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I think it's less like this ^ and more closely related to 'why is there something rather than nothing?' It's one of those things that remains strange ...

curious to hear what @"Maw" is thinking when the easy political stuff falls to the wayside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHAHgjL0YzQ Song's closer to my metaphysics than anything else I've read, I think. Time passed hard And the task was t...

Lawyer like yourself oughta see that, in the quote quoted, he didn't say this, at all.

Why caryatid?

yeahh

there's my apo! So what I'm saying is that your bildungsroman post is unmoving in that: things only plinko into the Final System if you always had the...

What makes something 'trite'? Something overdone, done-do-death, done so thoroughly there's nothing to gain from watching it be done again. Like a fru...

to clarify : Reality therapy - from what I've gleaned since posty's post -focuses on getting *needs* met. The idea being that meeting needs takes plac...

I like the idea behind reality therapy. I'd never heard of it before.

Sounds like reality therapy in everything but name?

the maine (where im from) equivalent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrQ9ilL8aw

Jacobite sometimes makes me uncomfortable, but its refreshing to see authentically good writing that doesnt toe the line. its easy to write off other ...

good read :up:

Well-put, especially the last part.

Wait, but the post of yours I was responding to was specifically about aesthetic understanding and had a Bob Dylan quote at its center.

what post are you responding to posty? I hear you talk a lot about maybe transcending ego, but a lot of your posts feel like provocation + plausible d...

i guess what i want to say is: i accept your tragic view - but I'd add: Oedipus cut out his eyes. If he talked about how tragic it was to be oedipus i...

I think the tragic view of life is right. Sincerely. What I meant with my question had less to do with humanity agreeeing to stop procreating and more...

I like the idea. I want to say it opens a space for the 'art of the possible' - jettison the possible worlds stuff (which, to my limited understanding...

oh geez, easy fix. i oughta subscribe anyway.

There's another way to put this: What if everyone here agreed with you?

But, truly, all I have to say, here, I already said in my first response. It wasn't meant to be condescending. I understand what you're saying, but al...

Thank you, I will keep that in mind. I don't think the meat of my responses denigrate their responses along those lines. I've responded with what I co...

but now that I think of it guilty as charged. And I stand by it

I wasn't accusing you of being adolescent though. I did use the word, but not in that way. If you feel that same hard-won camaraderie with other pessi...

Going to come at it by rewriting the OP: If much of is about "getting it right", then there is something inherently wrong with . The minute someone ha...

I'd read your OP and was thinking of it when I said that! I think I understand your point, but - - - Was gonna type up a thing here, I'll respond over...

he's an anti social sociopath - what can you expect?

That's kind of a relief. It's a weird thought, it's nice to know others have it too. Maybe non-flesh relies on first being flesh though. Logically, I ...

For a while I've felt - can't argue for it - something like: There is. That there is a 'there is' is a brute absolute. Eternity. There is no not being...

Waiting for Godot??

@"frank" sorry man

You’re good. I responded a bit aggressively. I agree with your overall point that a compassionate approach is better than a vilifying one. I disagree ...

Why isn't there a regress for you though? What's arresting the regress? Another way to ask this same question. You describe two groups mutually not-re...

thanks, but you’re still calling it a strawman —- and adding “peace” while maintaining strawmanhood, is a bit ( is very much) like a passive aggressiv...

My gut-take is that they work (or don't work) on both levels, for the same reasons. What's the difference you see?

Sure, but your post was couched in qualification, and illuminating detail. I responded to the whole of it. If all you wanted to ask was 'are racist pe...

I think you’d fare better with an argument along these lines: people need stability. They need something they rely on. When stuff changes, and leaves ...

You can play this game all day though. What about people who are intolerant of intolerant people? Ugly, and so - But wait: what about people who are i...

“fridge light of philosophy” was great. Gonna respond when I get a moment

Tldr: to paraphrase a close friend “he’s identified the problem and knows that things have to change, but all he does is talk about it. He tells me ho...

I guess my thought is that this is the limit of formal analysis (tho maybe laruelle... but I don’t know him except for some postcard synopses.) Or the...

I like this, if I follow you (& I'm not 100% sure I do.) I especially appreciate the example, because I've been trying to quit smoking for a while now...

On second thought, quite related. One quote to signal he’s not talking Kuhn in the way Kuhn’s often talked

@"StreetlightX"@"schopenhauer1" Somewhat related Samzdat on Kuhn

Yeah, I'll own up to being a little too oblique. I’m pretty sure we’re in agreement on the object level, I.e I get that “choice” as you’re using it me...

On hand-waiving:

I think that's what I mean though. Philosophies of the event (as a sociological phenomenon) correspond exactly to the inability to unironically and si...