callei
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 20/3/2004 at 08:22 AM |
"If self-fulfilling prophecy is your bag, then by all means, live the
Nihilist dream. " (mono)
its been my experience that they also tend to hope it will raise thier
chances of getting laid, but, being true to its inherant self-fulfilling
prophecy-ness, it lowers thier chances, proportionate to thier
vocalization. Happy people get laid more than sad, mean, or desperate
people. ____________________ Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
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feralucce
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1810 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 20/3/2004 at 11:05 AM |
but at least a nihilist is never disappointed...
Though the nihilist philosophy was developed by a warrior culture and they
reveled in it... they were joyous about it...almost like klingons... it was
not a depressive way to look at the world, but instead an overly realistic
one for thier time...
I am annoyed by people that label themselves but shoose the wronge lable...
todays nihilists are nothing more than clinically depressed, or worse...
pretenders ____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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Anonymous
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posted on 20/3/2004 at 01:15 PM |
Wolfe: I guess I'll have ask my old philosophy professor. Socrates is who
he attributed the quote to.
This person seems to agree: http://www.uwm.edu/~dsigafus/page3.html
But this is digressing from the point, so I'll call it a day.
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Britva
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posted on 20/3/2004 at 10:34 PM |
A few select quotes about nihilists:
"Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National
Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
"We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we
cut off your johnson!"
Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be
afraid of.
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Monolycus
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posted on 21/3/2004 at 04:03 AM |
LadyC (I presume): There's a problem with attributing things to Socrates.
In Plato's dialogues, he uses his old mentor Socrates as a mouthpiece for
his own ideas. Because of this, Plato frequently gets attributed to
Socrates. That is also why I made sure to say "I don't think Socrates ever
said that"... and I still don't. The page you provided contained another
translated bit of "Socrates" (viz. "He is richest who is content with the
least") which comes from one of the Platonic dialogues (Jesus, I miss
having access to my reference books!) The entire passage is the character
of Socrates (as opposed to the historical Socrates) talking about how
desire is like trying to fill a pot with a hole in the bottom. Nice
thought, but it is all Plato. As for the original quotation, it doesn't
strike me as something either of them would have propounded, but I am not
prepared to back that up. I suspect it is one of the many, many
miscellaneous aphorisms that gets erroneously attributed... but I could be
wrong about it.
Britva: Very nice. Sadly, I never made it past the medium-sized Lebowski,
but if those quotes are any indication I will have to super size my order
next time.
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feralucce
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1810 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 23/3/2004 at 03:02 AM |
Mono: super size it man... the entire flick is like that... ____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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Domkitten
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posted on 23/3/2004 at 04:17 AM |
Britiva you beat me to the punch, so I'll just add this which you missed
and which happend to be my favorite.
Bunny Lebowski: Ulli doesn't care about anything. He's a Nihilist.
The Dude: Ah. Must be exhausting.
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