But you can never get out of the phenomenal realm; you are always in the "matrix"
Well, theoretically you can reach the noumenal by way of pure reason, but it would look nothing like the phenomenal; in fact, it wouldn't "look" like anything at all
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Are we talking about the same movie?
SEE! Kant was wrong about the power of universal reason.
MI 6th GRADE TEECHUR SAID THAT AMINALS R CUTE SO HUMANS R EVIL I LUV THEM SO MUCH!111111
How about I make a few crushing points illustrating how wrong you are?
The plot thickens!
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In my world, where the sky is blue, "opinions" which are contrary to established facts are a roadblock to free thought, not the best path to it.
All hail censorship!
UT OH THEY MAEK TOO MUCH SENSE BETTER DELETE THEIR POSTS TO FREE MY MIND!1111
I could not agree more: deleting our posts, which prove conclusively that you are an abject moron, is the best way to encourage intelligent thinking and self-determination. Continue being a tool.
Man, Ocarina of Time is OLD SCHOOL! I remember playing that in elementary school!
No, Atari 2600 is "old school." NES is pushing it, but I'll grant that it's old enough. Now go overdose on Ritalin, you little bastard.
Super Smash Bros.? Sure it's fun as hell to play! Sure it's a skill-intensive and very addictive game! But a graphics whore like me doesn't care about gameplay! Looks are everything, idiot!
Life would probably be easier if I had absolutely no taste, just like you. You're the reason that the Zelda series has gone down the crapper. Now bite the curb.
I loved the 2600! I still have a NES and an SNES...so fun...
OK, perhaps there is hope for this world. But only if we breed. Now come do your duty as a Guardian of the Republic and produce some golden souls!
Bush v. Gore was the worst abuse of power in history! You damned Nazis just can't let the people get what they want!
Bush v. Gore wasn't even close to the worst abuse of power in history. Hell, it's not even the most poorly decided Supreme Court case. Ever hear of Griswold v. Connecticut? Dred Scott?
But...but...
Furthermore, the moral equivalence of comparing American conservatives to Nazis is disgusting. Learn perspective.
Close-minded jerk! I'm going to ignore your blind adherence to the dictates of reason! Free your mind and believe exactly what your professors tell you!
If you're trying to prove that American education is in shambles, you're doing a damned fine job of it. Now go be rebellious by slavishly following the intellectual trends in academia.
The two funniest authors on this site are here to educate you morons. Get your dictionary out if you have to, but if you graduated high school, you shouldn't have much of a problem.
Tip of the day - try reading all of someone's comics before you comment. Reading his latest, then inferring from that, is a terrible, awful, vile idea. And it makes you look even stupider.
Getting a sense of humor is your responsibility. You're a big boy. When you're utterly befuddled by the not-so-subtle jokes in my comics, it's time to go back and get your GED.
Hard-hitting political commentary got you down? Why not do what every liberal does? Ignore it! Throw an incoherent insult and then get back to your fantasy world.
Sorry to offend you by being funny. Click "random" and read some 12-year-old's verbal vomit. It's ok, the bad men are going away now.
Why does anyone bother watching the original series? The only reason to watch was to see if the special effects or Shatner's acting was worse. By my count, Shatner's acting has a slim lead.
Crystalline Entity, we know you killed millions, but we can't punish you because we're weak-willed idealists.
I mean Picard is obviously a better captain...eh...wait, what did he just say?!
*click*
One of the great questions of our time has been answered. Beam me up, Scotty!
Listen, you SWAT wannabe, I'm parking on a public street. Albright College doesn't own them, and I'd appreciate less harrassment. Sound cool?
I'm just doing my job! Now register that vehicle with us, even though you never use our parking lots! It's a rule, nonsensical as it may be.
Here's a clue - I'm paying your salary, and I'm a decent person. Leave me alone and do your job.
That's it! I'm going to whine about this, then realize I have no real power!
So I guess it would be too much to ask to stop that man breaking into the Pine Room and stealing our computers?
Your smart tone is really bugging me, mister. Let's see that college ID, because though I've seen you 80 times before, I don't believe you really attend this college.
Wealth redistribution ought to be effected in order to ensure the total happiness of society is maximized. Mill, anyone?
Yet utilitarianism is essentially unjust; it violates individual rights under the guise of working for the "common good," whatever that means. Majoritarian tyranny, anyone?
It's not right for some people to have more stuff. The rich get richer, etc.
Actually, when the rich get richer, the poor also get richer. Try learning basic economics, and also try letting people keep what they earn.
Gimme stuff!
Ramblings of an idiot or a brilliant reductio ad absurdum? I report, you decide.
I'm funny. I'm cool. By unthinkingly bashing Bush and conservatives, just like I'm told to do by the media and my professors, I assert my independence.
You know, that's a good point. Humor is only edgy when it's predictable and hackneyed, and satire is only biting when it's bizarrely divorced from reality.
I could not agree more! Though I used to be amusing by refusing to affiliate myself with an ideology, I've now decided that mainstream liberalism is the real way to dissent.
Hell, remember when my rants had no logical coherence, yet still seemed to speak truly? Who wants that? I'd rather make it painfully obvious that college completely brainwashed my weak mind.
It's cool to be angry at everyone! It doesn't matter if the target doesn't deserve it! Down with Bush, I hate national security. I'm such a rebel!
This is a public service announcement from me. We already knew you were idiots; there's no need to provide such a mountain of evidence.
I have a big problem with your skepticism. Leaving aside noumena for the moment, can't we use the innate categories in our minds to get a priori knowledge?
First, you have to understand that my skepticism was "mitigated." Aside from that, how can we really know anything with the mind? Isn't the phenomenal self only able to know phenomena?
Perhaps you're right, but I just don't see why the two worlds can't participate in each other somehow. We ought at least to be able to know noumena by implication, right?
Can you hear yourself? You claim that you want to explore the limits of reason and confine yourself to those limits, but you can't shake this unjustified attachment to rationalism.
Eh, what I really wanted to know was how that orgy went.
Those women were totally worth having to see Jean-Jacques naked.
Isn't that odd how timing my moves enables me to land blows? Weird. Anyway, pick your next character.
Guys, it's not fair! You always win! You don't understand that games are played for fun!
...does he ever shut up?
You're acting like the final value of the game resides in improving one's skill. While that may be true for other activities, it does not apply here. Having fun trumps cultivation of skill.
In other words, you want me to corrupt the sanctity of our gameplay and let you win.
...I openly confess, the suggestion of David Hume was the very thing, which many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber...
Now let's turn to page 90, where random contemporary dilettante struggles vainly to understand an issue that was resolved in the Middle Ages.
...That a straight line is the shortest path between two points, is a synthetical proposition...
That's a really good objection to the reading, Annoying Bitch in the First Row. Let's pretend it has merit instead of logically destroying it like we should!
College tuition - $20000 a year. Reading Kant during class instead of paying attention to the lecture - priceless.