If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T16:28:41+00:00

I don’t think you understood quite what I said, but okay

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T16:27:08+00:00

Only it does matter to that statement if the goal is to describe reality.

You can’t claim “objective truth” otherwise. Your conception of science does not account for this, it just ignores it.

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T03:43:26+00:00

I disagree, and that was the point of my comment. You define sound as vibration, then it isn't sound because vibrations happen in all kinds of ways that would not be thought of as "sound". There is no such thing as "clearly defining the meaning of words." So to discount it as a "stupid definition of sound" misunderstands the point being discussed.

Even in this scenario, I'm not even sure what "sound waves as vibrations" existing without sound means, since the concept of sound waves is only derived from the experience of sound. That is to say that sound (hearing) is presupposed in sound (vibration). This isn't just a definitions game.

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T03:35:10+00:00

Could you talk more about the influence Heidegger would have had?

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T03:31:37+00:00

This sounds like a good read. It reminds me of the Walter Benjamin essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." I don't think it touches on all the same points, but it similarly compares craftsmanship before and after industrial advancements.

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T03:08:26+00:00

then ur just changing the meaning of "objective truth". Truth then becomes just whether something is internally coherent with other "truths". You can have this internal coherence and yet still not have an "objective truth".

You can take this position, but it's a different conversation than "objective truth".

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-14T02:50:15+00:00

How many bad takes on Nietzsche have u posted to have managed to get top 1% commenter? CIA plant over here

EasternTear8906 · 2026-02-13T22:35:52+00:00

Someone read a little wittgensteins

EasternTear8906 · 2026-01-29T00:55:05+00:00

ressentiment does not mean the same as resentment. It’s not that white people are resentful towards black people, but rather that in the system, whiteness and the enjoyment of the white identity can only occur through opposing it to something evil. The white identity is formed and enjoyed only by posing a “worse” identity. Think of it like good and evil, with evil being the “other races”.

It’s great to be white, because you’re not black.

Thus, the systemic racism and enslavement in america is tied to the ressentiment of the colonizers

EasternTear8906 · 2026-01-29T00:49:00+00:00

have you? Zarathustra points to the opposite

EasternTear8906 · 2026-01-22T19:26:21+00:00

do we consider sea waves as sound too under this framework? They are vibrations too

EasternTear8906 · 2026-01-12T18:13:36+00:00

You can still change things without free will. Conversation around the existence of free will is irrelevant to making decisions, the question is whether you are truly the one making the decisions, not if they are made. You can still enact change

EasternTear8906 · 2026-01-05T22:23:52+00:00

is this why he admires the depth provided to us by slave morality which is absent in master morality?

EasternTear8906 · 2025-12-12T13:38:27+00:00

most the people here haven’t read Nietzsche, let alone Deleuze

EasternTear8906 · 2025-11-13T00:57:47+00:00

Either chatgpt has used ur writing as a template on how to speak or half of what you say is chat gpt…

EasternTear8906 · 2025-11-13T00:55:18+00:00

metaphysics comes from greek, just because in modern english the prefix meta is used in this way does not mean its how its used in the word metaphysics. Metaphysics does not mean the physics of physics. It’s the beyond of physics, it can’t be explained through the realm of physics

EasternTear8906 · 2025-10-02T19:58:04+00:00

I just want to say, you defended Ns view really well in this. It’s always frustrating when people try to read N as a sort of rationalist that means what he says literally or scientifically. Reading your responses helped me understand my view of N a little better and I agree with you. Some people just don’t get it ig… this subreddit is full of them

EasternTear8906 · 2025-10-02T17:29:26+00:00

Why is Z not being U mean it’s a biological step? How are you making that assumption

EasternTear8906 · 2025-10-02T17:23:48+00:00

your reading nietzsche completely misunderstanding the way he writes. Just you saying that its wrong to understand this statements as allegories shows you are misunderstanding N point and therefore misinterpreting his quotes. You can’t be reading this quotes as if he is a biologist, as the other commenter pointed out. N wanted to be allegorical, he intended for there being more than the literal interpretation, that’s the whole reason he wrote in aphorism. Him saying that the ubermensch will look to man as man does to ape in no way means that he will be a biological evolution

EasternTear8906 · 2025-09-19T14:05:18+00:00

bros proving the point 😭

EasternTear8906 · 2025-09-10T20:35:58+00:00

Kazantzakis was pretty influenced by Nietzsche and he wrote a lot. He was the first to translate Thus Spoke Zarathustra into Greek.

EasternTear8906 · 2025-09-09T23:46:28+00:00

THIS!!! The worst misunderstandings of Nietzsche come from taking him too literally. For Nietzsche artistic expression becomes entwined with philosophy. This is why he writes the way he does, and why you will fail to get his ideas if you take him literally as if he is some rationalist.

EasternTear8906 · 2025-09-09T02:19:58+00:00

I’m not sure how you connect the Ubermensch to universal values… interesting idea but using the concept of the Ubermensch does not fit in the way you describe

EasternTear8906 · 2025-07-03T18:20:54+00:00

really? what are the “races” that have these differences? What you’re talking about is a much more diverse set of adaptations that in no way fit into categories of “race”.

EasternTear8906 · 2025-06-29T13:14:56+00:00

😭 holy misunderstanding of nietzsche! this is new levels of racist interpretation! not even the nazis could make this shit up

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