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Mettalia Tanjaya is an artist and philosopher. She studied for a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media in the past year, followed by a Diploma in Theological Studies for a year. She is now doing her Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary). The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it...

Euwyn and I discuss Christ, faith, existentialism and Christian phenomenology. Please consider checking out his Substack: https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com/ Euwyn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c...

My conversation with Paul (PF Jung) on his follow-up thoughts after his Vaush debate. And we discuss if Jordan Peterson is a fascist―viewing Peterson through Umberto Eco's and Hannah Arendt's social theories. Paul's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung   Paul's debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.c...

Recently the topic of masculinity has been discussed contentiously in our culture with the rise of controversial figures like Andrew Tate. Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/masculinity-and-nothingness --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.yo...

My reading of both sections 1: Hegel and 2: Kierkegaard of Slavoj Žižek's Only a Suffering God Can Save Us: https://www.lacan.com/zizshadowplay.html --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https:/...

Jacob Bell is a philosopher and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from American Public University and is doing his Master of Research in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.  The working title for his dissertation is “A Phenomenological Analysis of the Structures of Meaningfulness.” Jacob’s primary academic interests include phenomenology & existentia...

“I was always disgusted with this notion of “I love the world” universal love. I don’t like the world. I don’t know how… Basically, I’m somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I’m indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it’s just it. It’s stupid. It is out there. I don’t care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out som...

“Our honesty, we free spirits—let us be careful lest it become our vanity, our ornament and ostentation, our limitation, our stupidity! Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; ‘stupid to the point of sanctity,’ they say in Russia,—let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!” ― Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil, A. 227) Original p...

“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/never-fall-in-love-with-suffering --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.co...

“Christianity protests against every form of objectivity; it desires that the subject should be infinitely concerned about himself. It is with subjectivity that Christianity is concerned, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all. Objectively, Christianity has absolutely no existence. If the truth happens to be only in a single subject it exists in him alone; and th...

“But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which h...

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/only-god-can-patronise --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Y...

“Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not.” ― Slavoj Žižek Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/the-unhappy-man?r=id6n6&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.c...

Paul (PF Jung: https://www.youtube.com/c/PFJung ) is a YouTuber that discusses the ideas of Jordan Peterson & Carl Jung. I found him to be an individual who’s genuinely oriented towards the good, true and beautiful, whatever that means or entails. In this episode, we delve into many topics we’ve both been trying to comprehend intellectually and, perhaps more importantly, existentially. Paul’s...

“If all enigmas are resolved, the stars go out. If everything secret is returned to the visible […], if all illusion is returned to transparence then heaven become indifferent to the earth.” — Jean Baudrillard “What is the purpose, and, worse still, what is the origin of all science? What? Is scientific method perhaps no more than fear of and flight from pessimism? A subtle defence against - truth...

"The courage to take the anxiety of meaninglessness upon oneself is the boundary line up to which the courage to be can go. Beyond it is mere non-being. Within it all forms of courage are re-established in the power of the God above the God of theism. The courage to be is rooted in the God' who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt." — Paul Tillich My disquisition on the foremos...

What can Breaking Bad and Crime and Punishment tell us about utilitarianism?  “I for instance consider that a single misdeed is permissible if the principal aim is right, a solitary wrongdoing and hundreds of good deeds!” “The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects he will be caught in a simple thing.” — Raskolnikov ---------------------------------------  {Podcast}  Spotify: h...

A critical yet sincere take on some influential subcultures using Rollo Tomassi & Elliott Hulse as examples. “Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not.” ― Slavoj Žižek ---------------------------------------  When No-Fap Goes Wrong: https://youtu.be/L2HYHZ7UrZY Slavoj Žižek explains ideology: https://youtu.be/Pk8ibrfXvpQ Olivia’s video: https://youtu.be/jcbEiZQ...

“Ideology makes the complex self-evident.” — Kyle J. Maxwell  Kyle is a serial entrepreneur, aspiring philosopher, author & commentator on culture and politics. He is currently the CEO of VivoMedia Group & Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Brake. You can find him on: https://twitter.com/khendriix_ ---------------------------------------  {Podcast}  Spotify: https://open.spotify.c...

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche  Original essay: https://www.realmprojectau.com/blog/the-necessity-of-forgiveness  ---------------------------------------  {Podcast}  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le  Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake  YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlis...

In this episode, I discuss one of the most astute points conveyed through the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.  ---------------------------------------  {Podcast}  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le  Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake  YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKrcGHWMcVpNzDpk6F...

In this pilot episode, I discuss religious belief, Christian Atheism, what it entails and why it matters using the ideas of Slavoj Žižek and Jonathan Pageau.  ---------------------------------------  {Podcast}  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le  Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake  YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKr...