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Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

from age 6-18 i read calvin and hobbes and the far side whilst taking a shit every morning.

i'm smart as hell.

Do you know everything there is to know about The Peloponnesian War though? If you don't, I'm afraid you're just an idiot like the rest of us.

Intelligence, knowledge and wisdom are not the same.

Calvin and Hobbes is a clever cartoon that does a great deal to encourage children to think outside the box (pun not intended). This is what I meant when I was referring to "mental infrastructure". But it's not enough to have the infrastructure...you have to plug things into it. That's where wider literature comes into play.

I mean, by way of example, by your own account your ROTC guy posted this motto on the wall about the nature of democracy, which is provably contrary to fact, but you believed it because you didn't know any better (and he probably doesn't either), no?

How would you ever find out whether that motto was true or not, just from reading Calvin and Hobbes, without reading other things? Why take his word for it?

Why do you think long books exist? Isn't it logical to believe that they serve some purpose?
Maybe there's things you should know that you don't.




What's your basis for using your level of knowledge as the baseline?

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

What's yours?

I don't.

I can see clearly that I have more than you - more than most people - but I recognize that some people have even more, and I respect that, I try to exploit their resources.

I don't simply write their greater knowledge off as superfluous, nor am I content with what I have.
That is the difference between us.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

Nor do I.



Nor am I.



No, the difference between us is found in where we seek knowledge, and what knowledge we seek.

I'm not very smart. Other people are just FUCKING retarded.

Truth.

That's exactly what you do. Someone says, you don't know this, you haven't read that, and you're all WELL OKAY IT DOESNT MATTER CUZ I KNO CUZ I KNO.

You don't seek knowledge ANYWHERE.

The sum of your knowledge-seeking efforts are:
1. Forbes and maybe WSJ
2. Google
3. The smallest of small talk

You said you read "books" and this boiled down to one book which it was then revealed you had such a total ignorance of that it was clear you had never even read it.

When people tell you things (e.g., employment statistics, USPS mechanics) and provide you with info that doesn't agree with your ignorance, you then pout and insist it doesn't matter "because we can't really know anything for sure".

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

Writing someone off as irrelevant for having less knowledge than you is just as bad as 'see sig' regarding others who are more knowledgeable, as far as I'm concerned. I believe that everyone has value in some form, and everyone has something to teach.

Nobody knows someone 100%. Nobody knows the extent of their life experiences and what they could possibly teach you. This is where the whole 'pursuit of knowledge' thing comes into play. In the event that you absolutely feel that someone is a complete idiot, and you don't ever see yourself learning anything from them...you're still wrong. You can learn from your own mistakes, as well as the mistakes of others. One is a lot easier to take advantage of, and hurts a lot less.

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

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I don't. I write him off because he's incurious, goes on believing things long after they've been thoroughly debunked, and forms his views entirely by splitting the difference.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

You know I have really interesting things to say Eturnal. I'm hurt that you would ignore me. /wrists

You can when you're not engaging aestu in yet another monkey shit fight.