/lit/ - Literature

>"Our senses? Our senses are wrong a lot more often than they're right. This has been proved in the laboratory. Don't you know about all those theorems that say nothing is what it seems? There's no past, present or future outside our own mind. The so-called laws of motion are a big hoax. Even sound can trick the mind. Just because you don't hear a sound doesn't mean it's not out there. Dogs can hear it. Other animals. And I'm sure there are sounds even dogs can't hear. But they exist in the air, in waves. Maybe they never stop. High, high, high-pitched. Coming from somewhere."
>"Is it raining," I said, "or isn't it?"
>"I wouldn't want to have to say."
>"What if someone held a gun to your head?"
>"Who, you?"
>"Someone. A man in a trenchcoat and smoky glasses. He holds a gun to your head and says, 'Is it raining or isn't it? All you have to do is tell the truth and I'll put away my gun and take the next flight out of here.'"
>"What truth does he want? Does he want the truth of someone traveling at almost the speed of light in another galaxy? Does he want the truth of someone in orbit around a neutron star? Maybe if these people could see us through a telescope we might look like we were two inches tall and it might be raining yesterday instead of today."
>"He's holding the gun to your head. He wants your truth."
>"What good is my truth? My truth means nothing. What if this guy with the gun come from a planet in a whole different solar system? What we call rain he calls soap. What we call apples he calls rain. So what am I supposed to tell him?"

'What is Metaphysics'

Terrible, terrible, puerile.

Analytic philosophy is garbage but reading a piece of crap like this almost makes me reel out of disgust back into it.

The few lines on boredom are the only worthwhile bits, but then I might as well just read Kierkegaard.

Yeah dude start quoting Lacan the next time your brother's friends start talking about public sex acts

better yet don't even let them respond just answer for them

>>7781798
sorry bro, beat you to it >>7781769