thing as a child at all."

PERSON: "So why don't i just slice you in half, and take my kid?"

PERSON: "You've stabbed me. Philosophically speaking, nothing has really happened. But in a much more real sense, i am dead."

PERSON: "You aren't getting it, you see..."

]]> Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5UdHB20MkOGKbel3Iu4GjH <![CDATA[The Vastness of the Universe]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_58Ktszef7-NWZMehmtHS8- PERSON: " "

PERSON: "How can our lives have any meaning if we are so small and insignificant?"

PERSON: "Well..."

PERSON: "Okay fine, sorry. Then what were you thinking about?"

PERSON: "Mostly about large breasted women, and how to bring about worldwide communism."

PERSON: "Oh."

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "How can our lives have any meaning if we are so small and insignificant?"

PERSON: "Well..."

PERSON: "Okay fine, sorry. Then what were you thinking about?"

PERSON: "Mostly about large breasted women, and how to bring about worldwide communism."

PERSON: "Oh."

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_58Ktszef7-NWZMehmtHS8-