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I think I was pretty measured in my response though. I don't think I was just hand-wringing for recognition, as your post suggests. I do feel guilty, ...

For sure. Don't get me wrong: I love humor. Some of my best friends are humorous. But humor is a double-edged thing. It can be cathartic if it's a sha...

I hear you but I also think it depends on why are these comments being made. So Syntax initiated this line of thought, but did so in response to prett...

Forgive me for unloading that. It's been building up in my head since I watched Phantom Thread (definitely see it, its great) the other week and I sei...

I think I'm in pretty close to the same boat, through (maybe) a different path? I was raised religious (not super-strictly, but religious enough) and ...

Yeahhh, agree. There's some literature (mostly french) on the Marquis de Sade along these lines. The weird thing about his monstrosity is how meticulo...

Oof, hits close to home. Think you're right tho.

Also second this. I have a lot of problems with Peterson on an intellectual level, but I think a lot of his life advice is really good.

Second this. Something that helped me immensely was looking at my self-talk, and then imagining saying the same things to someone coming to me for hel...

The solipsist, meanwhile, will just say that any trump card he confronts, he must have played himself.

Then there's also the Marx card which goes like: Yeah, your card's alright, but like 5000000 people died so we could even play this game, and you're j...

lol, yeah, my first thought too. Derrida's whole thing is trumping everyone, on their own terms. I guess you could think of Derrida like a Ditto in po...

This is, indeed, the right rhetorical move to make here. But frankly I don't believe you. Your other posts don't bear it out. Your opinion of people w...

Goood point. So I won't die on this hill, but I think the monstrous inner child and the overdemanding are closely interrelated. They need each other. ...

What I want to say is that intimacy has to do somehow with letting your identity and metanarrative go. To keep it, hang it up on the coatrack - but to...

yeah yeah, agreed. he's a real person, and he philosophizes from out of that. His whole person is always involved, and so the results are fascinating....

Whatever my metanarratively-woven identity is, it definitely includes joy at seeing Sloterdijk brought into the convo. Best (living) thinker out there...

I think you're spot on in your focus on community. 100% Feeling cut off, deeply cut off - where does it come from? From there. "there's something wron...

Let me break down the paragraph: Most people think there is some teleology to their existence. At any particular time, I should be doing X thing. But ...

No, I mean I get the darn concept- all of the above is boilerplate pessimism - but I think its wrong and I've been trying to explain why. I mean just ...

Yeah, I'm definitely drawing from my own experience, but not only that. I've mentioned Beckett and Conrad, for instance, where the same dynamic is ver...

Addiction will always tell you that anyone suggesting a way out is a cat, or someone working on the cat's behalf. But there isn't any cat at all. The ...

Kind of, but not really. If you take a deep look at most pessimists, you find that they're very concerned with a specific sort of injustice. Without t...

I can’t do it! -> guilt -> but its not my fault! Its unfair to demand something of someone that that person cant give -> im not guilty, the universe i...

That we have to make decisions - yeah. But ‘burden’ and ‘condemned’ are very freighted terms. These hint at attitudes or dispositions. The same attitu...

I don't think so; it's very straightforward, isn't it? I just think its wrong. & I think a preoccupation with it is a literal addiction. What a feelin...

And what? I don't follow.

idk I didn't read the whole thread, just posted at the end

as an experiment: like this: I'll have kids & then see how much of their time they spend thinking about and then see if they realize that is just a co...

(sermons get a bad rap. They're great. I think, if anything, we need more sermons. Maybe disguised ones, but) I think Adam Curtis, as heavy-handed as ...

This is obviously a bit far afield, but I wish the left was able to do this in terms of storytelling i.e (mythologizing, sermonizing, poeticizing etc ...

Ok so another way to put this. I don't think the realist need deny this semi-autonomous capacity of thought w/r/t this type-token stuff. It's not an a...

I think we're actually saying close to to the same thing here, so I'm trying to remember what point I was trying to make. hmm What we both agree on, I...

I'll dip back into Hegel here. What I want to say is that in my example 'doggie' is already functioning as a particular in-itself (the child will corr...

Yes, I think you're right that this is the endpoint of our conversation. I disagree with this characterization, but I cannot show you why, because the...

No, I do have a position. It's the one above, and one that I've already outlined throughout my posts. It's not a position on everything, it's a positi...

Finally, the engine quote. I was clearly, I thought, suggesting that the search for a foundation is flawed, substrate or engine. I wasn't avoiding res...

so let me be cheeky, then: I do believe I've touched a chord.

I'm sincerely confused, apo. I don't know what you mean about the supposed agreement between us in relation to the the quote about engines. I don't kn...

yeah you got me apo. I tried to say.... and I thought I said....but I was swimming against the current. Everything tends toward: Apo is strong and cap...

And that the move youre making is exactly the one I tried to show is flawed? Now i can accept that my characterization is wrong and my anticipation of...

Do you see that right now you’re asking me to characterize my position in terms of yours?

@"apokrisis" I ask you to think about all the ways you've characterized my position and then re-read my post, the one that began 'but the boast of met...

But I'm not fun-loving. I'm often moody and paranoid and mean - just look up my post history here. I'm well aware that I can be a total asshole. Again...

Pragmatism, to me, brings with it falsifiability. So again: "What you have here is a prediction that can't fail, structurally. What would it mean for ...

I know. An acute sense of ridiculousness and softness and disgust seems like it underlies your whole approach. You systematically bleed things of thos...

Even though this comes chronologically late in your post, I think its a good place to begin. I'm trying to understand why you thought I thought this w...

Look around

No, I mean, I understand the point you're making - and it makes plenty of sense to me that semantics and syntax have to emerge together. What I mean i...

But the boast of metaphysics is that its providing the ultimate. Everything can be explained and understood by reference to . The metaphysician may la...