#smack talk

April 27, 2018 via: Más Lucha

i love pretty women.

In all honesty, if you value the friendships, try having a conversation with them about FF7's themes of trauma specifically relating to Cloud, and how "shipping" him with Sephiroth is a shallow understanding of both the story and the characters' impact on one another.

And if that doesn't work, well...

-Boy, how the hell did come from looking like the annoying theater kid and the annoying nerd in the front of the class that goes "Uh actually- 🤓" everytime the teacher says something.

To looking like your stereotypical emo villain that's a background character in One Punch Man?

-Did you try to change your style after your 50th restraining order? Like damn, the only reason people like your creepy ass is cuz you gotten a glow up. Yet the only constant is that you probably still don't get any maidens.

-I can't take you seriously when you're looking like you just listen to Skillet's "Monster" classical music cover.

-Your hair looks like the failure of someone trying to make Baja-blast ice cream

Look at him. Look at how much of a dad he is. Look at the bandages constantly on his face cause he’s accident prone. Look at his mushroom shirt. Look at his flower crown. This man is a chemistry professor. This man drives a Harley motorcycle. This man does LSD. He’s anti-war. He put everything on hold to help Marty get back to his original time. (His plan involved launching Marty over the Grand Canyon but that just makes it more fun-)

In conclusion 60s Doc is truly the most ever and deserves love and respect. He could absolutely outsmart the man who didn’t notice when the kid he was bullying got switched with a whole different human being.

Britain versus France

(Pictured: Frenchman Voltaire, who preferred the intellectual views of England, to which he fled in 1726.)

How much of a role do our senses play in knowledge? While we observe things directly and indirectly in experiments, perhaps we shouldn’t trust sensory knowledge—or so Frenchman René Descartes famously thought. He held a mechanical view of nature and of the human body; but he said knowledge is drawn from reason, the pinnacle of which depends on God.

British empiricist John Locke, by contrast, favoured the view that ‘all our ideas come to us via the senses’, a view which was shared by Scotsman David Hume. Similarly, Englishman Thomas Hobbes had already argued that ‘there is no conception in a mans mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organ of Sense’. He thought philosophers got too lost in language.

The Brits were teaming up. Even Voltaire, Descartes’ compatriot, fled to England because he associated it with liberty of thought and scientific thinking. And in somewhat humorous fashion (insofar as philosophers are funny) he criticised Descartes’ view as follows:

‘Our Descartes, born to uncover the errors of antiquity but to substitute his own, and spurred on by that systematising mind which blinds the greatest of men, imagined that he had demonstrated that the soul was the same thing as thought, just as matter, for him, is the same thing as space. He affirms that we think all the time, and that the soul comes into the body already endowed with all the metaphysical notions, knowing God, space, the infinite, having all the abstract ideas, full, in fact, of learning which unfortunately it forgets on leaving the mother’s womb.’

Voltaire exaggerated the position of Descartes, who only argued for ‘innate ideas’, not actual knowledge in the womb. Still, Voltaire was right to find the essential point of difference between the likes of Descartes and Locke: they situated the raw materials of knowledge in completely different places.

This was an era of smack talk. Hobbes buried his own philosophical grave by attempting to besmirch others whilst advocating dodgy mathematics.

And people say Brits are polite.

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Some afterthoughts

Is Descartes’ view really one of dualism? Descartes spoke of three distinct kinds (substances): mind (or soul), whose primary mode is thought; matter, which extends in space and of which body is; and God. The pineal gland connects mind and matter. Wait. What?!

JUST UGGGHHHH HIE DARE YOU BE SO ATTRACTIVE!!! Him and thena can come and get course damn they are just soooo pretty