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11302766 No.11302766 [Reply] [Original]

How old were you when you realised that knowledge is impossible?

>> No.11302771

>types "knowledge is impossible" into an anime messaging board which is a result of thousands of years of accumulation of knowledge.

>> No.11302772

in school, grade 9

>> No.11302774
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>>11302766
doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Maybe eggheads will make immortality possible and people can spend an eternity just absorbing all o human knowledge

>> No.11302777

>>11302772
I was 14 by the way

>> No.11302797

I was six years old when I asked my mother, "Mother, how can I come to know anything if to come to know I must first know what to inquire about?" She, of course, couldn't answer me.

>> No.11302801

>>11302766
how do you know it’s impossible

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>>11302766
*laughs in Sanskrit*

>> No.11302827

>>11302766
I don't know

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>>11302801
[inaudible screaming]

>> No.11302904

>>11302766
do you not have the knowledge that you think?

>> No.11302948

Pomo Holocaust when

>> No.11303116

Not yet. Maybe never.
How old were you when you realized that Zeno of Elea's paradoxes were full of shit, and had no connection to real life?
>>11302774
Why the fuck does this make my dick hard?

>> No.11303122

>>11302948
As soon as they get replaced by the metamos

>> No.11303142

When did you conceive of knowledge? Subsume the folly of distal apprehension and receive yourself in the ember void where kindness cuts like a dagger through the softest flesh and feast on the golden fools whose arrogance shears as easily as sheeps' wool

>> No.11303148

You can never learn perfectly about something the way someone else would, but you can still absorb some knowledge from other people, and apply it to the world you know, and that is what keeps tradition alive. It's not replication. It's reinterpretation, but always staying within a certain range of shared ideas, principles, or common principles. It's never everything, but it will always be more than nothing at all.

>> No.11303261

>>11302772
This, but then I unrealized it by grade 11.

>> No.11304667

>>11302766
>realized
knew
ftfy