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  • Shattered dreams and dead personas.
    Nothing much, just dancing and attempting to raise the true savior of my world. Tis the noble stoat.
  • Shattered dreams and dead personas.
    I need them to relent. I never told anyone anything different... it's massively prevalent, this is like putting bounties on unwanted wildlife or something.
  • Shattered dreams and dead personas.
    In truth, this has been a horrible whore of Babylon, constant, endless mutilation, and attack, and I can't withstand it any longer. I'm really begging for them to stop at this point...

    All over with completely, 100%.
  • Shattered dreams and dead personas.
    The important thing to note is that it is completely over with. All guy, saying otherwise marks me as a monster, and criminal, and is getting me hunted more and more.

    So, all done with that now. Everyone, please relent.
  • Shattered dreams and dead personas.
    Fiction is about you. Non-fiction is about me.
  • Which member on here has the best thumbnail in your opinion?
    No longer. I like to change things up, and do little else every few hours for no reason.
  • Which member on here has the best thumbnail in your opinion?
    My avatar is the dreaded jackalope. Busy being dreaded.
  • Examining Wittgenstein's statement, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"
    What red looks like, to Mary the super scientist. Do you doubt it?
  • Best introductory philosophy book?
    There are three poisons, but nothing covert from me...
  • If nothing can be known, is existing any different to not existing?
    What is almost always the mistake is confusing physical extension with existence.
  • If nothing can be known, is existing any different to not existing?
    To exist is to be distinct. To be a separate thing. Take the law of the indiscernability of identicals. Or that is to say that if two things are identical, then they share all of the same properties, and there aren't two things at all, but one thing.

    Like, superman and Clark Kent. Every time superman raises an arm, so does CK, when superman smiles so does CK. Nothing can be said of the one that can't be said of the other.

    Once you see this, you see that it makes no sense to say that any discernable thing doesn't exist, because if it didn't, then there would be nothing to talk about not existing in the first place, no distinction could be made, no thing could be highlighted.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Anyway, can't keep coming back here to bitch, gotta actually move on, I know that it isn't going to change anything, they'll just ignore it, until it goes away, and me, unlike all the rest of their problems, actually will.

    Gotta stop, gotta be strong, find some other place... but with the increasing prevalence of echo chambers, and sand mounds to stick your head in, ain't many places to go, and I've hung around for a decade, so it's going to be difficult to sever this part of my life, I like reading and interacting here, and like the people, unfortunately it ain't mutual.
  • Post Censorship Issues


    Because he just didn't like it, it was based in his personal aversion, that's why.
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    He also stole his ideas, but said that it didn't count because he didn't render them mathematically, and making a big fucking show of it was all about rationalizing his theft to himself. That kind of bullshit results in that kind of destructive, underhanded aggression. Rather than just confronting people with words, and not sabotage.

    We shouldn't be pretending to be saints, we should just be able to handle everyone's terrible opinions.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Muppet, see I have seen the real you a couple of times, and not the stage persona you'd prefer to show publically, and teased it before to your nervous jitters. I know the difference between people's thoughts and personas. I've seen the difference between yours first hand. I know what you're thinking and feeling inside, which renders this show, and justifications fucking lies.

    Sure, I'm obnoxious, but I'm me. I'm not a fraud. Philosophy is fundamentally about living the good life, not taking all of the steps to ensure self-hatred, repression, covert aggression, numbness and blindness.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Should be a poetry mod then, if you actually know something about that, not a philosophy one.
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    I have no other options than to roll over, and expect to be silenced on ideological grounds, and out of personal aversion to the views, and forms of expression, or leave, as it is readily apparent that they're all just going to hide until the storm blows over.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    I'm worried that that is just what happens to you when fluid intelligence disappears when you get too old and decrepit.
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    Omg, yeah I know, learn something new, holy fuck. Must have gotten a pat on the head for it once, and chasing that feeling again or something...
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    Precisely because of populism, and fads. Everything is positivism, and post-modernism. Someone can just write massive word salads that no one understands, but if the words are big enough, and it doesn't rhyme they must be a genius. They can just quote idiots, and have zero follow through that isn't rhetorical asides at not being of their level, and all the accolades are theirs.

    Fucking cowards, Cagliostros.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Theology is part of philosophy, if it's all becoming just post modern circle jerks by resentful self-involved egomanics then philosophy really is dead, and nothing but empty circle-jerks of verbiage.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Continental philosophy (not a super fan of the distinction between continental and analytical), like Emerson is fucking beautifully poetic.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    No fucking accountability, no responsibility, just status.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Your only concern was also just being attacked and made to look the bad guy, making you the villain, fucking victimizing you. Michael took two days to say one sentence and then fucked off again.
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    Wayfarer posted a quote by someone a little while afterwards which included "
    Schumacher advocates the traditionalist view that there are four kingdoms: Mineral, Plant, Animal, Human. He argues that there are critical differences of kind between each level. Between mineral and plant is the phenomenon of life. Schumacher says that although scientists say we should not use the phrase 'life energy', the difference still exists. Schumacher points out that though we can recognize life and destroy it, we can't create it."

    I was told that the whole topic was questionable as philosophy because it was about the soul, and that's fucking ridiculous, you guys have the views of every average high schooler in western culture, if this were 1930s Germany, you'd all be fucking Nazis. You're just echoes for populism and fads, with no substantial knowledge of the history of philosophy.

    The last stanza is the three poisons in Buddhism, much of it is highly controversial stuff, hardly easily demonstrable without much experience of what I'm talking about, but I at the very least frequently reference similar views, to show that I'm at least not alone.

    It was deleted because it was a poem, and the whole thing could have been deleted because it was about the soul. Aristotle would have been banned, or it is more likely that it he was just dumber, and more ignorant than you, and would be toting populism too if he were around now.
  • Post Censorship Issues
    Just thought that I would publicly declare, even though I said that I wouldn't because I'm kind of super pissed that I'm leaving the site now for good. Getting censored, and then cowering from demands to justify it, while attempting to negotiate fragile fucking sensitivities.

    Frankly we all know that the management are all just buddies, without even any significant knowledge of philosophy, the subject of the site. Cause they're buds, and not at all qualified to judge a fucking thing on the subject. Everyone knows that.

    I let plenty go in the past that I disagreed with, but I won't be told what I'm on about now isn't philosophy by know nothings.

    So yeah, I'm all butt hurt and I'm leaving. Laterz.
  • On the Value of Self-consciousness
    Self-Consciousness is Adam covering himself, and hiding from God. It is to reflexively self-objectify. This is how I'm seen, this is how I'm perceived, this is what I look like, and am in their eyes. This self-objectification makes us immediately wish to block, manipulate, or otherwise control the perceptions of others and the world of ourselves.

    Being without this reflexivity, of being smart, being dumb, being beautiful, being ugly, etc. These judgments, these evaluations torment us on a near constant basis. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, this self-reflexivity transforms Eden at once into a desert. Turns everything into work, and toil.
  • Relief theory of humor
    incongruity theoryPurple Pond

    That one seems best to me.
  • The downwards trajectory of Modern Music
    Vikings had rap battles. Called Flyting.