Philosophy Now Forum

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:07 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:05 pm I feel you'd be the kind of guy that would be into Graham Hancock

Your feelings may betray you though, my Pisces friend

Glitch in the Matrix

Hancock was in ref to your interest in Bronze Age ocean travel.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:09 am Say it with pictures, or words.

I have a better idea...why don't we make it compelling instead.

The pursuit of pleasure [in all its insidious forms] almost always ends badly [relationships, obesity, drugs and alcohol, electronic devices, social media, etc.]. THIS is why [until recently] fun was the business of children, not adults. Something seemed to happen in the 80's and many decided that growing up and acting responsibly was not part of the basic program anymore.

Instead of the need to constantly push your pleasure buttons, perhaps doing things because they will improve the overall quality of your life [and the lives of those around you] might be a path that will actually result in contentment [the best you can hope for as an adult].

I want to stop philosophising but i KANT

When it’s 3am and you’re still awake reflecting on your own existence.

I think therefore I don’t sleep.

Leibniz rented storage lockers to store nads, nads and monads...

-Imp

Go nads!!

Stole this one:

Dennett thinks he has it all figured out, but Dennett dinnitt dunnitt.

(well, what do you expect from a Pisces-Aries cusper)

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:22 am Go nads!!

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorQ_ULcvss

simplicity wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:28 pm

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:09 am Say it with pictures, or words.

I have a better idea...why don't we make it compelling instead.

The pursuit of pleasure [in all its insidious forms] almost always ends badly [relationships, obesity, drugs and alcohol, electronic devices, social media, etc.]. THIS is why [until recently] fun was the business of children, not adults. Something seemed to happen in the 80's and many decided that growing up and acting responsibly was not part of the basic program anymore.

Instead of the need to constantly push your pleasure buttons, perhaps doing things because they will improve the overall quality of your life [and the lives of those around you] might be a path that will actually result in contentment [the best you can hope for as an adult].

Living by a philosophy crams reality cognition into the framework of the preconceptions that define the philosophy.

I think an important question to consider is whether or not philosophy is a pathway for seeking the truth, or if philosophy is an intellectual method to express the truths that seeking has already found, and applying those truths to what's-happening-now, via the common reference point of a topic, whether the topic be current events, history, or predictions.

Pictures and jokes can say the same thing as that because the unexpected punchline, or fresh associations, can suspend judgement for a slightly disorienting moment before awareness properly categorizes the input as nonsense, if that's required to make it fit preconceptions.

Gold!!