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If Self-Love is Soothing, You’re Doing it Wrong.
Think back to when you first heard of the term self-love or self-care , and if your answer feels recent, or not as far back as you’d...
Penna Papier
Oct 94 min read


Nothingness: where the self confronts nihilism through withdrawal
Being present in a world where the noise of a constantly connected life overwhelms. Everything and everyone exists like all lives inside...
Aqwika Hermawan
Oct 53 min read


Everything, Everywhere, Now: The Choice of Action
When I looked at the ceiling, I realized that in a rectangular room, the light dims somewhere but shines everywhere else. Physics might...
Edria Davine
Oct 54 min read


Present, Yet Apart: A Phenomenology of Solitude and Its Ethical Implications
There was a moment, while looking at my phone, when I realized how it consumed me and demanded my limited awareness. This experience...
I Made Dwipayana
Oct 55 min read


Depression, Hauntology, Cognitive Bias, and the Neutral Perspective of Mental Materialism
Jacques Derrida’s concept of hauntology suggests that every system of being is haunted by what it represses. The French-Algerian...
Affan Aufar
Jul 135 min read


Madness Shapes and Drives Civilization
Civilization can exist because of madness, the history of human civilization runs because of it. The madness of God's creation called...
El-Roi R M
May 207 min read


The Lines Between Science and Religion
For as long as people have looked up at the stars or wondered about their purpose, science and religion have offered different kinds of...
Muhammad Fatwa Ramadan
May 203 min read


Archeology: Digging For Remnants of Memories
Existence and the Individual: What does it mean for an individual to exist, and how does individual existence relate to the broader...

Vezia Surijan
May 136 min read


The Symphony of Strings: On Life, Faith, and the Tapestry of Being
What does it mean to exist? For as long as I can remember, I have been haunted by the questions: What does it mean to exist? Why am I...

David Sitorus
May 136 min read


The Myths We Think With: Toward an Epistemology of Limits
Foundations of Perception: Human Metaphysics and the Scientific Endeavor Human beings comprehend the world through the interplay of two...
Reza Ahmad Nugroho
May 135 min read


The Soil Memory: A Reflection on Power, Identity, and the Limits of Knowing
The river remembers every stone but the ocean forgets every drop. — Anonymous There used to be a river here. It did not roar nor...

Ravrireira Rake Sonia
May 135 min read


What Language Can I Borrow?
Somewhere in Columbus, Indiana, there were two people standing in front of a building, talking quietly. Their figures were reflected...
Esther Lidya
May 136 min read


I Used to Despise Idealists
—But Now I Know, Behind It All Lies Wounds and a Life Never Fully Seen— I used to despise idealists. Those who lived in their heads,...

Ilham Kamaludin
May 74 min read


Only if I Was (Als ik eens)
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve seen framed pictures of my dad beside a typewriter in the corners of my house. I used to wonder, why would...
Mikaila Ellora
Apr 193 min read


The Existentialism of This Essay
" Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism. " ~ Jean-Paul Sartre I choose to make...
Moh. Fahmi Akbar
Mar 234 min read
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