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>Christmas dinner
>dad and older brother are yelling at each other about cogito again

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>>21469252
>Dad enters the room while I'm reading Spinoza
>he throws the book away and yells that if he catches me reading that "monist kike" again, he's throwing me out

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>strut into brothers smoking room
>see him reading a copy of KJV
>the gold leaf on the cover is made in Toledo fashion instead of Sterling
I could have guessed he was a secrete Jesuit, but he could have at least said it to our father’s face instead of of playing him the fool.

>> No.21469372

>>21469252
Do single cell organisms “think”? No, but there there are. And if they’re so lesser they don’t deserve to be considered, why are we made up of so many of them and the other multicellular yet microscopic beings, in fact would die without them.
I am a multitude, therefore I am.

>> No.21469464

>Christmas dinner
>brother insists on explicating the Beowulf in the original Old English, word by word
I hate that show-off

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>>21469372
They might. The illusion that is your impression of the world could be far more encouraging than you believe. You might be only one of those cells living an imagined existence, with only the vaguest representation of the world. Perhaps you, the cell, are to trigger when encountering the color pink, which in your hallucination you experience as someone being wrong on the Internet. Thus another sweet berry is found and your collective survives a bit longer. Hooray for you.

>>21469464
Wait are these supposed to be jokes?

>> No.21469759

>>21469511
Yes, humorously pretending that your family gets into arguments about philosophical topics instead of the usual (politics and personal matters) is an old tradition. A bit like the one-liners that follow the >sister found the Hegel shrine pattern.

>> No.21469783

>>21469372
> Do single cell organisms “think”? No, but there there are.
How retarded do you have to be to misinterpret Descartes' insights this bad.

>> No.21469816

>>21469252
Stop larping.

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>Dad disowned my brother for saying the Republic was allegorical

>> No.21469881

>>21469783
Who says I'm even addressing Decart?

>> No.21470015

>>21469759
But my family does argue about philosophy. Discussing politics at family events is not acceptable. That's just basic etiquette.

>> No.21470025

>>21469511
It's Frasier style humor

>> No.21470036

>>21469862
It's symbolic, not allegorical :3

Every department of the city is the department of an optimal mental state when one looks out upon the world. The Republic is a lens to view things.