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JKN Mar 7

User reports show that the increasingly mandatory MyDigital ID app is broken and incompetent.

Auditor General's report shows millions in unaccounted and mismanaged project funds.

Malaysians: "All govt apps oso liddat wat, biasa la."

Case closed.

#nationofcriminals #fatalism #defeatist #aigivap

WIST Quotations Feb 24

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1951-12), “Growth that Starts from Thinking,” on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/48…

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Roosevelt, Eleanor - Essay (1951-12), "Growth that Starts from Thinking," on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS Radio | WIST Quotations

I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Source (Audio); start 3:51). The essay was read without a script. Apparently this statement…

WIST Quotations

Lupposofi Feb 18

All-new in SEP, Jason Marsh's Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-evolutionary/

Davin Hunt and Linda Zagzebski have also revised their "classical" entry on Foreknowledge and Free Will, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/. I still remember studying that article for the first time. The theme was of no interest to me, but Zagzebski's skill in thinking aloud just fascinated a philosophically infested fellow earthling.

#sep #philosophy #filosofia #new #religion #philosophyOfReligion #uskonto #uskontotiede #evolution #evolutionary #tieto #knowledge #foreknowledge #ennakko #tahto #vapaaTahto #will #freeWill #fatalism

Evolutionary Approaches to Religion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

SESH.sx Feb 13

Astron Club Night with fatalism / Mechanist / TBA @ Astron Club - 14 Feb feat. fatalism, MECHANIST (GR)

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https://sesh.sx/e/1669058

French Cinema & Subtitles Feb 5

📝 Plot:
Trapped in his small apartment at dawn, a factory worker reflects on the chain of events that led him there. Through fragmented flashbacks, love, jealousy, manipulation, and despair unfold, revealing how fate and circumstance closed in on him. The film builds a haunting portrait of working-class life, doomed romance, and moral inevitability, becoming a defining statement of poetic realism on the eve of war.

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#FilmNoir
#PoeticRealism
#1930sCinema
#Fatalism

French Cinema & Subtitles Feb 5

🎬 Le jour se lève [Daybreak] (1939)

Subtitles available:
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇬🇷 Greek
🇮🇹 Italian
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇪🇸 Spanish

⬇️ Download
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🎞 IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031514/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://m.ok.ru/video/2979055143576

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#FilmNoir
#FrenchCinema
#Fatalism
#WorkingClass
#LoveAndObsession
#PreWarCinema
#MarcelCarne

Spirituality & Religious Studies Jan 29

Fatalism

Fatalism is the philosophical belief that all events are predetermined & inevitable, making human “free will” basically irrelevant to the ultimate outcome.

Determinism, predestination, & fatalism are often used interchangeably. But there are nuances:

Determinism: The belief that every event is caused by preceding events & the laws of nature. If you knew the position of every atom in the universe, you could predict the future. It’s about cause & effect.
Predestination: A theological concept (like we saw with the Calvinists) where a sovereign God has decreed the end from the beginning. It’s about divine will.
Fatalism: The belief that “whatever will be, will be” (Amor Fati), regardless of the causes or divine decrees. It suggests that even if you try to change the path, you’ll still arrive at the pre-set destination.

In the Greco-Roman world, Fatalism wasn’t a theory. It was a cosmic reality. The Greeks envisioned fate as 3 sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter), & Atropos (the unturnable, who cut the thread). Even the gods were subject to the Fates.

This created where heroism wasn’t defined by changing one’s fate. But by facing it with dignity. For example, Oedipus tries everything to avoid the prophecy that he’ll kill his dad & marry his mom. His very attempt to flee is what ultimately fulfills it.

The Stoics (like Seneca & Marcus Aurelius) practiced a form of “rational fatalism.” They compared humans to a dog tied to a moving cart. The dog can either trot happily with the cart (accepting fate) or be dragged kicking & screaming. The destination is the same. The only thing you control is your internal attitude.

The most famous challenge to fatalism is the Lazy Argument: If it’s fated that you’ll recover from an illness, you’ll recover whether you call a doctor or not. Philosophers like Chrysippus countered this by arguing that certain outcomes are “co-fated.”

It may be fated that you recover. But it’s also fated that you recover because you called a doctor. Your action is a link in the chain of fate, not an alternative to it.

In Islam, the concept of Qadar emphasizes a balance between divine sovereignty & human responsibility, folk traditions across the Middle East & South Asia have historically leaned toward a “written” destiny (Maktub – “it is written”). This perspective often provided a psychological cushion against the frequent tragedies of the medieval world, like a plagues or invasions.

American culture is infamously anti-fatalistic. The famous “American Dream” is built on the idea that you can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps & be the architect of your own destiny/fortune. However, fatalism does exist in American conscienceness in 2 specific ways:

Literary Naturalism
- In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, American writers like Stephen Crane & Jack London moved away from Romanticism toward Naturalism. They portrayed humans as “small, soft things” at the mercy of indifferent forces (biology, heredity, & environment). In Crane’s The Open Boat, the universe is depicted as a giant machine that doesn’t care if you live or die. This is “Modern Fatalism.”
“Appalachian Fatalism
- Often misunderstood as laziness, this fatalism was a cultural adaptation of the Appalachian region, dominated by dangerous coal mines & unpredictable poverty. If your life depends on a mine roof that could at any moment regardless of your skill, or a boom-or-bust economy you can’t control, a fatalistic worldview (“It’s in God’s hands”) becomes a survival mechanism to manage chronic stress.

In modern physics, the Block Universe theory (based on Einstein’s General Relativity) suggests that time is a dimension just like space. If the past, present, & future all exist simultaneously in a “block,” then the future is technically as fixed & unchangeable as the past. If using this view, our perception of “choosing” is just an illusion created by our movement through the time dimension. Essentially this is Scientific Fatalism.

The philosopher Karl Popper once joked that the fatalist is the person who looks both ways before crossing a 1-way street. Deep down, even those who claim the future is a fixed act, though their choices matter.

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French Cinema & Subtitles Jan 24

📝 Plot:
Professional killers move through Europe under false identities, executing contracts with cold precision while remaining bound by a strict criminal code. When loyalties begin to crack and suspicion spreads within their circle, violence becomes inevitable. This bleak crime thriller explores isolation, paranoia, and moral emptiness, painting a fatalistic portrait of men and women trapped by their own ruthless profession.

#LaPeauDeTorpedo
#crime
#thriller
#noir
#assassins
#fatalism