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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/07/2026

This Monty Python clip of Philosophy Football is perfect. 🙃🏟👀 After 39 straight days of World Cup adrenaline, drama, & glory, I have to somehow get my brain to transition back into writing philosophy. (Yes, that's what I do). ✌🏻 Less adrenaline. More pondering. 👇🏼

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 29/07/2025

Your life data & willpower isn't a commodity. Billionaires should be able to buy islands, business assets, property. In other words—actual commodities. They shouldn't be able to buy YOU. They shouldn't have purchasing power of your beliefs, feelings, and life data.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 30/03/2025

Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵 It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech. 👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 30/03/2025

Posting this on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵 It had been reposted 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who shared her expertise on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech. 👏🏼 Because she's 110% right.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 28/02/2025

"Perhaps our societal event horizon, while marking the end of one era, could be the crucible for something new & transformative. The question is, can we be conscious enough to shape what comes next? Or are we doomed to be passive travelers, unaware of our trajectory until it's too late?"

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The View From Here

Since the world is ending, I might as well just write about whatever the hell I want.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 28/02/2025

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The View From Here

Since the world is ending, I might as well just write about whatever the hell I want.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 28/02/2025

So this is it. This is our time to become radical and to build a coalition of radicals. But not radical in action––radical in VISION. The fascists are trying to burn everything down. The only way we can stop them is to rise up with a more inspiring vision of the future for America.

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All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose

Corporations vs Democracy | Some Tips For February 28 Boycotts

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 17/02/2025

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 17/02/2025

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 16/02/2025

Sunday Philosophy Discussion: #philsky 1. What are some pragmatic beliefs that society has (without scientific proof) that have enabled us to grow? 2. How can we practice being open-minded to new discoveries, while still trusting our instincts & intuition, reasonably well, in the interim?

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The Two Ways Science Got The Human Mind Wrong, & The One Way Buddhists Got It Right

A new pragmatism in the face of mechanistic empiricism

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 16/02/2025

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The Two Ways Science Got The Human Mind Wrong, & The One Way Buddhists Got It Right

A new pragmatism in the face of mechanistic empiricism

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Dan @kingklonoa.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do me a favor and compliment someone today. Tell an artist/creator or whoever that the thing they made is cool. This year has started off unimaginably horrible, and it's probably not going to get better anytime soon. Spread a bit of love. Make someone's day. We all need that now more than ever.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Forcing artificial intelligence into every workplace is DEAI

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 09/02/2025

Sunday Philosophy Discussion #philsky 1. Is there a way to create internet spaces that help us co-exist, rather than perpetuate needless war? 2. How can we be more confident in our worldviews, so that we don’t see differences as a threat to our own unique ideas? Scroll to bottom for more Qs.

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Multiplicity vs Civil War

In a country with 335 million people, I'd rather find community than civil war.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 10/02/2025

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Confidence & security in one’s own worldview is the only place where multiplicity is free to exist.

If we require other people to change in order to make us feel secure;

Or if we require their validation or approval in order to possess self-esteem… then we will constantly create conflict.

A huge chunk of conflict in this world is motivated by the need for validation and consensus.

What I knew to be true was that two people with different opinions does not equate conflict.

But two insecure people who need to change each other - will always and invariably create tension and long-lasting war.

And someone out there with nefarious goals is well aware that this is true. Fanning the flames of our differences, leading us to believe that we have to cancel each other out in order to, ourselves, exist.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 10/02/2025

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Remember, mobs are created by self-appointed “gatekeepers of truth.”

They’re looking for a false consensus that will never exist in a subjective human structure.

In my view, these mobs-of-consensus are in a war with subjectivity - and with freedom itself.

Since consensus isn’t a natural phenomenon––mobs that require conformity in order to feel secure––actually require performance.

They require people to be too afraid to share their unique views because they desperately want to fit in with the narrow culture created by “the gatekeepers.”

(And this is why Threads bothers me just a little bit).

