February 2012
33 posts
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Gorgias' Solipsism
1. Nothing exists;
2. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and
3. Even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others.
4. Even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood.
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Le Scrawl - Should’ve Known Better
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“Mortals believe that the gods are born
and have human clothing, voice, and...”
– Xenophanes
“I love myself,” he said. ”But it’s unrequited.”
-Tom Robbins, from Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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Big L - Casualties of a Dice Game
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“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm...”
– Timothy Leary
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“I find myself more and more relying for a solution to our problems on the...”
– John Maynard Keynes, ten days before he died (via whakahekeheke)
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The most obvious and sure sign of an enslaved mind is their inability to take attacks on their beliefs as anything other than personal attacks. Some ways that this usually can be observed are: when someone personally attacks another in response to their valid argument, when someone “take sides”, or when someone formulates their interpretation based on tone and not meaning.
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“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
His Hero is Gone - Raindance
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“Truth, far from being a solemn and severe master, is a docile and obedient...”
– Nelson Goodman, from Ways of Worldmaking
“I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 (via juiceonice)
surprised this reasoning didn’t lead him to philosophy
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“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident,...”
– Isabel Paterson, from The God of the Machine
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“The famous ‘going beyond’ Marxism in an idealistic and humanitarian direction is...”
– Albert Camus, The Self-Deception of the Socialist (via fuckyeahemergence)
January 2012
40 posts
R.I.P. Gandhi
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“Consciousness is accessible only to intentional analysis and not to mere factual...”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from The Primacy of Perception
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The Books - Smells Like Content
Most of all, the...
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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata #8 in C minor
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“The origin of things, considered not as leading to anything, but in itself,...”
– Charles Sanders Peirce
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Dead Meadow - Get Up On Down
Almighty Wisdom
the...
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Dead Kennedys - Soup is Good Food
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“‘I said that it is governments which make wars and prepare for wars, but...”
– Colin Ward