"I wish I could have skipped college."
~Saul Kripke 1940-2022 — 180 Proof

But another reason is that not everyone in the Western world is a selfish rat, and governments and organisations in democratic nations care about public opinion. — SophistiCat

I remember that both France and the UK declared war on Germany. — ssu

I think you're spending too much time on Instagram — Benkei

Rich is being able to provide comfortably for a family. It's not having a second home, a yacht and a bugatti. — Benkei

So bit confused on what you are trying to say here... — ssu

We've done caring about Africa, did you not see Band Aid? — Isaac

With friends like these, who needs enemies? — Manuel

Also, I met your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand daughter in Osaka, Japan. — Agent Smith

Never underestimate what you can learn from trolls with a personality disorder. Or what you can teach them. — Joshs

And spending never slows… — NOS4A2

Why can't they just quit their resistance to the invasion and let Russia rampage over the rest of the country? No one would care (except for Ukrainians, but they aren't even a people, so they don't count). — SophistiCat

Also Poland was as much responsible for WWII as Hitler and Stalin. — SophistiCat

What do you think of these thoughts? — Bug Biro

Most "sane" people blindly comply or consent to the mistreatment of themselves and others. Most people deemed "insane" placed faith in friends, family, and authorities undeserving of trust and were devastated by betrayal. — Bug Biro

People are tranquil of unjust societies and at peace with being controlled by severely corrupt, if not absolutely evil, governance — Bug Biro

Lula has said that Zelenskiy is "as responsible as Putin for the war". — ssu

Banned Bartricks for a consistently disruptive and insulting attitude. Long overdue really. — Jamal

Believing that one is great does not imply that one is indeed great.

Which serves to raise the issue, if your "greatness" is unrecognised, then by what criteria are you great? If at all? — Banno

There were two inter-related points I was making. First, the great will believe themselves to be great, for that seems to be required actually to be great. Second, the great will 'know' that they are great - not simply unjustifiably believe it - for their belief in their own greatness will be based on their having discerned it. So they have available to them evidence of their own greatness that others - most others, anyway - will not have access to. — Bartricks

That's also why they are not necessarily guilty of any arrogance just by virtue of believing themselves to be great. They are analogous to the doctor who believes that the mole is cancerous and is unfazed and dismissive of the fact all of your friends believe it to be benign — Bartricks

He did. Read his letters. He considered his first proper masterpiece to be the potato eaters. He fell out with his best and only friend at the time precisely because that person - also an artist, though a very inferior one - criticized it — Bartricks

I have made a philosophical case for the great being aware of their own greatness: to be great is to be able to recognize what is great - for how else would one go about producing great works or thoughts without exercising that ability? And to be great is to have done great things, which one could not do unless one attempted to do them - something that requires belief that one can do them. — Bartricks

But their internal political status has no impact on China, Japan or South Korea? — universeness

My position that in our current global society, what happens in America is unhealthily aped globally, remains. — universeness

But we do have a metaphysical conception of self. And I disagree with Allan. The reason why you recognize this discordance within the social context is because you believe in a metaphysical self, too. — Caldwell

First, you're thinking that brilliant people are also virtuous people. There's no necessary connection. Brilliant thinkers and artists think they're brilliant. Whether that is consistent with being virtuous or not is beside the point — Bartricks

Second, how is one arrogant if one believes that oneself is brilliant on the basis of discerning it? — Bartricks

When a doctor judges that the mole on your arm is probably cancerous, and that same doctor is dismissive of the judgements of your friends, who all judge the mole just to be a mole, is the doctor being arrogant? — Bartricks

So, when Van Gogh judged his own works to be masterpieces and dismissed the views of those who judged them to be childish and silly, he was not being arrogant. For his works were indeed masterpieces and he was perceiving this quality in them. — Bartricks

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Not only interesting, but also a thoroughly decent fellow. — Jamal

It’s too early in the day for vaporwave! — Jamal

Mayor of Simpleton joined at the beginning of TPF, — Jamal