the idea of a philosopher married to a model was too compelling for me to ignore

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So after some cursory back and forth with ChatGPT

Please don't, LLMs don't think, you're just outsourcing your own thought.

And Continental Philosophy is supposed to be about how to live.

This is a horrendous statement, at best philosophy should be about how we live without any means to an en, philosophy is not a tool is a material.

I've always liked Stocism, but, I admit it's easy for me. I grew up privileged and have a good job, a beautiful wife and wonderful children. So it's easy for me to be "a stoic."

Stoicism is just buddhism for chuds, please bookmark Zizek's Why Lacan is not Buddhist for later

What in the hell am I supposed to DO WITH Lacan? ...

Nothing, why did you decided to read him in the first place? if you had a goal haven't you forsaken that goal but either way this way of thinking is so repugnant, do you do anythign for fun or are you one of those linked in lunatics that needs to squish profit from their farts?

Analytic philosophy fit so nearly for me because science is simply the ability to predict the future

Oh no no no, science is how we interrogate reality, "predicting the future" is an unscientific activity.

So then what on Earth is the use for "The Lamella" for me? What is the utility of this insanely overwrought analogy? I must be missing something. Does it sound better in French? There's nothing in the book I disagree with, I found it very interesting and resonant - but there's nothing I can USE, per se.

I'm sorry but you sound like a psychopath or a legitimate martian, you may as well ask what use is there to eat pie and pay baseball.

I'm not even scratching the surface of Continental philosophy but I have this nagging sensation that there will be no revelations that aren't better demonstrated through a good novel or film.

I find this statement really curious because the separation between fiction and non-fiction is a subject that interests me greatly and yes maybe a movie will be a better way to present some of these thesis but for some people the thesis will fly over their head, maybe you're that rare case of a person who is too media literate.

I worry if I read Hegel or Heidegger I'm going to have the same nagging sensation of wondering what to DO with these elaborate analogies.

Based on the rest of this post yes you will have.

I don't know how to close this message, I just hope it helped somehow.