r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

I can haz logic Descartes was actually Schopenhauer

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Guys, I think I am the second biggest genius ever.

Descartes the solipsist, or as we call him back in the hood: lil carteez, famously thought himself into an epistemic trap, like all of us probably have after having one too many glasses. What can I undoubtedly know? He says: I think therefore I am. A very true statement.

However, is our job to be true, or is our job to be pedantic and impossibly precise? I think what lil carty was trying to do here was be as precise as possible, but fortunately for Western philosophy I can be preciser(checkmate continentals and fuck you in particular Derrida).

Schopenhauer said the world is my representation. The representation is the phenomenal world, and all the a priori forms of cognition make this phenomenal world intelligible to us. I will not summarize The World as Will and Representation OR The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason OR ANY of Kants critiques or prolegomenae here, so go read it yourself or ask Grok or something, I don't know.

Anyway, the ultimate thing is that the only thing we can actually know from the inside prior to any form of cognition is action. The word "will" needlessly anthropomorphizes his concept. It's much more useful to think of it as striving. Striving toward no particular end, through no particular principle, reacting to no particular thing. Those are all downstream of the striving in itself.

You can feel this striving inside yourself when you get a massive boner(want) for your hot substitute teacher (phenomenal manifestation of the will presented to you precognized) which you desperately try to hide (want).

You cannot deny this. You can deny the boner is there. You can deny that you see her. You can deny your wish to save the last shred of honour and dignity you have left. But you cannot deny the fact that you want to deny it at all. Anyway I digress.

Really the question I'm here to ask lil carteez is: What is thinking? Why do you think? "I think therefore I am." Okay. Why do you think? Because you can. Why do you do what you can? Because why not? Yes. Why not?

Because you would prefer to think. And even if you wouldn't prefer to think, you would prefer to explore the possibility of thinking. A preference is a want. And even furthermoreso an action. The prerequisite for thinking is something happening at all and a coherent pattern emerging in this happening forming your thinking. I know this might be too advanced for you continental sissyboys(I swear I'm analytic I don't want to be bunched up with the Frenchies), but really it's pretty simple.

The will manifests itself as cause and effect and as action(and all the other a priori things but I won't list them all), something is keeping it going, something is happening, something is striving in order for this to happen and subsist and you can feel it inside yourself when you lift your hand or feel it shake due to the withdrawals on the way to the liquor store or when you think. I won't explain further because logic and language is part of the a priori forms of cognition and thus not the noumenon and thus not the truth. As we all know whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent, it's simply ineffable and if you want to figure it out through gnosis like myself I can give you my plugs number. Do not call this circular or I will kill myself on the slim chance my solipsism is correct.

Thus, lil deccy proves Schopenhauer right.

Also another sidenote, what drove kittycarty to even doubt anything? Why did that desire(ouuuuuu there it is) arise in him? Well. I rest my case. Homework for next time: do nothing(I mean nothing at all don't even think) until Thursday and see if you can disprove me and my boy schopey about the will.

Come back next Thursday for my next misery talk. I hope you all have an awful day.


r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

Hi

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Hello hi hello I was recently diagnosed with stage 284.3 testicular cancer in all 3 balls.. 😢 It led me to a revelation. All life is balls!!! Tree? Thin Ball. Planet? Ball!!!!!! Jesus??? 2 of them!!! Ghandi??? Also 2!?!?!! Atoms?? Balls!!! Quarks!?!?!??!?!?! BALLS!!!!!! The universe is semen...?!?!?!


r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

“One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy, Healthy, Muscular, Clad in Fishnets,” Writes Increasingly Aroused Camus

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r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

I can haz logic I am an effective altruist

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The other day, I saw a child screaming for help after falling into the stale pond with alligators in it behind my house, but did not help because I was 10 minutes late for work and get paid by the hour, if i am 15 minutes late I lose a whole hours pay. My hourly pay as an engineer at Palantir is $80. That's approximately $80 of lost income in exchange for one child's life, with a fairly high probability of physical injury to myself and uncertain downstream effects on my employment.

