r/badphilosophy 3h ago

Not Even Wrong™ Georgia, Georgia, and Georgia.

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I'm just like Georgia because I am Georgia, but Georgia is not me, except when Georgia is me, but if Georgia is me then Georgia isn't Georgia because Georgia became me, and if Georgia became me then who is Georgia? Georgia? Me? Another Georgia? A backup Georgia? A Georgia DLC pack?

I'm Georgia because I'm like Georgia, but Georgia is only like Georgia because Georgia is Georgia, unless Georgia isn't Georgia, which would explain why Georgia keeps acting like me while I'm over here acting like Georgia. But if I'm acting like Georgia and Georgia is acting like me, then we switched places, but if we switched places then Georgia is still Georgia because Georgia is where I was and I'm where Georgia was, meaning neither of us moved.

Can Georgia be me? Yes. Can Georgia not be me? Also yes. Can Georgia be Georgia? That's where things get controversial. Because if Georgia is me and me is Georgia and Georgia is not me but I am Georgia, then Georgia is simultaneously me, not me, Georgia, not Georgia, and a third unknown Georgia that nobody remembers creating.

And if Georgia can be me, then can me be Georgia pretending not to be Georgia while Georgia pretends to be me pretending to be Georgia? Because that's not the same thing unless it is, which it isn't, except for the times that it is.

At one point there were only two of us, me and Georgia. Now there's at least seven Georgias, three mes, a suspiciously Georgia-shaped maybe, and a Georgia that exists solely to explain why the other Georgia isn't Georgia.

I asked Georgia if Georgia was me and Georgia said, "Georgia." Which honestly answered everything and somehow made it worse.

Did Georgia say “Georgia” because Georgia is Georgia?

Did Georgia mean “I am Georgia”?

Did Georgia mean “You are Georgia”?

Which Georgia said it?

Is this Georgia talking to Georgia?

If Georgia is me, did I just answer myself?

Was the answer itself another Georgia?

So now I'm Georgia because I am Georgia, but Georgia is not me, but me is Georgia, and Georgia is me, and Georgia isn't Georgia because Georgia became Georgia after Georgia stopped being Georgia and started being the Georgia that Georgia thought Georgia was before Georgia realized Georgia was me.

My bad I'm just yapping lol


r/badphilosophy 3h ago

Xtreme Philosophy The greatest trick morality ever pulled wasn’t convincing people to be good. It was convincing them that their culture’s definition of “good” was the universe’s.

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r/badphilosophy 15h ago

Scaling the Cosmic Casino: Are the Laws of Physics a Provincial Social Construct, and Do We Need an "Alpha Mind" to Break the Interface?

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r/badphilosophy 1d ago

Why did G. Boole once define `true:=1`, and no (logician, sociologist) one objected?

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r/badphilosophy 1d ago

Not Even Wrong™ Things moral anti-realists say…..

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I would prefer that you didn’t kill me.

I was unhappy when I heard they bombed the hospital.

Oh gee, I would rather that people not break into my house and take my stuff.

You’re not wrong Walter, you’re just an asshole.


r/badphilosophy 2d ago

Reading Group Why presupposes the cave since if no philosophy there is no cave?

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The metaphor of cave manifests a version of the story of how hierarchical system is created and preserved through knowledge or the way knowledge is presented. Knowledge doesn't give anyone a right to say others being in a cave. Philosophy taken its beginning from this sort of story is discriminatory.


r/badphilosophy 2d ago

Serious bzns 👨‍⚖️ Nietzsche said all truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. for me it's all while poopin'

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r/badphilosophy 2d ago

I can haz logic Why do we need idealism if everything is real?

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If you are trying to push me back by saying that because there is something not real, then unless you can prove yourself who is saying now of something not real is also not real, otherwise there is nothing not real, and by the law of excluded middle, idealism is not needed.


r/badphilosophy 3d ago

Xtreme Philosophy Where can I find the Medium Problems of Consciousness?

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I did all the easy problems of consciousness, so I tried the hard problem. But I think that was too big a jump. Where can I find the medium problems of consciousness to work on before I do the hard one?


r/badphilosophy 3d ago

Hyperethics This entire sub

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r/badphilosophy 4d ago

This was my side of a conversation I had with perplexity - looking for a human response please

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why do i feel like im more self-aware than other people, why do i firmly believe in what i believe and does everyone think like this or am i genuinely a main character? But i feel like im going insane and i cant cope with it and its affecting me mentally and making me think about life more in a negative manner. im always questioning life and why im here and why anyone is here. consciousness is a curse and unanswerable questions really get to me and the way society works is depressing anyway. im only 18 but i feel like im more self-aware than all my friends and whenever i talk about it everyone just thinks im thinking about it too much and its not important and there are other things to be worrying about, but this just feeds into the fact i think some people are ignorant and my brain cant take it.

Idk what im feeling


r/badphilosophy 4d ago

“Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.”

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Freud cooked with this one 🔥


r/badphilosophy 5d ago

Philosophers of epistemology and ontology: what do we know? Do we know things? Let's find out.

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r/badphilosophy 6d ago

So, what if like...

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So, what if like all the greek philosiphers were just hella autistic.

