A very Good Morning & a little late appreciation to @Akirax7k for this amount of dedication.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗢𝗸𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗸𝗶:
Whenever it's a slice of life anime, the MC has to be as good as Tomoya Okazaki. Even I'm saying this, Tomoya set a very high standard, which I'll say most of the good Slice of Life anime protagonists often follow.
As a teenager, Tomoya sees life as a burden. He moves through his days without a sense of purpose. He treats school as a place to pass time rather than a space of education or spiritual evolution as a whole. Eventually Tomoya's story isn't like other Slice of Life Nonchalant anime mcs. His story imo shows the burden of philosophical agency.
Why? Because the world which appears to him as something already broken, shatters him at personal ground. His relationship with his father is broken after a physical fight. His mother is dead, the house is silent, and the home that should have formed an identity instead feels like a place he wants to abandon. He hates the town. So much that he's not angry, rather he has become unmoved by external events.
Sartre wrote that human beings are “condemned to be free.” Tomoya isn't. If life offers no joy, why invest in it? Tomoya's troubled household makes him a bit ignorant by pretending the world does not matter.
Nagisa Furukawa. A symbol of Care. A beacon of Hope. She fails often, she gets sick, she doubts herself, but she still tries. She is the true Absurd Heroine of Camus. And Nagisa's viewpoint influences Tomoya’s belief that effort is pointless. The work he puts into helping Nagisa is the first step towards taking responsibilities without caring about outcomes.
But Nagisa's illness shatters him. He lost Nagisa too. But Tomoya’s true philosophical crisis begins not with Nagisa’s illness, but with fatherhood. After Nagisa’s death, Tomoya's childhood trauma becomes venomous. An emotional paralysis so crumbling that He abandons his daughter Ushio, not out of hatred, but because he believes he has nothing worth giving.
This is peak cinema. As this reminds me about the legendary work of Satyajit Ray named "Apur Sansar".
But the moment Tomoya helps her fix a toy, the moment he walks with her through a field of flowers, the moment she cries because she lost the robot he gave her—that is when philosophy meets LIFE.... A life full of imperfect presence. A life whicch Tomoya always thought as a debt of existence, is now much more sincere. The cycle of abandonment breaks.
Although, the unavoidable tragedy of Ushio’s illness & death repeats Nagisa’s fate. At this point I could understand Tomoya's metaphorical hate towards the town. The world feels like it is punishing him for trying to live. The Town itself shatters him even more. The Snow scene makes absolute sense there as Snow represents unforgiving coldness.
But here's the catch. Clannad isn't a story. It's more like a symbol. A point of frame beyond space & time. Just like you me & everyone imo. Atleast consciousness for me represents that. And Tomoya's consciousness brings him to choose whether he would still meet Nagisa.
This is exactly what freedom means. To understand every possibilities vthatcan happen in the future. To realize the predetermined fate. Yet, Tomoya chooses love not escape. And Boom. Tomoya throws us the best philosophical lesson of life: A meaningful life isn't the absence of suffering. Human beings cannot control fate, but we can choose love. We can build FAMILY. The world does not change; we change how we meet & greet it. Nagisa, Ushio are stakeholders of that world who represent small nodes of happiness. Tangible yet important.
That's all I had to say. Value the time with your family. Kya pata Kal ho na ho.
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Intellectuals? Who are they?
Who are intellectuals? Those people who can explain any situation or environment with their own intelligence and find solutions to problems. There was no shortage of intellectuals among Bengalis during the British period. Rabindranath Tagore himself was at the forefront of them. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was there. But no political figure was there as *intellectuals*. We call them বুদ্ধিজীবী/बुद्धिजीवी.
When Gandhiji took a big political step, he was forced to discuss with Rabindranath. Rabindranath's social importance was no less than Subhash or Gandhi or Nehru. The entire nation listened to his words with rapt attention. This is called intellectualism. By intellectual, I mean Jean-Paul Sartre. I mean Albert Camus. I mean Bertrand Russell. I mean the Philosophical minds who revolutionized the idea of thought without leaning to biases.
If modern politically funded intellectual gangs are intellectuals, then we can call anyone an intellectual these days.
That's why I believe, the term Intellectual has been saturated down to Instagram sensationalism, Facebook like comment relationship.
The problem is, since in a country where there are no trees, the verandah tree has to be called a tree, whenever there is a social uproar, the media goes to them to get their point. They themselves are quite active in this regard. The bootlickers of ideologies.
When they get a microphone near their lips, they can utter a speech that is quite impressive according to the situation. As a result, some people of average intelligence have become Bengali intellectuals. It has become easy for them because the progress they have made in the world of poetry, cinema or drama is due to their practical intelligence, and they know how to reach the right place at the right time. They are very skilled SOCIAL CLIMBERS. Not intellectuals!
