probably the most boring shit I've ever read in my life

04-16-2006, 09:32 PM

probably the most boring shit I've ever read in my life

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Originally Posted by A paragraph from Kant's book, "Logic"

Imitation has a general influence on our judgement, for it is a strong ground for taking as true what others have alleged as true. Hence the prejudice: What everyone does is right. As concerns prejudices that have sprung from habit, they can be eradicated only by time, in that the understanding, checked and delayed in its judgements, step by step, by counter-reasons, is thereby gradually brought to an opposite manner of thinking. If, however, a prejudgice of habit has at the same time arisen from imitation, then the man who is possessed of it can hardly be cured of it. A prejudice from imitation may also be called a propensity for the passive use of reason, or the mechanism of reason instead of its spontaneity under laws

it's smart, sure. Kant was one of the greatest thinkers of the west, but jesus christ, that shit is more boring than the bible.

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04-16-2006, 09:34 PM

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Pirsig's extension of Kant's work is more accessible. Read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values."

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04-16-2006, 09:42 PM

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hey whatever blows your hair back chief, I'll look for the book when I'm done with Logic and Don Quixote.

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04-16-2006, 09:54 PM

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Kant sounds strangely similar to Cunt..

Coincident? I don't think so.

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04-16-2006, 10:35 PM

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Kant is pronounced "Kahnt", it's a german name. plus I think it's a safe bet that "cunt" wasn't a word 200 years ago.

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04-16-2006, 11:17 PM

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it's a safe bet that "cunt" wasn't a word 200 years ago.

This etymology dictionary begs to differ:

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cunt
"female intercrural foramen," or, as some 18c. writers refer to it, "the monosyllable," M.E. cunte "female genitalia," akin to O.N. kunta, from P.Gmc. *kunton, of uncertain origin. Some suggest a link with L. cuneus "wedge," others to PIE base *geu- "hollow place," still others to PIE *gwen-, root of queen and Gk. gyne "woman." The form is similar to L. cunnus "female pudenda," which is likewise of disputed origin, perhaps lit. "gash, slit," from PIE *sker- "to cut," or lit. "sheath," from PIE *kut-no-, from base *(s)keu- "to conceal, hide." First known reference in Eng. is said to be c.1230 Oxford or London street name Gropecuntlane, presumably a haunt of prostitutes. Avoided in public speech since 15c.; considered obscene since 17c. Du. cognate de kont means "a bottom, an arse." Du. also has attractive poetic slang ways of expressing this part, such as liefdesgrot, lit. "cave of love," and vleesroos "rose of flesh." Alternate form cunny is attested from c.1720 but is certainly much earlier and forced a change in the pronunciation of coney (q.v.), but it was good for a pun while coney was still the common word for "rabbit": "A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers' wives, 'No money, no coney.' " [Massinger, 1622]

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04-16-2006, 11:22 PM

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KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN......t

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04-16-2006, 11:29 PM

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DAMN IT RECTUM YOU BEAT ME TO IT

That's some deep stuff Doc. I would imagine it to be a good read (though long and painful).

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04-17-2006, 02:23 PM

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DAMN IT RECTUM YOU BEAT ME TO IT

That's some deep stuff Doc. I would imagine it to be a good read (though long and painful).

actually that paragraph has about as much depth as a 5th grade thesis statement, the wording makes it sound deep.

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This etymology dictionary begs to differ:

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04-17-2006, 03:51 PM

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actually that paragraph has about as much depth as a 5th grade thesis statement, the wording makes it sound deep.

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I didn't mean the text that you posted itself, just what the whole book would contain with something like that leading it off.

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04-17-2006, 04:41 PM

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Fuck. Sum it up in one sentence :

Predjudices are learned, and learned things are hard to forget.

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04-17-2006, 05:02 PM

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meh, learned about kant a bit, and forgot everything.

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