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Really? What's with the aura around these charlatans? What's so great about Microsoft or Apple? As if the CEO of GE or Lockheed Martin or 3M came up w...

Let's not forget that there are self made people with self made jobs that only they could do. If only Trump had it his way, then and only then would A...

A couple of points after a good nights rest. Independence is something idolized here or at least in the west, which I find hilarious. I don't care for...

The world is everything that is the case. Andddd, I'll end that there.

Yeah, but who's the one telling you you need all this confidence and motivation? The police officer in your head? And for the matter, what the hell is...

Australia sounds like a nice place. Preferably with less assholes, too!

Hmm, maybe Mars is where it's all at...

Maybe Arizona, who knows.

Then, I'll move to some flatter land where there ain't no bridges to cross.

I'll cross that bridge when the time comes.

My thoughts? Well, education is becoming a luxury in the US. If I really wanted it, I'd move to Europe where I have citizenship and study at some 'Fre...

I should mention, as 'self-esteem' has popped up around a couple of times here and there. I find self-esteem as a concept projected from society onto ...

Heh, emptyheady, what a nick... I'd rather try and think for myself, through this rather messy dialectical method despite exposing myself so blandly.

Well, if you haven't said that then that is/was the nail that changed my mind. I find my apathy and "lack of motivation" a more healthy a realistic ou...

You've got the wrong idea here Mister. I helped pay the mortgage when I still had my money for college, payed for a new car for my mother (nothing fan...

Yeah, it all in your head.

Thanks for the input Terrapin. I really think you hit the nail on the head with how I framed the question. Actually, its a very rewarding job! And, I ...

A couple of points. I recognize desires as per the Buddhists as the source of suffering. This is a synthetic a priori truth that all sentient beings o...

Anyone know the backstory behind the Keynes quote of God stepping out of the train at some time?

Wittgenstein! There can only be one!

Yeah, he laughed at Moore and Russel with "You so dumb you don't get this shit." Then he submitted it as his dissertation and people were like, OK.

The Tractatus is not a language game. It is reality described in words without metaphysics.

Well, it's falsification all the way down with scientific theories. Verificationism failed where falsification vindicated it. Sad.

Actually, the Investigations was an elaboration on the Tractatus. Wittgenstein says it himself in the opening pages of the Investigations.

Facts are always true. Not at all. The PoSR applies to any statement made about the world.

The Tractatus is a work about the world. The Investigations can be understood as how we interpret and understand the world.

Every objective statement is a proposition verified by science. That's the same thing I said just said a different way. Facts are always true. If you ...

Implicitly my point. Which spells danger for making America Great Again.

I have had a hard time seeing this argument as true. My reasoning goes; 1.Meaning requires truth to have meaning. (circular but true) 2.All objective ...

Trump should ask Buffet for an opinion on the matter.

Ahh, but on what grounds have these disagreements arisen? I feel as if it were a matter of taste and feelings, eh? Not everyone buys into his pessimis...

I think Schopenhauer has this magical ability to convince anyone he is true and right. I feel in love with him after reading his aphorisms.

Meister Eggfart, Become a Schopenhauer fan, you know it's good for you. Is it?

Stuck in a loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBtEFT_uWHA

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. - Dubya

That's really an amazing tune.

Sorry, my math skills ended at Calc III and so with it my hopes of becoming an engineer. Wish I got to do the fun stuff, like linear algebra...

You tell me. I suspect curved relative to distant objects occupying the space-time continuum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGzAKP_HuM

Maybe I should add "normal humans". Then there are the John Von Neumann's...

That humans can't conceptualize curved space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zov2anL7HIo

I believe Schopenhauer wouldn't disagree about curved space; but, would rather say that humans don't have the capacity to conceptualize it. This is ob...

Well, that's because politics is still not an online thing. Us, or rather, me "kids" like to joke around and play around with those fun meme's and suc...

Yes, but, nothing can be said about it. Nothing has no properties.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Sure it has connotative meaning, but apart from that if we assume its actual meaning (denotative) then it has no use in that sense.

More examples, I feel nothing about this matter/situation/state of affairs. Nothing is bothering me. Nothing you can say will persuade me otherwise.

My personal stance on the matter is that 'nothing' should not be used in ordinary language. There are few examples in the real world where nothing can...

See, the problem with nothing is that it creates more confusion than utility, when used out of formalized and logical systems. I think about things in...