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>>9917122
>DUBIETY

>>9917122
Your pattern recognizing machine finds large scale patterns in things and deduces universal principles and axioms from these patters. If your reason tells you that the patterns you recognize are stupid and impossible and illusory, you will stop seeing those patterns. A leap of faith is silencing that part of your reason that says certain patterns are impossible, and moreover bringing to the front of your mind the idea not only that those patterns are possible, but that they are the most meaningful of all patterns. Because you are constantly bombarded with stimuli, you have tons of shit you can "find" patterns in. Thus, all you need to do is "believe" in a certain set of universals, or a certain interpretive apparatus, and all of a sudden you will start seeing confirmation of it everywhere, because your brain will be organizing shit to fit that pattern you believe in. Thus, you believe, and this is followed by more and more coherent structures ("knowledge") that make sense within the context of this belief. You believe in God, and that everything is a manifestation of God's purpose, you start seeing everything as a manifestation of God's purpose, and you "know" you were right about everythnig being a manifestation of God's purpose all along.

this website fascinates me

>>9917117
>These are of course the only translations of Borges worth reading
If you believe this, you completely misunderstand Borges

Borges wrote in English.

>>9917212
You're right.
Nothing comes close to reading borges in spanish

I haev big benis

>>9917105
a woman beaten by her husband that still manages to love him also worships strength

>>9917113
Jesus Christ wasn't a wifebeater.

he's homo fag

>>9917100
statism IS homo fag, anon

>literally a neo-kantian
>greater contributions than Kant

hmm ok

>>9917016
at the very least you've shown by this post that not all men can write

dont bother posting these thoughts in the future

>>9917016

Lol how goes the war effort? It must be hard for you, knowing I'm not really paying any attention or caring all that much, thus limiting your effectiveness by about.... 99.9999999999999%

dumb facebook user

>>9916997
imagine being this much of a pseud

>>9916986
Heaney's "So:" is perfect, wouldn't you say?

>>9916943
culture of critique

The Bible

>>9916966
Holy crap, what have you done to me.

Greeks were a bigger and more direct influence on roman and european writers.
As far as I know, only the jews were really influenced by the sumerians.

Oh no reason at all. I fact, i hear the latest cuneiform translations are excellent.

>>9916941
The Sumerian myths and creation story influenced Greeks and Jews which then influenced the entire West until now

But its not necessary

WAYQ

Genuine No-Prize for man who uses most meaningless academic buzzery in densest space.
Missed "tautological", but I see wat you did there,

>>9916964
Genuine No-Prize for brainlet confused into hysterics by simplistic reasoning.

OP, I wouldn't conflate lack of meaning (of human life) with lack of truth. Those are two different realms with different arguments.

>>9916799
I'm okay with this OP, but have considered just writing it as prose? I think it'd read smoother in that method, while still holding onto a bombastic, rhetorical element.

>divorced from belief which we'd be willing to die for
This would read better as:
Divorced from beliefs for which we'd be willing to die.

I've been re-reading some Baudrillard, I think the Perfect Crime would be right up your alley.

>>9916842
I didn't really pre-edit or anything just poured forth because I'm feeling suicidal

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>>9916850
>divorced from our ancestral heritage
>divorced from belief which we'd be willing to die for
>divorced from the very vitality of life

These lines make me think you're holding onto some kind of traditionalist/conservative emotions, nostalgia for a past era. Forget it, civilizations change, and that change will come at increasingly faster rates. Every attempt to regress into a previous model is yet one more splintering, one more choice. Nick Land put it nicely in a recent article:

>There is no withdrawal from the course of modernity, ‘back’ into community, that does not reinforce the pattern of dissent, schism, and exit from which atomization continually replenishes its momentum. As private conscience directs itself towards escape from the privatization of conscience, it regenerates that which it flees, ever more deeply within itself. Individuation, considered impersonally, likes it when you run.

In previous era's, there was no concept of technological change. A feudal serf's children would also be feudal serfs. If you were to ask that serf "How will your children live?" he'd look at you perplexed and say: "Just like I do". Today, no one knows how their children will live, but it is safe to assume that the future will be 'more'. More races, more genders, more ideologies, more genres, more religions, more parties, more gadgets, more connectivity, more interaction, more change, more schism.

So as far as being suicidal goes, if you can forget your desire for some past era, there is great sadistic pleasure to be taken from our civilization.... morph? mutate? evolve? devolve? change? degenerate? progress? I couldn't possibly pick the right verb to complete that sentence, each would betray a bias, each would be pure speculation. We are ahead of all goals, ahead of all projections. We accelerate, but we don't know what we accelerate towards.

But unlike those feudal peasants, you get to watch this happen. If you get a hard on, feel free to jerk off.

Pic related, the intro to the Transparency of Evil by Baudrillard.

>cf. "Who was Ibid, and how was he so prolific?"

[sic] meme, my friend

probably made a deal with iblis

he wasn't bald and that already puts him most of the way ahead

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My introduction was literally called introduction to philosophy which was entrance exam material, the first philosopher I read was probably G.H Von Wright, unless you count some novelists or stuff like Aristotle's Poetics.

>>9916673
Transcendentalists--Emerson in particular.
It was a pretty good experience

William lane craig.
I used to be into the whole atheist thing and spent all my time reading and watching things related to atheism and religion at the age of 15-16.
When I got to william lane craig though, I was stumped and angry since he seemed to know it all and none of the atheists I admired had a objection to the cosmological/ontological argument that convinced me. That lead me to read his works on philosophy but I quickly moved onto plato and aristotle.

dog penis

>it's a post that just says ''dog penis''

It's an essay based on his personal views. That's it... back then psychology and biology were still unable to answer these things... One thing he got right : there are intrinsic differences between both genders.

well I read the Gita.

The only way to master death is to kill yourself.

>>9916610
>Is using language (reading or writing) the best way

It's actually the worst way; language and thought are the matrix.

Ebin bread :^)