True, it would take a serious intellectual crisis to motivate a change as far-reaching as holding it is the case both that p and that not-p, for every statement p, so it is difficult now to imagine specifically how such a change would be justified or plausible.
On the subject of “memories of my youthfully vigorous college self that are linked to dorky female-vocalist metal bands” –
Because I was listening to it a lot at the time, this song (specifically this orchestral version) became strongly linked in my mind to this big Wittgenstein-ish / Natural Language-ish revelation about philosophy that suddenly appeared in my brain out of nowhere over the course of a few days, back in winter break of sophomore year
The feeling of something gliding buoyantly and unopposedly forward fit the feeling that this revelation (centered around the phrase “the only thing philosophy can do is formalize our intuitions”) cut through many famous philosophical puzzles like butter, and even song’s somewhat tacky quality (that saxophone solo!) seemed to fit too – I was demonstrating that all of this Very Smart And Serious Stuff was inane child’s play, and thus that all other hierarchies of taste might be suspect too, and thus that I could listen to whatever kind of music I wanted, mom
deviled-ham-blog asked: Have you accepted Samael as your Iord and savior?
You accepted Birb as your chicken’s primary lucid rising; which is fine.
Twilight. Anna Syperek
Twilight, two plate etching 2010
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I credit the unearthly vigor and motivation I poured into my undergrad physics degree half to listening constantly to Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica (the other half to caffeine)
Anyway, I hadn’t followed Nightwish since the Tarja days, but man their current vocalist is awesome
Brings me back in such a good way
They titillate the reader with the best that harlequin horror has to offer. “He gazed hotly into her puckered abyss of unspeakable symmetry.” “His passion ignited the flesh which came from beyond the stars.” “Her divine lineage was the only thing keeping her internal organs from spilling across the pavement”.