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7049d4 No.4227 [Open thread]

What are some good books about the Presocratics, not necessarily just fragments.

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7049d4 No.4245

Read Heraclitus.

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5d6d6c No.4238 [Open thread]

As it is said in the Bible, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and love your neighbor as yourself." We all agree that we must love, but we do not, and this becomes particularly appalling when we enter into the higher realm of spiritual development.

Everybody these days is interested in spiritual development, and wisely so, because we want to change our consciousness. Many people are well aware that this egocentric consciousness is a hallucination, and they presume it is the function of religion to change it.

After all, that is what the Zen Buddhists, and all these yogis in the Orient are doing. They are changing their state of consciousness to get something called satori, or mystical experience, or nirvana, or moksha. Everybody is really enthused about that because it is the definitive spiritual experience, and you do not get that in church. Although there have been Christian mystics, the church has been very quiet about them.

In the average church, all you get is talk there is no meditation and no spiritual discipline. They interminably tell God what to do, as if He did not know. Then they tell the people what to do, as if they could do what they're told, or even wanted to. Then they sing religious nursery rhymes. And then, to cap it all, the Roman Catholic Church which at least had an unintelligible service that was real mysterious and suggested vast goings on went on to put the service into bad English. They took away incense, and became essentially a bunch of Protestants, and so now even the Catholics are at loose ends.

As Clare Boothe Luce said, "It is no longer possible to practice contemplative prayer at mass." You are being advised, exhorted, and edified all the time, and that becomes a bore. Think of God,listening to all those prayers. Talk about grieving the Holy Spirit. It is just awful; people have no consideration for God at all.

In pursuing spiritual disciplines, however, such as yoga, Zen, and also psychotherapy, there arises a difficulty. This difficulty lies in wanting to find a method whereby I can change my consciousness and improve myself.

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5d6d6c No.4241

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>>4238

You haven't studied Eastern religion enough.

If you did, you would realize you should give their claims as much attention as you do those of your own religion, or just none at all.

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5d6d6c No.4242

>>4240

>Hegel

*tips fedora*

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5d6d6c No.4243

>>4241

Here's a tip for you too, kiddo: whether or not you believe, God is more real than any of us. You'll be a long way towards ending your depression once you stop rejecting faith out of teen rebellion.

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5d6d6c No.4244

>>4238

>ego

I want this meme to end.

How old is this pasta?

>>4243

Here's a tip for you too, kiddo: whether or not you believe, Kek is more real than any of us. You'll be a long way towards ending your depression once you stop rejecting memes out of teen rebellion, and you'll be a long way towards being memed out of existence if you don't.

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f2810a No.5372

Step 1: Rigorously define 'ego.'

Step 2: Try not to facepalm so hard you sprain your wrist when you realize what an idiot you made of yourself.

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963bbc No.4017 [Open thread]

thoughts?

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963bbc No.4199

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>>4190

>As for you and the other countless dipshits that attack his character

Here we go

>why don't contribute actual material that explains why he's a "fuck head"?

That would involve actually having to try. And he doesn't actually try i will simply direct to these youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEy5U4es7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45vGBs58TDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cnuRRWZxSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBY0bZWKehQ

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963bbc No.4203

>>4199

Cool. I'll analyze them and get back here when I can.

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963bbc No.4214

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>>4203

>>4199

Ah, I finally got through all that noise. Peter Joseph vs. Stefan Molyneux was quite the doozy. Went and watched the debate, then watched Stefan's analysis of the debate and then finally to the video presented.

I like how Peter Joseph didn't address this segment of Stefan's analysis in his video response... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5jh_lN9TWw&t=1h13m43s

I'm going to rest up then once again come back to address the rest of the videos that are posted.

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963bbc No.4284

>>4214

For those who are following (It can go without saying there isn't anyone following but despite that I will add this).

Now I see what is meant by wasting time however I still hold a position that Stefan and Peter are right in their own respect. There's too much dispute with them and I with here to address any of it.

All of my time is preoccupied with life matters. So for the time being I'll lay it to rest.

