Critique
Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality
The Failure of Reduction and the Need for Synthesis There is a persistent failure in many modern attempts to explain what a human being is. Some frameworks reduce the person entirely to matter, insisting that identity, consciousness, morality, and meaning are nothing more than emergent properties of physical processes. Other frameworks move in the opposite direction, detaching spirit from reason and grounding belief in intuition alone, often at the cost of coherence or accountability. Both approaches fail because both misunderstand essence. One denies that essence exists at all. The other treats it as something vague and undefinable.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast10 days ago in Art
A Love I Swore By Alaa Muhammad
I swore by the love that lives within my chest To love no one but you, no matter the cost. You asked—is this truth or passing speech? I said: It is certainty, unbent, untouched. I loved in you the peace I never knew, And silence, when all words collapse in noise. When my heart grew tight, you were my widest home, And when dreams trembled, you never spilled away. I searched for meaning in no other hearts, Until I found you—and the search was done. So let the eyes debate a heart that chose, A love I swore by… and in your love, I stand.
By A'laa Muhammad11 days ago in Art
