Just post whatever comes to mind.
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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.
Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM
^^But were you being sarcastic about that?! @__@
The Ant King
A short history of German Idealism
Leibniz: Boy it sure does feel great to have invented calculus!
Newton: But I-
German people: SHUT UP
Leibniz: I should figure out how the universe works.
German people: Maybe you should do some empirical observation?
Leibniz: Don't be ridiculous. I'll just make up some logical rules and go from there.
later
Leibniz: OK, so everything is made up of tiny little particles called monads. Every monad contains a minature model of the entire universe. One monad(the mind) dominates over subordinate monads of the body. No monad ever interacts with another monad, but unfolds-
Kant: OK, this isn't going anywhere. Maybe the British have made some progress.
Hume: Really, we can't know anything.
Kant: Awakens from dogmatic slumber
later
Kant: I've spent years developing a coherent foundation for human knowledge! Hopefully, my name will be remembered as a hero of philosophy by future generations. Or Bertrand Russell will get pissed of at me for trying metaphysics. Either way.
Leibniz: Back to monadology!
Kant: No! Um, because we can't lay claim to knowledge of things like that. We're sticking to the stuff Newton was doing.
Jacobi: points at Kant Atheist! Fatalist! Spinozist! Nihilist!
German People: Hell is a nihilist?
Fichte: to Jacobi You're misinterpreting him. What he really meant was-something that Kant did not mean at all
Kant: Look, I appreciate the help, but-
Fichte: interrupting Kant There are two ways of looking at the world: Materialist and idealist. Idealism is what all the cool, smart people choose. You want to be cool, don't you?
The easily-led German people: We sure do!
Schelling:I have an idea for understanding the stuff Kant said we couldn't understand. The key is nature. No wait, it's art. No wait, it's-
Hegel: muscling Schelling aside Guess who just created the end-all system of knowledge and philosophy?
The German people: How does it work?
Hegel: The categories of Being as distinct from the notion manifest the shapes of consciousness in the self-understanding of the absolute farkel farkel blahbity balh. I need scissors 61!
Schopenhauer: I have an idea of how to continue from Kant! One you can actually understand!
The German people: Really?
Schopenhauer: The world is pointless and evil. You're all pathetic wretches in the depths of comforting illusions. The world is a vampire. Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage. WHY DIDN'T MOMMY LOVE ME?!
The German people: I think we'll stick with Hegel, thanks.
Hegel: Also, the Prussian state is kind of cool.
The Prussian State: Give that man the position of Chair Of Philosophy at the Berlin University!
A yet to be born Karl Popper: Fascist!
The American Transcendentalists: Tell me more about this "idealism".
The British soon-to-be Idealists: Tell me more about this "idealism".
Feuerbach, Marx, Stirner, and Nietzsche: Man, fuck idealism.
Kill all math nerds
DUMB
Yeah, Accelerando was pretty great, and so was the sequel that I always forget the name of and could look up in no time flat thanks to my metacortex.
I think that it's because he's not writing about science for the sake of science, or something... the way democracy works in a future of infinite clones at any time was really memorable.
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Embrace the mindscrew
I really should finish Glasshouse sometime...
Myrm: That was fantastic.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
I think Myrmidon has been reading too much Hark A Vagrant.
But were you being sarcastic about that?All Americans are liars.
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
Does "Yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation" yield falsehood when preceded by its own quotation?
the future we had hoped for
Wow, Myr. That was not only funny, but informative. Full marks.
the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, the game itself will hold you back
Not here, look elsewhere
I think Myrmidon has been reading too much Hark A Vagrant.
Okay, that's enough abuse of metasyntax for one day.
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
Myrmidon: You should make a bunch of those and write them into a book
the future we had hoped for
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@Myr: That was actually somewhat interesting.
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.
Wait a minute... That statue and background look oddly familiar. Anyone been to MIT?
HOFUCK I'VE SAT ON THAT STATUE
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edited 19th Aug '10 6:56:50 PM by melloncollie
@Myrm: I don't get it.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
The Ant King
@Myrm: I don't get it. 
edited 19th Aug '10 7:02:40 PM by Myrmidon
Kill all math nerds
Writer of horse words
Hegel looks like a well dressed bum who is explaining to you that he can't sleep because ghost stole his sheep
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edited 19th Aug '10 7:04:53 PM by Justice4243
Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.
frozen in time
Schopenhauer is Billy Corgan?
no one will notice that I changed this
Ghosts' Poet
Hmm...so, when you view something through a lens, the real image is usually upside down, and the virtual image is right-side up, right? So, technically, the real world is upside down, and a world where everything's how it's supposed to be is a virtual image. Now, somebody give me my Nobel Prize in Philosophy!
you'll then have a grave in the clouds where you won't lie too cramped
Thanks Zudak.
^ He looks like a respectable gentleman to me. Maybe a little haunted one, but not a bum.
Ninjas.
edited 19th Aug '10 7:06:07 PM by melloncollie
The Ant King
Fries, Schulze, Schleiermacher, and Reinhold were ommitted, but that's okay because no one cares about them.
Kill all math nerds
Isn't Fries the guy that Friesian site is based off of?
the future we had hoped for
DUMB
I'll say. I've never heard of 'em, therefore they don't exist.
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That's good. Stross looks interesting and I've had a lack of good scifi to read.
dysfunctional human artistry