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The Onion

Man’s Body Running Out Of Ideas To Convince Him He's Full

As he approaches 500 pounds no less.

Ecologists Disappointed After Finding Monarch Butterflies Hiding Pack Of Cigarettes In Habitat

Unfiltered to boot.

Can Of Soda In Freezer Realizing Owner Never Coming Back For It

Weep for its future: https://youtu.be/4MGEDCmMYME

Flu Can’t Wait To Get The Fuck Out Of Area Man’s Body

Of course, that's all in the hands of God.

Aaron Judge: ‘I Wish I’d Just Used Steroids And Hit 80 Home Runs’

The part they bleeped out. You know, for the kids.

Cop Has Weird Feeling He Forgot To Cover Something Up

What cop hasn't felt that?

The Onion

Ye Wears ‘White Lives Matter’ Shirt At Yeezy Fashion Show

Ah, another pinhead.

Nation’s Overthinkers Convene To Determine What That’s Supposed To Mean

And then the underthinkers here, of course.

Man Starting To Suspect Chess Opponent With All Queens Hustling Him

Is that even allowed?

School Budget Committee Votes To Eliminate 4th-Graders Entirely

In other words, not just the pinheads this time.

CNN’s Chief Nihilist Correspondent Gives Perspective On Why None Of This Matters

To Anderson Cooper no less.

Leaked Documents Reveal CIA Secretly Flooded White Communities With Vegetables

Well, that's understandable, right?

Jean-Luc Godard

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now.

Next up: every philosophy forum.

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.

Next up: good posts.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

I dared to suggest it was both!!

Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.

Okay, but that's only until the workers of the world unite.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form. There is only one solution — turn one’s back on American cinema.

Not to worry, Mr. Pinhead. Hollywood is here to stay.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Some forgetting more than others of course.

Eric Hoffer

Anger is the prelude to courage.

More or less foolhardy courage.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Stupidity?

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some.

My guess: lots and lots of exceptions.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Ah, what I'm trying to convey.

In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.

Ah, what I'm trying to convey.

...woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Here for example: https://knowthyself.forumotion.net/f6-agora

Philosophy Tweets

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” Søren Kierkegaard

Pick one:
1] the pinheads
2] the meat minds
3] all of the above

“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.” Jean-Paul Sartre

And, as often as not, in that exact order.

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." Plato

What if that were still true?!!!

"The measure of a man is what he does with power." Plato

And, possibly, a woman too.

"Your silence gives consent." Plato

On the other hand, not remaining silent can get you killed.

"Since accomplishing something important takes time and talent, most people simply find some way to entertain the public, which usually means debasing themselves." Overheard

Reality TV let's call it.

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Quote of the day

The word "one" is implied by the singular form of the word "quote," rather than the plural.

(quote courtesy of the Applied Comprehension Institute - ACI)





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Walker wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:44 am .





Quote of the day

The word "one" is implied by the singular form of the word "quote," rather than the plural.

(quote courtesy of the Applied Comprehension Institute - ACI)

Well said.

Iamabigcunt stop ruining this thread ffs. It's not plural "QUOTES" of the day. If we want a barrage of quotes from 'Onion' etc..then we can just go there.

This thread is boring because of you. People should be posting either their own quotes or something interesting IN SINGULAR FASHION.

You are in conflict with Nothing.

Margaret Atwood from The Handmaid's Tale

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

And if it never does? After all, it's been decades now, right?

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Take what this place has turned into. It's now completely the ordinary.

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

Of course, they still have all the power.

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open.

Or maybe all of it is.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Yeah, what about that?

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Silently. That always works for the powers that be.
But point taken.

iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:33 pm bla bla bla

R U attempting to be the most boring pathetic twat on the forum or R U going to continue and attempt to be so boring that a snail commits suicide?

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:12 pm

iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:33 pm bla bla bla

R U attempting to be the most boring pathetic twat on the forum or R U going to continue and attempt to be so boring that a snail commits suicide?

As with Age, I tend to ignore your posts.

Why?

Because, in my own subjective opinion rooted existentially in dasein, I am convinced that you are afflicted with a "condition". The reason you post what I construe to be intellectually shallow [and often just plain ridiculous] things here is because, well, it's "beyond your control".

Others may disagree. Sure. Let them continue to exchange "substantive" posts with you.

But from my own frame of mind, it is truly discouraging that even a forum derived from Philosophy Now magazine will attract those like you.

ILP is now all but completely taken over by them. A once truly significant philosophical forum -- Carleas, faust, only_humean, von rivers, moreno -- all but destroyed by the Kids, the social media sort, the pinheads and the fulminating fanatic objectivists.

It's the internet, sure. The lowest common denominator sort will always make sites like Facebook and Twitter and TikTok the place to go.

It's just unfortunate that ILP and PN can also easily become infected.

Though, sure, again: If "I" do say so myself. I'm no more excluded from my own point of view.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:12 pm

iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:33 pm bla bla bla

R U attempting to be the most boring pathetic twat on the forum or R U going to continue and attempt to be so boring that a snail commits suicide?

A template may help him to focus. Some folks just need a little guidance.

“A flagrant disregard of the rules!”
(My quote of the day.)

Commentary for my quote of the day:
- It’s a both a scandal and an annoyance.
- Quite the rebel, I’d say.
- We have no choice but to endure his ways. Perhaps if he has a good heart, good will come of it. I must confess though, all those quotes at once are too much to read, so any good won’t come from the content, that’s fur sure.
- I figure, since there’s no rush, one quote a day themes the day when undistracted-

A quote by a rebel:
“I’m a rebel, Dotty.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLizztikRk

Walker wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 4:30 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:12 pm

iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:33 pm bla bla bla

R U attempting to be the most boring pathetic twat on the forum or R U going to continue and attempt to be so boring that a snail commits suicide?

A template may help him to focus. Some folks just need a little guidance.

“A flagrant disregard of the rules!”
(My quote of the day.)

Commentary for my quote of the day:
- It’s a both a scandal and an annoyance.
- Quite the rebel, I’d say.
- We have no choice but to endure his ways. Perhaps if he has a good heart, good will come of it. I must confess though, all those quotes at once are too much to read, so any good won’t come from the content, that’s fur sure.
- I figure, since there’s no rush, one quote a day themes the day when undistracted-

A quote by a rebel:
“I’m a rebel, Dotty.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLizztikRk

You subscribe to Philosophy Now magazine. You read it for a few months and note that the magazine has a forum online. You come here and encounter posts like this.

How can you not be simply dumfounded?

All we can do is to hope it never reaches the point it has at ILP.

iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:57 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:12 pm

iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:33 pm bla bla bla

R U attempting to be the most boring pathetic twat on the forum or R U going to continue and attempt to be so boring that a snail commits suicide?

As with Age, I tend to ignore your posts.

Indeed.

It seems I must reiterate...you are extremely boring. (not very intelligent athough U wish U were IgnorAimUs)

but hey, maybe I am wrong...prove your intelligence

Philosophy Tweets

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." Plato

Music again. It astonishes everyone apparently.

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands." Plato


On the other hand, he actually believed it.
Wrote a book about it.

"It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around." Anita Ekberg

"She had the whole show and that's a natural fact."

"...most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read." Mick Jagger

Not unlike all the gossip stuff here?

"I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy." Mick Jagger

On the other hand, a few of us actually understand why.

"Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him." Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann. One of the "giants" Spock noted.