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babyfinland posted:
the other day i was thinking about the abrahamic faiths with judaism as like the conservative bedrock, christianity as the radical deterritorialization and islam as the balanced completion



someone at college gave a khutbah along these lines - but i think more entrenched in a discussion of morality vs legality where the gospels and old testament/talmud play the parts respectively and islam being the one that unites the both

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tpaine posted:

mudcrabs posted:

link to friend staying over one plz


this one rules so much


sure I will... homo

#167

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.



he might not be the most relevant, but he's very relevant despite a few flaws in his thinking. i still haven't read anything where someone entirely dismisses the intellectual rigor of zizek's thought without either engaging in an extremely uncharitable reading of something out of context, or simply coming from a lack of knowledge in lacanian (and hegelian) theory - and an unwillingness to learn/bias against psychoanalysis in general. usually it's simply a flat and cretinous condemnation without any substance i.e. babyfinland's favorite school of criticism.

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which is of course ironic for someone who spends all their time reading islamic theology. but maybe he unconsciously believes dawkins has a point.
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aerdil posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

he might not be the most relevant, but he's very relevant despite a few flaws in his thinking. i still haven't read anything where someone entirely dismisses the intellectual rigor of zizek's thought without either engaging in an extremely uncharitable reading of something out of context, or simply coming from a lack of knowledge in lacanian (and hegelian) theory - and an unwillingness to learn/bias against psychoanalysis in general. usually it's simply a flat and cretinous condemnation without any substance i.e. babyfinland's favorite school of criticism.



can it shitbird

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Groulxsmith posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

i think he occasionally says some interesting things interspersed among the incomprehensible and the self-parody like his tedious movie reviews



turns out you have to read books to find that stuff. thats way too hard, im just going to keep reading wahtever the guardian publishes by him

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zizek is ok when he's talking about philosophy and psychoanalysis but he should be forced at gunpoint to sign a statement promising to Never Talk About Actual Politics Again. i dont really mind the film reviews, theyre silly but gotta get dem papes son
#175

mistersix posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

i think he occasionally says some interesting things interspersed among the incomprehensible and the self-parody like his tedious movie reviews

turns out you have to read books to find that stuff. thats way too hard, im just going to keep reading wahtever the guardian publishes by him



after reading adrian johnstons book, the real zizek comes across as totally deflated and impotent. this is most evident when he interacts with other thinkers in his books, its either to rip them off or to turn criticisms of him into "oh but thats what i meant see, yeah". so hes totally useless on his own as a "thinker", but via his popularity hes gained currency as a symbolic figure

#176
the communist hipster canon is really insular and shallow but it can consume a lifetime...
#177

aerdil posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

he might not be the most relevant, but he's very relevant despite a few flaws in his thinking. i still haven't read anything where someone entirely dismisses the intellectual rigor of zizek's thought without either engaging in an extremely uncharitable reading of something out of context, or simply coming from a lack of knowledge in lacanian (and hegelian) theory - and an unwillingness to learn/bias against psychoanalysis in general. usually it's simply a flat and cretinous condemnation without any substance i.e. babyfinland's favorite school of criticism.



this is so pompous lmao

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Lessons posted:

aerdil posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

he might not be the most relevant, but he's very relevant despite a few flaws in his thinking. i still haven't read anything where someone entirely dismisses the intellectual rigor of zizek's thought without either engaging in an extremely uncharitable reading of something out of context, or simply coming from a lack of knowledge in lacanian (and hegelian) theory - and an unwillingness to learn/bias against psychoanalysis in general. usually it's simply a flat and cretinous condemnation without any substance i.e. babyfinland's favorite school of criticism.

this is so pompous lmao



hes my favorite

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babyfinland posted:
completion of faith, not the gay revolution of gays



uhuh. yeah. the Completion Of Faith. because the faith of a christian has less... faithliness??? than a muslim who believes god cares a lot about what people do with each others anuses

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babyfinland posted:

mistersix posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

i think he occasionally says some interesting things interspersed among the incomprehensible and the self-parody like his tedious movie reviews

turns out you have to read books to find that stuff. thats way too hard, im just going to keep reading wahtever the guardian publishes by him

after reading adrian johnstons book, the real zizek comes across as totally deflated and impotent. this is most evident when he interacts with other thinkers in his books, its either to rip them off or to turn criticisms of him into "oh but thats what i meant see, yeah". so hes totally useless on his own as a "thinker", but via his popularity hes gained currency as a symbolic figure


i just got that book. going to start it when i go down the shore this wkd

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ZIZEK WARS
#182
zizek's credibility never really survived the Slapbloy Bleeblep Incident
#183

