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[b]Philosophy Tweets

“If you want to reach a large audience appeal to idiots.” Arthur Schopenhauer[/b]

Yo, pinheads! How am I doing?

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” Marcus Aurelius

Yo, pinheads! How am I doing?

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein

Just not objectively, Al.

“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.” Marcus Aurelius

Unless of course you don’t get caught.

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

That “political economy” stuff.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies…a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

Right, like that ever stops them.

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[b]Emile M. Cioran

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?[/b]

Better still, retreat here.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Ennui, sure. But Ecstacy?

“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?” That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

Anyone here want to inquire into mine?

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain.

And then eternal recurrence.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

Yo, Maia! Three years now and counting.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

You know, like I love all the pinheads here.

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[b]Philosophy Tweets

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people. But care more about their opinions than our own.” Marcus Aurelius[/b]

Maybe back then.
Right, Mr. Objectivist?

“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” William of Ockham.

For example, the last thing we need here are more pinheads.

“Be as you wish you to seem.” Socrates

Or as Plato wishes to seem.

“There are many evils and there is no worse evil than man.” Sophocles

And, now of course, the transgender folks.

“There is no such thing as reality anymore” Overheard in New York.

Baltimore? Let me get back to you.

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” Simone Beauvoir

Baltimore? Let me get back to you.

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[b]Dave Grohl

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.[/b]

And when you were 13?

How do I stay humble? Because I’m the best at being humble.

Like that’s always a good thing.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Or what we do here of course.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

Next up: when it is entirely appropriate.

Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’

Unless it’s one of these perhaps: google.com/search?q=pornogr … =625&dpr=1

To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it’s the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it’s the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

Any drummers here? Lead singers? Roadies?

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[b]Philosophy Tweets

“Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.” Marquis de Lafayette[/b]

You know, the good insurrections.

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." Seneca

Actually, try not to.

“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.” Seneca

Ah, the Mr. Chickenhawks.

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Yo, Satyr!!
Among others of course.

“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.” Chanakya

Nothing personal, okay Mr. Pinhead.

“No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.” Euripides

For now, let’s call this the “human condition”.

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[b]Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.[/b]

Of course these days, who the hell knows what they are made with.

Oops! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

I’ll tell you mine if you’ll yell me yours.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Unless of course you miss it.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Okay, but when you die…then what?

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.

Indeed. All the more reason for the workers of the world to unite.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Good luck finding it here.

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[b]Philosophy Tweets

“Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who’s he? Have you slept with him?”
Jean-Luc Godard[/b]

Anyone here slept with him?

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.” William Faulkner

Not that it actually should of course.

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” William Faulkner

My guess: our honesty, truth and compassion.

“Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.” Franz Kafka

Either that or it’s dispair all the way down.

“One doesn’t inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. Make no mistake; our native tongue is our true fatherland.” Emil M. Cioran".

See, I told you. Historically and/or culturally.

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” Franz Kafka

I know, I know, Mr. Pinhead: Fuck that!

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[b]Charles Baudelaire

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.[/b]

Not unlike I cultivate yours.

Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself.

Sometimes you get this and sometimes you don’t.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

You simply make it all up. With or without rhymes.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Hey, he said it.
Not that I don’t agree.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

And man is it spinning here!!

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

As opposed to what, any woman?

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[b]Philosophy Tweets

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” Virginia Woolf[/b]

I do come close however.

“I am rooted, but I flow.” Virginia Woolf

Tell me that doesn’t get tricky.

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” Virginia Woolf

In other words, instead of others indoctrinating you, you indoctrinate yourself.

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” Virginia Woolf

And then there’s my version of that.

“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes.” Virginia Woolf

What, even here?!! :scared-shocked:

“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.” Virginia Woolf

You know, given this grimly distorted world.

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[b]Joe Abercrombie

History is littered with dead good men.[/b]

Next up: the fate of the dead good transgender.

The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.

Not counting the one against Nazis, he insisted.

I’m a fucking coward.
Maybe. Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun’s corpse. There’s a hero. Tell me who’s better off.

Let’s decide: is there a right answer?

All an arsehole knows about is shit.

That and the occasional cock.

Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those … you’ve got a word for it, don’t you?”
“Idiots?”
He looked sideways at her. “It was a different one I had in mind.”
“Optimists.”
“That’s the one. I’m an optimist.”
“How’s it working out for you?”
“Not great, but I keep hoping.”
“That’s optimists. You bastards never learn.”

