ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social
Philosopher, writes on existentialism and Kierkegaard -- "Does Santa Exist?" is my book -- and tv writer -- Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Big Bang Theory, Malcom in the Middle, Krapopolis &c.! blogs at ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com He/Him
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they had it coming no doubt.
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we would be 8000 years ahead if the Sumerians had not invented kingship.
we would be 12000 years ahead if the bronze age had not invented patriarchy.
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what's an example of a less philosophical emotion as opposed to a more philosophical emotion? EG is rage unphilosophical? You'd think. But what if you are raging against unclarity? Then it'd seem pretty philosophical all things considered. What do you think?
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I wanted to make a pun about "Rage Against the Tureen" but I feel I am a little late
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start at the beginning and post as you go.
"It created Elokim with beginnings" after all!
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everybody will be replaced by computers but the poets and the body workers
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people should manage hedge funds for the love of it
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you tried to eat it as an oaf would eat it, but failed to do it that way?
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put them in a sack and shake it and have a stick at the ready
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every notion is philosophical, if viewed philosophically
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do a cat and a mouse agree in form of life or disagree?
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maybe they're an idiot?
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not always for external reasons. sometimes for internal reasons.
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I'm on team "unique totally admits of a comparative".
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shot fired in the "can unique be a comparative?" war!
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first wrap tfillin around the head, then wrap the head around the tzimtzum
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pantheism but you start checking off what's not
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do you think fRPGs are still basically D&D or are indie RPGs equally important?
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it looks like the Strawberry Festival in Oxnard
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it's pencils down!
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they are deeply afraid
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but work is hard...
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do you have it not pay-walled?
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How is Leh? I have wanted to go to Ladakh since forever.
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and now one of them is president!
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weirdly melancholy for a comedy theme song, and that's great
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can I love stuff that's not alive -- e.g. the sky, or a spring morning?
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h/t @kurtandersen.bsky.social
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Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis
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short-fingered vulgarian
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red velvet. it's gross.
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thanks!
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we're better at comedy than they are --we should use that too
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The logician Graham Priest worked on Catuṣkoṭi, but this work treats it as an isolated feature, a kind of island language, that has to be interpreted on its own. You need Path Semantics to bring the context of the Catuṣkoṭi into formal mathematical language. However, I am not satisfied yet.