EE Chats Feb

2013-02-02 09:39:32

#101

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5814

Pochsy wrote:
Superior Mind wrote:
When have been called an idiot, when have I not responded to legitimate arguments I was involved in? The problem is that most of the time the so call philosophical debates going on are recycled topics which produce the same repetitive answers and attacks over and over. This isn't me crying about people not liking what I post. I try to post questions which haven't been discussed before to try to stimulate new avenues of interaction.
Nobody here wants to write an essay properly explaining what is happening. We have professors to write those essays for. Beyond this, if we were qualified to debate philosophy to any reasonable degree, we might. As it stands, Jay can barely understand Marxism, let alone Hegel. We come here for a cheap laugh, to debate topics and say things you wouldn't consider normally, and to generally just stop thinking for a few minutes.

Accept that the world isn't about solving a higher truth to 99% of the population. It's about phatic speech (How are you today?), and trying to not die. This forum is not a bastion of the greatest minds in the world. This might be revelatory to you, given that you post pictures of space all day and speak about the greatness of cultures that were trying to find something to distract them from the death all around them. Here's the clincher: that's exactly what we do here, without ornament.

I am actually taking a class about Western philosophy this semester. I have a retardedly huge stack of books for it. I will post it in the book thread later.

Speaking of books I am taking a class about exploration this time and last semester had a class on precolonial Africa so if you stay around Superior Mind I am going to dump the books on you since they seem to be up your alley. I can list a few of them if you would like?

2013-02-02 09:39:57

#102

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6921

Sure

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2013-02-02 09:45:40

#103

Frank Reynolds: Member; +65|4557

What are you looking at dicknose

2013-02-02 09:46:40

#104

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5814

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/052022123 … p_mpd?pd=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/039333091 … p_mpd?pd=1

Also have the Epic of San Jara
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Sundiata

A few textbooks about ancient African civilizations too.

Ever heard of ibn battuta?

2013-02-02 09:48:10

#105

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5772|Toronto

Superior Mind wrote:
All fine and dandy Pocshy, but the constant personal attacks in DST ruin the point of DST. We have EE to just shoot the shit. But we also have a forum dedicated to discussing things with some level of maturity and thought.

No argument. What we're talking about the is what "some level of maturity and thought" looks like, no? My point: we don't wear tweed blazers and a collared plaid oxford everyday to look important. We're at the level it's been at for years. Actually, there's been an improvement as those unable to handle being wrong and not freaking out leave.

I think it's usually just called "managing expectations."

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families

2013-02-02 09:51:40

#106

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6921

Maturity and thoughtfulness insofar as using actually logic and reason in a DEBATE AND SERIOUS TALK forum. Not resorting to pathological flaming.

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2013-02-02 09:55:05

#107

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5814

ibn battuta was a 15th century Muslim scholar who traveled a distance longer than Marco Polo and recorded it. When from Morocco to China and back to Morocco and to Mali. You should read some of his stuff Sup.

2013-02-02 09:57:20

#108

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5814

Fuck I am bored

2013-02-02 09:59:05

#109

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6921

I almost read the Epic of Sundiata once. Can you recommend a particular ibn battuta work?

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2013-02-02 11:31:57

#110

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5814

The only full thing I have read was " ibn battuta in black Africa". It was his full trip from Egypt to the horn of Africa and Mali. I read bits and parts of his work related to other places but nothing full. I can give you the black Africa book.

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2013-02-02 21:29:37

#111

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5586|London, England

Good night bf2s! 3=========D

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-03 12:19:23

#112

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4483

i don't contribute seriously to philosophy threads in d&st because philosophy is what i do basically professionally, and i honestly do not think anyone else on this forum (literally no one) is up to the professional-formal standards of rigorous philosophical debate. instead you get people like jay using the term 'philosophy' as some pop-culture umbrella term, in the same way 'philosophy' is used to designate sections of book stores that contain 'magic crystals' and 'astrology' books by quack-mediums, in order to give his tired polemic gun/drug/islam/war debates a high-class veneer. none of that shit is philosophy. at best, d&st is a place for people like jay to recycle and reiterate whatever they read/received last, as pure ideology/dogma, and then feel self-satisfied and smug about their 4-paragraph act of rephrasing someone else's ideas.

and sup, don't kid yourself. your pseudo-deep new age spiritualist bullshit is just stuff you've received verbatim from your own petty spare-time reading lists. don't act like you're this enlightened one coming here to try and unearth some grand truths or profound meaning. at the end of the day those deep and meaningful universe-pondering books you read are just so much artifice for bored stoners and otherwise-unemployable anthropologists to fuss over. don't over-privilege your position whilst complaining about a perceived egotism on this forum.

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2013-02-03 12:22:29

#113

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5586|London, England

https://www.city-connect.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/yawning.jpg

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-03 12:25:53

#114

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4483

yes jay we all already know that your ineptitude at serious intellectual discussion/philosophy really wounds you. we all read that painful hegel 'lets talk to myself in public and show off how much i've read / how little i've understood' thread.

2013-02-03 17:43:17

#115

Frank Reynolds: Member; +65|4557

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/61345/eatyourbabies.gif

What are you looking at dicknose

2013-02-03 20:21:49

#116

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6193|London, England

Jay wrote:

jay adont be a troll pls

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2013-02-03 20:22:31

#117

Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5407|Sydney

Mutantbear wrote:
Jay wrote:
jay adont be a troll pls

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45167/%5BNutbladder%5D%20JoJo%27s%20Bizarre%20Adventure%20-%2014%20%5BCF230ABB%5D.mkv_snapshot_01.07_%5B2013.01.16_08.18.jpg

2013-02-03 20:22:48

#118

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6193|London, England

drunk max give karm to eveeryone that poists after me so post and i give u karm

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2013-02-03 20:23:54

#119

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,741|6966|Oxferd Ohire

i dont believe you

2013-02-03 20:28:54

#120

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6193|London, England

RTHKI wrote:
i dont believe you

ur gay

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2013-02-03 20:30:59

#121

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6193|London, England

wwtf someone post i want to karm

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2013-02-03 20:31:34

#122

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6540

no u

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ebug122

2013-02-03 20:36:56

#123

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6193|London, England

Lol

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2013-02-03 20:48:03

#124

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5586|London, England

high lgbtbear!

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-03 20:53:45

#125

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6193|London, England

im not gay LOl

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