You know, Hegel drank a bottle of wine a day.

Eschew obfuscation.

You serious don't know? You can't tell the difference? At a convenient time like this, and probably others I'm sure the difference seems vague, but you know that it isn't.

Having anti-heroes, troubled heroes, heroes with vices, or that are "just human" just show that all fall short of the goal, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one. Don't pretend that there's no such thing as better or worse, good and evil.

I wasn't defining what a hero nor villain is. Point one out.

I think that you ought not casually and opportunistically use other free agents just because you can, because that's not what heroes do, that's what villains do. Not just here, not just there, but everywhere.

Infinity is a nonsense concept, it can only possibly literally mean "immeasurable".

Kant knew that people didn't know what words mean, so his fav illusion was just renaming familiar things, rendering them unfamiliar to the children that never grasped them in the first place (he was the only adult in the world after all.. he supposed).

I used to hang around Richard Dawkins website, even under my real name, made lots and lots of posts. Originally it actually was free, and people could say whatever they wanted, I made a 2 minute long gif of the lucky star dance for my avatar, and took it down because I was asked to, rather than made to.

Later though they started to highly regulate the place, and shared dogmas and visions began to emerge as people came and left finding that they did and didn't fit in.

I replied to a comment by Richard Dawkins, he had begun to say whatever the fuck he wanted at this point, and was railing against all kinds of fantasy whatsoever, and said in the comment that it was because si-fi makes you smart, and fantasy dumb because it just magically transforms frogs into princes. So I said couldn't the infinite improbability drive achieve a frog to prince conversion? And also talked about anime giant magic robots, and other mixtures, to which I got no reply. Personally I think because pwned.

Lol, oh I am.

"#4 Albert Camus Really Liked the Central Park Zoo and Credits Soccer With Everything He Knew"

That one makes a whole lot of sense to me. Here I am like a week or two ago after doing a roof, I always have a giant goof expression, and my face is usually obstructed by shadow as I wear a hat because I'm bald, and would prefer to let people assume otherwise until given reason not to, lol.

That was an if then statement. What would be your justification for it then, other than inability to bear it? That's why you're deluded.

Your humanity is in sorrow, empathy, self-examination, honesty, and forgiveness. Not in feeling bliss while watching hell from the best seat in the house. If it depended on your ability, then you're a weakling.

I could probably feel joy surrounded by inhumanity if I chose, but would you?

Personally, I just like the word "world". I use it in many contexts to mean a wide range of subtly different things, and I employ the word a lot because I like it. It sounds cool.

We shouldn't. It doesn't matter. You should worry about what people mean, rather than ought to mean, or the "pure meaning" or some nonsense.

"Maya (IAST: māyā), literally "illusion" or "magic",[1][2] has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context. In ancient Vedic literature, Māyā literally implies extraordinary power and wisdom" - wiki

Not hard to find.

Discussion is kind of moot, as we don't think in the same dominant faculties in the first place, Spinoza knew that -- but a better example is... hmmm, don't recall the source of this one, damn, won't look as cool, but I think is was Chomsky probably...

He talked about trying an experiment where he would try to keep track of a minute, and see what he could do while doing that. He discovered that he could read, but not speak when doing it, and told a friend of his that didn't understand why he wouldn't be able to speak while doing it. So he learned to keep track of a minute and demonstrated that he could speak, but not read. Upon further analysis it came to light that Chromsky was just audibly counting in his head, occupying that faculty, so that he could look at the pages and read them, but not speak. Whereas his friend was visually imagining a clock counting, so that he couldn't "take his eyes of it" as it were to read, but he could speak no problem, because they thought in predominantly different faculties.

He only did that to upset everyone's precious sensibilities.

I meant belief more in the sense of hope, and acting with respect to that. Of course everyone believes things... way too many things...

Lol, you know, Diogenes used to like to walk around Athens during the day with a lamp, saying that he was looking for an honest man. The joke being, that they all had no idea how in the dark they were -- but to quote Roy Zimmerman, I'm not a cynic, I'm a hypocrite. Hypocrites believe in something.

Probably why Christianity was massively more successful, but everyone is human, everyone needs wants, hurts, and is corruptible. It's always about control, I'm no different. This place has become super interesting with all of the attention. I could, and maybe I am subtly inserting my own agenda. Maybe the Buddhists are right, maybe it's the Christians, maybe I'm a clever psychopath. I'm not nearly as interesting as you are, never forget that.

Don't get me wrong, I don't know what everyone should do, but neither did they -- my major point of disagreement though is "throw away the raft?" I bet you were entirely empty inside.

Kant thought that lying was a big deal for a reason, because it's an assault on all of our intuitions. Just be honest.

A black hole like all the others. Remember though that the word maya (illusion) comes from an older word which meant "wisdom".

Oh, and by the way, another thing "she's hot" can mean is "she's stolen".

You know, people made that shit up too, another example of attempting to capture something alive and moving and putting it in a jar.

Remember that Homer explained that the Muses always tell the truth, because even their lies are true.

You know what my emotional state has been. Pretty well perpetual terror, besides a couple cry breaks. Your heart literally could not bear the truth, you should do more push ups.

Trump is impressively unimpressive. I wonder how many artists support him.

I'm sorry, I can't help myself... you know that the person that is shot down, regardless of why is not a monster, a comic book villain... people loved them.

My apologies, I meant no one that isn't under their employ.

Truer words have never been spoken.

No one cares about your justifications, they only see your actions. Violence always perpetuates more violence. I won't deny it's possible necessity, but I will also not deny that in that moment, my acts are no different than any other analogous acts regardless of how different I think they are. Know that you always are the proponent of violence when you are violent, without exception.

It's not as much reason as pride that makes me wish to not enslave, exploit, and harm things that these terms can be meaningfully applied to for my convenience or pleasure. I'm above that. I don't need to do that, I'll take the inconvenience, because I can.

The ironic thing is actually that Foucault and Derrida were far from best buds, and Foucault accused them all of being intentionally obscure and difficult, he would know, he claimed to do it himself at least 15% of the time, or no one would think you're deep.

Vegan for like 12 years now.

Hope that I'm not promoting point scoring or anything... I of course do have vested interests in everything I have to say and support, and everything I say comes from that personal place, which promotes the things that best benefit me... but that said...

Three points!

It was confusing to me for a second, for I've heard many criticize postmodernists for favoring appearance over substance, and I was sure you, who hate the postmodernists, would be guilty of no such thing. — csalisbury

lol

Because reason isn't a slave to the passions, and there are a lot of powerful gejustus about.