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I just like tossing ideas out there and spend too much time on the internet to concentrate on my studies. I don't know. I just get bored. Like I said,...
January 30, 2021 at 00:51
A highly contentious, but charmingly optimistic statement. I have decided to leave this forum for the time being, and, so, don't think that I'll be ab...
January 27, 2021 at 19:15
I'm only attempting to give you an understanding of my general attitude towards the ostensibly hard-earned wealth of sociopathic academics. As an ethi...
January 26, 2021 at 23:30
"Therefore, whoever tells a lie, however well intentioned he might be, must answer for the consequences, however unforeseeable they were, and pay the ...
January 26, 2021 at 21:45
Well, thank you. I actually kind of posit that Existentialism was developed in parallel to Empiricism, and, so, don't think that you can chalk this al...
January 25, 2021 at 15:07
I don't know. Perhaps such a mathematical system would only include positive numbers? Like I said, I have yet to hash this all out. Anyways, I have le...
January 25, 2021 at 14:48
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Alright, definitely leaving this time. So long!
January 25, 2021 at 07:02
Love is the end in itself. There is no purpose. I have nothing else to say for now.
January 25, 2021 at 06:54
A bliss in itself. I shall have to wonder.
January 25, 2021 at 06:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A53sS9LWlX8
January 25, 2021 at 06:41
I was just typing as you replied. The Copernican Revolution that needs to occur within the Left is that of a change in mindset towards revolution. The...
January 25, 2021 at 06:39
In: So long!  — view comment
Oh, yeah, do come to the reading group if you feel like doing so. As it states, all are welcome. Until we meet again!
January 25, 2021 at 04:47
And, here, I thought that I was just defending a point. Y'know it kind of reminds me of this story that I once heard about a man with a peculiar manne...
January 25, 2021 at 04:24
When you divide by zero, you can say that it is positive infinity. When you divide by positive or negative infinity, you can say that it is zero. That...
January 25, 2021 at 03:52
You have mistaken your metaphor, my friend.
January 25, 2021 at 03:17
As, I am sure, this is both warranted and welcome, I will elaborate. The problem is not the wanton experimentation in writing, philosophy, or politica...
January 25, 2021 at 03:16
Jean Buadrillard once actually cited Ecclesiastes as stating that "the simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceal...
January 25, 2021 at 02:41
Some people talk to pigeons and some people will never have enough room, even in a world with infinite space.
January 25, 2021 at 02:28
Love is the only force in the world capable of inciting the experience of ekstasis long thought to be exclusive to divine revelation. Every form of fr...
January 25, 2021 at 02:02
Kant seemingly makes sense. It all makes sense if you believe in some sort of abstract transcendent ideal and in a quasi-eschatological "kingdom of en...
January 25, 2021 at 01:19
Responding to your question and not your post, yes, absolutely. Extreme, perhaps, isn't quite the right word, as the really are very few political ter...
January 25, 2021 at 00:22
Anything divided by infinity is equal to zero and anything divided by zero is infinite. I've been told that this isn't necessarily true in almost ever...
January 24, 2021 at 23:44
Well, now that you said all of that, I'm not sure what this has to do with Kant. To me, the supposed right to put yourself at risk does, to varying de...
January 23, 2021 at 23:43
Upon a second reading, it still seems to be about how the categorical imperative bars you from the freedom to ride motorcycles. I don't know. Whatever...
January 23, 2021 at 16:09
The inherent flaw in your reasoning. "But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of pub...
January 23, 2021 at 02:04
I'm talking about the abolition of Philosophy as system, though. I'm talking about it becoming praxis.
January 23, 2021 at 01:53
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So, it's just cross paths, then. Carry on, I guess.
January 23, 2021 at 01:51
I see it somewhat blankly. The cage is like Chekov's gun. Once the cage is built, it just finds a bird to live in it. It's about how authoritarian soc...
January 22, 2021 at 17:05
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Gus, have you ever thought about giving the answer, "Neutral Evil", to the question as to what you Dungeons and Dragons alignment would be, but though...
January 22, 2021 at 02:55
I feel like Marx and Engels foresaw something in Stirner, which is the reason for their diatribes, absurd as they are. I'd still hold it against them;...
January 22, 2021 at 02:52
That is what I would like. Anyways, I don't want to derail your thread.
January 21, 2021 at 05:27
I had forgotten what I had learned in Civics class, and, so, meant to say that Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act. Johnson just signed it into law....
January 21, 2021 at 03:48
Truman is responsible for the Truman Doctrine, more or less the foundational basis for the Central Intelligence Agency arming, training, and funding N...
January 21, 2021 at 03:13
How can you say such a thing? I'm actually kind of a Communist, but still know that those ones and threes need to be swapped. By the "Cuban Missile Cr...
January 21, 2021 at 02:59
No. 3 Someday, perhaps?
January 21, 2021 at 02:53
It's the best forum on the internet, which has me thinking about starting some sort of intentional techno-critical community.
January 21, 2021 at 02:50
Whoa. Another Ash Ra Tempel fan. Crazy!
January 21, 2021 at 02:39
I'll just tell you not to learn anything about the history of Philosophy and to just get into Gilles Deleuze, but I'm not too sure that I would listen...
January 21, 2021 at 02:38
I am one of those "someone's". Our job is to collect the shopping carts from the corrals and bring them back to the store and not to collect them from...
January 21, 2021 at 02:34
I'll take in stride. 'Til we meet again!
January 21, 2021 at 02:23
I feel like you've been talking to our detractors too much. You can just read Concluding Unscientific Postscript or Either/Or if you want to get into ...
January 21, 2021 at 02:19
The World as Will and as Representation, you can read without any prerequisites, though it can be difficult to understand. Either/Or, you can read wit...
January 21, 2021 at 02:02
\ Well Marx and Engels did renounce dogmatic interpretations of their theories on a number of occasions, despite their long and proud history of isola...
January 21, 2021 at 00:31
No, I agree with that there is a lot more to life outside of Politics, specifically, the politics of Communist revolution, which, to go to the letter,...
January 21, 2021 at 00:17
I don't know. I was just longing for the ecstatic and feeling optimistic. While I do believe that you, in good faith, are perfectly capable of engagin...
January 20, 2021 at 23:40
Trump's new plan to start some sort of Patriot Party poses a significant problem, but, to try him for treason is absurd. The punishment for it is effe...
January 20, 2021 at 22:59
Oh, this goes on. It's kind of an aporia that people tend to assume that chauvinists make for good leaders and that the wealthy know what is best for ...
January 20, 2021 at 21:48
I don't know that I agree with this distinction between the seriously politically motivated and the general public. It's true that a situation as such...
January 20, 2021 at 21:46
I highly doubt that science proves that most human beings have an innate predisposition to follow authoritarian leaders, which begs that absurd conclu...
January 20, 2021 at 21:16
Oh, I greatly discount such claims as well. "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, givi...
January 20, 2021 at 20:59