I've never been disenchanted by the charade of what tries to come off as philosophy. Thought experiment: Put a humorous and free-minded philosopher in a pandemic lockdown. If the person doesn't come out with some biting humor, that person has been faking it. Zizek syndrome.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Reza, a non-related question, when did you start learning English? and was wondering, if at some point you felt, that in order to fully grasp complex ideas in English (even though you understand them) you have to do something with your Farsi. ground the ideas in Farsi somehow.
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Replying to @AforAbstraction
I started learning English around 12-13. Being a farsi nerd, it was difficult but learning new languages is not difficult at all. You just need to the crack the core protocol and then you can master a language. I'd say that there is nothing special or exotic about any language.
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Going to try it soon, probably Spanish, (did Latin at school). From what I have heard the most important thing is wanting to speak with people in the other language, and then doing so.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @NegarestaniReza and
Learn german. The language of god.
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Replying to @LStalewski @anti_minotaur and
The gods who have been dead for ages.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @anti_minotaur and
and yet their scripture is canon.
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Replying to @LStalewski @anti_minotaur and
But the very idea of scripture comes off as something ancient and dead.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @anti_minotaur and
Yeah but Heidegger died in 1976 and Wittgenstein in 51. It‘s not like the scriptures were chiseled in limestone or sth.
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Sorry I missed your point. My answer: Let us go back to the beginning of language.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @anti_minotaur and
To directly communicate from abstraction to abstraction, without interwoven language transmission errors?
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Replying to @LStalewski @anti_minotaur and
I'm all for this. But can you unpack this a little bit?
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