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Thrusymachus: Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are, and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends 15 minutes with fools of this kind, it is merely a way of passing the time. I’ve now got more important things to do, goodbye.
— Dec 28, 2025 10:40AM
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Andrew Stewart
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“You can also look up upon our life as an episode unprofitably disturbing the blessed calm of nothingness…
For the world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls, and on the other the devils in it.”
Aw come on bud. Onward and upward yeah?
— Dec 28, 2025 09:48AM
For the world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls, and on the other the devils in it.”
Aw come on bud. Onward and upward yeah?
Andrew Stewart
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“A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten.”
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— Dec 28, 2025 09:32AM
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How’s this for a tone setter:
“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering, then our existence is the most ill adopted to its purpose in the world…
Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule.”
— Dec 28, 2025 09:28AM
“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering, then our existence is the most ill adopted to its purpose in the world…
Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule.”
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What Socrates might have referred to as taking their ball and going home
Yes, exactly, probably with a tiny smile that means, “I’m about to quote this man for the next 2,000 years"
ANYWAY… these anti-philosophy guys absolutely crack me up. They show up, yell “THIS IS CHILDISH,” and storm off in a huff, slamming the door so hard the hinges file for divorce. And give it five minutes…they’re outside pacing in circles, texting in ALL CAPS, and threatening to start a podcast called “Real Men Don’t Think”
Meanwhile the philosophers are still inside, sipping whatever passes for wine, going, “Bless him, he’ll be back once he stops arguing with his own shadow.”
Honestly, if being a fool means staying in the room, hand me the jester shoes, at least I’m not out in the hallway recording Episode One.