Sera Schwarz

@schwarz_seher

Philosophy & CogSci ; poet / prodigy manqué; person who attempts (earnestly, and against all odds) to not totally suck

Berlin, Deutschland
Joined September 2016

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    21 Dec 2016

    me, in morning torpor: "What am I DOING?" me, in midday daze: "What CAN I do?" me, in nighttime terror: "WHAT have I DONE?" (—me: a memoir)

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    This one time I existed in a place with people, and had to undergo the inarticulable torment of being known as a being unto myself amidst others with all the infinitude of my wretchedness bearing down upon us. Awful. Don't like to think about it anymore.

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  3. Jan 29

    in Med. XVII, John Donne famously claims that “no man is an island.” but this is false: the Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea, just west of Donne’s native England. we award this statement four pinocchios

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    Jan 27

    “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” Retweet if your immigrant ancestors wouldn’t be let in if this means tested immigration policy was in place then.

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  5. Jan 26
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    In solitude, where we are least alone Lord Byron, Aquarius

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    Jan 20

    Schroedinger’s Confidence (Author Subtype): when you believe your manuscript is very good & important while simultaneously believing it’s a big pile of crap that is stupid. Only when someone who is not the author observes the ms does it become one or the other.

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  8. Jan 19

    also tutored logic in undergrad; also had to brush off the perceptible shame and surprise of male peers when they first realized I was the “student expert” assigned them; and yet *still* utterly stunned by the sheer chutzpah of this (ahem) hil-ai-rious meme

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  11. Jan 10

    so I feel like y’all aren’t quite appreciating that this is both a panpsychism joke *and* a reference to the infamous and eponymous meme. no need to restrain your applause, people. I can take it

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  12. Jan 10

    your phone autocorrects “causal” to “casual”. my phone autocorrects “casual” to “causal”. we are not the same

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  13. Jan 9
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  14. Jan 8

    no one: ... not a solitary soul: ... me, An Intellectual:

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  15. Jan 7

    brb, cancelling my next therapy appointment

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    30 Dec 2019

    It can always be worse

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  17. 26 Dec 2019
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    24 Dec 2019

    ‘“Well, do you know any sort of man,” he asked, “more stupid than people who just recite Homer from memory?” “No, indeed,” answered Niceratus; “not I, I am sure.” “No,” said Socrates; “and the reason is clear: they do not know the inner meaning of the poems.”’ Xen. Sym. 3.6

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  19. 22 Dec 2019

    kvelling so hard rn, you guys

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  20. 22 Dec 2019

    ooo. powerful piece (although a bit too polemical / poorly developed to be entirely persuasive, IMO)

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  21. 21 Dec 2019

    writ(h)ing that’s it. that’s the tweet

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