Post your random thoughts.

Don't even get me started. It's "listen to authority" no matter how many declaration of free-thinking they make. And not the authority of the men with doctorates and lab coats, oh no, those people still have thoughts of their own. No, listen to the self-appointed representatives standing on the sidelines, throwing abuse at the perceived Christians and alchemists that pass by. Listen to those guys, who, as representatives of the brave heroic age of reason, feel no shame in using playground insults and Palin-esque appeals to common sense. And you'll hurt your head trying to figure out how rationality is both the counter-intuitive frontier in which ideas that strain imagination live, and the safeguard against all kinds of silly nonsense which you shouldn't bother to try to comprehend. Oh, and the moment any scientist starts acting like reductionism and materialism aren't completely neutral windows through which to view the world, you better believe they're going to start shouting NEW AGE and WOO(such a goddamn stupid word) at the very top of their lungs and disown everything the scientist does after that. Oh, and they always concentrate on attacking all the religious doctrines that are far more humanistic than they've been for years(how can you be a humanist if you appear to be building towards the conclusion that humanity doesn't exist, hmmm?) And letting all the neo-Miserabilists and neurology death cults have free reign in their oh-so exlusive little oasis of reason, protecting the kind of people they're always accused of being. And on, and on, with their discount Spinozism and Neo-Kantian pseudo-idealism that they try to pass off as realism, it's enough to make you vomit. And they're all so dead inside that they don't even notice how incoherent the idea of-gets hit by a brick

lies there

twitches

edited 21st Mar '11 10:22:23 AM by Myrmidon

Rationality: Use of logical thought as explained by the classic philosophers and maintaining emotions at bay when making a judgement and/or assumption.

...

I think.

Rationality: Whatever I'm telling you to do, because it's self-evident.

This is probably what Myrmidon just wrote, but tl;dr.

Rationality is just a buzzword, which may once have had meaning. Other buzzwords include democracy, tolerance, and discrimination. People need their ideas and their words to hide behind, without the restrictions of meaning. Tis polite not to tell them that they're wrong.

Oh, and I had a dream that I was Daniel Dreiberg, and I was married to Marge Simpson, and we lived in Oceania.

Funny, I had a dream that was a Simpsons episode about a pedophile impersonating Krusty.

Oh, and I had a dream that I was Daniel Dreiberg, and I was married to Marge Simpson, and we lived in Oceania.

how come your dreams are awesomely funny crossovers and mine are just shitty memories played in a new way?

It's all that Norse magic, obviously.

I had a dream that nothing was impossible, that the only restriction was the amount of effort one was willing to give, that ingenuity combined with enthusiasm could stop unstoppable forces and move immovable objects, and that flying beds and shoelaces turned into fish and got eaten by purple orangutans.

I dream about being lost in a Big Labyrinthine Building.

Oh. Never heard of that guy. Probably because I specialise in Medieval History these days.

I rarely remember my dreams, sadly.

It wasn't fun, do you know how stressful it is to be on the run from The Party looking for your brainwashed wife in a department store with architecture from hell?

I did have an Inception/Ozymandias dream earlier though, that was fun. I liked that.

@ Shichi: I'm studying American History right now, so yeah.

edited 21st Mar '11 10:43:13 AM by melloncollie

I knewe that was going to be tl;dr.

Why did I write it?

I never dream about the things I want to dream about.

My Dreams always feel bad for me, so they give me new material for a story.

The air is pretty rain today. I think I made a post.

Lucid dreaming is awesome.

To blow off steam?

...Isn't that reality?

Spicy peanut-butter pizza.

Yes.

Why do you think I'm Confused?

edited 21st Mar '11 10:47:31 AM by AlirozTheConfused

If it is, I've been missing out, because I still can't fly unaided by machinery.

You know it isn't reality, to define reality would be to define something that reality created the terms for.

Reality defines itself, and yet at the same time, remains undefinable, by definition.

The more I read about the Revolution the more I get the image of George Washington always having to hold the United States hand to keep a toddler nation from doing something stupid.

Let's blow up Canada lol