On "Pain"ful Adversity

On "Pain"ful Adversity

These are the times that try men's souls.
— Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Undisturbed Sleep for Some, Spray Paint for Others

On "Pain"ful Adversity

These are the times that try men's souls."
— Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

The titled responsion is...

The completeness of pain is uniquely human when coupled with our perception of time. However domestically abused the domesticated animals we exploit, the realization, angst and suffering are intensified in the prefrontal cortex area of the human mind. Mind you, the simplicity of doing the harder thing is a virtue.

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Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.

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Dine well, my friend

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well".
— Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

The titled responsion is...

Bah, bah, white sheep, have you any wool? All so that we can sleep? Well, think again! Dinner comes at a price, domesticated perhaps but this numerology makes you think. Or does it? Awareness is expandable, some say transcendental. Whichever heuristic makes sense, take advantage!

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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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What You Think You Know, You Really Don't

The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of 'false consciousness' always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest."
— György Lukács (1885-1971)

The titled responsion is...

For Lukács, consciousness is an economic manifestation. The ridiculousness of this claim is not without value. From a biological perspective, consciousness is a felt experience, and from an economic perspective, it's a reflection of your monetary worth to society. The former is proximal, the latter is distal, and both "material" is their own respect.

György Lukács - planksip

György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the Soviet Union.

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