A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #honesty #honor #resistance #belief #compulsion #creed #freedomofconscience #freedomofreligion #freedomofthought #profession #religiousfreedom #subversion #suppression #thoughtcontrol #value #worthiness

Neil Marshall’s ‘Compulsion’ Set to Premiere at The Mediterrane Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE) – Film News in Brief
#Variety #News #Compulsion #MediterraneFilmFestival #TheAcademyMuseumofMotionPictures

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/neil-marshall-compulsion-premiere-film-news-in-brief-1236433054/

A Lacanian analysis of addiction

From Bruce Fink’s Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key:

“Addiction” is not, in and of itself, a psychoanalytic diagnosis, inasmuch as it refers to activities found across the diagnostic spectrum. Addictions may, like so many other cyclical activities, be viewed as symptomatic (i.e., compulsive) activities that aim at achieving a form of satisfaction or jouissance that they approach but never fully attain. It is, it seems, the very failure to fully reach what is sought that leads to the repetition of such activities. (Missing one’s objective is what brings on repetition, suggests Lacan, 1978.)

It occurred to me that Alan Carr’s account of addiction sits interestingly with this model, in the sense that he argues addiction involves a misidentification of enjoyment. It’s jouissance in Lacan’s terms, a pleasure-in-pain, rather than something which exists as a more straight forward form of pleasure sensation. It could perhaps, in a Lacanian register, be seen as an argument about searching for a positive core to jouissance which can never be found.

#addiction #AlanCarr #compulsion #Lacan #psychoanalysis

Irish alternative rock band Compulsion to reissue Comforter and The Future Is Medium albums

https://louderthanwar.com/compulsion-have-announced-the-reissue-of-their-acclaimed-albums-comforter-and-the-future-is-medium/

#music #AltRock #AlternativeRock #Compulsion

For reasons I am not sure of, whenever I walk into a room with tatami flooring, I feel compelled to take a photo like this.

#tatami #compulsion #alwayslookdown

Compulsion games onthult nieuwe details over south of midnight https://www.trendingtech.news/trending-news/2024/11/47804/compulsion-games-onthult-nieuwe-details-over-south-of-midnight #South of Midnight #Compulsion Games #action-adventure #Ahmed Best #gameplay #Trending #News #Nieuws

Compulsion games onthult ontwikkeling van south of midnight https://www.trendingtech.news/trending-news/2024/11/47616/compulsion-games-onthult-ontwikkeling-van-south-of-midnight #South of Midnight #Compulsion Games #game ontwikkeling #Ahmed Best #Xbox Series X #Trending #News #Nieuws

Neil Marshall Thriller ‘Compulsion’, Starring Anna-Maria Sieklucka & Charlotte Kirk, Gets Domestic Deal
#News #Compulsion

https://deadline.com/2024/11/neil-marshall-movie-compulsion-charlotte-kirk-anna-marie-sieklucka-gets-domestic-deal-1236166226/

Mould shuts popular Glass House Mountains National Park to climbing

"The mould spreads by any activity that moved soil, water, or plant material...These include bushwalking, mountain biking, four-wheel-driving, road construction, timber harvesting, mining, and feral pig incursions...To be honest, people are going to the toilet up on top of the mountains."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-10-04/phytophthora-plant-mould-closes-popular-mountain-coochin-hills/104428404
#Phytophthora #soil #pathogen #sprawl #Tourism #climbing #compulsion #roads #logging #cars #faeces #respect #EndTheClimb #biosecurity #mountain #harm

Check out the latest "is it still worth it" review on the channel. We are looking at we happy few to see if the game holds up today and if it's worth picking up now (or if it ever was). #gaming #gamer #review #gamereview #RetroGaming #retrospective #isitworthit #eyesofod #streamer #compulsion #wehappyfew #rpg #survival #survivalgames

https://youtu.be/jIayAZha6Us

Working on an update for my #webzine turned #blog , Rubber Axe zine, I am just uploading the review of an old classic - #testdept and their 1983 single #compulsion . Excellent stuff - and as I am aiming for more mainstream circles, I hope this #industrialmusic classic will find new fans the same way it's found me.

Do you use anything specific for #cablemanagement? I discovered #cablebug(s) years ago and find them quite easy and convenient to use. Also in the pictures: nylon #cablehose(s) that I use throughout the studio.
Somehow #cables are rarely perfectly organized (even when custom made) or laid out, but I keep trying anyway. 🫣😝 #compulsion

@thepoliticalcat
I think this has happened for decades, maybe centuries. Recently watched docu on Starkweather & Fugate. Inexplicable. Thompson and Venables, 10 years old in 1993, London, murdered a 2 year old. And of course the very publicized Leob and Leopold from 1924. The list is really endless. There is a sickness in some people. They lack the basic human empathy gene. Very good movie if you care to watch. #Compulsion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4bf_D0CQms

A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

«
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

[Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hugo-victor/13468/

#quote #quotes #quotation #compulsion #expression #language #music #silence #suppression

I tried having a minimalist workspace. Let’s say I failed. But it keeps the cat 🐱 warm when all is turned on.

#FindTheCat before #caturday #Compulsion

#MichaelMerzenich - Do #Brains Have #FreeWill?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSnRVNcIoOk

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #Neuroscience #Learning #Consciousness #History #Compulsion #Psychosis #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

A quotation from Burchill, Julie:

«
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/burchill-julie/62382/

#quote #quotes #quotation #author #compulsion #obsession #writing

Wanted to share a tiny win I had against a bad habit:

When I get a swollen tastebud, I usually end up biting it trying to get it off- not helping at all.

Managed to restrain that urge, and the swelling went away FAST.

So satisfying.

#OCD #Autism #SensoryProblems #Habits #Compulsion

So, I have a #compulsion now. I never realized how powerful those things fucking are. The rational brain holds no sway. #mentalillness

I fought my brain and my brain won.
I fought my brain and my brain won #bpd #bpd2 #compulsion