Category: Philosophizing
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Clancy, Creativity, and Purpose in the Twenty-One Pilots Universe
TW: discussion of suicide As the much-anticipated album Clancy is set to release on May 17th, I’ve found myself revisiting all my favorite Twenty-One Pilots songs. During a routine trip to the local health food store for groceries, I sang out –- error-free – the impassioned and esoteric lyrics of “Polarize” from their fame-finding album,…
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Gifted Kid Burnout and The Fear of Becoming Average
Have you ever found yourself Googling something far from criminal, yet it’s embarrassing enough (should you be found out) that you’d want to clear your search history, throw your phone in the ocean, and move to Canada? Perhaps that’s some undue shame, but in the throes of a mental and physical slump on a suffocating…
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Contentedness Saves the Earth: How to Hop Off the Sustainable Fashion High Horse
As a college student, moving back and forth between home and my various dorms / apartments each year is always accompanied by some form of purging. Where I go to school up in the Virginia mountains, thrifting culture is HUGE. Because of this, clothing is usually the first to go. With as many Goodwills as…
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Take Note: Thoughts on the Human Mosaic Philosophy & Why You Shouldn’t Shun Poetry
Life gets way more magical when you view it as a human mosaic. I know it’s easy to become disenchanted nowadays. Living is expensive, we consume way more than we create, and rich social connection is hard to come by. Art is dead, or AI-generated. With countless streams of (unnatural) amounts of information, there is…