Is it normal for an anti-philosopher to be believable?

This happened in the evening, when I was having tension against being against philosophy, and mum's words are "I'm not interested" when I'm trying to be good. Under pressure I tried non-philosophy without being anti about it, and kept the peace, I said to mum, "I will not swear, talk about sex, drugs or say anything offensive" and she said "Great". This made me think, and I never thought hard before, being anti-rationalist, I wrote down three arguments I know my mother finds convincing, one of them being "Supposition & the Methods of Correct Happiness without overpressuring nor inviting Dislike", it's about supposing and arguing about whether I have true happiness, I had a theory, which is based on the science of being ethical in front of my mother, after such conclusions I can say I'm not truly happy, but almost found it, because of my science, which will gradually make me truly happy and also peaceful (I tested it). So is it normal that the way I talk is believable?

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  • Tisgranum

    Sounds to me like, when you get off this trip, what you wrote here will be nonsense even to you.

    A little knowledge doesn't exempt you from idiocy.

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    • TheGod

      It can do. You're all missing the point: knowledge of everyday life. I advise that supposing you're on the bus, do the opposite of what you hear, example, read a book on the bus- intelligence goes a long way.

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  • AngAnders112

    I don't get it. Can someone explain the punch lunch line to me?

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    • TheGod

      Does this look like a joke? There's no punchline, the intellectual doesn't listen to the unlearned (pretty smart).

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  • Ono

    You lost me at 'this'. Let us all know when you get your head out your arse.

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    • TheGod

      What 'this' is is anti-philosophy, perfectly easy to understand. Ono, I doubt that you lost anything, you "found" the "answer" to your "self". Cool, to be excessively specific and honest, your ground is nothing, a word doesn't capture the meaning of what you say, words are just words, means nothing. However, show your brother a paper with science on it (no excuses), science is a nice honesty, brutally "honest" is untrue: it has no science. It's not evidence, being mean proves that the fool prefers pessimism. Take it laid back, baby, prefer optimism, man! Books on the pursuit of happiness should unscramble the emotional circuits, you'll find your answer, may I advise "Hotheads" by Stephen Pinker, one needs happiness, another one, "The Pursuit of Happyness" is the ultimate sugary film of real intellect of the feeling, watch it. And come back when any of you saw a therapist.

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    • TheGod

      Let's anti-philosophise: my IQ's 101, and I spend a lot of time learning on the computer, and reading lots of books. The truth is anti-intellectualism which I am detecting is thrice missing the point: knowledge of everyday life (hmmm), irrational science, and intellectual stuff which any person can believe: 1. If your theory's not sound you have no ground for irrationalism. 2. If it's not sound, you have no ground for truth of "reality". 3. It has to be exact, from real life, i.e. nature's not something inside the heads of all you guys. 4. You don't generalise. and 5. a healthy cynicism/scepticism, and without a method, but with that which comes naturally: you need convincing scientific, not pseudoscientific evidence to make people believe you, based on fact. And no anti-philosopher likes any anti-intellectual, you're usually a bunch of children, no offence (not the one who said "arse"). However, cynicism is when you doubt sincerity, i.e. you're not enjoying science, you're trashing knowledge, plus another reality is that yes, I dislike pleasure, but I'm no fool, it wouldn't be a pleasure 1. since this which I wrote isn't easy, it requires detection and knowing, and 2. it wouldn't be a pleasure to eat crap food from McDonald's (I don't mean an Angus, or a Big Mac, but trashy food like plain ice cream in a cheap cone or a non-luxurious biscuit). Well done, so worship my IQ (101).

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      • nagasonavimana

        Oh...I see what you did there.

        Ok, let's break it down, shall we?

        1. There are many methods to counter the rising trend you perceive to be dangerous (blind intellectualism), declaring a whole new school of thought (anti-philosophy, I'm assuming) is barely stirring the pot and barely adding to a wealth of "un-knowledge" that has been established since the first caveman knock-knock joke. May I suggest Zen Koans, the Tao Te Ching, and The Illuminatus Trilogy for a series of examples on mindfraking? Also, Fight Club, now that I think of it.

        2. A better attack position (in my subjective opinion) against the dogmatic tendencies of people with regard to their faith and trust in the phenomena of the world is to simply call into question the nature of reality as fixed and objectively understandable. See: ExistenZ, Waking Life, et. al. for cheap and easy examples of the above. An excellent and accessible treatise on this very point lies within the Don Juan series of novels (or are they biographies?) by Carlos Castaneda. In it, perception is tested, questioned, and stretched in a manner not dissimilar to what Buddhist monks train for years to understand.

        3. The inclusion of your IQ was a mistake for two reasons. First, those who put stock in that arbitrarily lauded method of intelligence measurement will tell you that a 101 IQ is a low average. Scoring above 130 according to their own standards, is indicative of brilliance. Second, many concerns and questions have been raised about the nature of the IQ test in general, with regard to it's culturally specific methods and it's loose definitions of what areas of knowledge are considered important. Those that know this, disregard the test as flawed (if not outright biased) and utilize the simpler method of "feeling a person out" to measure the intelligence of another person.

        I say all of this not to dissuade you in your efforts to liberate persons of their preconceived notions, but to urge you toward a sharper and more concise method. Being a proponent of the Classical Methods, reflect on the simplicity of Diogenes when bursting Emperor Alexander's bubble. Plato couldn't have done the same if he had a million words ready and at his disposal.

