general thoughts on philosophy?

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A philosopher once said to a fish "The purpose of life is To reason and become wise."

The fish answered "The purpose of life is To swim and catch flies."

The philosopher muttered "Poor fish."

Back came a whisper "Poor philosopher."

--Max Black January 3, 1953

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The purpose of life is to suffer

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Schopenhauer agrees on this one. So i do, too.

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Most people are lead to have contempt for it because the media portrays it as asking pretentious questions. The fact is that the ogliarchs running society wants people who have a lot of technical technical knowledge but not enough wisdom to question them.

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Philosophy is generally harmful to culture because most philosophers are morons who generate random toxic ideas that undermine culture.

[–]Gaydolf_Titler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What would culture look like to you without pesky armchair philosophers thinking about?

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Like Athenian before Plato combined with Old Testament.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Where people are killing and torturing each other all the time and do nothing but hate and fight?