(12-03-2024, 04:37 PM)Honest Wrote: Most users of these kinds of forums have philosophical inclinations, but are afraid to pursue them due to culture of anti-intellectualism. The result is a classic case of sour grapes.

(12-03-2024, 04:49 PM)HaughtyHotty Wrote: for some reason many such types have this implicit expectation they'd be able to read and fully understand every sentence of, say,  kant on a first reading (no rereading or going back to the top of the page) without having any expertise or background knowledge in the field, and if they attempt this and fail to accomplish it could only mean kant is bullshit. 

whereas the same person might attempt to read an particle physics paper by niels bohr and it would be equally meaningless and jargon filled to them, but they wouldn't conclude "what a word salad. bohrs is full of shit"

this is even if both genres of texts are by and for experts. they will look at kant and be "why is he using the word object instead of thing. what a fucking pretentious word salad." but they're not going to say wrt bohrs "why is he using the phrase chronology protection conjecture instead of just saying  'you cant  timetravel.' so full of shit"

I guess the thought process with the former is that "there's no numbers or formula or graphs. it must be easy. but it's not. must be something wrong with it and not me because Graphs are  Knowledge."



i'd love to see all our resident anti philosophers grapple this text: https://www.amazon.fr/Principles-Non-Philosophy-Francois-Laruelle/dp/1441177566 

its nonphilosophy as the title suggests so im sure they'll really like it. not like philosophy at all!   they should understand it real easy (and they definitely wouldn't check out by the last sentence of the blurb of the book on amazon)

Quote:there's no numbers or formula or graphs. it must be easy

(12-03-2024, 07:27 AM)prince of shitskins Wrote: Most conversations have philosophical undertones, nobody who has any self awareness would proclaim themselves as a philospher. Its usually an honorary title given to no talent eccentrics who make make it into the spotlight for whatever reason, kind of like jesus or mohammed - what did they actually do? at least hitler did some paintings

(28-08-2024, 01:08 PM)KnightOdds Wrote: Having schizophrenia is a huge talent

(28-08-2024, 01:26 PM)prince of shitskins Wrote: depends how your insanity manifests

(13-03-2024, 12:10 AM)ΛΟΓΟΣ Wrote: being rich is a role, you're usually born rich, not made