Philosophical Questions: Freedom

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

If freedom is simply being able to do what you want, are animals freer than humans?

Animals are more free than humans to choose their actions based on whatever they want, whereas most humans are greatly limited by laws, expectations, and other cultural factors. However, animals are more ruled by instincts than humans, which curtails what animals want and choose; humans can (but often don't) decide to overrule their instincts.

Birdfeeding

Today is mostly sunny and mild. Yesterday's weather was awful, cold and wet.

I fed the birds. I put out a new peanut suet cake.

I've seen several sparrows. I heard cardinals singing.

Wednesday TV Series (The Addams Family) Overview

As part of the March Meta Matters challenge over on marchmetamatterschallenge, I've written about the recent series Wednesday. All links have been archived with the Wayback Machine and/or Archive.fo. Below I present an overview of the series as a whole.

* Overview
* Interesting Aspects
* Episodes
* Promising Crossovers
* Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
* Memorable Fanworks
* Wednesday Prompts

See also my character study of Wednesday Addams and Why We Need Thing.

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Wednesday TV Series (The Addams Family) Interesting Aspects

As part of the March Meta Matters challenge over on marchmetamatterschallenge, I've written about the recent series Wednesday. All links have been archived with the Wayback Machine and/or Archive.fo. Below I discuss some interesting aspects of the show.

* Overview
* Interesting Aspects
* Episodes
* Promising Crossovers
* Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
* Memorable Fanworks

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