/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15511823
>Stop, I don't want to feel old. I remember when /pol/ was an actual containment board and the mods did their raids.
Turns out the real cancer that killed /b/ was politics and they were right in the end, what with the end result of shitposting politics and activism that became real activism. It just also became a virus that proceeded to kill literally everything the fuck else after it killed /b/.

This is a deep pain and all I have is regret

>>15492980
>you're getting it wrong, not i. it is begging the question. and you seem to misunderstand idealism. it IS the belief that consciousness comes first.
No, anon. There's a difference between the simple epistemic fact knowledge about the world and subsequent inference begins from cogito versus saying consciousness is fundamental or solipsistic arguments. Usually solipsists, which idealists invariably retreat to, arbitrarily reject inference.

Look, the only thing confusing here, now, is whether he originally meant the banal observation about epistemology or not. Or if he swapped to the idealist claims in between. No, cogito is not an idealist point, it applies broadly to many epistemologies including fallibilism. It *can be* a premise in an idealist point but it is not necessarily idealist.

>>15458868
>That's not what determinism means.
why are people like this

>>15382048
"The first thing to appreciate is that times of transition from one age into another are always intensely difficult. Then the second is that any transition becomes not just difficult, but more or less impossible, when the lessons of the age being left behind haven't been fully learned. This is why Jung as prophet placed so much internal emphasis on his private life of voluntary suffering and conscious sacrifice, and is why those commentators and interpreters who quaintly claim his psychology was aimed at transcending all the Christian values couldn't be more wrong. It’s why he also emphasized that, sinking as we are into a state of darkness, we are still living inside the Christian aeon of Pisces which means “we shall need Christian virtues for the utmost”, and it’s why, far from abandoning those close to him, he kept supporting and encouraging them. After all, a little encouragement in the face of the impossible is always welcome."

"What he saw in this particular transition was something far worse than the usual affair, at such times, of mass melancholy and despair. “Now we are coming to Aquarius’, as he wrote to a friend, “and we are standing only at the very beginning of this apocalyptic development!”
And, as he would do more than once, he quoted a Latin text from the ancient Sibylline oracles that contains an old visionary prophecy not exactly in line with the new-age celebrations of an Aquarian age:
Luciferi vires accendit Aquarius acres, “Aquarius sets on fire the savage powers of Lucifer.’"

>>15384509
>feminizing
Aquarius is the celestial sign which is masculine, solid, anthropomorphic, somewhat damp, single.
It is mute, quite cold, /12K/ free, upward-trending, feminizing, unchanging, base, with few offspring, the cause of troubles arising from athletic training, carrying burdens, or work in hard materials, an artisan, public.
Men born under this sign are malicious, haters of their own families, incorrigible, self-willed, deceitful, tricky, concealing everything, misanthropic, godless, accusers, betrayers of reputations and the truth, envious, petty, occasionally generous (because of <this sign’s> flow of water), uncontrollable.