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5bccac No.5374

>>4186

Nature has conspired against them. I honestly can't see how this isn't already obvious, there's so many red flags.

Yes, Molyneux is a shithead 95% of the time. His truth about X series are fucking golden though, including this one. I do recommend putting them on as background to something else, though. It shouldn't be dense enough to fully absorb your attention except for a few key points.

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ecaac7 No.4166 [Open thread]

Who was the greatest philosopher of the Enlightenment, and why was he Spinoza?

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ecaac7 No.4172

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ecaac7 No.4180

>>4172

More like counter-enlightenment lol.

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ecaac7 No.4206

>>4180

Counter-enlightenment best enlightenment

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ecaac7 No.4207

>>4166

its the spiders bro. those fucking spiders

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29b2ac No.4202 [Open thread]

i don't know much about philosophy. i'm new

is there a belief or theory that the only way to be immortal is through leaving a huge/long legacy? like if one's purpose in life is to not die, evade death with a legacy to still exist in a way

idk, sorry if this makes no sense.

i would also enjoy some light reading material to help me get started in philosophy

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29b2ac No.4204

Here's a layman's introduction to philosophy... https://vimeo.com/53000177

There are many questions surrounding immortality. Sorry to say I don't have a straight answer for you but that's what makes philosophy both fun and strenuous at times in regards to mental faculties.

"i would also enjoy some light reading material to help me get started in philosophy"

Go big or go home. Use the sticky for reference.

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29b2ac No.4205

>>4202

>is there a belief or theory that the only way to be immortal is through leaving a huge/long legacy? like if one's purpose in life is to not die, evade death with a legacy to still exist in a way

there is the roman maxim, "vita brevis; ars longa," which translates to, "life is short; art is long," which explains the general roman philosophy on the concept of immortality.

best answers to your question i can give you is counterpoints from old marky marc(us aurelious). consider reading meme philosophers like Nietzsche if you want someone supportive of your idea.

> Hippocrates after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died. The Chaldaei foretold the deaths of many, and then fate caught them too. Alexander, and Pompeius, and Caius Caesar, after so often completely destroying whole cities, and in battle cutting to pieces many ten thousands of cavalry and infantry, themselves too at last departed from life. Heraclitus, after so many speculations on the conflagration of the universe, was filled with water internally and died smeared all over with mud. And lice destroyed Democritus; and other lice killed Socrates. What means all this? Thou hast embarked, thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore; get out. If indeed to another life, there is no want of gods, not even there. But if to a state without sensation, thou wilt cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption.

> Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

> He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon; then again also they who have succeeded them, until the whole remembrance shall have been extinguished as it is transmitted through men who foolishly admire and perish. But suppose that those who will remember are even immortal, Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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7bc2f8 No.5375

I personally think a hankering for immortality is a form of denial. There's something far more immediate that's bothering you. Indeed it's so close you can only get it out of focus by gazing at the farthest possible distance.

Stop bitching about immortality and look at the thing in front of you that's about to eat your face. Maybe it's worth the effort of stopping it? At the very least, even if I'm wrong, you'll be distracted from questions of eternity while you deal with it.

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a5bdca No.4197 [Open thread]

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a5bdca No.4198

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f867c7 No.4073 [Open thread]

Descartes the THE worst philosopher. Discuss.

>Meditation I - Doubt shit.

>Yes we know.

>Meditation II - The Cogito

>Only interesting part of his work tbh.

>Meditation III - synthetic a priori deduction that God exists

>LMAO!!!!!

>Meditation IV - Trying to explain holes in III's logic.

>You can stop reading this guy now.

>Meditation V -

>I told you to stop reading Descartes.

>Meditation VI - Substance Dualism - AKA the philosophy of mind people are too embarrassed to believe in.

>Seriously you're getting into autistic stuff here...

The only reason it might be worth learning anything he says is to be able to read people that criticise him.

