Pierrick Simon

Je suis jaloux. Je vais googler toutes les marques de nourriture avec mon nom dedans et demander des échantillons.

Spinoza, but without skipping demonstrations In February 2025, I devoted my spiritual life to an experiment that was long overdue: reading the Ethics of Spinoza without skipping its ve...

Around this time last year, I grappled with Spinoza's logical demonstrations. Difficult work! But it had a lasting transformative effect on me: I now derive immense satisfaction from the mere thought of the eternity of the universe #philsky
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If you invite a musician qua musician, be irked if they show up without instruments. Same with a philosopher who shows up without a cabinet of curiosities. But the musician can reveal their voice to be a hidden instrument, and the philosopher too can work wonders with a good conceptual distinction.

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In the past, I did these drawings after the experience. I had that same wish, of making the observer smaller & smaller & smaller. I bet that, instead of smallness, what I am trying to express could be expressed if I had more skills to give a sense of depth to the drawing

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A great ball of light occupies most of the drawing. In the bottom right corner an individual appears very small in the frame and seems shocked by the phenomenon. In between the white rays of light the colours turn yellow and orange, like fire, accompanied with orange wisps of flame.

Another attempt to draw a vision I had. Here I was yesterday, doing Jhana meditation and giving myself the vertigo of the View from Above. All of a sudden, I saw the two combined, a great ball of light, like a star of roaring fire. My only regret is to not be able to draw the person ever smaller.

Can you imagine if people stopped saying "cancelled" (as in "I am cancelled") and instead went back to saying "disgraced"? I personally cannot imagine that. That phrase seems to belong to another world, some kind of lost honor culture.

I perhaps took offense on behalf of Pierre Dupont

A video game where you reclaim African artifacts by looting Western museums. I'm very happy about this. Last time I played a Tomb Raider game, dialogue went like this:
- Pierre: We are gonna get euh so rich from this artifact ! hon hon!
- Lara Croft: No, you greedy frenchman! It belongs in a museum!

I am here to remind you daily:

If you can't opt out, you can't opt in. The health and strength of tradition is the ability to let people leave, or stay on the sideline, without shame.

This is so beautiful !

I think I came up with this phrase, but I'm not 100% sure. If I accidentally stole somebody's joke, i'm sorry, please come forward with the truth :p

I'm so excited about the launch of the International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL). It's an awesome resource for scholarly work about the tradition of philosophy done for the sake of an immediately wiser and happier life. #philsky
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When you assume, you make an ass out of Hume.

Here's that wonderful vertigo again. Looming object in looming space.

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I was looking at the bright moon tonight, remembering that I was seeing mountains upon mountains, floating in the sky. A person walking on this mountain could look towards Earth and see my corner of the world too. I gave myself that wonderful vertigo again. We are so small and there are many worlds

I wish to wake up everyday and to see the immense reality around us as one inconceivably big Desert. Most of it silence and darkness between stars. And then somewhere in the middle of that, our planet, an Oasis. The Desert and the Oasis, both alike in dignity & glory, both equally meaningful.

However, let it be known that, on the whole, meditation should feel mostly fine the all way through, there is no stormy "dark knight of the soul" that you need to get through before you get to the benefits. Things can get rough, but suffering is a sure sign to adjust the practice, not to trudge on

The virtue of mindfulness meditation is to increase self-awareness while also decreasing self-consciousness (that subtle embarrassment & dissatisfaction). Predictably, beginners who are not skillful enough yet, do increase self-consciousness. It's painful. Some give up the practice because of that

Can you help me #philsky ? Somebody here had a phil- article about.. rationality & virtue, I think? In it, they were arguing that effective altruism could not account for behaviour where an agent is doing something for the sake of the excellence of their discipline or art. I can't find it anymore.

That is so so very kind of you. I will remember it. I do sometimes run into that problem :)

Thank you. It wasn't this one I was looking for, indeed, but I'm still interested in it :)

Can you help me #philsky ? Somebody here had a phil- article about.. rationality & virtue, I think? In it, they were arguing that effective altruism could not account for behaviour where an agent is doing something for the sake of the excellence of their discipline or art. I can't find it anymore.

This exercise also calls to mind those who are outside, those who do not have shelters. It is sobering to remember baseline priorities.

This exercise also calls to mind those who are outside, those who do not have shelters. It is sobering to remember baseline priorities.

You get out of bed, and then you go instairs or outstairs depending of where you've stored your food. May we all survive the winter months.

You get out of bed, and then you go instairs or outstairs depending of where you've stored your food. May we all survive the winter months.

Immediately after I wake up, I like to remind myself that the house I'm in is a building that is sheltering me from the wind. And in this way, I like to look at everything and remember its survivalist meaning. The Earth is spinning and the Sun shines on this side of it only for some hours.