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Swanty

['Member']Joined: November 02, 2024 at 20:07Last active: January 11, 2025 at 10:491 discussions47 comments
Location: England.

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Sufi Muslim,Spiritual Beast and anarchist!
Martial Artist&Rapper poet.

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Buddha,Kabir,Protagoras,Foucault,Wittgenstein.

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"Theres more than one way to skin a cat"!

Discussions (1)

Writing styles

November 07, 2024 at 17:23 52 comments General Philosophy

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@"tim wood" Ok,let me elucidate this way. You say you find Hegel impenetrable. How have you come to this conclusion? I'm not criticising Kant or Hegel...
November 08, 2024 at 15:18
@"Bob Ross" You see bob, it's easy to tell you don't have much insight into Muslim countries or Muslim migrants. Most Muslim countries have secular ty...
November 08, 2024 at 15:09
@"bert1" Ah,that's a really good point with regard to chatGPT. My answer to that is, as I mentioned before, as well as clear it must have some power a...
November 08, 2024 at 14:52
@"bert1" I like a lot of Humes writings but he gets a little weird and dogmatic at times. Philosophers definitely vary in style Do you think there is ...
November 08, 2024 at 14:40
@"ssu" I feel we are just restating our views on this, and we do agree on some matters. To pivot a little, I would say you are underestimating the pow...
November 08, 2024 at 13:24
@"bert1" I remember reading one of bishop Berkleys Q&A type platonic style dialogues and that was very clear. But he was using "uncertainty" and "spec...
November 08, 2024 at 12:35
@"I like sushi" Only the brave my sensitive friend!
November 08, 2024 at 09:56
@"javi2541997" I have followed TPF as a non member for years, so yours is pretty patronising, and shows lack of comprehension/insight. People pay lip ...
November 08, 2024 at 09:11
@"I like sushi" Your just repeating your posts. Communication is timeless. Subjectivity is Truth. (Well,for some!) To quote Kieerkegard. Your posts ar...
November 08, 2024 at 08:56
@"I like sushi" Just read this thread,and the supposed superiority of western "values". Western values include war,economic oppression,imperialism and...
November 08, 2024 at 08:51
@"ssu" It's not just western powers,but it's dominated by western finance and military force. The US has military bases all round the world. And to be...
November 08, 2024 at 08:47
@"ssu" I do agree,we shouldn't absolve non western nations for instigating conflicts or minimise their role in economic thuggery. Chomsky et al are ju...
November 08, 2024 at 08:24
@"javi2541997" Philosophy does confront religion,but can also back it up. There are religious philosophers. I'm very critical of many thelogians,becau...
November 08, 2024 at 08:01
@"T clark" I've seen plenty of secular bigotry and xenephobia here.
November 08, 2024 at 07:38
@"I like sushi" Are you serious?? In terms of writing style schop and Nietzsche both write similarly aphoristically and with a lot of polemic. As for ...
November 08, 2024 at 07:33
@"Janus". A typo,thats also a fabulous truthful pun,so kept in. I'm English born,Indian,Pakistani,Zimbabwean,Iranian heritage.
November 08, 2024 at 07:25
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@"fdrake". For sure it's a great topic. Might start a new thread tommorows.
November 07, 2024 at 22:16
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I mean this is the reality,liberals are soo quick to stereotype and label any dissent as phobic of their pet theories. And thus a crime and thus shut ...
November 07, 2024 at 22:11
@"ssu" I'm not American. I do agree with you in saying that we shouldn't ignore domestic policies of colonised countries,or use western imperialism as...
November 07, 2024 at 22:05
@"Gnomon" PS___ I did try to read Foucault years ago. But his run-on sentences, some a hundred words long, left me wondering "what . . . . ?". Exactly...
November 07, 2024 at 21:46
@"Banno" Yes the great "liberal " weapon when confronted withTruth,run and censor!
November 07, 2024 at 21:40
@"Tom Storm" Baroque prose is not itself ground for supposing that a writer does not have great ideas. Kant and Hegel are both great for drawing atten...
November 07, 2024 at 21:38
@"Banno" Another anti religious liberal displays his exenophobia and anxiety to stereotype when under pressure.
