February 2012
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
– Socrates (via lucifelle)
carsonpotter:
it’s okay, i thought you were witty and hilarious, i whisper as i watch my post get 0 notes
Support for Panexperientialism
s33:
Could a rock have consciousness?
Good answer from someone on Quora:
Yes, obviously. Why obviously? Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it made of? Specifically, the disconnect that must occur if some parts of reality are “conscious” while others aren’t. And don’t get me started on the nonsense superstition of “emergent properties” — show me one “emergent ...
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“Parmenides’ uses of rhythm, of symmetrical juxtapositions suggest an...”
– George Steiner; The Poetry of Thought
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“It is the most “stylish” of philosophers, those most alert to the...”
– George Steiner; The Poetry of Thought
THIS JUST IN: BEING ALIVE ISN'T VEGAN
ideasandopinions:
Oh, certainly. If doing any harm to any animal, either directly or indirectly, is un-vegan, you might as well off yourself. That is, if you’re really committed to that particular vegan business.
If you’re not one for acclimating to sensible distinctions or degrees of difference, best hop into that meat wagon! (Uh oh, carnivore semantics exercised in a bias concerning...
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Prowl.
Intellectuals
Cognitivists
Sophists
Politicizers
—kin? The maw births their escarpment, amidst clouds or hills, sets aside the rest.
Do those flavors stand
Or does your taste give them legs.
Mixed meat for my friends, and still—taking pride in my divide. Who’s anytime for false enrichment. Load it in, on hinged calvara, dense mash and all.
Think that what you...
absurdreasoning:
so-meta:
sat for so long in front of a poem that pritch linked to
I feel like my soul is dead
fuck
Ellipsis.
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‘Nietzsche rejected any thought that was... →
doctorofnothing:
aporianonymous:
‘Nietzsche rejected any thought that was integrated into the function of thinking because it is the least efficacious. For what are the thoughts and experiences of a philosopher worth if the serve to merely guarantee the society from which he comes? A society believes itself to be morally justified through its scientists and artists. Yet the very fact that ...
“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any which insane...”
– William James (via phredology)
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne (via galileogst)
What’s the deal with jimmy rustlin’.
“Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be...”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (via moreofamore)
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise (via emotional-algebra)
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos)
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