deadken posted:can we get some screencaps up in this b*tch
yeah, can we, krink?
i wonder who owns this account of mine: http://i.imgur.com/ImKuNtA.png
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daddyholes posted:ilmdge thats really embarrassing since it shows where i just reposted a getfiscal post from like a week aog
which post
getfiscal posted:i'm reading the scum manifesto. truth hurts.
i read avital ronnell's intro to the scum manifesto and now i feel no need to actually read it.
Containment was limited neither in its range nor in its means. It was an Ermattungskreig, not a Neiderwerfungskrieg, but the objective was the same.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3581303
roseweird posted:why did descartes say "i think therefore i am" instead of just "i am"
p sure it's because the entire point was that existing is a logical conclusion from the only independently knowable fact, that one is engaged in the act of thinking, whatever we define that as; everything else could be an elaborate trick. the only way I know I exist is because of the thinking
... in case you were asking a real question
ilmdge posted:http://i.imgur.com/3W9ra39.pngi wonder who owns this account of mine: http://i.imgur.com/ImKuNtA.png
hahahahaha lol
Squalid posted:what happened to aaaarg.org. every time I go there chome tells me it can't load the page.
it works fine?
roseweird posted:.custom199315{color:#FFCC00 !important; background-color:#8F0000 !important; }drwhat posted:the only independently knowable fact, that one is engaged in the act of thinking
i was asking a real question yeah thank you for a real response. i found the previous descartes discussion unsatisfying and it occurred to me that i don't understand why we are supposed to take thinking for granted but not to take being for granted. i know that's how descartes justified himself but i don't think we have to accept the assertion that thought is independently knowable just because he wanted to believe that he independently knew himself as a whole and pure intellect.
.custom199315{color:#FFCC00 !important; background-color:#8F0000 !important; }drwhat posted:everything else could be an elaborate trick
right like that sounds kind of crazy paranoid though and maybe if you're thinking in this manner—someone is playing a trick on me and my body isn't real!—you are actually experiencing a deeply pathological state that shouldn't form the basis of rational thought in the western tradition
being is before thinking, anyways since you seem to agree with him i will recommend that you read Heidegger again.
Makeshift_Swahili posted:I got some trotskyites book collection at a thrift store for 2$ total ^_^
Burn it
Makeshift_Swahili posted:I got some trotskyites book collection at a thrift store for 2$ total ^_^
i'm gonna read some trots / only got 20 dimes in my pocket
roseweird posted:drwhat posted:the only independently knowable fact, that one is engaged in the act of thinking
i was asking a real question yeah thank you for a real response. i found the previous descartes discussion unsatisfying and it occurred to me that i don't understand why we are supposed to take thinking for granted but not to take being for granted. i know that's how descartes justified himself but i don't think we have to accept the assertion that thought is independently knowable just because he wanted to believe that he independently knew himself as a whole and pure intellect.
drwhat posted:everything else could be an elaborate trick
right like that sounds kind of crazy paranoid though and maybe if you're thinking in this manner—someone is playing a trick on me and my body isn't real!—you are actually experiencing a deeply pathological state that shouldn't form the basis of rational thought in the western tradition
well it is crazy paranoid, you don't really have to believe that descartes actually truly believed this though. it is just the basic cartesian thought experiment: what if i can trust none of the experience of perceiving reality, then where do i start from?
it's a pretty weird idea. solipsistic and subjective. and then from that we get the concept of objective rationalism. p dumb. the real, absurd irrationality of existence is way more interesting, but it's harder to deal with isn't it
palafox posted:Squalid posted:what happened to aaaarg.org. every time I go there chome tells me it can't load the page.
it works fine?
Ah I guess it does. I was just following the first google link for searching aaarg which is aaaaarg.org, which although it appears to be aaaarg.org, is actually dead. Sorry for time wasting.
i read tao lin's tapei as a study so that i could review that sort of thing. it was physically painful
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wasted posted:descartes is cool because he pretty much lays out that subjectivity is form of insanity
eh