Jamal

I think of you as the Adam Sandler of TPF. I don’t think you’re an asshole and I don’t think most people see you that way. Some do, but that’s what ha...

I know I said enough Kant, but just a small point about this. You make a good point, although in the Refutation he does state that “inner experience i...

Maybe you’re thinking of a different philosopher, because this is a really odd thing to say about Kant. Your move at this point ought to be to say tha...

Which formulation, exactly? I’m not sure which passages I should be looking for, since all I did in that paragraph was remind you what Kant famously s...

Note that everything I said was standard and uncontroversial, except for my bit about the “fleshly container”, which is a modern spin on it.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Since intuition, in Kant’s technical sense, is the capacity to form representations, and since he spends a lot of ...

I agree. I was going to say the same thing. I think I saw him talking with Norm Macdonald once and he was much funnier than I expected. Otherwise I ag...

Krysa? or The Pied Piper, a Czechoslovakian animated film from 1986. https://youtu.be/FVDgnpwa8Jk?feature=shared

You are only here to make trouble. That’s the definition of a troll. Get lost or get banned.

Get lost troll.

Romantic bollocks. You only have to be a human being who wants to make something unique.

https://youtu.be/Mn8x0QbN4f8

It’s not true though.

Yes, in Kant's scheme this is almost true by definition, since a thing-in-itself is a thing unintuited, i.e., not presented to our minds through sensa...

Exactly! I think there’s another aspect to the humour: as if minus 33 were not cold enough, by the way, it’s going to feel even colder. I experienced ...

That’s another one to tick off the bucket list: use poindexter in a sentence in a public context.

It’s a trite generalization. It’s said by middlebrow poindexters who think they’re better than everyone else, or who worship those they see as intelle...

/uploads/resized/files/v3/eryw6pqso8sgyahg.jpeg I was looking at the weather around the world and found this amusing. -33 but feels like -42 (Celsius)...

:rofl: You are hilarious when you’re not being obnoxious.

Since this is a silly thing to say, I should point out in D’s defence that these are the words of a character, namely the narrator of Notes from Under...

It’s not for you to say, since you are not aware of having misunderstood the things you have misunderstood. And you are not the sort of person to take...

You really need to work on your reading comprehension. According to Wikipedia the region’s name is Arabic and has nothing to do with the Spanish word ...

I think the “unexpected result” sense of the word comes from the irony of fate or cosmic irony. Imagine the universe having a laugh at your expense by...

In my teens I was a big fan of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, for some reason. I remember being impressed by his table of humour: https://substackcdn....

:up:

Not only is satire not funny, but it's doubtful if it has a political use either. Peter Cook, ironically (define irony next) a satirist himself, made ...

Yeh, it's good that we're invitation-only.

Thank you for the heads-up. :smile:

Banned @"Steven P Clum" for low quality culture war stuff and throwing around accusations when criticized.

My guess is audio visual link. Video calls and video-conferencing, basically.

I've never been to Chicago. Is it different there? Is the river green?

The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges.

It could be the case that while violent video games are not enough on their own to cause school shootings, they do contribute to psychological and soc...

You win. :clap: :clap: :clap: I knew that word only as the Italian for flour, but I didn't know it was also a kind of American porridge. So ... thanks...

:up: It's maybe a little Austeresque too, certainly his more ambiguous and confusing stuff. Also reminded me of The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Thank you for your interest. If I wrote a review it would not be about me: not about the progress of my mind or my perspective, not about whether I ha...

Ice by Anna Kavan. Uncanny, haunting, and disorientating. Recommended.

It also popped up here yesterday, and it put a spell on me. It’s like an incantation. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14943/warp-mechanics-m...

0. A unit is a nexus. 1. Congruency adds density. 2. Contraption brings exchange. 3. Efficiency is congruent. Amen. :pray:

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The reverse gaslight?

No, you’re right, but is it really gaslighting if I’m right?

Nice barn owl. Short term memory loss?

I think your profile image is a jackdaw, but it’s a corvid so you’re good. It started with @"photographer" a long time ago, and then I began to use a ...

Is this a joke? I’ve been closely monitoring American humour producers for decades and I don’t think what you say is true.

Good one, but you get half a point only. We need (a) names named after the food rather than the other way around, or (b) names coincidentally identica...

Quang was wise to the ways of the Spanish. :up: And let us not forget Boris Pasternak, whose surname in his native Russian means parsnip.

Smetana for me was primarily a Czech composer till I got involved with the Russkies, now it’s primarily a dairy product and poor old Bed?ich is almost...

An old favourite: https://youtu.be/P4q7-wZmn-Q

Ok, enough. The dairy rabbit hole is deep and slippery.