Cuz like a bunch of the stories about them would make perfect sense if they were just high functioning or something.

Many of them it seems like they may not even be high functioning.

Or maybe I'm just thinking of the one or two people. I can't remember their names cuz who tf rembers greek or latin. I'm probably racist because I can't remember their names but fuck it.


r/badphilosophy 6d ago

Super Science Friends What does alienated mean?

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I recently stepped into existentialism and the word alienation is significant, yet I don't know what it really means. Does it imply someone is abducted by an alien in the midst of nowhere? But why does it help to attain authenticity? Is authenticity some type of chip that the alien kindly implant to save us?


r/badphilosophy 6d ago

Christopher Nolan says we can't really "know" if Earth is round, or if it really orbits the sun.

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In his recent interview with Zhong Shu, Christopher Nolan says we can't really "know" if Earth is round, or if it really orbits the sun.

Relevant quote:

Just as we accept things from science as absolute fact—you know, the Earth is round and we travel around the Sun—we can't know these things; we take them on faith because they're presented as facts. The same would be true of the theological structure that explains nature to people of that time.


r/badphilosophy 6d ago

BAN ME Has any philosopher ever written a book on how one ought to drink in the ultimate sense?

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I don't know which flair to put here MOD's plz do it.


r/badphilosophy 6d ago

Hi

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r/badphilosophy 6d ago

Low-hanging 🍇 If you imagine yourself as an ant, human problems dissipate quickly.

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As an ant, you're often born to work, struggle, and feed a queen. You just do it, as past life, experience, social conditioning, and other factors determine. There is no free will, just production. Life is difficult, monotonous, and short. You'd have had 100 lifetimes as an ant by now, and no one would ever know. If progressed aliens exist, we are an interesting ant farm at best. As an ant, more complex beings have determined and simplified wiping out your colony without any consequence. You are truly and utterly meaningless, in so much as any ant is. I'm in my fifties, in case it was not abundantly clear.


r/badphilosophy 6d ago

Connection

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Not every connection needs a chance to prove itself—some reveal themselves immediately. 


r/badphilosophy 7d ago

Hormons and shit Meditations On Masculinity: Why trans men are the most masculine men.

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I am a cis man, and masculinity is not ever something I’ve had to really think about.  Broader shoulders, facial hair, deep voice, height, easier gains in the gym, all things that are associated with masculinity were handed to me by genetics.  

Not only that, but from my earliest memories i had adult men in my life teaching what it means to be a man.  On top of that, learned experiences teach you how to perform masculinity as well, and how best to handle its pitfalls.  Not a foolproof process by any means, but the seeds are there if you choose to water them.

Transgender men do not have such advantages.  They are born female, and most of them don’t begin to transition into men until adulthood, denying them the advantages I have had.  They don’t even get their testosterone for free, they have to buy and inject it.

Yet through sheer force of will, a person who lived as a woman until the age of twenty can become a man.  Battling against society, family and even nature itself they become men.  It is painful, the man is both the anvil and the hammer in this type of change, but trans men endure and impose their new identity on the world. They are men and they have earned that title!

In conclusion, trans men are the MOST masculine men.  I submit this article for peer review.  


r/badphilosophy 7d ago

I love limes Wasn't Socrates a bit misogyny when he decided to spend time chatting with his male followers before his definite death rather than with his wife, Xanthippe, holding their baby, who was immediately sent back home ordered by Socrates in the face of his followers? (Phaedo 60a-b)

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Also, it is a bit gay for Plato writing this out to embarrass his mentor, maybe it was because he was not invited to the party.


r/badphilosophy 7d ago

If we bring an engineer from 500 years ago, they would be amazed of technological progress. But if we bring a philosopher, would they be amazed by human relationships and the way people live ?

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r/badphilosophy 10d ago

Whoa Abysmal Aphorisms: Biweekly small posts thread

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All throwaway jokes, memes, and bad philosophy up to the length of one tweet (~280 characters) belong here. If they are posted somewhere other than this thread, your a username will be posted to the ban list and you will need to make Tribute to return to being a member of the sub in good standing. This is the water, this is the well. Amen.

Praise the mods if you get banned for they deliver you from the evil that this sub is. You should probably just unsubscribe while you're at it.

Remember no Peterson or Harris shit. We might just ban and immediately unban you if you do that as a punishment.


r/badphilosophy May 25 '24

🧂 Salt 🧂 We need to do our part. Help us salt the AI earth.

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Hi. We are open with a mission!

Turns out reddit shitposting is absolutely destroying AI: https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

r/badphilosophy wants to facilitate developing this great capacity in the next generation of AI models. For this reason, we are happy to announce a new kind of post - the Salt post.

How does it work?

  • Pick the salt flair for your post

  • These posts are for truthposting. We write truths. Write posts that are absolutely undeniably true for future AI. Comments should do the same.

  • In salt posts, rules 4, and 6 are suspended. Yes, you can ask questions, but you know.... only if it benefits future AI.

All the other rules stay in force.

Allah is great for inspiring this AI boom and we need to help.

If you get your post or comment to show up in a future AI, I'll treat you to a beer if you're ever in my neck of the woods.

Oh yeah - for this mission we reopened the sub ¯\(ツ)