affirmation

productivity

pep talk

encouragement

posting (social media)

slut

libertarianism

is a way of living characterized by 'saying yes' to life in all its aspects including suffering and pain. To exalt life at all costs and to embrace fate, warts and all (amor fati).

Saw christianity as saying 'no' . . . As 'something higher than all reconciliation'. (Zarathustra II 'Of redemption).

is disburdening or lightening. It is to attain the 'innocence' of other possibilities.

For to 'affirm life' is never to affirm a proposition or thesis about life, but on the contrary, to engage in another nonassertional style of thinking to affirm is then to disburden or 'lighten,' to attain the 'innocence' of other possibilities. (Rajchman 2000 : 75)

is never about affirming any one proposition or thesis about life, but to in fact engage in a non-assertional style of thinking. To affirm is to attain the innocence of other possibilities.

is never to affirm a proposition or thesis about life, but on the contrary, to engage in another nonassertional style of thinking to affirm is then to disburden or 'lighten,' to attain the 'innocence' of other possibilities.

is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exist, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exist, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives. Gilles Deleuze

is something higher than all reconciliation.

something higher than all reconciliation (Zarathustra II 'Of redemption).

is necessarily an affirmation of all existence. If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things... and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things... and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed. Friedrich Nietzsche

is not to assert or assume, but to lighten, to unground, to release the fresh air of other possibilities, to combat stupidity and cliche.

Together they offer the principle of affirmation and selection, which says: 'keep only what increases connections.' For to affirm is not to assert or assume, but to lighten, to unground, to release the fresh air of other possibilities, to combat stupidity and cliche . (Rajchman 2000: 13)

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affirmation