Showing posts with label sorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sorrow. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2023

Unwelcomed encounters…

Photo by Spiros Kakos

Even those who use Facebook features like unfriending, unfollowing, blocking and Take a Break still experience troubling encounters with ex-partners online, a new study shows. [1] In a connected cosmos, there can be no goodbye. In an interconnected universe, there can be no departing. We are alive. And yet, we cry. But take a good look. No one is crying because he will cease to be. They are crying because they cannot stop being bound to thee. But worry not. For we will never stop smiling. Because in the first place, within the cold dark cosmos, we never actually did… :)

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Sunday, January 12, 2020

Philosophy Wire: Be pessimistic. Be happy.

Neuroscientists have shown that stimulating the caudate nucleus can generate negative moods that lead to irrational decision-making. Stimulating the caudate nucleus causes animals to give far more weight to the anticipated drawback of a situation than its potential benefit. [1] Being pessimistic and irrational is the right thing, not the wrong. Why should we consider the irrational as wrong? Or the negative as… negative? Do you believe life is a set of happy moments? Do you believe the sun always shines? Wait until the first rain drop. And only then will you start to really smile…

(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective…

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Philosophy Wire: Facebook. Year's scrapbook. Joy. Sorrow.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-02-10]: Facebook's "Year in Review" scrapbook is intended to show off users' happy years, but for some it picked up on tragedy, including a man who lost his daughter. The company apologized to him. [1] We want to live happy moments. But life has unhappy moments too. Life is mainly sorrow. This is what it is. Cry. Look the cosmos more clearly.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Sorrow. You need it...


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-12-30]: Crying due to extreme joy, is a mechanism which helps us retain our emotional balance. [1] Joy. Sorrow. Experience one without the other and you will feel something missing. We are not made to be happy. We are made to live.

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