contemplation: what is life?
Deep reflection on life and its meanings. By request.
Arts & Humanities
"the Patriarchy" (feminist concept)
"a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems that structure gender inequality between men and women" -- sciencedirect.com
haiku
Request: short, three-line Japanese poem that usually follows a five, seven, and five syllable pattern and describes a simple moment in nature.
socialism
Request: economic and political system where the major means of producing and distributing goods are owned or controlled collectively by the public or the workers rather than by private individuals.
epistemology
Calibrated at 460 in TvF. Request: branch of philosophy that studies how we know what we know.
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Request: ancient Chinese military treatise composed of 13 chapters, each devoted to specific skills and arts related to warfare and military strategy.
Cornell Note Taking System
Priority request: Provides a systematic format for condensing and organizing notes without laborious recopying.
Leonardo da Vinci
His creative works are at 565 in TvF.
learning foreign languages
By request.
knowledge
Request: "familiarity, awareness, or understanding of facts, skills, and concepts" — Merriam-Webster.
William Shakespeare
Request: Regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
grammatical errors
Plus misspelled words.
it is the destiny of tyranny to fall
Government oppression is ultimately unsustainable...
trolley problem
"The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number" -- wikipedia.
"The meaning of life is to justify your suffering"
Request: ... the meaning of life is to find a "why" that justifies the involuntary suffering that might come along with it. I came across this idea in Viktor Frankl's 'Man's Search for Meaning.'