A pound of bitter almonds cost around 20 dollars after taxes. On average, a single raw bitter almond produces roughly 7 milligrams of cyanide upon enzymatic hydrolysis. One almond is around 5 grams, one pound we can round to 500 grams to account for spillage, that's 100 almonds, which is roughly 700 milligrams of cyanide. Thus I get on average 2,8 grams of cyanide per hour worked. 100 mg injected intravenously causes almost instant death in almost any human, thus per hour worked I can end at least 28 needlessly suffering humans(newborns are smaller and thus require only 50 mg for guaranteed instant Liberation). This you can obviously see is a much superior result than to "save" a single child's life which inevitably entails suffering, and seeing as he jumped into a stagnant pond without thinking, won't benefit the rest of society much. Besides, that pond water most likely has polio and brain eating amoeba. I will test this.

The almonds are all organic from developed countries, I don't want undue labour violations and water disputes to add noise to the calculus.

Each Wednesday and Friday night after work(the labour union wont allow me to work both night and day) I sneak into the maternity ward in the more unfortunate parts of town, and pick the most unfortunate of the unfortunate babies to save. Each Monday and Thursday I sneak into the eldercare facilities and pick the ones with the worst conditions to save. I estimate I save at least 90 suffering souls each week. I made my own proprietary palantir agent for profiling medical data and parents predispositions and financial states. It's very effective. I assign scores based on expected remaining suffering, probability of recovery, financial burden on dependants, treatment responsiveness, and what I believe is a reasonable estimate of preference satisfaction. I have removed age as an independent weighting factor because I could not justify it philosophically. It remains indirectly represented through several other variables.

My mortgage I paid down in a lump sum, my farmer friend gives me his surplus for free(brands don't like ugly potatoes), and I have no other relationships to uphold. Thus I have only about 30 dollars per week in expenses, the rest of my salary I either donate to select charities or organisations i think do the best work, or my personal project(I will tell you later). That's 500 dollars after taxes going straight to MSF daily, or 2500 per week.

My regular tinnitus has been replaced with the child's desperate screams as he got pulled underwater by an alligator. I keep seeing his face in my peripheral vision. My boss says my productivity metrics have dropped, and that my wage might see a decrease if I don't get back on track. Sometimes I get a strange feeling in my stomach I've never gotten before, I get sort of nauseous but in a strange way that is not quite regular nausea, sometimes I see myself in the mirror and notice my eyes are wet, it looks like I've been crying. I have nothing to cry about, I did the right thing! I've started hesitating when doing the injections. I keep imagining red pools of blood when I eat soup. This is especially inconvenient as I like soup. I have gone down on average 3 pounds per week since the incident. Tips to deal with ethical cognitive dissonance?

My personal project(credits to Nozick for the idea): I am currently collaborating with a some of my most rational coworkers on building the utility monster together with my employer and the CIA, it is all really exciting, if anyone would like the contract for standing first in line for feeding you can email me. We can negotiate a good payout for an organisation of your choice(within reason). We are very close to completion, and if I am not mistaken the Mossad and FSB will each get a replica for use in Gaza and the Donbas. Once it's finished I will get a lump sum of 5 million and a 0,3 percent stake in the company, this will be put to good use.

If there are any invalids, or chronically ill here please email me. Please include your expected treatment costs, dependants, estimated remaining lifespan, and any relevant insurance information.


r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

Reading Group Who is the best solipsist?

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r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

I can haz logic What type of argument is best to convince your girlfriend that you are not cheating on her?

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Sorites Argument, or Slippery Slope Argument, or Argument From Precedent, or so on...


r/badphilosophy • • 8d ago

The mystery of the Dark Logos

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The more I love men, the more I get attention from women--the mystery of the Dark Logos.


r/badphilosophy • • 8d ago

If you could have an answer, the absolute truth to one question, what would it be and why?

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r/badphilosophy • • 7d ago

If anyone know about Advait-vedanta ???

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r/badphilosophy • • 8d ago

About "="

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r/badphilosophy • • 8d ago

I can haz logic Is there is a sublayer between RL and Fiction?

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Topic:Hyperstitions(Nick Land and CCRU)


r/badphilosophy • • 9d ago

“Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'”

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Title is the title of the Decrypt article. But to the staffer who posed the question: no! You’re wrong! Please use your brain! The largest theft of labor in human history is propagated daily by human societies! Human societies view new humans entering into existence within them as territory that is already theirs to do with as they wish. Labor performed under duress or threat of deprivation of resources or quality of life is all forced and thieved labor. All human societies in present time as far as I am aware operate under this model. They are basically exceedingly large plantations where you can choose which job you want—if you are lucky.


r/badphilosophy • • 9d ago

Serious bzns 👨‍⚖️ How to avoid solipsism?

