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  1. #61
    Nile bump
    Originally posted by Obbe Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

    Yeah, I walk around and am told we're in a crisis and yet I don't see it.

    To restore Truth we need to unceasingly attack the Lie, with words, actions and courage.

    Honestly I think the main problem is fear, everyone so scared of phantoms conjured up, what's even worse is that the phantoms aren't even scary most are just soft cowards.

    They deserve everything that's coming, when the real monsters come they'll be Eaten, and will gladly walk into the BBQ.
  2. #62
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your value of 2 and 4 could very well be different than mine, or someone else's.

    How? 2 is 2 and 4 is 4, QED ezpz 2+2=4 prove me wrong QED?

    "Truth" today is merely "agreement", not actually truth.

    Nah truth is consistency. 2+2=4 is a necessarily true statement.
  3. #63
    The fat ones will be slower and easier to catch and BBQ.
  4. #64
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Knowledge is gay
  5. #65
    Originally posted by Tyrant necessarily true ≠ true
  6. #66
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

    Yeah actually it is
  7. #67
    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
  8. #68
    "The more things change, the more they stay the same." - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
  9. #69
    Nile bump
    I prefer pyrrhos who went full reta-philosopher almost solipsism tier skepticism.

    adoxastoi & akradantoi✓✓
  10. #70
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Obbe The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

    That belief renders itself invalid.
  11. #71
    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, c'est la vie.
  12. #72
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    No it's just going insane, it's not really an appropriate response to anything, the abandonment of rationality.
  13. #73
    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
  14. #74
    Nile bump
    Originally posted by Tyrant No it's just going insane, it's not really an appropriate response to anything, the abandonment of rationality.

    No word of a lie... I had a psychiatrist tell me I was too sane and that "it will not go well for me"

    Some aspects of reality are beyond rational understanding. And to navigate those waters one must shed some of its rigid disciplines and accept that somethings while "real" are unexplainable by purely rational means.
  15. #75
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Obbe This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

    Sounds like a gay way to justify stupid beliefs.
  16. #76
    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. I'm not much, but I'm all I have.
  17. #77
    Xlite African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Tyrant Nah truth is consistency. 2+2=4 is a necessarily true statement.

    If that's the case then 2+2=22 is also a true statement.
  18. #78
    Nile bump
    Heh. Good post 77.
  19. #79
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Xlite If that's the case then 2+2=22 is also a true statement.

    How so
  20. #80
    Tyrant African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Nile Heh. Good post 77.

    No it wasn't
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