#[0] #[1] #[2] Thank you Lina for summing up my autistic rambling in a single sentence
#[0] #[1] I don't want to validate my position, in fact my position is an explicit rejection of validating positions. The reason I dislike philosophy and Plato is because I reject the philosophical dialogue as a serious method to attain truth at all. That is why you see me venerate the humble farmer. "I don't think Attic farmers really thought about this at all." Pondering is an enjoyable activity but it pulls the world apart into pieces. Accepting the world in full is the only way to know the truth of it.
#[0] #[1] I see reality as a narrative, but unlike Plato I do not reject the world because I am not a fool.
#[0] #[1] Plato is correct that everything has, in his words, a "Form." But he is wrong that the form is some unchanging perfect thing that casts a shadow that forms the material. The "world of forms" and the material world inform each other and change by each other; and his assertion that philosophers are swimming around in the "world of forms" to ascertain truths unattainable by others was silly, because you can only attain half of a truth if you only perceive half of the world.
#[0] #[1] Plato perceived a sort of essentialism (true,) but got lost along the way and created a dualism between the material and the spirit (half true, they both exist but are intimately connected,) and decided that the spirit was more important than the material (retarded,) and said the material world was an imitation of the world of forms (half true, they imitate each other and neither is more true than the other.) Anyway these are all examples of a man seeing the point and then walking past the point because he's a self obsessed philosopher. Whereas a dumbass farmer could merely see the point and accept the point, although be unable to share it.
#[0] Yeah the impression I got was that old philosophy was sort of a precursor to science.
The truth is I have no way to prove that the things I believe are real, I simply know they are because I have witnessed them. One of the most common methods of sharing knowledge is the reference to a shared experience. I may describe something, and others will say "Yes that makes sense," have they had the chance to witness the same thing I have witnessed. Although sometimes it gets lost in a difference of how one would use language to describe something. And oftentimes people simply have not witnessed the world around them. Part of why fiction is powerful because unlike philosophy, it does not merely reference a perspective, or crudely recreate the context and then reference it. It can truly recreate what is required for someone to witness something, should that person be perceptive enough to have the ability to witness it in the first place.
#[0] Idk I heard it has lots of "badass action scenes."
#[0] There's 3 films apparently. New one just came out but I heard that it glorifies war
#[0] Oh hey I heard they made a horrible bastardised adaptation of that
#[0] As soon as you try to get too specific with the nature of things, it comes off as fanfic about the world. It must be accepted that the nature of things is only itself, and to try to comprehend it as one may comprehend a machine is extraordinarily foolish. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words; the world is worth infinite words and so no amount of words can create a net wide enough to capture it.
#[0] Interesting. I've loved reading fiction ever since I read my first novel in grade 1. Getting lost in another world brings me closer to the real world
#[0] I suspect that the half-truths that Plato had to bend his spine to arrive at would've been known more intimately and more truly by the average farmer already, although the farmer would not have been able to put them into words or teach them
#[0] Yeah with fiction I need to get immersed and imagine everything. With philosophy or non-fiction you just read it.
When I feel unwell it's difficult to read fiction so it's nice to read something easier like philosophy. And Nietzsche is pretty cool even though I think his values differ a lot from mine.
#[0] Nah I haven't really read much philosophy at all. Especially the Greek stuff which is super faggy
I dunk on philosophers a lot but i still like Nietzsche I'm sorry guys please don't steal my lunch money