Quote:To the less able, it seems that he became something of a tyrant. The first two hours of each day were devoted to mathematics, hours that Monk writes some of the pupils recalled years later with horror.[180] They reported that he caned the boys and boxed their ears, and also that he pulled the girls' hair;[181] this was not unusual at the time for boys, but for the villagers he went too far in doing it to the girls too; girls were not expected to understand algebra, much less have their ears boxed over it. The corporal punishment apart, Monk writes that he quickly became a village legend, shouting "Krautsalat!" ("coleslaw" – i.e. shredded cabbage) when the headmaster played the piano, and "Nonsense!" when a priest was answering children's questions.[182]

Quote:An incident occurred in April 1926 and became known as Der Vorfall Haidbauer (the Haidbauer incident). Josef Haidbauer was an 11-year-old pupil whose father had died and whose mother worked as a local maid. He was a slow learner, and one day Wittgenstein hit him two or three times on the head, causing him to collapse. Wittgenstein carried him to the headmaster's office, then quickly left the school, bumping into a parent, Herr Piribauer, on the way out. Piribauer had been sent for by the children when they saw Haidbauer collapse; Wittgenstein had previously pulled Piribauer's daughter, Hermine, so hard by the ears that her ears had bled.[202] Piribauer said that when he met Wittgenstein in the hall that day:

I called him all the names under the sun. I told him he wasn't a teacher, he was an animal-trainer! And that I was going to fetch the police right away!

(12-06-2026, 04:51 AM)bluerose Wrote: so many faux-geniuses in history have been either masochists or sadists, compare dat to physicists and actual inventors who are comparatively kind and socially neutral at worst.

philosophy is a meme discipline, almost as useless as art and language, attracts the exact type of midwit who knows he's too stupid/selfish to be of proper use to society, but still wants to "mog" (exhibitionist trait of introverted narcissists).

(12-06-2026, 04:51 AM)bluerose Wrote: so many faux-geniuses in history have been either masochists or sadists, compare dat to physicists and actual inventors who are comparatively kind and socially neutral at worst.

philosophy is a meme discipline, almost as useless as art and language, attracts the exact type of midwit who knows he's too stupid/selfish to be of proper use to society, but still wants to "mog" (exhibitionist trait of introverted narcissists).

(12-06-2026, 11:37 AM)Honest Wrote: the only reason why this creep (whose works had almost nothing original in them) has any popularity was because of the professional con-artist known as Bertrand Russell (who acted as his tard-wrangler). when you realise what went on, the whole thing shows itself as a pathetic sham.

Quote:when you realize what went on

(12-06-2026, 11:53 AM)Altruist Wrote: he completely redefined philosophy with random scrambling while being in the trenches, you tryhard moron

(12-06-2026, 12:39 PM)Honest Wrote: youve never read him, and youre also not aware that pretty much all of his 'original theories' had already been talked about decades before him.

...which means that youre making a massive big fat fool of yourself right now

(12-06-2026, 12:39 PM)Honest Wrote: youve never read him, and youre also not aware that pretty much all of his 'original theories' had already been talked about decades before him.

...which means that youre making a massive big fat fool of yourself right now