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I tend to hate the popular culture and philosophy series... although Cartesian skepticism is serious business.
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mchicken is dejected.
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Yeah I see upon further research that it is part of some series with that name, so less exciting.
And seeing some of those other books in the series now, wow, fuck that. |
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Look, it might be good... and I do think that it's cool to get basic philosophical ideas out there to a general public that never bothers to consider such things. I also like it in that, so I assume, the ideas are presented in terms of known scenes like movies and games and whatnot (I've only flipped through a few of the books).
Hell, maybe I'll buy it and give it a go... I Link therefore I am? Classic.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| One of the essays is on slavery, because of all the serfs I think. |
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I'm glad this conversation has progressed far enough that I don't need to try and convince you not to read that.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| lugo wrote: | | I'm glad this conversation has progressed far enough that I don't need to try and convince you not to read that. |
Have you read it? |
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Speaking of Link,
Seriously
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xavid is surprised at continuity.
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| Look, I'm playing it right now, I don't know where you mendicants are. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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| mchicken wrote: | | lugo wrote: | | I'm glad this conversation has progressed far enough that I don't need to try and convince you not to read that. |
Have you read it? |
God no. I read some crazy shit, but seriously. I have standards.
Actually, I'm familiar with the book series. Haven't read any of those, either, but my terrible book sense was tingling.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| I just liked the subtitle, and didn't know it was in a series before I posted. I feel like if this had been an independent work it would have been good. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password.
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The only way to know for sure if that is true is to find a philosophy major and convince him to write a book with that title independently.
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| If only there was some sort of philosophy major conveniently at hand... |
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Master's thesis?
Seriously though, I'm already writing it.
Long story short, Nietzsche (a powerful wizard) is played by Ganondorf.
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