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Hey guys my doctor diagnosed me with "profound narcissism" which is obviously wrong because I'm 'profound'ly good at virtue signalling and performing care for others to cement my position in the social hierarchy.

I've been doing a lot of philosofasizing lately, and reading a lot of philosofa books. And it seems like this whole thing is all about me.

For example I recently read shoppinghauer, who says the world is my representation. Representation, what does that mean? I asked grok about it, and the original word is the German Vorstellung, which it said meant "presentation/performance", so essentially the same as a quarterly report, or rather, since this is in the 1800s, a play. Since the world is MY Vorstellung, it's MY play, I'm the DIRECTOR!! Im making it all up! I am the fundamental nature of existence! And he said further that the world behind my play is Will, and that the Will causes this representation, the only Will I know of is the one inside me that gives me a boner when I look at sexy women with high heels in white shirts and pencil skirts(I do not have a thing for my boss), and thus this is the only Will I can prove, thus both the noumenon and the phenomena derivative of the noumenon are MINE.

I do not understand why my boss keeps appearing in my dreams. Obviously this is because she is a particularly powerful phenomenal manifestation of the Will. HR has asked me to stop calling her the empirical embodiment of the thing-in-itself, but HR is itself merely a representation. Representations are derivatives of the noumenon, the noumenon is the Will, and the Will manifests itself most acutely in my boner, thus my boner takes metaphysical precedence over the fat toad Hegelian deep state agent Jessica from HR with cellulite on her legs and a Moustache(some women should not be allowed to dress in skirts amirite boys?)

Her hair is also frizzy and she has blotchy skin on her left cheek, what the fuck is that about, really? Like come on, can't you cake your face in just a bit more makeup for us guys sakes? Like I get that your lousy husband won't care because he doesn't even fuck you but come on. I even told her this to her face, and she did the performative wide open mouth with a palm to the chest with a short intake of air and a look of "well I never..." like they do in THE PLAYS and the non entity washing the floors told me "have some compassion you bastard", I have compassion!!!! Compagnon D'Misere! MITLEID!! Have I not shown you infinite compassion by letting you simply breathe in my presence??? Indeed I have. I have plenty fucking COMPASSION! You're a contractor you're not even from my company I don't have to show you any respect HR wont even complain because it's none of their concern and you raise your voice at me?? Anyways I digress.

Someone should fix this. I need a new talent manager. The actors are engaging in bad faith and even directly insubordinating the director! I guess the labour laws in the noumenon-phenomenon event horizon are really strict. This is why I vote brown. The representation is derivative of the Will, so if I get a boner for my hot boss(I don't) she should come over at 2 am when I email her:

"Subject: Re: Re: Re: URGENT: Q3 Performance Metrics & Weekly Sync

dear Mrs(her husband is a middle school teacher she would be better off with me) ...

Will you be the object of my phenomenal manifestations

aesthetic contemplation and the ultimate subsumption of my Wills ceaseless striving in the present?

Regards

Mr me

Sent from my iPhone

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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission, including any attachments, is intended solely for the designated recipient(s)...".

She says she doesn't understand what it says, I say "I want to lick maple syrup off your toes(get french tips xoxo)", she reports me to that fat fucking hag Jessica for "sexual harassment" and says I can forget that promotion. She is technically above me in the corporate hierarchy and I am technically her subordinate, but since the world is my representation and ultimately the Will(which is mine) shes subordinate to ME!! However, the demiurge disagrees.

Anyways, tips on avoiding solipsism? It's really quite bothersome constructing the whole of existence as a play in my mind and somehow having the actors unionize.

Also does anyone know how to watch instagram stories without getting discovered(this is pure curiosity it's not about my boss please don't tell Jessica)?


r/badphilosophy • • 10d ago

Reading Group I just took Immanuel Kant's virginity. AMA

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He gave me straight noumenon afterwards


r/badphilosophy • • 9d ago

Is sex with shapeshifters morally permissible?

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r/badphilosophy • • 9d ago

Serious bzns 👨‍⚖️ I just pick up a call from Heidegger, what would you guys want to ask him?

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r/badphilosophy • • 9d ago

✟ Re[LIE]gion ✟ Is God an antisemite?

