Insult Yourself and Get Nasty

[Edwardo Piet]

You arse-headed turtle-throttling shit for brains son of a bastard of a cock nipper. You wouldn't know reality if it slapped you in the face as hard and as often as your sad and lonely pathetic self wished it could slap some ass. You spend all your years contributing absolutely nothing save the blisters on your palms and the incessant repetitive ramblings of your twatwaffling. You think you're smart but you're not as smart as you think you are, you have zero evidence of any education to show for it and you're about as mentally stable as the owner of Drop Dead Fred's saturated green underpants.

[Aoi Magi]

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[Edwardo Piet]

OH MY GOD MAGI WE CAN'T POSSIBLY DO THAT!

Who would clear up the mess?

[emjay]

I didn't even finish my philosophy course...

Generally, philosophy is an overrated and esoteric mental excessive with the occasional joy of engaging in a little verbal jousting. If you don't take it with a grain of salt or yourself too seriously it adds a little spice to life. Kind of like beer snobbery,...its still just beer.

Yeah, I hear ya. Philosophy is all about asking questions, but whether those questions are useful or even valid is another matter entirely... ie it's about trying to find the right questions. By taking a simple thing and breaking it down into the sum of its parts (or trying to) it's always possible that it's a red herring that lands you in a quagmire of abstractions and new definitions that has little bearing on the essence of whatever you started with (and that would be the part that makes it esoteric). And if something leads to paradoxes then it's possible that it wasn't the right question to begin with. So philosophy is a mindfield really... one where it's always possible to 'not see the forest for the trees' (but always hoping that you can ). The same things can be said of Psychology, at least in my reductionistic approach to it, but unfortunately it goes hand in hand with an overanalytical mind. At the end of the day sometimes I wish I didn't 'meta analyse' everything, because it can be detrimental to just living in the moment, but it's just my nature and not something I can easily dial back.

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I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure it will clear up in due course.

[Edwardo Piet]

WE CAN'T POSSIBLY DO THAT!

Who would clear up the mess?

May need to turn your sound up butttttt:

[vulcanlogician]

Generally, philosophy is an overrated and esoteric mental excessive with the occasional joy of engaging in a little verbal jousting. If you don't take it with a grain of salt or yourself too seriously it adds a little spice to life. Kind of like beer snobbery,...its still just beer.

I'd have to agree, especially since you qualified your statement with "generally." Most philosophizing that goes on in these forums (including my own contributions) often amounts to little more than listing flavor notes of Trappistes Rochefort 10. But I have to say, if I employ bad logic and somebody calls me on it, that's a learning experience. Even when done in the context of an online forum, it can help keep the mind sharp.

However, in the grand scheme, philosophy has been rather important (if not integral) to cultural development. I also think that philosophy should be taught in high school-- at the very least a "critical thinking" course. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that college curricula ought to make Phil 101, intro to ethics, and intro to logic mandatory for all students, regardless of major. The value in logic speaks for itself, but if everyone had an ethics course under their belts, this actually might improve things at the societal level.

So, yeah, take philosophical musings with a grain of salt. But I also like to think there is value in philosophy beyond our own enjoyment of it.

[LastPoet]

Pompous ass does not even begin to describe the pretentious douce-baggery  you spread across AF threads like dank spunck on a teenager’s bedsheets. Swedenborg? He's just the theological roach coach from which you serve the pretentious symbolism you dish out to avoid getting ass-raped by the ignorant cosmology of ancient Hebrew goat fuckers. Thip…thip…thip…hear that douche, that’s the sound of the 5-Ways stuck in the metal groove of the like 3 and half neurons it takes you to peel apart the jiz-glued pages of your Aquinas Cliff-Notes. Your hapless medieval hero-worship apologetics are about as worthless as a hooker with a gag reflex. That farcical debate victory over a cock-leper plagiarist was about as impressive as a state fair hot-dog eating champ cleaning up an anal creampie.

I do not feel you were honest about your self deprecating humour. Meh, buzzkiller.

[emjay]

Generally, philosophy is an overrated and esoteric mental excessive with the occasional joy of engaging in a little verbal jousting. If you don't take it with a grain of salt or yourself too seriously it adds a little spice to life. Kind of like beer snobbery,...its still just beer.

I'd have to agree, especially since you qualified your statement with "generally." Most philosophizing that goes on in these forums (including my own contributions) often amounts to little more than listing flavor notes of Trappistes Rochefort 10. But I have to say, if I employ bad logic and somebody calls me on it, that's a learning experience. Even when done in the context of an online forum, it can help keep the mind sharp.

However, in the grand scheme, philosophy has been rather important (if not integral) to cultural development. I also think that philosophy should be taught in high school-- at the very least a "critical thinking" course. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that college curricula ought to make Phil 101, intro to ethics, and intro to logic mandatory for all students, regardless of major. The value in logic speaks for itself, but if everyone had an ethics course under their belts, this actually might improve things at the societal level.

So, yeah, take philosophical musings with a grain of salt. But I also like to think there is value in philosophy beyond our own enjoyment of it.

Just to say vulcan, in case you took it otherwise, my reply to Neo was not disparaging philosophy, just pointing out some of its dangers... pointing out that it's not straightforward and prone to red herrings... especially in the realms of metaphysics etc... if it were straightforward, people wouldn't have been arguing the same questions since the dawn of time. I love philosophy and it wasn't for lack of interest why I didn't finish that course, just difficulty learning.

[vulcanlogician]

[emjay]