Did western philosophy really originate in Egypt rather than Greece? Eh, maybe. But the overlap between people who find this theory compelling and people who subscribe to the Black Egyptian theory is just barely not a circle, so the chance of any decent scholarship emerging in this space is almost zero.

Which is a shame. Because it *is* an interesting theory that's not obviously false if you can dig past all the hoteps.

software engineering is cute because if you apply principles you learn from any other kind of engineering you get a functioning airplane or a distillation column or something. but if you try to apply the bleeding-edge software engineering techniques you learned in school in the real world you just get into fights with other people

I think this is fairly well attributable to analytic philosophers wanting to salvage something valuable out of the morass that is Husserl and Heidegger without having to read either of them. But still. Trendtano

Franz Brentano is probably the trendiest dead philosopher of the past 20 years or so. Trendtano

People always want to be cultured and well-rounded and sadly if you go about this the normal way you end picking up the conventional wisdom on a variety of topics, which in nearly every case is so wrong you were better off being ignorant.

Meanwhile if you hand out with enough grad students you can manage to avoid picking up on even the most rudimentary knowledge of several fields while getting an in-depth understanding of some of the most irritating and shameful scholarly pissing contests. It's better this way.

Long over due, bUT AHHHHH THE LAST FEW EPISODES WERE KILLING MEEEEE

I dont think I’ll ever be able to get over how adorable Yukine is.  *-*

Marxists who get really into it are basically just the world's lamest Christians.

03/01,/2014， growing pain…QvQ

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a hogboon, a blessing bestowed upon one by a boar, sow, or other swineform

everybody gangsta until the televangelist starts groovin

I think specialist language is often useful, but if you can't communicate an idea effectively without resorting to it, it's very possible that you aren't actually saying anything.

Nina Simone didn’t play no games when it came to her money 😂

naked lunch by william s. burroughs