And not only this disease is limited to bengalis, this disease is spreading all over the world. I started with Bengal as Bengal had the cultural Renaissance of it's time.
These are self-proclaimed intellectuals. If something happens, no matter who calls them, they will present their views, and they also have some tricks to sing praises. This is the situation! All they value is MEDIA VISIBILITY, not true change in the circumstances.
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Your favorite Philosopher Detective on fiction? Explain why. Mine is Rust Cohle as I might not be a pessimist like him, but I understand the source from where his pessimism stems.
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You're Gregor
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Good morning everyone. Many of you raised concerns about the authenticity of the Heisenberg quote I shared yesterday. I want to be fully transparent about this.
I initially took the quote from a reputable textbook (used in universities like CU), and it appears in several other textbooks and even some biographical references to Heisenberg. However, after doing some deeper digging, I’ve realized the situation is more complicated.
There is no conclusive evidence that Heisenberg himself actually said or wrote these exact words. Some sources attribute it to him, but there’s no original letter, paper, or verified transcript confirming it.
So while the quote is widely attributed to Heisenberg in many respected texts, its authenticity remains uncertain. I’m sharing this because I value accuracy and open discussion.
Source of Book where the quote can be found:
Patterson & Bailey 2019: page 427
Source of Lecture:
Renowned quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger (Ertl 2011)
I fear we will never know for sure. This seems to be the somewhat unsatisfying end of this investigation. Anyway, the quote is neither an evil fabrication by American fundamentalist Christians nor of dubious unsourced origin. It is a wonderful genuine quote, which can be legitimately used by ID proponents and others, but it should be correctly attributed to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1948) in the future.
I will conclude with a genuine quote from Werner Heisenberg (1969) in his famous book Der Teil und das Ganze (The Part and the Whole): “…. so ist es doch immer noch schwer zu glauben, daß so komplizierte Organe wie etwa das menschliche Auge nur durch solche zufälligen Änderungen allmählich entstanden sind.” (“…. thus it is still hard to believe that complex organs like the human eye gradually originated through such random changes.”) Apparently, Heisenberg was not only a Christian theist but also a Darwin doubter.
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Navadurga (Sanskrit: nava = nine, Durga = Goddess of Shakti)
Shailaputri – “Daughter of the Mountain”
Brahmacharini – “One who practices devotion and austerity”
Chandraghanta – “One with a half-moon shaped bell on her forehead”
Kushmanda – “Creator of the Universe”
Skandamata – “Mother of Skanda (Kartikeya)”
Katyayani – “Daughter of Sage Katyayana”
Kalaratri – “The Dark Night”
Mahagauri – “The Radiant Goddess”
Siddhidatri – “Giver of Siddhis (spiritual powers)”
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Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist & truth seeker who is referred to for his vital contributions to quantum mechanics, visited India & met one of the greatest Indian Authors Rabindranath Thakur.
On October 4, 1929, Rechenberg writes, Heisenberg visited the University of Kolkata, where he was received with great honors by the entire faculty, and in the afternoon of that day he visited Rabindranath Tagore. On the following day, Heisenberg wrote to his parents: “Nachmittags war ich bei dem indischen Dichter Rabindranath Tagore zu Gast…” (“In the afternoon, I was the guest of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore…”; Rechenberg, p. 808).
Fritjof Capra, Austrian-American author and physicist writes:
"Heisenberg’s acknowledgment of the parallels between quantum theory & Indian philosophy gave me tremendous moral support while I wrote The Tao of Physics, & I am delighted that I have now finally found confirmation of his historic encounter with Rabindranath Thakur, which he described to me so emphatically during our conversation."
Even when Capra sent Heisenberg a copy of his first article about modern physics & Eastern mysticism, titled “The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics,” Heisenberg replied: “Haben Sie den besten Dank für die Übersendung Ihrer Arbeit ‘The Dance of Shiva’. Die Verwandtschaft der alten östlichen Lehren mit den philosophischen Konsequenzen der modernen Quantentheorie haben [sic] mich immer wieder fasziniert…” (“Many thanks for sending me your paper ‘The Dance of Shiva.’ The kinship between the ancient Eastern teachings and the philosophical consequences of the modern quantum theory have [sic] fascinated me again and again…”; letter of July 9, 1971).
Heisenberg was deeply moved by the metaphysics of Vedanta. He even adds, “Quantum theory will not look ridiculous to people who have read Vedanta.” Vedanta is the conclusion of Vedic thought.”
He began to see that the recognition of relativity, interconnectedness, and impermanence as fundamental aspects of physical reality, which had been so difficult for himself and his fellow physicists, was the very basis of the Indian spiritual traditions.
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Hello Hola Namaste to all Anime lovers. It's TETSU here. I make Anime Manga content, specially on Seinen & speak on Philosophy related to the context
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