        In short, don't be like me. You're doing what I did, not five years ago.

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        • Yeah right Professor Sheep, but you'll find that the average IQ is actually from 96 to 100. And my ways are top-notch original, play a song, I can play that song singing lyrics in a very different way, and you'll say I'm not playing the same song. Point two: thanks for your simplicity advice. Three: grazie te to your knowledgeable input, cheers! :). PS: by the way, are you feeling lucky? I'm the luckiest man under superstition. I never wear green, and I never break a spider web. Grazie to some of you folk, my work is in full-detail including the point I make titled "Spooky", illustrating the allegory of eyeballs, blood and goo, and the flying evil square blue oranges, which is true, but not literally so (oooooooooooooooo).

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    • TheGod

      Hooroo, I've got what I needed.

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  • nagasonavimana

    The way you talk isn't even low-grade term paper bullshitting. It's ten cent words randomly strewn about that sound like ten dollar words in sequence. I could tell you that "Antidisestablishmentarianism is the cosmological framework for a Hegelian supposition on the methodology of Nation-states and the Jewish Question". You know what that means? Absolutely fucking nothing.

    Scientists speak in their own language out of accidental habit. Smart, salt-of-the-earth people speak plain truths that sound like koans. Insecure quasi-elitists resound with a flurry, signifying nothing.

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    • TheGod

      Antidisestablishmentism isn't a word, check a dictionary with 2 million words. Besides, it means you're against the disestablishment, so people want an establishment so it's rebelling against rebellion (you're not really rebelling), the word contradicts itself, and a "Bot" isn't a problem, a "bot" isn't anything like a robot. Case two: John Howard boiled down to the same thing: i.e. the reality of politics, and the new Prime Minister (a woman) is again with political science, which I believe is based on non-whimsical facts using reason not passion. Another point, nerds are cool, baby! Drinking coffee, and brushing your teeth can even be analysed if you listen to your left brain, overanalysation goes a long way. Another case which I look for clues for: I'm trying to analyse why you think this ridiculous theory of yours (all of you). Instead of debating against everyone else and helping moi, you're all agreeing with each other. I beg to differ from all of you: a. you're not helping, b. you need to tell some worker what your problem is, c. I disagree that what I think means nothing, what I think means I'm an ex-student of philosophy, ex, instead of believing in idealism, I believe the real world is waking up and you're not plugged in a computer, the digitisation's all a dream: conclusion, hence I'm "coded", this is a virtual reality, and a self-respecting student will tell you that, not my family though, I disobey my mother and do the smart thing, now I can rebel, because the rebellion makes perfect sense- if you analyse normal: scientific, and if you contradict everyone else, your thinking makes perfect sense. Ciao! Enjoy your thinking.

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    • TheGod

      So? Everything has consequences, what are ya tryin' to prove?

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      • nagasonavimana

        That you need to take some B-12, deep breaths, and a cold shower to get off that acid, man.

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        • TheGod

          I'll acid you. Your mother needs to put you in Yale University.

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    • Nolan3200

      I concur. Your oration is unequivocally and veraciously stupendous. Well done for putting this braggart in his place.

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      • nagasonavimana

        Verily, his efforts to achieve a loquacious academic rhetoric are milquetoast and tergiversatious at best.

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      • TheGod

        Thank God I'm stupendous, I'm the big and Almighty God, I know everything. Woooooo! Feel my wrath and study science!

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      • TheGod

        I know, well, what's a braggart? Sounds bratty! Are you with them? If any of this is nothing, then I suppose when it's my first day I don't immediately get my beliefs right. Considering I was a student in idealism, etc, and that there's Pythagorean, the two follow, and it's hard for me to be understandable to you: Pythagoreanism states that everything's made run by numbers, and history repeats itself exactly, I say not everything's run by numbers since there's subjective, non-mathematical matter and the unknown, and history isn't warped identically on its own, but it does repeat itself exactly through a time bounce, a system failure in time, whilst time's warped, sucking itself in somehow causing it to repeat itself exactly, however, supposition comes into the whole thing for one supposes. Anyway, it's not logic that will work to understand the Universe, so I used an illogical subjective method, experimenting on the ethics of myself, sweet! :)

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  • joybird

    I support the campaign for plain English - so any chance of using some?!

    Yawn, bore!

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  • DollyBoots

    Que??

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  • TheGod

    I come from Australia, so my dialect is different.

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    • nagasonavimana

      What, like is your fragmented, coded consciousness stored on a server in Australia? Your patterns of thought (evident in your type) indicate one of two things:

      1. Schizophrenia (or hallucinogenic drug use, in which the brain functions not dissimilar to a schizophrenic)
      2. Advanced primitive AI (what I mean to say is, you sound like a bot...like the ones that proclaim we can change our penis size if we only click on a certain link).

      If we're gonna bust out the Greek Classics of Philosophy, I hereby state that I'm a Cynic of the school of Diogenes, and you sir/madam/robot are a fucking idiot (that is said under the auspices of Cynical Boolean Logic).

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      • TheGod

        Very funny, however on a serious note, I'm ashamed, should I be? Yeah, right, an idiot. I was in Elizabeth Grove South Australia writing this, mate. I appreciate your cynicism, but what? This is out of place,ciao! (Ciao is Italian for goodbye), thank you, bruzz!

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