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>I think therefore I am
How can someone be so naive?

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>>13878012
t.

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>>13878012
Cogito Ergo Sum. Motherfucker.

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>>13878012
>I think. Therefore i am.
holy fuck

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>>13878012
He's right but yeah Descartes was retarded and his philosophy was incoherent. Pic related.

>> No.13878121

Oh man this brings me back to when I was an undergrad and totally obsessed with Mr. R n D. The dude just spoke to me on such a profound level when I encountered him and I quickly bought up all of his stuff, multiple different editions for the same works etc. I even tried teaching myself French and Latin to make sure I was getting all that this madman was doing. His ideas consumed me.

Eventually it got to the point where I even started styling my hair like his and grew a similar goatee. My eyebrows weren't as defined as his so I used to sneak some of my gf's cosmetics to help fill them out. I carried Meditations and Principles of Philosophy everywhere I went, and always tried to center conversations around them no matter who I was talking to: a cashier, my parents, roommates etc. I used to be able to quote practically the whole of them by heart. I also got into really aggressive arguments with dumbasses like OP who didn't understand his genius at all.

Eventually something kind of broke in me. I guess I had already snapped to some degree looking back on it, but then everything went tits up. fast. My gf didn't like the fact that I had practically created a shrine to Descartes on the nightstand and taped a huge surrealist collage of his various portraits on the walls by the bed. She accused me of spending more time looking at them than at her when we had sex. I don't know, maybe I did, but the man just had a certain magnetism that pierced my soul. Then one day she found me applying her volumizing eyebrow gel and some foundation to try and get that odd tint that Descartes has going for him in some of his portraits, while having an enthusiastic debate in the mirror with myself between an imagined Leibniz and myself as Descartes, just responding how I imagined he would and so on, and she broke down in tears and started screaming at me for being a lunatic and about how she couldn't take it anymore. I tried to explain to her that she really couldn't know for sure that any of what she was experiencing was a true reality that ought to be defined as "Real" and therefore should maintain a rational level of skeptical detachment, but this only exacerbated things.

So she broke up with me and started spreading rumors about how I was a fag and a weirdo who wore makeup and was gay for old philosophers. My life on uni quickly plummeted as I was ostracized, which only succeeded in driving me further into my obsession with Descartes and I was eventually suspended after getting into a very heated argument with one of my professors (an empericist) whose car I later desecrated.

My life is pretty shitty now desu. I usually alternate between cycles of NEETdom and McDonald-tier wageslavery since I never finished my degree but have loads of student debt and legal fees still. I'm not into Descartes anymore but I'm kind of glad for the experience. I doubt others have ever gone quite that far into something.

>> No.13878142

>>13878012
cogito ergo sum makes a lot of sense

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>>13878121
This is the realm where Action takes place, it matters little whether there's other realms/planes/dimensions, if here right now where we and Everything manifests Actions.

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>>13878012
What is possibly any more like being than thinking?

>> No.13878359

>>13878121
Gold

>> No.13878394

>>13878142
No, it doesn't, read the critique.
The use of the pronoun "I" complicates things.

>> No.13878439

>>13878012
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

Satan, Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger

are you just a thought?

>> No.13878769

People always miss the start of the phrase, which essentially makes it:
> I doubt, I think, therefore I am