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fermentedphil (76)in #poem • 5 days ago
Milky Hands - A Poem
bathe my conciousness with your milky hands wash away the dirt that clings to my skin magnetically charged and always already corrupting the innocence I want to maintain…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • 9 days ago
Is It Really Worth It? Philosophical Thoughts on Difficult and Complex Tasks
The fact of the matter is that we are only given one life. Or we are only conscious of the life we are living at this moment. The weight of that fact, when you really think about…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • 10 days ago
Philosophising as a Way of Living
The idea of philosophy as a way of life comes from the historian-philosopher Pierre Hadot in a book with the same title, Philosophy as a way of Life . Many scholars have…
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fermentedphil (76)in #food • 12 days ago
Cook Your Vegetables Like a Steak: A Manifesto for Basting Vegetables with Oil
For too many years, I have eaten overcooked, soft, colourless vegetables from people who either do not know how to cook vegetables or who could not care less. Boiled broccoli or…
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fermentedphil (76)in #poetry • 14 days ago
My Bowl Remains Empty
my bowl remains empty as I fill it with memories never satiated as tomorrow lies pregnant with potential my bowl remains empty as I stand with my palms toward the sky…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • 15 days ago
Like a Soaring Eagle in the Sky - Some Haphazard Philosophical Thoughts
I looked up at the sky and I saw an eagle soaring freely, as if nothing hindered its flight. Jealousy flooded me as I yearned to be as free, to soar like this eagle in the sky…
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fermentedphil (76)in #haiku • 18 days ago
Burning Yellow Haiku
stretch your arms around my frail body and let me bloom beautiful *** fold your dull fingers in mine so that we can bloom together again *** burst into yellow…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • 21 days ago
Grasping at the Incomprehensible
like a cloud leaving wet traces on my hand the grasping at knowledge seems like an ever-disappearing ever-moving vanishing act that dissipates in front of my eyes retiring…
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fermentedphil (76)in #hivebirthday • 25 days ago
Reflecting on 6 Years on the Hive Blockchain
we grow older with every passing year as the clock slowly ticks by and the grains of sand become heavier and heavier we look back with a gleam of hope to see how far the…
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fermentedphil (76)in #thoughts • 26 days ago
A Strange Rabbit Hole of my Own Making: The “Simple” and Quite Confusing World of Rehydration/Electrolyte Supplements
A Warning NOTE: Let me just start out with a warning. I am not an expert in any of what I am about to write. Punny (funny-pun), but take what I am about to write with a…
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fermentedphil (76)in #phd • last month
60,000 Words and a Whole Lot of Nothing
Decisions we make impact our lives. We are our choices, good ones and bad ones. I forced myself to make one promise after I finished my Master's degree: DO NOT under any…
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fermentedphil (76)in #poetry • last month
A Second Croissant Bouquet Poem
I kiss your pastry lips each bite a thousand pieces crumble and fall to the ground like hansel and gretel I find a path to your heart with a croissant bouquet we…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • last month
The Predicament of a Hiker - A Philosophy on Hiking
We often forget that our current modes of being rest on the shoulders of countless struggles and historical conditions that grant us strange freedoms unheard of throughout human…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • last month
Stepping Naked and Disorientated out of Plato's Cave
Introduction: Images on the Wall Plato's cave allegory is a well-known philosophical metaphor for the education process. Imagine a row of prisoners chained against a wall in…
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fermentedphil (76)in #poetry • 2 months ago
Fly Away, My Child
they filled the skies with strange geometrical formations that my human mind could not grasp fly away my child I said in a soft voice to my youthful self stuck in an…
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fermentedphil (76)in #poem • 2 months ago
The Reader
she hides behind the words which are coated in dust and pages upon pages of nonsensical meanings she hides behind the words that cover the page and tell stories of many…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • 2 months ago
Happiness as a Way of Life - The Paradoxical Nature of Existential Reflections
"Happiness is a way of life," reads the graffiti, crudely spray painted on the wall. I read these walls as I drive towards campus, not having time and the ability to take a…
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fermentedphil (76)in #poetry • 2 months ago
Moving On and Beyond
all life breathes until it does not the flower hangs limp after the hot day's sun shrivelled wrinkled beyond the world of breath a march to death moving on a…
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fermentedphil (76)in #philosophy • 2 months ago
Thinking About the Philosophy of Small Things and Eating Bagels in Cape Town on a Rainy Day
The rain fell in ever so small droplets. We call it “geel perske reën” or directly translated as “yellow peach rain”. Why it is called this I have no idea. But this rain reminds…
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fermentedphil (76)in #poem • 2 months ago
Sunday (Friday) Blues - A Poem
it is when the last slice of bread is cut it is when everyone gets up to leave it is when the dirty dishes are stacked up to the roof of the kitchen roof when I get the similar feeling of a Sunday blues
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