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

Nothing upsets fascists more than leaders who show compassion. 👇🏼

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

Sunday Political Philosophy Discussion: #philsky Read the article for the background here: thebeatphilosopher.substack.com/p/changing-t... Questions for discussion:

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

This is part of the codependency. Their worldview is about NOT taking responsibility for their behaviors. They believe they're just products without agency. So of course, they get into codependent relationships where they expect others to overcompensate for what they can't do for themselves.

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

First, there is no "most philosophers." All philosophers use all of the terms distinctly. That's the purpose of philosophy: to break down ideas in new ways - and get people to see the world differently. But yes, this is an agreed-upon use of the term determinism.

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

Emotional complexity vs determinism - Part 2/3 thebeatphilosopher.substack.com/p/a-thought-...

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

Emotional complexity vs determinism - Part 1/3 thebeatphilosopher.substack.com/p/a-thought-...

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

This one looks like straight up snow.

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

When your subtropical city gets its once-a-decade snow. Very beautiful to see Savannah's tropical foliage covered in snow. ❄️☃️ Snow-tropica-pocalypse. #photography #snowday #savannah

Bright green oak trees on a snowcovered street.

A city house with vines climbing it and two tall palm trees towering over a snow-covered street.

A street with green vines, contrasted by white snow.

Two tall palms in a park covered in snow. And I'm sitting in the snow with boots.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 22/01/2025

When your subtropical city gets its once-a-decade snow. ❄️☃️ Beautiful Savannah. From the Snow-tropica-pocalypse that hit Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, & Georgia. #photography #snowday #savannah

Tall live oak branches crawling above a sidewalk covered in snow.

A monument with the sun popping out behind it and snow surrounding it.

A bright residential street with a tall live oak towering above it. The branches stretched across the snow-covered street.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 22/01/2025

I can't be certain what dreams are putting that smile on her face, but I have a feeling cheese is involved. 🧀 She gave a couple happy sighs. #dogsofbluesky

Dalmatian, sleeping with her head on a pillow, and a slight smile on her face.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 20/01/2025

If you didn't already know, you can mute entire words on Bluesky - either for 24 hours or permanently. Very important when there are trending topics (but after you've seen one, you've seen them all). 🥴 Please give sanity a try. You won't regret it!

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 20/01/2025

I think we have to question the cult of consumerism. Because our consumerism of products, media, and SM funded these American oligarchs. They're empowered by our addictions to content consumerism, sensationalism, cheap Chinese products. More more more. bsky.app/profile/resi...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 20/01/2025

Every day that we hate Trump or believe he's some kind of evil genius capable of orchestrating his own ascent back into the WH, those people in the shadows go another day without being held responsible. Trump's campaign was the worst in history. He didn't earn this. He's a convenient distraction.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 19/01/2025

I thought that everybody else had the same increased social awareness from SM. But I think this is the difference between empaths & narcissists. We each use the internet to behave as we always would have behaved. I talked about this on my other Bluesky thread:

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 19/01/2025

Myspace came out when I was in high school. I remember feeling sociopathic to people pre-SM. When myspace gave us a private gateway into their minds it increased my empathy & awareness that they were real, dimensional people. It’s taken me many years to realize that was probably my personality.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 12/01/2025

Yes, it's refreshing to hear someone say this. Cheers me up. Our experience of being alive is the most important thing to us, but it truly isn't measurable by science. So a lot of people think it works to simply dismiss it. So our subjectivity becomes the elephant in the room even in Psych or NS.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 08/01/2025

Winter Walkies with Kennedy, the Dalmatian and Freyja the GSP.

German Shorthaired Puppy peeking her head out from underneath an adult Dalmatian.

A Dalmatian walking side by side with a German Shorthaired Puppy. With matching sweaters.

A Dalmatian stands on a bench looking regal in a blue winter sweater.

A Dalmatian and a German Shorthaired Puppy are wearing matching blue sweaters and standing on a bench together.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 06/01/2025

Also Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist, mentioned that the mathematics was used by chemists, engineers, and molecular biologists. Though he doesn't go into detail.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 06/01/2025

For those who ARE interested in trying to understand democracy vs autocracy, here are some alternate reading suggestions. P.S. On Tyranny is the smallest of them all, with the fewest wordcount. Most of which are large-type, hackneyed statements. Which may be why nobody read past page 1.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 02/01/2025

I feel this deeply. It's okay to aspire to be a better version of yourself. But that better version of yourself might paradoxically lead you to accept the flaws of your past in ways you couldn't back then. Maybe now you can quietly appreciate how you always had the capacity to survive & persevere.

A Toast To The Old You: If you feel inspired to use the new year to help you reset or change habits: great.

And yet, the old you has survived every terrible day, every hard thing, every awful circumstance, and every heartbreak you've ever felt.

The old you is a fighter. And that's worth celebrating.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 27/12/2024

This is Kennedy. I had two Dalmatians, but Athena died a couple of months ago. I still cry for her every day. She was in the photoshoot I took in the post above. They're some of my favorite photos of her. It breaks my heart not using her photos in my posts. Even though nobody knows she's gone.

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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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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎄 to God, Santa Claus, & Donald Trump. Three men who are totally unbelievable.

A photo of a pug dressed up in a Santa hat and beard, looking unhappy & sarcastic. There’s a Christmas Tree, Reindeer, and a mailbox that says Santa Mail in the background.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 23/12/2024

Dogs are the only thing that still makes sense in this absurd reality.

Photo of a Dalmatian and a German Shorthaired Pointer puppy on a park bench.

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