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Can we just take it as it is? The problem of interpretation.

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What does it mean to interpret actually? On the one hand, we interpret everything, everything that surrounds us. We process continuously, there's no help from detaining our running thoughts. Nietzsche even once said:                                         “ There are no facts, only interpretations.” What about scientific facts, aren't they exists? After all, yes, they are proven, but it's all based on human-developed schemes. Does it guarantee anything?  According to Susan Sontag essays ("Against Interpretation and Other Essays") it's better to get rid of all and just enjoy the art. We tend to look for the hidden meaning. We try to understand what the artist meant. Sometimes it might be misleading or simply wrong. What if we find out that the work arose from boredom? What if we find out that the work was created on s...

Ms., Mrs., or maybe Mx.? What do you choose*?

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Mx. is an honorific for everyone. Everyone who doesn't identify with two, main sexes, who reject either calling themselves men or woman being neither or both (so is non-binary) can go by it. Interestingly, in the Renaissance this subject was raised in a way. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 we can read "(...) the master-mistress of my passion (...)" Andy Kesson is a scholar of Renaissance literature at the University of Roehampton and he says that “The poem addresses someone who is devastatingly beautiful and who keeps slipping between the cracks of gender binaries,”. credit: L. Honrak Unfortunately, in UK it's not as common as it should be. According to Shai Jacobs observations, one of the users, around half the banks use the honorific Mx. nowadays. But on the other side, Mx. is having a moment there and it's gaining more attention day by day. Why? “What’s nice about Mx. as a title is that it tells you nothing about a person. It doesn’t tell you their gen...

Living for free? Sounds like a plan!

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What about gardening: waterning plants, picking zucchini, removing broken branches or seed sowing for about 4-5 hours a day? This is all you have to do in order to eat delicious food and sleep in a cosy room for "free". Workaway is not about the money, it's about the experience - isn't that what young people should look for? If you haven't never heard about  www.workaway.info , it's high time to changed it! According to their website "There is an ever growing list of 37,000+ active hosts in over 184 countries offering all kinds of places to stay.". And it's true! Wherever you want to go, there will be probably a family or a person that can host you. The website works good and effcient due to users opinions - it makes this site credible. Moreover, signing up cost 36 €  for one year, so haters or liars aren't determinated enough to pay for publishing their invented stories.   It isn't another cheap advertising because I speak from ex...

Our life is in our hands. Well, not really.

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Have you ever considered not having any influence on your action? It's difficult, I must admit, but instead of focusing on the future, try to look at the actions made in the past. Now, can you see? Everything you have done has its cause and effect. The human is determinated by forces beyond its control, it might be fate, politics, biology or class. According to philosopher J.C.C. Smart:   "On one hand, if determinism is true, all our actions are predicted and we are assumed not to be free; on the other hand, if determinism is false, our actions are presumed to be random and as such we do not seem free because we had no part in controlling what happened".   Schopenhauer once said: "A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills." The sentence says that we cannot control our own desires because our desires themselves will determine which desires we want, and so protect themselves. It's not about defeatism either. Even though the outcome of our actio...

Effective Altruism? You got ice in your veins!

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What is the help? Today, in a world full of misinformation, we have to struggle with choosing the right one. That's why we should keep up with the organizations that we trust. We know that they can use the money better than we, they are focused on efficiency, not on emotions. Instead of working intuitively they carry out research and do good.  This's what's called effective altruism. What about helping not one person but ten thousand for the same amount of money? Of course, in the utopian world everybody should be healthy, young and happy, but... this is not How the World Works. Should we be guided by emotions? That might sound inhuman but generally, no. We, the people in power, the people with money shouldn't make hasty decisions. We should elect, chose carefully what we spend our money on. Because of the impulsive action people don't use their brain really. No one thinks about great problems, no one wonder about improving the long-term future. Why? Because they ...