November 07, 2024 at 21:32
@"Wayfarer" Your just backtracking,obfuscatingand taking no responsibility for your mistakes and ignorance. It's obvious you know very little about Mu...
November 07, 2024 at 21:30
@"Tom Storm" Hume,schop and bishop Berkley I found as very clear writers. ( Ditto Orwell!) I do get that some might not get much from Nietzsche becaus...
November 07, 2024 at 21:25
@"Wayfarer" Wow! So now you interpret my reaction as violent! This is exactly the kind of racist islamaphobic stereotype I was talking about. Man,the ...
November 07, 2024 at 21:11
@"Banno" I haven't seen a trusted media link. But let's say it's true. How is that representative of Muslims at large? Or migrants? Xenophobia much.
November 07, 2024 at 20:59
@"Wayfarer" Well,I'm trying to be charitable,and I find it discriminatory,especially from a thinking bloke like yourself. And just to clarify,what do ...
November 07, 2024 at 20:57
@"Wayfarer" And I keep saying no more tension than that between western conservatives and liberals. So why use one example to highlight this mythical ...
November 07, 2024 at 20:47
@"Wayfarer" I edited my previous post,so have a Luke. Most migrants are economic type migrants,who regard their Islam as a personal religion, separate...
November 07, 2024 at 20:38
@"Wayfarer" Why are you asking me for enlightenment when you already presumptously claimed to know about Islam and what migrants face? ]There can be a...
November 07, 2024 at 20:22
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@"Leontiskos" I hear you,but one has to read the room. Although I do understand just going out all guns blazing! It's a sign of the late times that na...
November 07, 2024 at 20:04
@"Leontiskis". I studied some orthodox Christian doctrines. And as compared to catholic or more mainstream Christianity,I was quite impressed with the...
November 07, 2024 at 19:53
@"T clark" Lao Tszu is poetry and mythmaking. Aristotle is very analytical and abstract. But he has his moments. Plato utilised poetry,myth making,sto...
November 07, 2024 at 19:40
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@"Leontiskos". I think the inflammatory style can sometimes be distasteful. But if he means extreme identity politics and the exportation of LGBTQ,the...
November 07, 2024 at 19:36
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@"Leontiskos". What is "georgefloydism"? Many thanks.
November 07, 2024 at 19:27
I believe in free speech,so Bobby is free to explain and give his opinions. They are very instructive to me. The one civilisation I was referring to t...
November 07, 2024 at 19:04
And just to clarify. I don't mean long winded philosophers can't have great ideas. I mean Husserl has truly great ideas,but writes like a doofus.
November 07, 2024 at 18:52
@"Gnomon". And this is the point I want to explore. Is there a relation between writing style and worldview/Apologetics? To elucidate,,,,,politicians ...
November 07, 2024 at 18:49
@"ssu". I said as much earlier in the thread. These "ideas" are really deliberate propaganda against non Europeans and especially Muslims. There is no...
November 07, 2024 at 18:40
@"Gnomon" Actually,I really like that analysis. I prefer the poetic,religious mythical/metaphorical type of reasoning. Even the anecdotal! But still c...
November 07, 2024 at 18:23
@"T clark" Im glad to hear you value clarity and brevity,and aspire to it. Thank you for the welcome! You musta read my mind,I'm still tryna figure ou...
November 07, 2024 at 18:15
@"T clark" Yes,I like the joke! I hear and agree with you,a writer can be clear but lack truth and depth. But the guys I'm talking about had good idea...
November 07, 2024 at 18:04
@"Outlander". I like it! But are my posts not enough???! What do you think of novelists as philosophers and good writers? Eg Poe, Dostoevsky,shakespea...
November 07, 2024 at 17:53
@"Outlander". You misunderstand me a little. Both Nietzsche and Schopenhauer write stories,use entertainment/comedy and especially saliently,use real ...
November 07, 2024 at 17:42
@"NOS4A2" As a fellow anarchist I concur with this. It is only Authoritarians,control freaks and the ignorant who want to culturally hegomonise and us...
November 07, 2024 at 16:07
@"Wayfarer" As an English born Muslim I always find the ignorance and disinformation regarding Islam and Muslims atonishing,especially amongst otherwi...
November 07, 2024 at 09:21