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f867c7 No.4100

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>>4098

Descartes is pre-Enlightenment. Even if he was that wouldn't excuse how awful his philosophy is. As I said, the Cogito in Meditation II is the only real interesting part of his work. After that he is just stupid and none of these ideas really form the basis of many philosophies to come. In fact Descartes even proposes an ontological argument similar to Anselm's, an 11th century archbishop.

Oh and people do still study people like Anselm and Aquinas these days.

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f867c7 No.4112

>>4100

>pre-enlightenment

Didn't know, sorry

>none of these ideas really form the basis of many philosophies to come

Didn't he basically inspire Newton and other physicists because he offered a method interpretation different from that of Aristotle?

>people still study Aquinas

Who isn't nearly as all the non-Aristotelians that's came after Descartes.

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f867c7 No.4120

>>4073

>too embarassed

i think chalmers is pretty willing to argue for substance dualism if not cartesian dualism

that said,

descartes questions are what have relevance.

his answers (metaphysics in particular) while not held in high philosophical esteem, did a hell of a lot to reclaim philosophy from the church.

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f867c7 No.4163

>>4112

>Didn't know, sorry

He might as well be Enlightenment, though, some people (THE FRENCH) claim he is the pre-cursor to it.

>Didn't he basically inspire Newton and other physicists because he offered a method interpretation different from that of Aristotle?

As a mathematician? Sure, but by that logic surely Pythagoras is equally worthy of praise. His bean theories should be as venerated as his mathematical theories are.

Book 2 of Principia Mathematica was written in response to Descartes, refuting his shit like Cartesian theory of vortices.

>Who isn't nearly as all the non-Aristotelians that's came after Descartes.

William Lane Craig.

But really it's a shame people see the pre-Enlightenment period as inferior, brainless retards who are all obsessed with gods. The Islamic Golden Age was almost like a mini-Enlightenment in itself.

>>4120

>chalmers

Substance dualism is Cartesian dualism. Chalmers supports property dualism. Property dualism is the non-embarrassing alternative to substance dualism.

>his answers did a hell of a lot to reclaim philosophy from the church.

How? His entire philosophy relies on the existence of God. If God does not exist then the problems he puts forward are still left unchallenged and leads to solipsism.

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a2aa2b No.5397

The problem with discarding Descartes is that substance dualism is true. Reality doesn't care how ridiculous you find it, or how ridiculous you find her messengers.

If you think you can do better, invent something on the scale of usefulness of Cartesian coordinates, then maybe you'll have some call for looking down on Descartes for being imperfect.

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e9a8ba No.4153 [Open thread]

So i'm reading EUTHYDEMUS by Plato. In this dialogue Socrates meets two brothers that believe that they can sell wisdom to people.

To impress Socrates and his friends, they first challenge a young boy and demonstrate that words can have more than one meaning in a context and in fact any answer to their question can be wrong. One of Socrates' friends steps in only to be frustrated when he can't break their chain of logic. Then another, more learned friend of Socrates steps in and their word play

Now its clear that they are sophists (i.e. Plato's version of Satan) and this is one his main works on rhetoric. I haven't finished the dialogue but I have to ask:

What is wisdom? How is it really different from what these two brothers are doing? Is the sort of wisdom Plato's characters (like Socrates and co.) advocate genuine or does Socrates perform a different kind of wordplay and he simply believes he is touching on genuine teaching? After all the whole "idea-have opponent verify the idea-come a conclusion that bewilders opponent" not the same thing but with a different motive? Was Aristophanes right to say that Socrates was just an idealized sophist?

Isn't it contradictory? After all, if you teach wisdom well and argue well, making it hard for your opponent to argue with you are basically teaching your student how to think like you? If wisdom poorly (i.e. they can consider the problem easier and come to their own conclusions) are you not failing to argue but doing a better job in creating unique thought in the opponent?

If its answered later then i'll finish it and come back, but I want to get your take on it.

