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FermentedPhilosopher

@fermentedphil

philosophy; fermentation; photography; art; philosophical counselling

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil Aug 27, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

Publish and Perish ...

___ The landscape has changed. The fields are planted with different crops, fruits, and labour. Once the slogan read, publish or perish; now, it is closer to publish and perish. The landscape has too…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil Aug 20, 2026, 2:04 PM UTC

This Obsession With Understanding ...

___ I am not sure if I understand, or agree, with this obsession with understanding. Our world is structured in such a way that anything can instantly be understood - or so they allude. Understanding…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil Aug 19, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC

It always happens as a slow unraveling ...

___ It never happens in such a manner that you can directly observe it. It always happens as a slow unraveling ... There is no single point, no direct indication of "This is where it happened". There…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil Aug 18, 2026, 1:31 PM UTC

It is a strange feeling indeed...

___ It feels like a constant and consistent falling into nothingness, but then, every now and then, you are reminded of the feeling of falling. For when you never get jolted or bumped out of the rhyt…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil Aug 12, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

I am caught in a web of deceit...

___ The most perfect of lies caught up in an infinite loop of its own web, a connectedness that cannot be explained by the preceding or of what to come; a randomness that cannot be untangled. A lie t…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil Aug 11, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

Not what I had in mind...

I have been on Hive from the start, and my 9th Hive Birthday is around the corner. For almost 10 years, I have been using Hive almost on a daily basis. It shaped my days; from planning writing sessio…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil May 26, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

Visiting the Iconic Storms River Bridge at Tsitsikamma Petroport Station, South Africa

___ It was a cold and miserable day. It was a day that you just wanted to take a book and curl up in bed. But we were out and about, because we were travelling, and some bad weather would not bother…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil May 25, 2026, 6:04 AM UTC

I am my difference

___ There is an idea, if it comes from Maurice Merleau-Ponty or from Hans-Georg Gadamer I am not sure, that simply states: unity-in-difference. The African philosophy of ubuntu for some scholars hold…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil May 23, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

Three Ales from Tsitsikamma Brewery for #BeerSaturday

___ After visiting the Tsitsikamma brewery, I had to try their other beers. I bought three of their beers, a normal ale, dark ale, and a grapefruit ale. These were three vastly different beers, and I…

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FermentedPhilosopher
@fermentedphil May 22, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC

Kayaking into the Stormsrivier and Jumping from Some Cliffs at Storms River Mouth, Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa

We planned the trip down toward Kayak & Lilo Adventures in the Tsitsikamma National Park for a couple of weeks, if not months. It was something my then fiance, now wife, had been wanting to do fo…

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