Message from @2ncourage

For our antedating of the week we turn to the words solipsism and solipsistic. We define solipsism as “a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing” or “extreme egocentrism,” and give solipsistic as the adjective form of the word. These words have been chosen because we feel like behaving kinda solipsistically, and writing about the antedating of solipsism and solipsistic seems like a good way of doing that. And also because Tim O’Brien used the adjective on television a few days ago, which made lots of people look these words up.

2ncourage

2018-09-09 01:24:14 UTC

Nothing but pure and unadulterated idealism, carried out to its extreme solipsistic conclusion, consists with the subjectivism which he here maintains.
— F. E. Abbot, The Index, 20 Jul. 1882

But ethics take an opposite way. They cannot set out from the ends, which a person may posite to himself and accordingly dispose of his maxim that may be adopted, id est, his duty; for that would be empirical grounds of the maxims, which yield no conception of duty; as it (the categorical shall) has its roots in pure reason only; as also, if the maxims should be adopted according to those ends (which are all dictated by solipsism), the conception of duty could properly speaking have no connexion whatever with the subject in hand.
— Emanuel Kant (trans.), The Metaphysic of Morals, 1799

2ncourage

2018-09-09 01:54:13 UTC

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Fearsome-Five-Florence-Helene-Isaac-Olivia-and-Mangkhut

2ncourage

2018-09-09 01:54:52 UTC

2ncourage

2018-09-09 01:56:38 UTC

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/stolen-ruby-slippers-recovered-090418

2ncourage

2018-09-09 01:57:18 UTC

2ncourage

2018-09-09 01:57:40 UTC

https://youtu.be/KqRQL4D5Cvo

2ncourage

2018-09-09 02:02:52 UTC

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/first-responders-and-the-911-victim-compensation-fund

I’m honored to be here today with all of you. I had the opportunity to visit the memorial last October, soon after I became Director. Walking through these exhibits and pausing by the reflecting pools is always a powerful and moving experience, for every visitor. But now, nearly a year later, being here and watching the water move through those dark pools carries a different meaning for me, a different weight.

Because in just the past six months, I’ve attended the memorial services of not one, not two, but three FBI agents who served as first responders in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks: Melissa Morrow, Dave LeValley, and Brian Crews. They weren’t just good people. They were some of the best people.

2ncourage

2018-09-09 02:04:26 UTC

There are resources that may be available to you. And yes, it’s the government, so there’s the inevitable paperwork. Lots of paperwork. But we have people here to help navigate the process for both the Victim Compensation Fund and the World Trade Center Health Program. People who can help walk you through it.

2ncourage

2018-09-09 02:09:03 UTC

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/armed-robber-sentenced-prison-multiple-tidewater-robberies

2ncourage

2018-09-09 02:10:17 UTC

https://www.justice.gov/usao-me/pr/south-portland-man-pleads-guilty-bank-robbery-conspiracy