Freshman Philosophy Thread

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Mongrel » Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:17 am

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Caithness » Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:28 pm

Surely there are people who skip to the end without reading!

(I LOLed)

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Kazz » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:39 pm

Well here's a fun one!

Talkin to friends in another Discord, and all this came up.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
essentially that's a Jewish system of assigning numbers to certain phrases.

http://www.gematrix.org/?word=746

idk but lots of fun stuff there.
Obama Damage Right Eye
Thy Kingdom Come
Suffered and Dies For God
Mother All Human Beings
The Lord is Present
Believe

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746 King George St intersects Meir Shaham St in Jerusalem. Shaham means Granite and I live in NH, the granite state, lolol

but also I did the square root of 746, and it's 27.31

if you put in 27 N 31 E you end up here

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wammo! like center-punch the Nile!\

https://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.co ... o4W11rwbMw
https://www.google.com/maps/@27,31,6z/data=!3m1!1e3

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hey you creepy god-eye thing you

PS page 746 in War and Peace is a conversation about a mother and son, which is where this started. one of my friend's moms looked this up first.
http://www.literaturepage.com/read.php? ... bookmark=1
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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Mongrel » Sun Dec 23, 2018 10:49 pm

Medium: A Past That Never Existed, a Future That Will Never Arrive - Lessons from watching every single Hallmark holiday movie

It is a cruelty of America that the nostalgia that reared us all is one that only ever truly applied to one demographic in one span of time; that every story we tell ourselves about the possibility of this country is one that ends with the home, family, community, and security depicted in these movies; and that, for a lot of people, this is the closest they’ll get.

"Hauntology" is a great word, though "Hauntstalgia" would be more accurate.
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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Friday » Mon Dec 24, 2018 3:52 am

I've been saying for decades that Hallmark movies are literal propaganda.
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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Friday » Mon Dec 24, 2018 3:53 am

decades


god I'm old
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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Mongrel » Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:17 am

Friday wrote:
decades


god I'm old

I was looking through one of my old editorial cartoon collections from the 90's just this afternoon and it was scary how many of the cartoons were still 100% relevant.

Also, it was bizarre to see Aslin's original prototypical US gun violence cartoon (I can't find a copy online with a quick search, but it was basically a US flag with red-tinted rifles for the stripes and bullets for stars) in response to Columbine, with our latter-day knowledge of how many variations of those he would go on to make in the twenty years to come.

I want to say that realizing next year will be the twentieth anniversary of the modern era of angry young white guys carrying out spree shootings (obviously I know there were angry white guy spree shootings before Columbine) made me feel old, but honestly it just made me feel really, really tired.
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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Caithness » Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:11 am

I find this easier than either the trolley problem or the prisoner's dilemma.

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby mharr » Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:28 am

Based on my proven behaviour in videogames, I hunt down and stealth kill everyone even tangentially involved in arranging this scenario, primarily to steal their hats.

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby beatbandito » Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:36 am

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Re: Freshman Philosophy Thread

Postby Friday » Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:25 pm

I redirect the trolley to a track containing 1+2+3+4+5+6... people, which can be proven to only kill -1/12th.
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