/philosophy/ -Philosophy

>>1969

yor literally autistic arnt you

hue

I lol'd op

>>1974

Not in Deutsch, du Hurensohn.

>>4735

I don't speak Mexican, Ivan

Well it can be considered philosophical in some regards to civilization. Like the commie fucks who everytime they get hungry just burn in the middle of the fire of their town, respawn and reclaim their stuff while the /pol/ people are building towns.

>>1745

i dont believe in sacred geometry

>Minecraft shilling

>On /philosophy/

but why?

Okay, let's hijack the stale old thread that has topped the page for a moment and ask seriously, why has 8chan's membership shriveled up so badly? The small boards have basically died.

>>4767

It's a normal thing with non-leftist-hegemony social networks. It requires some level of non-degeneracy to continue posting. Actually giving a damn about discussions, checking back more than twice, that sort of thing.

I don't know why it happens exactly, but it's reliable enough that a discussion could be had about the causes, and the cause found. However, see above, re: effort.

>>922

or just a cuck?

>>922

Useless questions.

Useless sayings.

An unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Don't be caught in useless loops.

This is why I hate drug users. You're not enlightened, m8, you just took weed spiced with LSD!

You try to hint at some good points OP.

The saying "The greatest hero is the one who's okay being labeled the villain" is actually something I've thought of as well for myself.

I suppose you just reinforce the bias of some people here who think that anything esoterical is against logical thinking and implies that there is some sort of magical process going on that goes against physics and such.

To those I want to say: Do you not think that the things in our concsiousness are not part of a system with cause and effect as well?

Is it not so that our entire concsiousness creates our percieved reality?

Could it be perhaps that perhaps the fact that you create this personal reality that it has an effect on what you percieve OR even on other percieved realities of other human beings?

If you immediately discard any of what I'm saying then perhaps consider that your perception is heavily biased by what you believe in. Often what you believe in is created by what you've learned is appropriate. Sadly most of you are not able to see themselves as their "greatest authority" and thus are not able to create your own reality.

The last thing I want to say is that consciousness is causing things to manifest themselves in our material universe. I think that is what OP meant by "It's clear to those who own bodies that mind is over matter". It's the reason that Trump won the election for example. So basically, everything that happens has it's root cause in the metaphysical wich itself has it's own processes and every being is part of these processes.

A few things.

I am a firm believer people come to chans through their own effort, and self sort into what interests them. Chasing after other board users is almost a complete waste of time for more niche boards. We need to advertise, but we need to pull from off-chan, outside groups. Drop some flyers around the student union lounge, etc.

We could raid a professional philosophy board. Would not work in practice unless, in addition to the usual starting shit just for the fuck of it, we link the idea of: "show us why philosophy on an image-board and do us some outreach" thing. This might make them willing to stick around.

Change the board to be more inclusive. Umbrella the board with the humanities and sociology, not strictly philosophy.

Find a way to link us up with anime and cartoons.

Philosophy on western image-boards remains focused on politics. For good or for ill, that's what is popular. From the perspective of these users there is no need for more expansive theoreticals.

>Are you autistic?

4U

It's shit because you're still here.

Look at the threads from the early days of the board and you'll see it's simply following the law that things get shittier with time.

>>4724

because the old BO had no interest in stopping shitposting and a holier than thou redditor tripfag chased everyone else away with his shit attitude. i suspect the BO and the tripfag were one and the same.

>>4722

>Comte and Rousseau

Sounds like that one novel Dostoyevsky never got around to writing.

>>4728

Also, despite constantly talking about the difference between collectivism and individualism, Radbruch never tried to take a stand between either in his Introduction to the Jurisprudence. If there's one thing I don't like, it's a philosopher who's afraid of telling me his goddamn opinion.

>>4718

/thread

What makes a good philosopher is genuinely giving more of a shit for truth than social status.

Or: being an ancient Greek, a race that no longer exists. Athens had a population of less than a million and they produced several philosophers. At that rate, the modern West would have entire cities of the things. However, even in Athens, they unfortunately became high status and were diluted to homeopathic levels by the pretenders. As for the West, forget it. Only a few mutants even pretend, and only mutant mutants can do it for real.

no

aren't all geniuses

>>4663

No.

>>4651

Had a few mental issues but he saw the world soundly.

Astute observer of human will and where it leads.

ad...hominem?

"He was right."

>but muh autism.

"So?

"He was wrong."

>but muh no autism.

"Good for him?"

Yes.

Define your terms and you'll immediately realize what you're saying is nonsense.

>dialectical

And into the trash it goes.

>>4693

why?

>>4697

I'm still traumatized from trying to understand dialectical materialism. I think I got it now, but the damage is done.

>>4687

> I get the impression is one dude memeing on Wikipedia.

I can't find any evidence against this theory.

What were his ideas?

Also, glad not everyone buys muh spirituality. Kinda fed up with this shite.

Obviously the normal state of the Chinese is not listening. Their priorities, like most of the human race, doesn't have truth anywhere near the top. If by accident they had listened to him at first, they would have listened to someone else, with better bullshit, almost immediately. In other words returning to equilibrium.

More or less, if you want regular folk to have good beliefs, you have to convert them by the sword. However, the idea-expertise and the sword-expertise are largely independent and unlikely to be unified in a single person.

does every feature has the opposite feature?

>>4684

Yes, I think so.

One can add the prefix 'non' before any word to get its opposite. This method solves some of the trickier ones.

Thus the opposite of being is non-being.

The opposite of middle is non-middle.

The opposite of contradiction is non-contradiction.

And so on.

>>4688

That's not what opposition means. That's just what different is. To be different from being is to be non-being. You can be the non-being of a being by simply being another being.

>>4684

Not everything has opposites. What's the opposite of an apple? What's the opposite of an atom? What's the opposite of a wave? These things have no intrinsic opposite forms conceptually or empirically. Of course, at some conceptual level everything has opposition and difference, but that's not always at the ere level of experienced objects.

Depends on what you mean by 'opposite.'

>>4688

If this, then yes.

>>4690

If this, then no.

The first is logical opposition. The second is more about functional opposition. There's nothing you can eat that would end up un-eating an apple.

Though that's amusing to think about. Presumably if there's an anti-apple, there's also anti-eating. Do they cancel, like mathematical negatives? Is anti-eating an anti-apple like eating an apple?

What about the opposite of not an apple, but the event 'eating an apple.' Anti-eating anti-an anti-apple? So throwing up something that's not an apple, I think? It's suitably convoluted, in any case.

good changes, but you guys should advertise/shill this board around the site a bit.

At one time there were more users here. These days this place is pretty empty.

I have a suggestion. How about you and the other idiotic shitposters go back to cuckchan?

If no one intelligent is gonna post here anymore, then at least let the board die with some dignity.

>>4679

>>4680

there's quite a lot of shitposting here. This board should be higher quality.

http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html

this should be added to the resource page thingy. simple, reliable, plaintext pages that are easily readable and downloadable in simple, reliable plaintext.

no pdf shennanagians, no ostentatious web design. one of my favorie websites on the net.

Generally such things indicate that they wish to identify with an ingroup which has no members of African or Semitic descent.

Are you autistic? It's pretty obvious.