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Existential Philosophy
For Buddhists, the “Four Noble Truths” offer a path to lasting happiness.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don't truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
There are two conceptions of free will: "straight" and "mixed."
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here's what it could do to Earth.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is one of the reasons why Bryan Walsh sees supervolcanoes as the” single, biggest threat to the human race.”
The gaze of another person can make us conceive of our body as an object.
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
If you want to be an authentic person, embrace reality. Don't try to clamber your way up Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
People can lose their authentic selves when they don't honestly confront life's potential, according to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
How can we save humanity from ourselves? In this life and this Universe, there will always be questions beyond the capabilities of humanity to answer. There’s so much that we’ve […]