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Pochsy wrote:

Superior Mind wrote:

When have been called an idiot, when have I not responded to legitimate arguments I was involved in? The problem is that most of the time the so call philosophical debates going on are recycled topics which produce the same repetitive answers and attacks over and over. This isn't me crying about people not liking what I post. I try to post questions which haven't been discussed before to try to stimulate new avenues of interaction.
Nobody here wants to write an essay properly explaining what is happening. We have professors to write those essays for. Beyond this, if we were qualified to debate philosophy to any reasonable degree, we might. As it stands, Jay can barely understand Marxism, let alone Hegel. We come here for a cheap laugh, to debate topics and say things you wouldn't consider normally, and to generally just stop thinking for a few minutes.

Accept that the world isn't about solving a higher truth to 99% of the population. It's about phatic speech (How are you today?), and trying to not die. This forum is not a bastion of the greatest minds in the world. This might be revelatory to you, given that you post pictures of space all day and speak about the greatness of cultures that were trying to find something to distract them from the death all around them. Here's the clincher: that's exactly what we do here, without ornament.
I am actually taking a class about Western philosophy this semester. I have a retardedly huge stack of books for it. I will post it in the book thread later.

Speaking of books I am taking a class about exploration this time and last semester had a class on precolonial Africa so if you stay around Superior Mind I am going to dump the books on you since they seem to be up your alley. I can list a few of them if you would like?
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Sure
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What are you looking at dicknose
Macbeth
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/052022123 … p_mpd?pd=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/039333091 … p_mpd?pd=1

Also have the Epic of San Jara
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Sundiata

A few textbooks about ancient African civilizations too.



Ever heard of ibn battuta?
Pochsy
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Superior Mind wrote:

All fine and dandy Pocshy, but the constant personal attacks in DST ruin the point of DST. We have EE to just shoot the shit. But we also have a forum dedicated to discussing things with some level of maturity and thought.
No argument. What we're talking about the is what "some level of maturity and thought" looks like, no? My point: we don't wear tweed blazers and a collared plaid oxford everyday to look important. We're at the level it's been at for years. Actually, there's been an improvement as those unable to handle being wrong and not freaking out leave.

I think it's usually just called "managing expectations."
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
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Maturity and thoughtfulness insofar as using actually logic and reason in a DEBATE AND SERIOUS TALK forum. Not resorting to pathological flaming.
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ibn battuta was a 15th century Muslim scholar who traveled a distance longer than Marco Polo and recorded it. When from Morocco to China and back to Morocco and to Mali. You should read some of his stuff Sup.
Macbeth
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Fuck I am bored
Superior Mind
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I almost read the Epic of Sundiata once. Can you recommend a particular ibn battuta work?

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Macbeth
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The only full thing I have read was " ibn battuta in black Africa". It was his full trip from Egypt to the horn of Africa and Mali. I read bits and parts of his work related to other places but nothing full. I can give you the black Africa book.

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Jay
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Good night bf2s! 3=========D
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Uzique The Lesser
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i don't contribute seriously to philosophy threads in d&st because philosophy is what i do basically professionally, and i honestly do not think anyone else on this forum (literally no one) is up to the professional-formal standards of rigorous philosophical debate. instead you get people like jay using the term 'philosophy' as some pop-culture umbrella term, in the same way 'philosophy' is used to designate sections of book stores that contain 'magic crystals' and 'astrology' books by quack-mediums, in order to give his tired polemic gun/drug/islam/war debates a high-class veneer. none of that shit is philosophy. at best, d&st is a place for people like jay to recycle and reiterate whatever they read/received last, as pure ideology/dogma, and then feel self-satisfied and smug about their 4-paragraph act of rephrasing someone else's ideas.

and sup, don't kid yourself. your pseudo-deep new age spiritualist bullshit is just stuff you've received verbatim from your own petty spare-time reading lists. don't act like you're this enlightened one coming here to try and unearth some grand truths or profound meaning. at the end of the day those deep and meaningful universe-pondering books you read are just so much artifice for bored stoners and otherwise-unemployable anthropologists to fuss over. don't over-privilege your position whilst complaining about a perceived egotism on this forum.

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Jay
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Uzique The Lesser
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yes jay we all already know that your ineptitude at serious intellectual discussion/philosophy really wounds you. we all read that painful hegel 'lets talk to myself in public and show off how much i've read / how little i've understood' thread.
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Mutantbear
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Jay wrote:

jay adont be a troll pls
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Jaekus
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Mutantbear wrote:

Jay wrote:

jay adont be a troll pls
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Mutantbear
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Mutantbear
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RTHKI wrote:

i dont believe you
ur gay
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Mutantbear
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wwtf someone post i want to karm
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no u
Mutantbear
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Lol
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Jay
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high lgbtbear!
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Mutantbear
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im not gay LOl
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