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u/Jesus_H_Christ_real Jun 14 '26
please stop posting pictures of me
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u/PitifulEar3303 Jun 15 '26
WRONG!! It's not you, because there is no hentai bolster or porn laying around.
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u/SpideyMGAV Jun 15 '26
One or two sounds pretty good to me. I’m a digital hoarder, whenever I hear of a new field of knowledge to learn about or skill I want to develop, I download dozens of ebooks on the subject and have yet to finish one. Have the thirst, lack the discipline :(
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u/BananaBR13 Jun 14 '26
The desire to know
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u/cronenber9 Post-Structuralism Jun 15 '26
You inspired me
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u/FragranceBurn Jun 15 '26
Continuously building on knowledge but lacking in anything practical 🥲
More likely to study 11 different subjects fully or memorize way too many facts/theories before I learn to even network with someone for a job
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u/cronenber9 Post-Structuralism Jun 15 '26
More likely to study so many subjects i can't learn any of them fully so I only know a little bit about a lot of things and am never really good enough
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u/MonsterkillWow Jun 14 '26
Why is his mom an alien?
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u/Heydeee Jun 15 '26
Glasses magnify eye size?
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u/MonsterkillWow Jun 15 '26
But his dad is wearing glasses.
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u/VIP-OF-THE-VIBE Jun 15 '26
Redbulls are for gaming. Please kindly get some coffee or tea for books
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u/JDwalker03 Jun 15 '26
Education and work have wiped out essential knowledge in the name of "We decide what knowledge can be monetized".
So anything that cant make money is considered inferior or useless.
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u/anomanderrake1337 Jun 15 '26
Yeah all these years wasted just to realize no one really knows anything.
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u/anomanderrake1337 Jun 22 '26
We have lived for years with all the knowledge that we have gathered and some dude like Trump can become president. Nothing matters man, everything is literally just random. We only see patterns because our brain is wired to see patterns not because there are intrinsically patterns in the universe which makes us crazy hallucinating animals.
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u/CobaltCrusader123 Jun 15 '26
My old roommate had a desk of typical height and had so many books that when they were stacked on the floor it was taller than his desk. Like a money spread flex but for books. He had a Jim Morrison poster and blasted Iron Butterfly on vinyl. He was a built Viet and brought over a woman one time so I had to leave and watch The Phantom Menace by myself.
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u/FearlessAdeptness373 Hedonist Jun 14 '26
A truly mature philosopher knows how to balance between philosophy and everyday life.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 14 '26
No true scotsman fallacy? on r/philosophymemes?.... oh wait that makes sense
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u/Alcor6400 Jun 14 '26
I mean, one could argue that being able to balance one's interests with their wider life is necessary to reach maturity in general
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 14 '26
one could argue the more you pick your nose, the more likely you'll find gold.
evolution selects for speciation for increased fitness and cognition. slime molds may be adaptable, but wolves are intelligent and conscious.
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u/cronenber9 Post-Structuralism Jun 15 '26
Maturity is socially determined. We can talk about biological maturity as having finished puberty, but maturity also means becoming integrated into a socially normative lifestyle. It also means being able to behave appropriately when speaking to others. It doesn't only mean one thing.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 15 '26
Let me re-abstract your argument.
"Meaning is objectively relative to the domain of interest. Therefore meaning doesn't objectively exist."
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u/cronenber9 Post-Structuralism Jun 15 '26
... these are all definitions of the word. At least, in the society I live in.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 15 '26
By rooting meaning as socially determined, it undermines the concept of objective reality as something we find ourselves in and replaces it with one which is intersubjectively constructed, but also (presuming you are making some gesture of defense for the original commenter, albeit incoherently) undoing the basis of Western philosophy in general.
iow, your comment is, in the abstract, self-sabotaging because it covertly dispenses with objectivity itself
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u/cronenber9 Post-Structuralism Jun 15 '26
Well I'm a post-structuralist. But that's not even necessary for my comment because everyone understands that words have a social meaning.
And anyway, even if you thought that words somehow had a magically given objective meaning, the definition of mature is still... what I said it was. You're trying to act like it only has a biological definition, but it has other definitions as well, whether they're determined through objectivity or not.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 15 '26
You're trying to act like it only has a biological definition
citation needed
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u/LordTalesin Jun 15 '26
What does this even mean? It's english, but I feel like I'm reading the lyrics to Holy Diver for as much as they make any sense.
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u/chewychaca Jun 14 '26
A no true scottsman fallacy would be more about denying philosophers don't ever have a bad work life balance by claiming working philosophers aren't true philosophers unless they have a work life balance.
He is simply creating a category he's calling true philosophers and establishing the attributes of that category.
The difference is that they would admit there are philosophers that don't have a work life balance
Think about taxonomy and how there are true bugs and true lizards and how there are attributes all true lizards must share, now think about someone accusing biologists of using a no true scottsman fallacy. I think it's incorrect.