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e9a8ba No.4160

>>4153

Wisdom has no set meaning. The Sophists were relativists, which is what Plato hated above all. The whole idea of Socratic dialectic is to debate a concept until it is thoroughly pounded in agreement by both sides as to what it is. The idea is that every use of a concept carries some truth and has the central essence of the idea in it, but some concepts are so widely used in different contexts that it is bewildering what ties all those uses together in the concept. For all things that fundamentally mattered, yes, Socrates/Plato ultimately were bewildered as to what the concepts essentially meant in the end. Plato tried to really get at the core meaning of things like the good, wisdom, and beauty, etc., but he didn't really succeed.

If you take a Wittgensteinian view of wisdom and analyze how it's used, it's quite simple to see that wisdom is the proper/right use of knowledge. It is a concept that unites knowledge with ethics. One may know many things and yet be a complete idiot and not the least bit wise.

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c21339 No.4101 [Open thread]

What do I read if I want to get out of my room and go get get laid?. I'm a 20yo kiss less virgin, can philosophy help me?

I just go to unI for my parents & work a boring job. All my friends went to the military so I'm pretty much a loser with no passions. Can philosophy help me?

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c21339 No.4118

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>>4101

r/pua is that way lad

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c21339 No.4122

>>4115

okay thank you for the advice!

Tell me if i'm wrong but I was under the impression that I could read some philosophy that would basically teach me that life is wonderful and beautiful, and that would give me the inspiration to go do something awesome.

>>4116

I'm not handsome and I think reading brooding shit would depress me so I think that's not an option for me. If i was handsome, that would be great, I could be some vampire going around fucking gals but im ugly af

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c21339 No.4123

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>>4122

Well if you are depressed and not sure what to do with life then training your mind to think, feel and discover will certainly help that. Granted each philosopher argues that they have created a system of thought that rouses them from a deep slumber and makes life the bestest ever. So really you could just pick one of theirs and convince yourself that its working. Alternatively after much study come up with your own. But you dont med to do that and its no recomennded you treat philosophy in such an insipid way

And I'm sure your not ugly, you are probably beter looking than most dudes I know. But those guys get ridiclious amounts of pussy. Why? Confidence, sense of humor, vision, passion, nice manners and empathy, well dressed, good dancing, fun to talk to, good at socialising. Girls like guys who like this, normal and self confident and have their own special something. Especially at uni

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c21339 No.4148

>>4122

You're wrong. Philosophy is supposed to make you think, not to make you feel good. Even if you're into existentialism, that stuff isn't supposed to be taken at face-value. What you're looking for is a self-help book, or a Bildungsroman.

But you'd be better off if you looked for a hobby rather than a book, anyway.

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a43fa5 No.5391

With sufficient dedication to philosophy, it grants you full mastery of both inner and outer worlds, and the generally confident demeanour that would imply, which is a mad chick magnet.

But 'sufficient dedication' is a couple orders of magnitude more than you think it is. You'll literally age out of being thirsty faster than you can obtain pussy through philosophy.

Also, 'inner world' includes your hunger for poon, so inner mastery means you can take or leave women, as you like. And they're huge time and money sinks even if you have total mastery of them.

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9582e8 No.4132 [Open thread]

Why were the Talking Heads always so philosophical? Did they know something we don't?

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9582e8 No.4142

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Many creative types are more self-aware of the passage of time, the world, and things. Then again, creativity often correlates with a chance for depression or bipolar syndrome.

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c43cd7 No.5392

>Did they know something we don't?

I'm going to go with 'no,' unless you mean they know things about music composition and marketing I don't.

Philosophy is about accumulating more truths and discarding more illusions. Asking questions is only philosophical if it reveals one of your beliefs to be an illusion. Asking philosophical-feeling questions for the sake of seeming philosophical is textbook wankery.

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387827 No.3781 [Open thread]

It amazes me that we enable elites to become so rich when they are so wasteful and tasteless. This painting sold to a Chinese bilionaire for 170 million USD.

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387827 No.3976

>>3974

Of course the money won't ever go to science because he already spent it on the ugliest nude ever. This could have been prevented if people like you wouldn't automatically apologize for wasteful narcisists. The average voter would have allocated this money better.