Groulxsmith posted:

babyfinland posted:

mistersix posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

i think he occasionally says some interesting things interspersed among the incomprehensible and the self-parody like his tedious movie reviews

turns out you have to read books to find that stuff. thats way too hard, im just going to keep reading wahtever the guardian publishes by him

after reading adrian johnstons book, the real zizek comes across as totally deflated and impotent. this is most evident when he interacts with other thinkers in his books, its either to rip them off or to turn criticisms of him into "oh but thats what i meant see, yeah". so hes totally useless on his own as a "thinker", but via his popularity hes gained currency as a symbolic figure

i just got that book. going to start it when i go down the shore this wkd



sweet, post trip report

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deadken posted:

babyfinland posted:
completion of faith, not the gay revolution of gays

uhuh. yeah. the Completion Of Faith. because the faith of a christian has less... faithliness??? than a muslim who believes god cares a lot about what people do with each others anuses



i dont criticize other peoples faiths, and dont take this as any sort of comment on christianity, but from within my own faith anything less than the immanent realization of the divine attributes through adherence to the sacred law is incomplete faith

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Lessons posted:

aerdil posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

he might not be the most relevant, but he's very relevant despite a few flaws in his thinking. i still haven't read anything where someone entirely dismisses the intellectual rigor of zizek's thought without either engaging in an extremely uncharitable reading of something out of context, or simply coming from a lack of knowledge in lacanian (and hegelian) theory - and an unwillingness to learn/bias against psychoanalysis in general. usually it's simply a flat and cretinous condemnation without any substance i.e. babyfinland's favorite school of criticism.

this is so pompous lmao



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babyfinland posted:

mistersix posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:
"zizek is a liberal" - parroting of a parrot

there is really no difference between zizek and jon stewart. zizek just caters to a more bookish market

yeah that's a good way to put it. if people just treated him as a left-leaning funnyman rather than The Most Relevant Social Theorist Today then it wouldn't bother me at all.

i think he occasionally says some interesting things interspersed among the incomprehensible and the self-parody like his tedious movie reviews

turns out you have to read books to find that stuff. thats way too hard, im just going to keep reading wahtever the guardian publishes by him

after reading adrian johnstons book, the real zizek comes across as totally deflated and impotent. this is most evident when he interacts with other thinkers in his books, its either to rip them off or to turn criticisms of him into "oh but thats what i meant see, yeah". so hes totally useless on his own as a "thinker", but via his popularity hes gained currency as a symbolic figure



yes in that respect hes the dreyfus to z's heidegger

#187
im pretty stunned when i meet any college educated person under 30 who goes to church
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goatstein lives in nevada because of the lax bestiality laws
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babyfinland posted:
goatstein lives in nevada because of the lax bestiality laws



i was going to ask where he lived in america that he wasn't catatonic all the time and yet still met people regularly but this pretty much explains it completely

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i live in boston actually, and have lived in massachussets for nearly two years. update youre burnes
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#193
thats photoshopped.
#194

Goethestein posted:
thats photoshopped.


nothing gets past you huh

#195
i asked my wife if it would be cool if we converted to islam so i could get three more wives and she said no. i even tried to explain that we could have them work fulltime so we'd never have to work again and she still said no. i should stop trolling my wife when shes seven and a half months pregnant, i think she has developed the ability to deal aggravated damage
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Goethestein posted:
i live in boston actually, and have lived in massachussets for nearly two years. update youre burnes



uh huh

#197
goat i mentioned your name the other day on wddp and they banned me for a month. when i asked why they said it was because you "literally threatened someone". lmao they afraid of the ol goat. i love that place.
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getfiscal posted:
goat i mentioned your name the other day on wddp and they banned me for a month. when i asked why they said it was because you "literally threatened someone". lmao they afraid of the ol goat. i love that place.



i dont recall literally threatening anyone.

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didnt they wordfilter 'goatstein' into bib fortuna or something
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can u post who i threatened and when. i always liked searching wddp when it was visible and reading the various lies they made up about me