Life goals: uncontactable 🙏

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Sometimes the best way to face and sort out life difficulties is to take a break and read some metaphysics. Beside philosophical counseling I offer one-on-one philosophical tutoring too. www.lradenovic.com/tutoring.html

This is a piece I wrote early in the summer. It's on the sublime in Knut Hamsun's Pan. Those who subscribed to my Patreon page have seen it already but now it's open to everyone interested. Hope you enjoy it! social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/k...

This is a piece I wrote early in the summer. It's on the sublime in Knut Hamsun's Pan. Those who subscribed to my Patreon page have seen it already but now it's open to everyone interested. Hope you enjoy it! social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/k...

The mood

Scenes from a marriage 😄 Me to hubby: Look, I got us this Zink/vitamin C supplement. You should take it too. It's good for immunity. Hubby: Nah I don't believe that it works but ok. Me: But you should believe! If you did it would work.

I'll do references when I am done writing. Me doing references:

My new Patreon post: "In search of lost faith: Pascal, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy". Subscribe and enjoy! Link in the comments as always.

My new Patreon post! On magical healing, medical healing, and God's will in the Late Antiquity! The next one remains to be on Father Zosima (Dostovesky), Father Sergius (Tolstoy), and Pascal. Stay tuned and subscribe! www.patreon.com/posts/medici...

By thy gift, O Lord, we are set on fire, and are borne aloft: we burn, and we are on the way. We climb the ascents that are in the heart. With thy fire, with thy good fire, we burn and go on, for we go up to the peace of Jerusalem. --Augustine ⚓

You helped will this into existence, you know...

My new Patreon post is out, please purchase or better yet subscribe! It's about Knut Hamsun's Pan, the Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, his experience of transcendence & the question "How did we become these lonely souls living under indifferent skies?" Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/knut-h...

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along W.H. Auden December 1938

Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime Though this might take me a little time. - W. H. Auden

"Thanks, my God, for every heather bloom I have ever seen; they have been like small roses on my way, and I weep for love of them."

In Hamsun's Pan Lieutenant makes a note that Edwarda wears the same dress & shoes as the day before but has a new hat ... and now I am worried that men have been lying to us all this time how they do not notice & do not care about such things. 😅

Dear friends, I wrote a piece in which I explain why I think reviving ancient views of phil life can work only partially for us today. I also explain why I think that bringing great books to the counseling table is the key to self-transformation. social-epistemology.com/2025/06/04/p...

Googling: village librarian, jobs

My thoughts on Aristotle & Huxley in the link below. Coming up next (mid June or so): K. Hamsun's Pan.

Based on what I see on my lines USA ministry of health and human services is all about making Galen great again. 🫤

Is 'awfulizing', i.e. reasoning from bad to worst a fallacy? 😁 a) Yes, except for Slavs b) No, Slavs are right

There are two views on semicolons: Vonnegut's and Le Guin's. Vonnegut's is winning but reconsider Le Guin's:

There is this part in Andrei Rublev where he is asked to paint the judgment day but time drags on & he never starts & one of his co workers complains how they could have finished it long time ago all with demons, smoke, & fire. And Andrei shouts: But that's not the point!

"We need to keep certain important stories within reach; there will be many times in our lives when we will need to review them and remind ourselves what our real values are." That would be me (reading myself today, not a bad thinker really 😁)

The very last entry in Tolstoy's diary: Oct 29th, 1910 Sergey has arrived. Everything is the same, just worse. Just so I don't offend. And so I'm not mean. Right now I'm not.

This is the three vol collection of all Dostoevsky's letters in which he mostly describes how broke he is, asks for money and promises to return it as soon his next manuscript is out.

If we bring back the old meaning of scientia as a habit of mind, an intellectual virtue as opposed to set of doctrines & methodologies stored in the books or hard discs we might get clearer view of what ChatGPT (even far better one than today's) does & what it cannot do for us.

Above the eternal tranquility https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/above-the-eternal-tranquility-1894

This should be excellent!

'Classics with Pelagia' is here! The first piece on Huxley & Aristotle is open to everyone. If you like it pls click "free to join" then upgrade to paid membership (5$ a month) to read monthly pieces. In June my thoughts on K. Hamsun's Pan are coming. Link in the comments!😊

Johanna Schopenhauer to her son (1807): "If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying." (a rarely good FB find)

"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease." Dostoevsky

Scenes from a marriage Husband: This wardrobe is packed. Can't find anything here any more. Me: Yes. We need more space. Time to invade the apartment next to ours.

Every day the paper I am working on is getting worse just like life.

How long before JD Vance coverts back to ... atheism? 😁

Our Orthodox household enjoyed the ceremony and likes the new Pope.

Just found out about this from @pelagia.bsky.social "Philosophical counselling uses dialogue and reflection to help individuals confront life's challenges, moral dilemmas, and existential." - I find this interesting and cool as an idea! You can contact her there to find out more. www.lradenovic.com

Ouch! An argument against wearing earphones!

"Nothing but such general evils as threaten the whole community can disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or tear him from his bed. A murder may with impunity be committed under his window; he has only to put his hands to his ears and argue a little with himself" Rousseau

If somebody is in contact with @mathonwy.bsky.social could you please let her now that I am not a Jesse Singal follower. Thank you!

Define Cinema with an image (it's a gif but oh well :D)

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New periods of pain - Emily Dickinson

The slave’s dungeon is black, The way of things is iron, cold and hard, But in some corner of your prison yard There may be an old carelessness, a crack. The path is like an arrow, deadly straight, But in the cracks is God, who lies in wait. - Borges

Soon to come 'Classics with Pelagia' on Patreon! Stay tuned! 😄

Dear friends, Pelagia is back with a website! This time as a philosophical counselor. If you need me I am here. www.lradenovic.com

Trudeau at the European summit is like me sitting with Psych department at the Faculty meetings bcs hostilities at the Philosophy department are bordering insane.

"It's not bad, not bad" Hubby: "What do you mean 'not bad'? The world is in disarray, country pretty much too, and at work never worse" "I mean, I worked on the middle part of my paper and cleaned the house"

My fun theory atm is that Trump only wants to get that Nobel price for peace bcs Obama did (& for nothing!) but T really wants to earn it hence his frustration with unreasonable & stubborn Zelensky who is refusing to give half of his country to Russia & is spoiling it all.