But even in a public forum that encourages consensus, that doesn’t mean that people still won’t hold private views. It only means they won’t feel comfortable saying those views aloud.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

it's so important to make time for yourself, rest, treat yourself gently and with kind words. you, not me, I have to run myself ragged until I collapse in a pile of exhausted self-hatred but you should definitely self care.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 10/02/2025

It's nice that something can be valued at $0 dollars, $117 dollars, $35 dollars, and $15 dollars at the same time. Really shows you that Capitalism knows what it's doing. I'm not sure which wildly different price range I should take here.

Amazon book that has wildly different prices for Kindle version vs paperback.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 10/02/2025

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In a world with 8.2 billion humans, you’ll lose your mind trying to belong to a consensus.

Nobody understands things as you do. We’re all operating off of our own experiences and our own mental state. In philosophy, we call this our subjectivity.

Our subjectivity is our personal filter of the world around us. And we exist within it all the time. So every experience that happens objectively will be filtered through our subjective worldview before we can understand or acknowledge it.

Over the past century, many people have used subjectivity as an accusation. Even a synonym akin to bias.

This is a hill I’ll die on: your subjectivity is an inevitability, not a bias.

There is no choice to be subjective. And anybody who has an aversion to subjectivity, will simply create a series of denials.

They won’t inherently “beat it.”

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 10/02/2025

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No public forum prepared us for knowing what everybody around us thinks and feels. It’s unsettling, terrifying, and uncomfortable.

Is the fact that some people view the internet as an invasion of their personal minds seducing us into believing we have an emotional incentive to walk up to perfect strangers and demand that they change?

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Multiplicity vs Civil War

In a country with 335 million people, I'd rather find community than civil war.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 26/12/2024

In a world with 8.2 bil humans, you'll lose your mind trying to belong to a consensus. There's no ground to stand on in the fluctuating voices of sycophants being carried where the wind takes them. You'll only drift aimlessly until, at last, you find sure footing in the creative freedom of being.

A black and white photo of a Dalmatian at a park during sunrise.

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chinative1111.bsky.social @chinative1111.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Sharing my running list…..I will add some of the ones from this thread!

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GibbyWantsJustice @gibbywantsjustice.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We could have had joy.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 04/02/2025

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

People who stand up to power may not fix everything in a day, but they provide the necessary fuel for others, who are in great need of some inspiration, to keep fighting.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 03/02/2025

Inhale. Exhale. The little blooms smell so good. Saw a dad teaching his kid how to play baseball. Very sweet.

A photo looking up at an Oak tree with Spanish moss, against a blue sky.

A photo of a fruit tree next to city steps.

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Phil Marsden @philmarsden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Don't believe there's been a single month in the last 25 years when I've read more books than I bought.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 21/01/2025

Me: Hmm. I'm feeling stressed. How about I search for another book to buy? Little voice in my head: What if you stopped being addicted to BUYING books - and you started being addicted to READING them? dun Dun DUNNN. 😒

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 23/01/2025

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 26/01/2025

Sunday Philosophy Discussion: How Free Will is the lynchpin of democracy, and the way it ushers in the age of Strongmen when we take it away. #philsky

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A Thought Experiment On The Lynchpin of Democracy

Emotional Adaptability, Complexity, Free Will, and Democracy

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 03/02/2025

Sunday Political Philosophy Discussion: #philsky #politicalphilosophy If nation states created borders between different cultures, that allowed them to govern themselves in peace - how can we maintain peace in an ever-increasing blend of nationalities within a single country, due to immigration?

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Changing The Paradigm of the 20th Century, In Order To Change Ourselves

The Current American Crisis Framed Via An Entirely Different Premise

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 29/01/2025

It's clear that a lot of academics don't believe philosophy is about critical thinking. They believe philosophy is about categorization. When you ask people to think about things they've already categorized, they can't because that would require taking off the neat & tidy bow they've placed on it.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 30/01/2025

Never more true than in a philosophy discussion. If you come into a philosophy discussion repeating what you knew yesterday, then the philosophy has failed you. Or you have failed the philosophy. Instead of proof of validity, each discussion should add depth & nuance to what you already knew.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 28/01/2025

Emotional complexity vs determinism - Part 3/3 thebeatphilosopher.substack.com/p/a-thought-...

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