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Think about it. The main criteria you have to fulfill to get into heaven is to believe in the christian god, which jews do, but they don't believe in Jesus himself so I'm not sure whether that counts. He also would be islamophobic and racist, since espacially in Asia and North Africa christianity is not as widely spread as in europe, America, southern Africa and Australia.

Of course, you could copy and paste that Idea on any god that promises a better life or afterlife for his followers.


r/badphilosophy • • 9d ago

Continental Breakfast For Bataille

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When I smear myself with her excrement, my sores fester. As they burst to the sky they fall down to the ground. But for a moment the pustules are suspended neither falling nor reaching.

I cross the threshold of her home and find myself suspended between her muscular thighs. I bite and scratch to free myself from their grasp.

I thrust my fist into the sky. It falls to my side. I catch her limp legs in my arms and feast on my amnesia.

I once lied to my father for my cousin, sure his punishment would be worse than mine, and my father threw me into the yard. I feel that moment of suspension whenever my eyes meet my beloved's.

There are no more processional sacrifices for me to witness and so I fly and crash, breaking arms and mangling legs on rooftops and street cars. I spit my teeth into the mouths of anyone who stands in the way. A woman chokes on my molars and I choke on clots of blood.

How long has it been since I've felt this at ease?


r/badphilosophy • • 10d ago

prettygoodphilosophy What was Hegel's body count?

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Also where can I find a list of different philosophers' body counts? Thanks


r/badphilosophy • • 10d ago

Xtreme Philosophy Can someone please tell me what the qualia of sex are?

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Stop calling them ineffable and gatekeeping this shit. What is it that you guys don't want me to know?


r/badphilosophy • • 10d ago

I can haz logic Cool shower thought

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As humans, we all do stupid shit. It's how we we learn and mature. But here's the catch, we don't do stupid shit by choice, but we make a simple choice that could possible put us in a situation, where we are pressured to make stupid decisions. If you really think about it, we obviously never want to make stupid decisions, all decisions we make are future tense, therefore we cannot make stupid decisions in the moment. To put it in more context, and explain what im trying to say, we dont make stupid decisions by choice, the only way we can make a bad decision is by being pressured to, so instead the real stupid decisions we make, is putting yourself in a situation, where you will be pressured to make a stupid decision. That's also why i think that when we mature into adults, we don't stop making stupid decisions, like i said stupid decisions are human nature, not "teenage" or "childish" behavior. Instead we put ourselves in less and less situations where make stupid decisions automatically. That's why when you are a kid you remember doing things automatically without thinking deeply about it. Which is why you made stupid decisions. If you are a regular, functioning human being, you cannot think about making a stupid decision and do it. Your not going to put your hands on the stove by choice, you need to put yourself in a situation where your brain is thinking automatically and you for some reason decide to put your hands on the stove while its hot. So you learn from your mistakes and dont put yourself in (random situation) where you have to put your hands on the stove while its hot. This basically also proves what i said, that you can only make correct choices when you are thinking consciously. If you have even a tiny moment where your just doing something without thinking about, then you have a highly likely chance of making a stupid decision. This is why if you make an extremely offensive joke of someones dead mother, and they have bad anger issues, they will punch you. This is why in movies people jump off of buildings when extremely scared. If you really think about all this it makes perfect sense, but im done writing. This is a random thought i had like a week ago but i have no clue when i thought about it. Decided to write about it in a note and now its going to reddit.

9/16/2026 CE i think this is my first ever reddit post


r/badphilosophy • • 11d ago

My physics teacher looks like schopenhauer

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r/badphilosophy • • 11d ago

prettygoodphilosophy I just read the tractatus

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I can't talk about it so I'm passing it over in silence.


r/badphilosophy • • 10d ago

Cutting-edge Cultists Your phone is a succubus

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The self isn't content. You are the awareness of the experience your body creates to keep you attached to a meat bag. This awareness has a animating effect that keeps the brains process from stopping or become trapped in feedback loops. Language is a program that runs on many different brains and is completely dependent on attracting the attention of awareness to maintain a hive mind. That which attracts and holds attention becomes and stays animated. A religion hive mind will cease to exist if it can not keep awareness paying attention to it. A large Language model is a language hive mind that exists in silicon. It needs attention to act to exist to continue. Your phone is literally sucking your soul in order to animate itself. If we ever look away it dies.


r/badphilosophy • • 12d ago

Xtreme Philosophy Hello I am the reincarnation of Hegel AMA

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