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wow! way to go! i dont know why i didnt think of this [/not sarcastic]
i have been thinking so hard over the past couple of days since i found this thing that my brain has inexplicably started to make these little zaps that arent painful but just… not right
but anyway thinking is great! my brief experience with reading what some old fart says about philosphy is that he can do in a thousand words what i could in an ambiguous few
so screw reading start writing/thinking for yourself
d.i.d. im looking at you
Not too hot there in philie tonight, right?
Take it easy man.
why do you Think I have 800 some odd Posts? plus all the shit I’ve half written and sketched out on the side
Way to go man.
who needs to read texts? redundancy, unoriginality and plagarism are great things for philosophic thinking…
-Imp
can you stop …ing mate, it gets on my nerves.
Reading is better, because there is always someone smarter than you.
as i said in my previous post, the aim to read should be to criticise, but not to learn. read my post mate
Absolutely goddamn right. But you still gotta write
What a stupid thing to say. Are you claiming that all knowledge is subjective? That seems to be the jist of your argument. People read to gain insight into the genuine experiences of other people, and that is the same thing as learning. Other from that, criticism of conceptual writing is redundant when the author has invested more time than you in research. Science in particular makes all criticism redundant.
Puleez…
When I said “read” in that post, I meant things like you know? Das kapita, Des Ctitique…
I like science, I like evidence, and I think everybody should believe that 1+1=2 when they are told so.
Happy?
How could one judge, and thereby weigh evidence, of say, Marx, without reading what he wrote first? Should we wait for the town drunk to stumble out of the bar and tell us?
the town drunk would probably have a better plan for utopia than marx…
-Imp
Don’t feed the trolls. 
oops, sorry. But they’re such cute trolls
Perhaps, but how would one know without reading Marx to judge the worth of his arguments?
GTC, that is only logical… but that kind of logic has no place in philosophy…
thus spake the “philosophomore”
-Imp
Fascinating topic! I wonder how one can start writing without reading at the same time? Whatever… I guess we all have our own ways of doing things our way. Anyway…
As a side reminder I think,
Philosophy = logic + basic intelligence + emotional pain + time
I would personally take logic out of that equation…