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Anonymous Mon Mar 31 20:21:25 2014 No.4723142 [DELETED]

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Is the human condition mendable, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 20:27:29 2014 No.4723165 >>4723142 everything points to the possibility that science will fix it

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 20:31:30 2014 No.4723183 That's what autism is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 20:34:28 2014 No.4723199 Only if you can stop desire, which you can't. Even buddhas go hungry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 20:36:28 2014 No.4723206 >>4723183 So all philosophers are actually autistic...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 20:38:26 2014 No.4723218 >>4723199 its not about stopping it but about managing it differently. when you say hunger you thunk you mean something objective while ll you know is you experience of it and the way your society has taught you to manage it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 21:02:26 2014 No.4723288 File: 11 KB, 215x301, ligotti.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4723142 Yes, by death.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 21:10:10 2014 No.4723321 >>4723218 substantiate that claim

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 21:15:10 2014 No.4723342 >>4723142 only if you're a techno-utopianist, otherwise things are looking quite grim.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 21:32:10 2014 No.4723410 File: 30 KB, 298x400, 1396315953778.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4723142 We don't really know until we try Win-win situation: we make progress or we wipe out humanity

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 21:38:10 2014 No.4723439 >>4723199 I don't see how hunger is a desire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 31 21:40:11 2014 No.4723448 >>4723410 I hadn't looked at it that way. Feels cheerful, man.