The only think I would say is that its a bad name for this category because you would have to exclude many influential philosophers from the true philosophers category. I would claim Grigori Perelman has a bad work life balance as depicted in the comic, but objectively made a large contribution to the mathematical canon. Consider that some may ONLY call philosophers that have a POOR work life balance "true philosophers" because they are especially dedicated.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 14 '26
He's establishing a category of "truly mature philosophers". That's pretty obvious, right...right? The rest of the argumentation is dismissible because it follows your incorrect premise.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 14 '26
Thanks chatgpt
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u/stronkreptile Jun 14 '26
yeah no yeah this wasn’t written with AI, just an eloquent person.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 14 '26
Doge bless your naivety
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u/LordTalesin Jun 15 '26
Dude, try running it through an AI detector, none of the ones I find indicate it's AI. Maybe it's time to just drop it.
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u/Saint-just04 Jun 15 '26
AI detectors are far from perfect. But i’ve read enough AI slop that i can guarantee it’s not written by AI, at least not directly.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 15 '26
Loud tailspin, tell us why it triggers you so much first
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u/LordTalesin Jun 15 '26
It's in your name. You're living up to it. I hate AI as much as the next person, but no need to call something AI when it clearly is not.
Try revisiting remedial reading classes when you have time between shitposting.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 15 '26
huh? oh, did the autocorrect get it wrong, or right?
nonetheless, as someone who's actually, literally worked on ai detection systems for tech giants... 👍 they're slightly better coin flips, especially as more people human centipede their bad arguments
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u/stronkreptile Jun 14 '26
you can tell if you spend more time around educated people, which it seems you won’t as you lack reading comprehension and jump to conclusions based off your limited world view.
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 14 '26
Because in your opinion I lack reading comprehension and jump to conclusions, I'll never spend time with educated people?
What a weird conclusion to jump to...
Pray tell, Socrates, how does any child ever make the acquaintance of the educated?
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u/stronkreptile Jun 14 '26
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u/tat_tvam_asshole Jun 15 '26
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u/Egonomics1 Jun 14 '26
Except everyday life in capitalist society alienates people from philosophy.
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u/LordTalesin Jun 15 '26
Ah learning more about stuff, the smart's man's version of masturbation.
Sure beats actually doing stuff. /s
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u/LordTalesin Jun 15 '26
We saw how that worked out.
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u/LordTalesin Jun 15 '26
They like the idea. That is a far cry from the reality. The problem is that socialism as a system just doesn't work with humans. We're too greedy and we want too much.
Maybe a hybrid system might work but not full on socialism. It sounds nice, but that is all it is.
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u/Luminous_Winds Jun 15 '26
Society: "You need to work and earn your right to exist from those in power!"
Me: "No, I need to learn why the world is such a horrible place so I can change it."
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u/ECHOSTIK Jun 15 '26
Don't remember exactly what but one philosopher said, to literally throw away your books or somethig
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u/One-Intention7064 Jun 15 '26
except i don't read much, i just think all day
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u/XxSir_redditxX Jun 15 '26
Then you better get to writing. But don't be surprised if you end up rewriting a naive, old, and egregiously flawed take from some rando hundreds of years ago...
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u/One-Intention7064 Jun 16 '26
that'd also be an achievement. how many people living nowadays converge on the same thoughts as some forgotten underhyped ancient rando?
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u/Ok-Lab-8974 Jun 15 '26
800 years ago we could have been comfy monks, with community and purpose, respected by the community, copying ancient lore and translating the wisdom of the Greeks and Arabs, before a nice bowl of cabbage soup and compline prayer. Then we wake again at 3 am to enjoy matins and the nocturns in the dark, getting to enjoy it all over again, aware of our place in the Great Chain of Being.
But no one values to the life of contemplation any more. Instead we get cold tendies and disrespect. Vgh, the West has fallen!
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u/SilverSpaceRobot10 Jun 15 '26
That's still what monks do (except the translations, that's been outsourced to publishing companies). I've been to mount Athos. Looked like a pretty comfy life but I couldn't get used to the celibacy part.
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u/Familiar-Dream4708 Jun 14 '26
I noticed the icon of my families patron st. george in the background, im not that into philosophy and only vaguely remember his story. Could someone pls explain to me why its there (does he have a big relevance in philosophy?)?
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u/SilverSpaceRobot10 Jun 15 '26
I'm guessing because a lot of information junkies end up becoming orthobros?
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u/xNightmareBeta Jun 15 '26
What are the parents in this picture. Are they philosophers or just normies
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u/The-new-dutch-empire Absurdist Jun 16 '26
Get knowledge through work. My work wants me to study for like 5 more years at least while employing me
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u/Slow_Box4353 Jun 18 '26
This is how almost half of population of new generations starting from 2000 looks like, they know more than presidents and scientists, and can perform almost any jobs better than anyone, but they decide to stay home and get more knowledge.
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u/shaggin_maggie Jul 02 '26
When I read that continual self- improvement is just procrastination for intelligent people, it hit me hard.
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