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I quite agree with you here and I really like your stand here, I think we gotta have something like this. I think we could use the internet (specifically this nice website.) to make Meaningful Discussions as a thing and lately I really enjoyed having something like that here. (Though, I hope i could somehow really improve my talking skills so I could really keep up to it.) So yeah, you really have a great point here. We could use this website to be able to talk to many people quite far from us and have some really meaningful discussions. Then outside of the internet maybe have a bond with some friends that you have and have fun with them.... (The right way.) I think a balance between is absolutely really good and I think it'll work out quite well. |
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I'm kind of an absurdist? It's like a nihilist if you read "nothing matters" in a happy tone. If nothing matters then who gives a fuck? That's right no one really cares. That's why you see people recording embarrassing shit in public, those people who see something like that either talk about it as a fun story or they just forget. Either way it doesn't really affect you, unless you are unlucky enough to know the people you did something embarrassing around. |
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The Western movie set is truly soul-sucking. Much of it can be blamed on the online infrastructure, but that's a reflection ultimately of our postmodern culture, which has diminished individuality and good character in favor of personality and grandstanding, thereby eroding human connection. Really, the only solution to this is a genuine engagement with philosophy and introspection, but these sorts of things have been deemed "elitist" and "selfish" and so-on because improving the individual, which poses a threat to the personalities of others because of comparative value. Philosophy, that is, which provides the individual knowledge and pride and purpose, is treated as a threat to the persons of others, who believe themselves to be harmed by any inequality, including that between virtue and vice, an inequality that moves us forward. This is a fundamental error that is ultimately psycho-spiritual in nature, and so relies on introspection and self-reflection to get out of. |
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When I was younger I had a preconceived notion of philosophy. I thought that everyone could do philosophy and I didn't understand why everyone always brought up famous philosophers instead of thinking for themselves. I avoided using the term for what I did, I just thought "I like to think". I thought it was pretentious.
But now that I have grown more, I think I was self conscious and thought I was undeserving of doing philosophy. I didn't want to look into philosophers because it showed how less I was. I was scared to admit how much developing I needed to do. It is ok to learn from others. You need to be secure in who you are as an individual to be able to learn from others, otherwise you just regurgitate. I was all kinds of mixed up. I wonder if others have this same problem.
by AnarchRizzy; ; Report
Everyone can and does philosophy. But that is different from engaging with philosophy consciously and with effort. The problem is often that people confuse feeling for thinking, such that they feel that when they feel they are thinking, but that is not the case. Thinking is of a higher order than simple feeling is, and it takes time and concentration to do well. Everyone can and does do it, but not everyone engages in it deeply. This is where is it useful to learn from great thinkers, and it is also the cause of jealousy. But that jealousy can be defeated by becoming a great philosopher for oneself, something that everyone can do, insofar as there is nothing external keeping them from doing so.
by Will; ; Report