/lit/ - Literature

>>11806671
Oh my goodness, your reasoning is poor. The first proposition is the definition of God. It cannot be "false". We don't know that God exists yet, it is true; that is the whole point of the prove.

If you think the other steps are false, explain why

>>11735355
I would say privacy is in part dignity, and dignity, I suppose, would be fundamental. Privacy from corporations and governments is the sheltering and security against becoming some numerical caricature, a simple consumer, or reduced to [threat] or [no threat]. There's not much in way of argument, it's mostly a sentiment. If someone followed you around with a camera you would be anxious and even become angry. You instinctively know something is wrong.

>>11724268
When I was young I was seduced by old Freddy. His lyricism and charm was something I had never encountered and, with the encouragement of a friend, I fell for him.

Now I view things a bit differently, if not harshly. How could he not realize that he was strangling the West on its death bed, that he wasn't doing anything good and decent? His inventions of the forthcoming "free spirits"! What a pitiful joke! He took the life out of our tradition, knowing that it would never recuperate.

Paraphrasing
> science has shown it can take away values, and one day it'll learn how to provide them too

And so now we get the mumbo-jumbo of the Sam Harris types. Nothing (nothing!) will revive us. The only way is to turn around and retreat.

I'll add, for biographical purposes, that the character I must closely relate to, perhaps mistakenly, is Dostoevsky's underground man.

I know suicide is the end of the path I'm on. That is why I want to get off of it. Nietzsche, you know, was right when he said that the cure to all pessimism is sickness. Whenever I have come close to death I have had the remarkable ability to seize hold of myself, to "get a grip", at least for a day or two. But then that rush subsides and I'm back to where I was. How do I get off this path?