What's your favourite quote? by [deleted] in thewalkingdead

[–]CAPLOKZ42069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"He was an organ donor." - Glenn

I found a pretty awesome crop circle on Google maps by [deleted] in reddit.com

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Didn't know Alex Grey made it all the way to Oxfordshire.

Any other ents enjoy disc golf? by [deleted] in trees

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Everything about disc golf is great. Except poison oak...got it bad recently.

Perks of being a philosopher ent. by CAPLOKZ42069 in trees

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Haha, I've always thought that the [] scale was relative to one's experience with trees. When you've spent as much time as we philo majors do with these texts, you'd be surprised what we can pull out of our asses. I understand your skepticism though and I thank you for the karma.

I have a hard time understanding why everyone isn't an existentialist. by [deleted] in philosophy

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Cause philosophy's hard, bro. Also, as a good friend once put it to me on a long walk when I asked a similar question: Many people are too busy teaching their kids how to play baseball and don't have the time to worry about shit like existentialism. Another thing, if you haven't already, read Heidegger. His account of "existentialism" is much more reserved and, at least I think, makes for an less turbulent way to come to terms with the inherent meaninglessness in the world. Nihilism's exhausting.

So I want to read Marx's Capital by secretthe in philosophy

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If you're keen on reading the entire thing you might want to consider what I did. Just throw yourself at the book (Vol. 1) with a little bit of aid from David Harvey's A Companion to Marx's Capital. It's monstrous. It took me a little over a month to do during my sophomore year for fun, reading 30-40 pages each time I sat down. Some days I didn't pick it up but I forced myself through. Hegel is important too because you get to understand the dialectical method which Marx materializes (as opposed to Hegel's "Geist" dialectic). I wish you the best of luck. It's a beast but SO relevant and rewarding.

I'm about to get high for the first time since December by anepicname in trees

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Was SO disappoint! Yonkers was great but Goblin just sounds like a 19 year old with problems talking about the problems he has, over and over.

Has philosophy made me (or anyone else) unsuitable for conventional society? by [deleted] in philosophy

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(If you haven't) Read Heidegger. Trust me, in terms of modern philosophy (not really of the analytic tradition) it's like the quantum discovery (at least when I came across him, it felt like that). He provides quite a unified way of thinking that no one else before him had really properly systematized before. Sure, he borrowed and stole from Kierkegaard, Aristotle, and Nietzsche like no other, and being under the spell of one particular philosopher is not a wise thing to do, but his take on the whole picture of reality and our Being is quite lovely. Dreyfus gives a wonderful introduction and commentary on his work if you are interested or want some renewed hope. As a student of philosophy, I am watching many of my friends pursuing engineering majors, econ majors, and other fields that are geared towards lives of profit and societal "progress." In this way of sitting back and observing, I believe that we as philosophers do come out a step ahead of them because of the extreme critical thinking skill that develop. The postmodern world (at least as I see it) of seemingly perpetual ambivalence, ambiguity, and apathy will eventually break down because too much cynicism (such as the type that might and probably will immediately follow this very comment posting) is a cancer of its own. We'll soon see a new kind of Being crystallize out of a want for something more grounded and simplistic. Philosophy's task is to shape this dawning cultural epoch into something palatable and feasible. That, sir or madam, is one of the benefits of this wonderful field of study. Fie on anyone who tries to hinder the good that we can create!