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Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher
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Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher is a personal blog at 2arms1head.com about philosophy and health. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Two Arms and a Head (2011)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Written by a newly paraplegic philosopher, the blog covers his life and death and uses his childhood hunger to teach generosity. Commenters link it for its existentialism, and one insists it has some.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Two Arms and a Head (2011)4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Here's the website directly: http://www.2arms1head.com/ Thread for anyone who's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729056 Very similar topic, also recommended: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
Comment linking /
on “Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)”Submitted Two Arms and a Head (2008) as a story · 46 points
HN discussionEh, you don't need to get zero ass to make observations about the "dating market". If you can't acknowledge that dating definitely is a crapshoot and can't enumerate some reasons why, then you simply haven't tried. But there's this meme that any time you lament a negative experience about dating as a man, you're called an incel, an epithet that comes with so much baggage it has no place for HN, imo. Just speak to th…
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on “Dating While Dying”Submitted Two Arms and a Head (2011) as a story · 34 points
HN discussion"There's no existentialism here" is just fucking wrong, my man. PLEASE read http://www.2arms1head.com/
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on “Brutality of Life Reading List”Submitted A Paraplegic Philosopher's Suicide Note as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Arms and a Head as a story · 2 points
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