Noah Blue
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philosophy

Ideas with consequences. Writing that takes argument seriously and follows it wherever it leads.

4 works

I would if I could but I can’t
Aphorisms

I would if I could but I can’t

Breakfast aphorisms

Noah Blue · 2 min read

I suspect I may be nearing the end of my hard-lived life. I am fine with that. It gives me the impetus to write.

Fearwritingphilosophy
Jumping-bean aphorisms
Aphorisms

Jumping-bean aphorisms

Kinetic

Noah Blue · 2 min read

Being a parent reveals the schism between who you are and who you have to be.

spiritualitynihilismphilosophy
Extreme close-up of a deeply wrinkled elderly face, eyes small and weathered, brow furrowed
Aphorisms

Thoughts that came to me sitting on the toilet

#constipation

Noah Blue · 2 min read

A so-called great work of literature or philosophy is but the fruit body of a subterranean organism that subsists on the putrescence of other organisms.

mushroomscioranmessiah
Two close-up eyes with vivid red irises against a black-and-white face, unsettling and intense
Aphorisms

Some things I thought once upon a time

Must do better

Noah Blue · 3 min read

Language comes, ultimately, from the desire of consciousness to classify its contents. What consciousness didn't bargain for was the way in which language would come to colonise those contents, to mould them into an ontological prerogative.

Consciousnessphilosophy
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