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387827 No.4041

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>>3974

>The average voter would have allocated this money better.

He would've allocated the 100 million dollars better (in the sense that the decision benefits a greater number of people), alright. What about the 200 million dollars that this rich fucker put into consumer products, infrastructure and research? Should we hold a plebiscite whenever a rich cunt wants to buy anything, to prevent him from buying shitty paintings? If so, with what right do we allow your sorry ass to buy vidya and mangos instead of putting your money into cancer medication trials?

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387827 No.4042

>>3976

>>4041

Accidentally the wrong post.

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387827 No.4140

>>3781

>picasso fan this bootyblasted

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530e2b No.5393

It's not even about taste.

The painting was bought because it makes the billionaire more powerful. They don't give a shit what it looks like. The stuff they buy for their own consumption is bought without crowing to the world about it. You complaining about it reveals you to be a pleb because what he's really thinking doesn't even occur to you as a possibility and a poor pleb because you're envious.

>>3782

>Purchased just for his vanity!

Being resentful always helps...the rich. Thanks pleb, for falling into the trap. God, I can only imagine the shit taste you have, I bet it's even worse than the supposed taste you're so butthurt about.

>>3976

>The average voter would have allocated this money better.

*snrk*

You would have blown it on hookers, cocaine, and pretending to make Africa less poor. Folk like you win the lottery from time to time, so we've seen this happen over and over.

African economists - you know, the ones from Africa - keep begging the West to quit it with the foreign 'aid.' When Somalia lost its government and they couldn't organize 'aid' for the place anymore, it immediately started growing like gangbusters.

Useful idiots like you are first up against the wall come the revolution.

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c9d4bf No.4124 [Open thread]

Are there major differences between existenalism/nihilism/absurdism/pessimism?

If not, are there any nitty gritty ones?

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c9d4bf No.4129

>>4128

Marquis de Sade.

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c9d4bf No.4130

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What's the difference between religion and mythology?

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c9d4bf No.4131

>>4130

You answered your own question, it seems.

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c9d4bf No.4133

>>4130

One of those is false and the other is true.

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259bc2 No.5394

>>4130

Historically, religion is a mythology pretending to be scientific.

Mythology is a way of getting to truth from the back side, through metaphor. You construct a story with the same emotional energy dynamics as the truth (this is what it means to 'resonate' - it resonates the way a board resonates with its fundamental sound frequency) and then examine the story to see what it can tell you about the truth.

Scientific truth is instead a detailed, mechanistic description. I sometimes call it the engineering description, because it's the kind of thing you need to build something.

However, mythology properly appreciated can most certainly lead to a scientific description, and engineering specs are often best understood through a mythology, depending on what you're using them for. E.g. a mythology of how a car works is more useful to the driver than an engine schematic.

Religious literalists are and were always the mistake. It's a necessary view for children, and it's always been true that many humans do not grow up, and retain their childist mythological literalism. Even hunter tribes have 'atheists' in the sense that some of them don't regard their myths as literally true.

The myths are supposed to be absurd when taken literally, as a hint that you're supposed to grow out of taking them literally.

There's been a good avatar of this truth lately in Jordan B. Peterson.

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780922 No.3363 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

Thoughts on Marx?

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780922 No.4065

>>4063

>oh no he called me whitey

I didn't say you're wrong because you're white, it's not a fallacy nor is it illogical. You're just like the Jew who cringes to be called out and put in the open.

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780922 No.4067

>>4065

>>4060

Are you Jewish?

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780922 No.4095

As Marx himself basically admitted, he is not correct buy we wouldn't be able to discern real truthes in our capitalist world anyway. We need to evolve socially and that means changing our economy

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780922 No.4096

>>4047

>If we indeed do have capitalism, it's automatically true.

Well we do have capitalism according to Marx, is there something we are missing before we can have capitalism?

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780922 No.4097

>>4096

>what are the conditions for the possibility of generalized commodity exchange

Gee, I'm looking at a world of commodities right now. I wonder...?

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