voidstar

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by voidstar 19y ago
What?! Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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by voidstar 19y ago
what's wrong with suicide? all of us die at some point. i'd rather die at a point of my own choosing. so suicide is the best death option (for me!), and since i'm going to die, it's best if i (eventually) commit suicide. Now there's this
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The Future of Reading (Amazon Kindle)(newsweek.com)
5 points by voidstar 19y ago|1 comments
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by voidstar 19y ago
my god, you're right. that's why i'm no longer on okcupid. /sigh...
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by voidstar 19y ago
I'd heard that procrastinators were perfectionists, and so all of their tasks loom like enormous projects because they envision all the thousands of tiny details they'd have to get just right, while normal people just have this rough idea o
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by voidstar 19y ago
i think it's precisely the opposite. analytic philosophers try to say clear and precise (yet admittedly, often trivial) things while continental philosophers take on grandiose-sounding concepts and discuss them nonsensically (but with FEEL
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by voidstar 19y ago
ha, this is true. i go to rutgers for 4k/yr after a certain ithaca ivy wanted 43k/yr or whatever it was, so i get to keep a college fund's worth of seed money for whatever i do post-grad. and the "elite college" types i meet in the summer
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by voidstar 19y ago
these evolutionary explanations aren't falsifiable and therefore belief in them is as rational as belief in any explanatory heuristic you can dream up, always salvageable by postulating whatever new ad-hoc assumptions can help the theory.