Written by What is your name? Do you live up to its meaning or reference in any way? If things are determined for us by a higher power than us, even our name could be said to be a clue, are we living up to it? Are we defying it? Are you really the “strong man of […]
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This is a much simpler game compared to the surrealist word game on the forum and guaranteed to bring about some laughs! Just post a short five line limerick – simple as that. My turn(s): There was a young fellow from manchester, he looked just like a gay uncle fester, in the gay bars, he […]
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Only just discovered this social critic and feminist, but I have to say, I don’t think she’s going to be inspiring to me. So far, I hear lots of ‘scratchy’ ad-hominem rejections of post-structuralism, especially Foucault and Butler, saying they are ‘too abstract’. Also, she said the French can keep post-structuralism because the US hasn’t […]
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@Rubsy and @Ontical We have come across this conspiracy theory that says William Shakespeare could not have written the genius works we know of today because he was uneducated, from the wrong class of people, among many other wacky, confirmation bias ridden reasons. Top suspects for the ‘real’ Shakespeare are: 1.Sir Francis Bacon 2.Edward de […]
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The most basic of questions that noobs and pros can give answers to. Please tell everyone what you think the meaning of life is and why you think so.
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What a maniac! First picture of London terror attack suspect
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East and West have two different ways of explaining the attributes of ‘things’. The West has historically viewed essences in terms of a priori forms, but more recent philosophers in the existentialism movement, famously Jean Paul Sartre, declare existence precedes essence, which is not saying essences don’t exist, or are not real; it declares there […]
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This is just a few notes I have made looking at a few texts, it’s by no means complete, but I thought I would share it anyway. This term has a number of interesting meanings. γοητεία (anglicanised: goiteía) is a Greek term for charm and attractiveness. In other expressions that speak of this term in […]
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https://ontic-philosophy.com/attachment.php?aid=60 Anyone up for reading this with me? I have started it today.
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Those who don’t understand ‘property is theft’. I have seen a massive amount of people misinterpreting this observation by Kropotkin/Marx (probably because of those names being anchored trigger words these days.) Instead of understanding the original appropriation through the convention of property and enclosure as theft, they stick to the ‘the rich people I unconsciously […]