Shamik Dasgupta
@shamikdasgupta.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, Philosophy, UC Berkeley. Works in metaphysics, ethics, phil sci. Repost = seemed profound while macrodosing.
If he’s going to recognize the 700,000 Palestinians displaced during the creation of the Jewish state of Israel, I think he should also recognize the 7 million Hindus and Sikhs displaced during the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan/Bangladesh.
Inspired by @nickriggle.bsky.social, I updated my website blurb around Swiftian eras! I also posted some material from my current project on the metaphysics of mystical experience; see related links in the website. shamik.net
Shamik Dasgupta
shamik.net
Inspired by @nickriggle.bsky.social, I updated my website blurb around Swiftian eras! I also posted some material from my current project on the metaphysics of mystical experience; see related links in the website. shamik.net
Shamik Dasgupta
shamik.net
Bloody hell the numbers coming out of Iran are staggering. It’s too early to know exactly what happened or what the final toll will be, but it’s not looking good 😢
The grad students at Berkeley are getting the hang of things around here 😂
Released on this day 57 years ago. And they said it would go over like a... 1972 Canadian Atlantic press
This woman is so badass I want to start smoking again in solidarity
My 16 yr old daughter just paid a mexican police officer $20 to leave us alone and not take us down the station… it’s been that kind of trip and we just got here 😅
This would be a good time for Qatar to exert its influence over Hamas and insist that it disarm and disband. Qatar is deeply invested in US higher education. I wish there was a campus movement demanding that we cut financial ties with Qatar unless it stops sponsoring violence.
Two months ago, my 15-year old daughter left our local temple at around 11pm. The street was quiet and dark. As she left the temple, two men followed her down the road shouting “fuck Israel” at her. (The temple does not fly an Israeli flag.) >>
Two months ago, my 15-year old daughter left our local temple at around 11pm. The street was quiet and dark. As she left the temple, two men followed her down the road shouting “fuck Israel” at her. (The temple does not fly an Israeli flag.) >>
This is Rabbi Rachel Timona from our previous temple back in Brooklyn, speaking last week at Rosh Hashana. We listened to it yesterday and I found it deeply moving and inspirational. If you only have a few minutes, listen from 8:30. 👇🏽 youtu.be/Q3oj6sjByjQ?...
Rabbi Rachel Timoner | Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5786/2025
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Film club with the kids has reached a critical moment. I want to drop "Pink Floyd: Live in Pompeii" on them; they are not exactly thrilled and are threatening to reply with "Trolls: World Tour". It's a stand-off.
Shamik Dasgupta@shamikdasgupta.bsky.social · last yr.I have a film club with the kids and these are the films I showed them in March. All three selections landed well! I was particularly impressed by how open they were to 2001. Dylan loved the Hal sequence and Elowyn was transfixed by the apes.
Today marks one year since I started sitting with the Quakers on Sunday mornings. Coincidentally, while writing out a sticky name tag on the way in I found that they had made me a permanent laminated label to use, just like the regulars. Which I suppose I am at this point? >>
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“Thought is a way of concealing truth.” -Alan Watts More great epigraph material :)
Shamik Dasgupta@shamikdasgupta.bsky.social · last yr.Teacher: Where are you going? Student: Around on pilgrimage. Teacher: What is the purpose of pilgrimage? Student: I don't know. Teacher: Not knowing is most intimate. Just came across this Koan and it brilliantly fits the models of mystical experience I'm working on! Epigraph material.
Sly Stone to Miles Davis: “Get your mother-fuckin ass out, don’t ever play that voodoo shit here” 😂 Legend ❤️
Shamik Dasgupta@shamikdasgupta.bsky.social · last yr.RIP 😥
