Insinq Datum
Bio
I'm an aspiring poet, author and philosopher. I run a 5000+ debating community on Discord and a couple of Youtube channels, one related to the Discord server and one related to my work as a philosopher. I am also the author of DMTheory.
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Resonance and Reality
The story I want to tell you today is one that I chose because it felt like it fit together precisely with the prompt, as if the story I had in mind and the prompt were made for one another. It's an interesting feeling, one I've experienced before with a magical book that it felt I was destined to read, one which it seemed had been waiting for me my whole life. This story, however, is just a simple recollection about the time that, in the midst of exploring the most extraordinary subject I had ever come across, I created a novel metaphor to express a philosophical paradox which plagued the subject of our joint study. Really, it's not much of a story at all, however I cannot help but feel that you might appreciate it nonetheless as it offers a window into my unique gifts - into what makes me, me.
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Poets
The Perfect Patriot
When I was young I thought myself infallible. I was so sure of myself — I thought I would never make a decision that I would regret, because I wasn’t a spontaneous person. I thought about my decisions before I made them and I tried as hard as possible to make the right one. What is, the ‘right decision’, though? When something that’s right for you is wrong for someone else; when something that’s right for then is wrong for now. How do you come to terms with what you’ve done when you’ve never done anything wrong in the moment? This regret, I think, is the worst kind. The regret that is unavoidable, the regret that comes with hindsight and wisdom. This regret plagues me, every hour of every day.
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Fiction
The Dawn of Spring
In the beginning, before there was was or was not, there was and there was not a realm in which darkness reigned; it was called the night-mother, and it was as long as forever and as vast as the ocean's ancestor. The realm of the night-mother was the night, and this night had quite the sinister atmosphere to it, as if there was a dragon lurking in its depths waiting to strike. For an eternity, the night. And then, in the dark suddenly... there was Light.
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Fiction
What is a profound difference between how and why?
The most profound difference between ‘how’ and ‘why’ that I can think of is a difference which relates to the aspect of the solution that is being brought into focus. To make this clearer, allow me to employ a series of examples;
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Humans
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail
Throughout his quest to discover the philosopher's stone, Link had been through countless perils. He had journeyed to the peaks of distant mountains and far across the seas, facing forces and creatures which only existed in myth and legend. He had actually walked among the hanging gardens of Babylon, and he'd had the incredible opportunity to explore the ancient city of Atlantis buried deep beneath the waves, but nothing he had seen in his travels had so thoroughly captivated and enchanted him as did the sparkling black surface of the mirror into which he now looked.
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Fiction
The Archetypal Evolution of Masculinity
There are two archetypal patterns, polar opposites, which comprise the existential experience of human beings collectively. These are the light pattern and the shadow pattern, alternatively recognisable as a progressive attitude which tends towards the elevation of consciousness vs. a regressive attitude characterised by the sporadic and compulsive manifestation of the unconscious.
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Psyche
The Archetypal Evolution of Femininity
There are two archetypal patterns, polar opposites, which comprise the existential experience of human beings collectively. These are the light pattern and the shadow pattern, alternatively recognisable as a progressive attitude which tends towards the elevation of consciousness vs. a regressive attitude characterised by the sporadic and compulsive manifestation of the unconscious.
By Insinq Datum4 years ago in Psyche
