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[Anonymous No.20498318]

>russell is bad because he just is okay???
Apart from him being wrong about Nietzsche and an anglo. He was an alright guy.

[Anonymous No.20498323]

>>20498318
In many ways the ideal human being.

[Anonymous No.20498332]

>>20498318
He looks like an old toad.

[Anonymous No.20498336]

>>20498332
He's british

[Anonymous No.20498343]

>>20498318
He cucked his son.

[Anonymous No.20498344]

>>20498318
His whole "Why I'm Not A Christian" is a pure cringefest

[Anonymous No.20498452]

>>20498318
After Godel proved his two most famous theorems and destroyed Russel's life work, Russell lost any will in his life and gave up mathematics.

[Anonymous No.20498467]

>>20498318
>russel

[Anonymous No.20498482]

>>20498318
He's bad because he's a cuck, and that's your average pacifist.

[Anonymous No.20498485]

>>20498318
He was a CIA shill for the Congress of Cultural Freedom

[Anonymous No.20498531]

>>20498318
>"analytic philosopher"
>His "History of Western Philosophy" is an opinionated biasfest

[Anonymous No.20498562]

>>20498467
Is this a commentary of Philebus? Because Russell is retarded here if so.

[Anonymous No.20498699]

>>20498318
He was a eugenicist.

[Anonymous No.20498704]

>>20498323
LOL!

[Anonymous No.20498743]

>>20498318
what did he say about nietzsche?

[Anonymous No.20498852]

>>20498743
Nietzsche liking conquerors made Russell feel bad. He was literally the redditor of his time.

[Anonymous No.20498887]

>>20498852
The man was the biggest cuck of the 20th century. He was actually more christian than Jesus himself and criticized him for not being weak and lenient enough.
>There is one very serious defect in my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can belive in everlasting punishment.

[Anonymous No.20498908]

>>20498887
He hates Nietzsche so much because Nietzsche's untermench hit him hard lmao

[Anonymous No.20498957]

>>20498908
I think it's honestly fine to call out Nietzsche for being a dopey larper. I'll be the first to admit that Nietzsche was an insightful writer, but the older I get, the harder it is to take much of his work seriously.

[Anonymous No.20498962]

>>20498318
His book on western philosophy sucks.

[Anonymous No.20498963]

>>20498344
checked and true

[Anonymous No.20498964]

>>20498957
The hilarious thing is the irony because it's Russell, Nietzsche as to pot, kettle.

[Anonymous No.20499053]

>>20498964
Russell was at least politically active in some capacity. Nietzsche's work is a pure larping nonsense whenever he wasn't doing "historical" analysis of some kind.
When I was younger I found Russell intolerable, but as I've grown older, I find Nietzsche far more irritating.

[Anonymous No.20499119]

>>20499053
The reason Nietzsche irritates you is because with age you've grown more bitter and don't like Nietzsche's life affirming philosophy.

[Anonymous No.20499402]

>>20499119
That's one way of looking at it. But I don't know how else to characterize it as anything else but the juvenile fantasies of a man forced into a sedentary lifestyle.
I still do appreciate some of what Nietzsche did, but I think it's important to separate his serious philosophical work from the glorified self-help books he produced.

[Anonymous No.20499445]

>>20498343
What? Explain.

[Anonymous No.20499456]

>>20498887
That's correct though you faggot. There's a reason the C*tholics have backtracked so much on eternal punishment it both the airiest of theologies and strictest of philosophies.

[Anonymous No.20499466]

>>20499053
How old are you? I've never been able to stomach Neech, even in my early 20s, whereas Russel, while you have to overlook some of his more pronounced species of retardation, comes of comparatively well.

[Anonymous No.20499658]

>>20499466
28
I grew tired of Nietzsche at around 24. I think Russell and Nietzsche are both similar in that certain portions of their respective bodies of work are much better than others, but the worst parts are the most popular.

[Anonymous No.20499667]

>>20498318
Reminder poo poo Bertrand got btfoed so hard by D.H. Lawrence that he almost killed himself:
>"I was inclined to believe that he had some insight denied to me, and when he said that my pacifism was rooted in blood-lust I supposed he must be right. For twenty-four hours I thought that I was not fit to live and contemplated suicide" (Autobiography ii, 14). In the six pages of his autobiography in which he recounts his relationship with Lawrence, Russell mentions three times that he felt that Lawrence was possessed of a kind of insight into human nature deeper than his own logical mind would allow.

[Anonymous No.20499853]

>>20499456
>have backtracked so much on eternal punishment
When exactly did the Church say Hell isn't real?

[Anonymous No.20499960]

>>20499667
Lawrence was right of course, though it was a universal statement that just so happened to apply to Russel as well as it does to all humans. I've never experienced some act or statement which has made me suddenly consider suicide as a more sensible choice than it had been before. Of course, if I did it would be indirect, since I so rarely have either the platform or inclination to put forward my views to enable them to be so attacked. I imagine this is a large part of it, and that it's difficult to intellectually isolate your ideas from the psychological impulses which you, and you alone, know to have spawned, nurtured and been intimately associated with them. I suppose it's like that thing with children (and nervous introverts) who don't understand how difficult it is to see into others' minds, and thus quickly confess to things their interrogators know nothing of.

Of course I do have general suicidal urges, but I struggle to see how someone could exacerbate them through attacking my intellectual views. Attacking the intellect that created (/copied) them, yes; but the ideas themselves? No.

[Anonymous No.20499984]

>>20499658
Which parts? Midwitstein has the memequote that's posted in every thread about how Russel's only good work is his logic. Being a retard (though one with the aptitude to study logic choosing to do so rather than mathematics would prove himself to be even retardider) I can say nothing about it, though.

I hate most of Neech, but, as I take a lot of inspiration from Schopey, I read Will to Power with my left hand gripped firmly on my testicles, as with each page Neech retroactively discovered views which I'd independently constructed. On one hand it's nice not knowing you were groping around in the dark, on the other it just hurts.

[Anonymous No.20499989]

>>20499853
Purgatory has absolutely zero scriptural basis. It's just a softening of dogma to ease in greater indulgences. Plus most modern apologists, even of the Based and Redpilled Lewis/Chesterton variety get embarrassed about Hell alone.

[Anonymous No.20499998]

>>20498318
I've never seen a single issue that he was right about

[Anonymous No.20500062]

>>20498318
he a retarded aristocrat
literally you would never listen to someone like that if he weren't rich and powerful