Help me find a strange philosophy

I found an obscure philosophy about a year ago but I can’t remember what it’s called… It had something to do with challenging basically all notions about reality and logic and so on, and all the text was extremely formal and hard to read for more than 30 seconds before losing focus. Most of the time it seemed like nonsense made by combining long verbs, adjectives and nouns from a thesaurus into grammatically appropriate structures.

I think it’s a pretty recent philosophy and it had its own fairly large community back when I found it. It might have something to do with philosophy of mind; I found this “hyponoetics” which seems similar but the language isn’t nearly as esoteric and it seems much more coherent at a glance (not that I’m endorsing it).

I know this is a weird request, but any ideas?

Can you give us anything more about the content, or the style?

(And ‘recent’ could mean a lot of things. Do you mean last century?)

anus.com has a take on nihilism that sounds a little like that

By recent I mean in the last few years. I don’t know how else to describe it but to say it felt like it was totally empty of meaning and randomly generated by a computer, and yet there was always a sense that I was just missing some deeper abstract concept in the onslaught of stilted language.

It wasn’t in the same vein as nihilism; they had a different view on cognition or ontology/metaphysics or something like that. They also invented a bunch of bizarre words to go along with their theory, and one site had a glossary with definitions that didn’t really help to understand anything.

I’ll see if I can dig up anything else…

Let us know when you find it.

TomCruizeanetics?

Christianity?

Oprahbookology?

Are you talking about the post-modern philosophy generator?

Read the paper, then click “refresh” and get a new paper! It’s so easy!

Swedenborgism?

Maybe Gene Ray and his Time Cube junk?

Sigmund Freud.

He thought our life’s pursuit was to satisfy our anuses.

They must be talking about positivism,civic determinism, the continentalists and humanism.

I have always found those philosophies to be strange if not absurd or incoherent.


( Let us not forget the insane whims of moral subjectivists.)

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I THINK this is it. It seems familiar…http://www.hyponoesis.org/html/principles.html If it is, there used to be more sites with crazier essays…

It’s not as bad as I remember but it’s definitely hard to glean any information without a lot of patience for picking apart the language. Maybe you guys are more used to it than I am.

I seem to remember it involving cybernetic culture or something too…