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Nonsense posted:David Hume was pretty much ripped off by all modern thinkers, yes even you reading this right now. I'm not a modern thinker.
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ewiley posted:This thread is about me alone. gently caress the rest of you. You're looking for the Solipsism thread, hth
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ewiley posted:This thread is about me alone. gently caress the rest of you. Heh, like you even exist.
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This thread is still meaningless like my life
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The fact that this thread hasn't devolved into people posting Big Lebowski pictures gives me some hope. 
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How common is it for a philosophy professor to tell one his most earnest students of philosophy to shut up very often, like every class?
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Nonsense posted:How common is it for a philosophy professor to tell one his most earnest students of philosophy to shut up very often, like every class? Not common enough
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Is it a "mature" student who always sits in the front row and constantly interrupts the lecture with their uninteresting questions and observations
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Nonsense posted:How common is it for a philosophy professor to tell one his most earnest students of philosophy to shut up very often, like every class? I have seen a prof do that, sort of. I had a seminar in my first year of undergrad on Nietszche, Christianity and Greek philosophy. Every week half the class prepared a two page write up on the readings for that week. In one class we had just read The Bachae by Euripides. One of the other students decided, without any prompting, to do this elaborate Freudian analysis of the text. "This character represents the Id, and that character is the Super Ego, and this event from the play is actually about the Oedipal complex, blah blah blah. " the student told me before class that this paper was his "baby". After the student was finished reading his essay out the prof just kind of nodded and went, "ok, but you know somebody could read that and just conclude gee, this guy has gotta get laid." Anyway the student never came back after that and the seminar was much improved.
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Even if you want a life Even if I like it, you're sad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZZiIlJHVA
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Zeroisanumber posted:The fact that this thread hasn't devolved into people posting Big Lebowski pictures gives me some hope. wow get this hope out of the nihilism thread
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y'see, me posting nirvana song lyrics is just as worthy a post as a nihilist philosophy mega-effortpost because there is no logic way to tell which post is more valuable ergo there is no value ergo none of them mean nothing and are equally worthless (nihilism is stupid, hth)
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nihilism is a pretty good coping mechanism for getting through the poo poo-show that is being alive 
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The world is a product of one giant cosmic joke. So if you're feeling down or think you don't measure up to some social standard, remember it's all arbitrary and there's no intrinsic meaning to society's values or even existence itself
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Nov 12, 2014 08:42
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on a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Nov 12, 2014 09:17
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now this is a thread i can feel optimistic about
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bagual posted:y'see, me posting nirvana song lyrics is just as worthy a post as a nihilist philosophy mega-effortpost because there is no logic way to tell which post is more valuable ergo there is no value ergo none of them mean nothing and are equally worthless Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam, motherfucker.
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Negative Entropy posted:It's a trap to think there needs to be a God for reality to have inherent meaning. The entirety of Nietzsche's philosophy is built around trying to show that the nihilism that comes with the death of God is not the end of meaning.
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Negative Entropy posted:Contrary to popular belief, entropy does not entail chaos; entropy can actually decrease disorder in certain conditions (crystals). Rather, entropy seeks absolute, perfect stillness, or death, like a clear pond at night. What a load of hippy bollocks.
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Tiberius Christ posted:now this is a thread i can feel optimistic about I don't believe this
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Helsing posted:I have seen a prof do that, sort of. I had a history of religious philosophy class where this one guy would try to counter every single thing the professor said with rambling about "pauline ethics". He offered extra credit on the midterm for writing rebuttals to the pauline answer to each question on the midterm. The kid didn't talk any more after that. Which was doubly funny because this kid was only getting his bachelor's so he could go to seminary and half of what he was arguing with was Augustine and Aquinas.
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Everblight posted:You're looking for the Solipsism thread, hth Sorry, self-doubt, but every thread is my solipsism thread. 
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Darth Walrus posted:Sorry, self-doubt, but every thread is my solipsism thread. Are they, though? I think we can all agree, as posers on the Something Awful forums, that this thread is open to multiple interpretations. We've all felt that way, yes? The thought that a post could mean one thing to us but something entirely different to another. For example, this very post could be considered as a multitude of— oh thought it said sophism, n/m
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this douche hipster kid in my phil class made an offhand comment about how he had less privileged because he was a vegan.
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Nov 15, 2014 03:57
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Just stare at him and don't stop. After class you should keep eye contact on him and follow him.
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bagual posted:y'see, me posting nirvana song lyrics is just as worthy a post as a nihilist philosophy mega-effortpost because there is no logic way to tell which post is more valuable ergo there is no value ergo none of them mean nothing and are equally worthless Your post is just as worthless as theirs
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^ a post we can believe in
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