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It's much simpler than all this - It's me who is going to be tortured, not someone else. Motivations come after - that it's me who will be tortured is...

It's been interesting to compare my experience this time around to my earlier readings. When I first read it as a teenager, I was really only interest...

I've read the first 1/3 twice, but when I was too young to really appreciate it ( 8th grade, 10th grade ) but I'm really enjoying it this time around.

Brothers Karamazov The Ticklish Subject Rising Up & Rising Down

Not mad - I already knew you were sexist, misogynist etc - just concerned, as ever, with your psychological well-being. You're a little obsessive, man...

Oh, probably not.

Just didn't understand the point of your response

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man amy schumer is really gnawing at you these days

What's your business? genuinely curious.

But just as equally a late Heraclitean (who, as you know, can't be simply reduced to 'everything is flux') But I don't think it's all that fruitful to...

Order vs Chaos is far too simplistic a reading of Nietzsche, imo. He was doing something more like: there is no fixed order, but rather there are temp...

I think Mongrel's right. But the death of of God qua historical event isn't just the the loss of the belief in a benevolent sky-father. It's kind of l...

One quick thing: If Nietzsche's invocation of 'fiction'* is to have any piquancy, it has to stand opposed to 'non-fiction.' In other words, it has to ...

Ok, that's fair - but to circle back around: I think it could be problematic to view concerns over racism in the Trump Administration (and what that m...

Yeah, I wasn't as clear I ought to have been (and I lost sight myself of my initial strategy.) It's not that the fear of impending torture is a 'probl...

Heh, I guess the context clue of 'the thing you claimed caused the 2008 financial crisis' was insufficient.

Perhaps, but, man, you'd assume that someone making the sweeping claim that the catalyst of the 2008 financial crisis was government-enforced lending ...

For real? You sounded pretty confident when you said "The government also shouldn't be forcing certain banks to offer risky loans to under-qualified p...

I can't stand that kind of thing - and it makes me sympathetic to many anti-pc, anti-left voices. But I think you could reasonably compare it to simil...

I guess, If I were you responding to yourself, I'd say that noticing differences is unfortunate but part of life? Are you outraged? I'm assuming you'd...

Listening on youtube. I think this is interesting. You accuse the educated left - a lot - of condescendingly scolding poor whites for their views. But...

So I agree with all of that (except the Avenue Q part, just because I've never heard the song.) But I get the sense you're trying to gesture toward a ...

Rub it in, jerk Cooking aside, that trump/racism article is very interesting but I think it's wrong. The way I see it, the problem with Trump and race...

I have a relatively shitty job. Viewed in the broad context of human history, it's not so bad, but I make well below the national average (and median)...

Thanks man!

Yeah, but see that's the problem in a nut shell. Invisible hand didn't stop them from getting them. The idea that the CRA is responsible for the 2008 ...

sick >10 yr old meme if you liked that, you'll love these. http://orig06.deviantart.net/7288/f/2012/204/7/7/family_guy_meme_by_aaliastar-d58bw62.png h...

I'm going to shamelessly post having read very little of the thread. I just really like the question and want to get an answer out there. So, the firs...

The post on memory which you've quoted was a response to John who, at that time, was tentatively suggesting an approach that would make memory the con...

yeah

You're a very unpleasant person.

Red Herring! The criticism you leveled was never a reasoned, logical argument nor even presented as such, so fallacy-sniping doesn't make any sense in...

Nicolas Jaar's BBC mix I don't know how many times I've listened to this. It's v good.

I like that an OP about Bannon has lead to a discussion of cooking.

Yeah, I'm at a point where I get a kind of anxiety whenever I try to cook on my own (like the anxiety before a blank canvas or a blank page) and my co...

I have a close friend who is an amazing cook - he gave me some cooking lessons (I came over early before a dinner party to help make the meal and lear...

Oh, my mistake

It means you care enough about Marvel movies to get really ruffled if someone suggests they're bad to someone else? Look you and others routinely pree...

Though I agree with most of the left's values, I also agree with most of what you've said. Leftists need to find a new way of talking about things to ...

I know this is a bit tangential but which gilmore girl do you like more - the old one or the young one? I think they both have their merits (and god k...

Taking that view (which I think may be close to the view of @"The Great Whatever" but not sure) What comes first: Desire or lack?

On another note, I really wish I knew how to cook.

I agree that that would help....It's just hard to imagine swathes of the population large enough to have a significant impact actually doing it. I gue...

Ohhk, yeah, misinterpreted you - I agree that it's a super hard question.

Well, so that's it. It's that whole clockwork orange theme of: young people have to go through their intense, violent, passion-driven youthful stage a...

Anyway, regarding the german idealist guy: here are the 5 comments on this vid (which I hadn't seen when I first posted) - ??? ??? ?? ???????? ??? ???...

That doesn't seem like a sincere 'good luck,' indeed it seems like a bitter sarcastic one. Why?

Local reps wouldn't try to get pork into bills if voting had nothing to do with results. You have to deliver at some level. The whole point, imo, is t...

So I'm down with that perspective---but it leaves us with the exact same question: when and why does the self start self-ing? (verb-ing to avoid the r...