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He said, “We’re not boring people. We’re just susceptible to a very common, very normal human experience.” We hope these five tips help you better respond to boredom.
Like Pascal, they were interested in people's quiet struggle with the apparent meaninglessness of life and the use of diversion to escape from boredom. Kierkegaard's Either/Or describes the rotation method, a method used by higher-level aesthetes in order to avoid boredom. The method is an essential hedonistic aspect of the aesthetic way of ...
Lion-headed figure from the Sidon Mithraeum, sometimes identified as a Mithraic form of Arimanius (500 CE; CIMRM 78 & 79; Louvre). Arimanius (Greek: Αρειμάνιος Areimánios; Latin: Arīmanius) is a name for an obscure deity found in a few Greek literary texts and five Latin inscriptions.
Image credits: freepik (not the actual photo) In the age of TikTok, Reels, Shorts or whatever alternative you prefer, it’s become sadly popular to simply sit (often in bed, with the lights off ...
Philosophically, its scope is more often wider, encompassing a whole life. And in philosophy it is possible to speak of the happiness of a person's life, or of their happy life, even if that person was in fact usually pretty miserable. The point is that some good things in their life made it a happy one, even though they lacked contentment.
In terms of its etymology, eudaimonia is an abstract noun derived from the words eû (good, well) and daímōn (spirit or deity). [2]Semantically speaking, the word δαίμων (daímōn) derives from the same root of the Ancient Greek verb δαίομαι (daíomai, "to divide") allowing the concept of eudaimonia to be thought of as an "activity linked with dividing or dispensing, in a good way".
Image credits: Slightly twisted Initially, the term ‘meme’ was coined in the 1970s by renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. However, memes aren’t a modern ‘invention.’
[5]: 60 The Greek word "anthroparion" is similar to "homunculus" – a diminutive form of "person". Zosimos subsequently encounters other anthroparia in his dream but there is no mention of the creation of artificial life. In his commentary, Jung equates the homunculus with the Philosopher's Stone, and the "inner person" in parallel with Christ.