Fortunately, I’ve never been optimistic myself. Especally after coming here.

It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.

Just ask Shelly. He’s bound to know.

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[b]Philosophy Tweets

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.” Paul Cezanne[/b]

We win some, we lose some.

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” Epictetus

You know, being optimistic.

“Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.” Epictetus

Naturally as it were.

“Facts are lonely things.” Don DeLillo

Not unlike this one.

“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.” Nikos Kazantzakis

Of course: whatever the fuck that means.

“Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.” Nikos Kazantzakis

Let me guess: God’s mysterious ways again.

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[b]Thomas Ligotti

To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those who sneer at the sun and everything upon which it beats down. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I too am here.”[/b]

He had his hole, I have mine.

…one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.

Does the spining shock you?

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates.

Ah, of course, all the suicides.

For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

It would have to be that way, wouldn’t it?

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

It would have to be that way, wouldn’t it?

…those who suffer intolerably learn to hide their afflictions, both necessary and unnecessary, because the world does not run on pain time but on happy time, whether or not that happiness is honestly felt or a mask for the blackest despondency.

Not much happy time here though.

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[b]Philosophy Tweets

“Politics have no relation to morals.” Machiavelli[/b]

Of course that’s all changed now.
Right, Mr. Objectivist?

“Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.” R. D. Laing

Even I wouldn’t go that far.

“There are moments, as I myself have emphasized on different occasions, in which ‘kairos,’ the right time, is united with ‘logos,’ the ‘eternal truth,’ and in which the fate of philosophy is decided for a special period.” Paul Tillich

Care to bring this down out of the clouds?

“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.” Gracian Baltasar

What did you wish for?

“One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.” Baltazar Gracian

A fool, maybe. But not a pinhead.

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” Baltasar Gracián

Or here our “foes”.

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I meant… it was probably Majestic-12 [Bot], which is why I hi-lighted him in bold… wherever it appears, thread-counts go up in droves.

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[b]Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.[/b]

Just the good books though.

My past is everything I failed to be.

You know, so far.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

Pick one:
God
Nature

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Nope, for me, that actually only made things worse.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

So to speak.

Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

He means macadamias of course.

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This “technological” stuff stuff is all hopelessly over my head. And if it was Majestic-12 [Bot], why my thread here? And thousands of views for who?

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What is MJ12bot doing on my site(s)?

We spider the Web for the purpose of building a search engine with a fast and efficient downloadable distributed crawler that enables people with broadband connections to help contribute to, what we hope, will become the biggest search engine in the world. Production of a full text search engine at Majestic-12 is currently in the research phase, funded in part by the commercialisation of research at Majestic.

What happens to the crawled data?

Crawled data (currently only a web graph of links) is added to the largest public backlinks search engine index that we maintain as a dedicated tool called Site Explorer. Learn about your own backlinks from the extensive backlinks index.

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I understand almost nothing here. On the other hand, no doubt, it probably has almost nothing to do with dasein.

What happens to the crawled data?

In English please.

Seriously though, the latest thread here to see a “boom” in views is Maia’s ghost thread. Not thousands of views a day but dozens and dozens.

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[b]Werner Twertzog

Everything sucks.
But soon I shall be dead.[/b]

Ah, the silver lining.

Dear America: You will be dining in plastic igloos for the rest of your lives.

A little help with this one please.

I will pay double for short lines and no self-checkout.

No, this is a real condition.

So then I said, “Sontag, hold my beer".

The rest is history.
Whatever that means.

So then I said, “No, Gaga, I was not ‘born this way.’” As Simone de Beauvoir explained, generations ago, Bavarians are made by hiking, romanticism, and strong beer.

Only one Gaga I know of.

I am told that by leaping out of airplanes with progressively smaller parachutes, one eventually learns to do without them.

Of course there’s only one way to find out.

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Data collecting, on the web habits of internet users… ILP kept redirecting me ‘out of oblivion’ the last few days, so I guess that MJ12 was responsible for that, in trying to build a picture out of the current data gathered… so finger-on-the-pulse, no?

Seems Dasein-enough, to me.

They crawled the site and liked those threads the best, but why…? I don’t know… we can but speculate… or look it up, as to a reason why: indexing and optimisation… apparently.

Any irony, in any of that? plenty, I’m sure…