How do you people with long hair put it up?

[vulcanlogician]

I'm exactly the same except I get my hair shaved down really short when it starts getting into my eyes.

On a semi-unrelated note... I am glad you're a Spinoza fan

Personally for me he's second to Leibniz

Although I agree that the universe is ultimately one entity, and that separate entities are an illusion... but I don't think that's quite what Spinoza was getting at. I guess I'm more of a Parmenides fan than anything. He got it all spot on a long while ago, to me.

And when it comes to the world of seeming, that we live in... Leibniz's monads make more sense to me. We are indeed all windowless. That's why I get pissed off when people pretend to have empathy

Just kidding. Empathy exists. But only when we acknowledge that it isn't truly putting yourself in another person's point of view... as that's metaphysically impossible unless we're all one mind. It's trying as best as you can to put yourself in the point of view that you yourself think the other person's point of view is, and getting it as close as possible to whatever their actual view is. How people do it I have no idea. I'm crap at it. It's mostly because I'm so self-absorbed I think though. I can't be bothered to spend time on what other people think. Who cares what other people think

All I care about is what I think and other people are there to correct me if I'm wrong about stuff while I focus on correctness itself

Anyway, to be clear the semi-on-topicness of this, in case you didn't notice and think "WTF is he talking about philosophy on a hair thread".... Spinoza and Leibniz both had long hair lol.

I always though Leibniz wore a wig.

Spinoza:

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Leibniz:

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As far as philosophy, Leibniz is okay... but I always called him "Diet Spinoza." Leibniz's metaphysics depends on a personal God, and I rather dislike his whole "best of all possible worlds" claim. Although I like both of them on account of their depth. Leibniz borrowed a lot from Spinoza, that is certain. But in the end, I like Spinoza because he is more like a Stoic materialist, whereas Leibniz is a theistic idealist.