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    Social Media's Effects On Our Minds & Lives

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    I'm back on tinder again and it feels weird to treat potential relationships the way I treat job applications.  I matched with like ten different people and now I'm too overwhelmed to hold a conversation with any of them.  I just wanted something casual and low pressure but instead I'm trying to make short tailored responses just to buy time.  What a mess.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    2 hours ago, beerwolf said:

    Nothing wrong with that. I’d be lying if I said I don’t like going to a nice pub, but 50% of the time I’d rather just be chilled at home with some booze (and watching youtube videos). I’ve never been a fan of heaving crowds, especially in bars. I like a yarn in a nook in a quiet pub with 2 or 3 mates. The only time I will tolerate crowds (apart from airports) is going to a live gig, where for some reason it doesn’t bother me at all and I’m as happy as a pig in shit. Nightclubs? Hate them.

    All through the 90’s I had friends constantly badgering me to go clubbing and I’d always refuse. I was the only one who’d never go. I’m pretty sure they were convinced I was a closet homosexual lol. Nah. I just hate nightclubs. 
     

    (mildly drunk, very weary post)

    The only reason we went was because one of my buddies wanted to pick up girls except it just happened to be drag show night and there were no girls.

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    2 hours ago, LimpyLoo said:

    I dare you to go to a psychothapist for 3-4 weeks straight--as a complete pisstake of course--and report back on how awful and Orwellian the experience was.

    How it made your life worse, how farther out-of-tune-with-yourself it made you, how they didn't/couldn't tell you anything you didn't already know, how naive they were compared to your learn-ed cynicism, how the fact that when you wake up in the morning you're filled with dread and apprehensiveness but hey that's the *appropriate* way to feel in this world amarite...

    I just took a piss and it was pretty good

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    3 hours ago, Alcofribas said:

    in the past when i've had no money i've used shopping carts to help transport things. i also took a bunch of boards from an abandoned lot and made bookshelves with these and some bricks (also found for free behind a building). idk, just wandering about and being on the look out at all times helped me find tons of useful stuff over the years. maybe that can work for you?

    Yeah, bricks n boards is a good alternative but I'm not sure how safe that is.  I might get anxious about being crushed (it is not my fetish).  There are plenty of both in this city though.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    14 minutes ago, ignatius said:

    re: furniture.. check 'freecycle' sites for where you live.

    for example.. in portland on reddit there's: https://www.reddit.com/r/PDXBuyNothing/

    and i'd guess there's a craigslist 'free stuff' board for pretty much every city.  a decent way to get some basic furniture if you check it a few times a week. coffee tables, night stands, desks, office chairs etc.. seem to be everywhere. 

    https://portland.craigslist.org/d/free-stuff/search/zip

    edit.. also there's 'community warehouse' type places in a lot of cities. 

    I guess I haven't thought of that.  The main problem is that my car is too small to transport furniture but I might be able to borrow a work vehicle somehow.  All I really need is a coffee table and a bookshelf, then I can put down rugs and pillows and sit on the floor.

    One shot of gin and I'm feeling optimistic already, let's go!

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    7 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

    well, the sokal affair was part of the so-called "science wars", in which several proponents of scientific realism questioned the epistemology of postmodern thinkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars - since you seem to be quite fond of deleuze and guattari, i thought this type of constructive criticism might be worth checking out, if you haven't already.

    Sorry, I'm just not interested 

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    2 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

    the reason is simple: you're the author of flamboyant postmodern-infused posts and i'm just checking if you truly understand the meaning of what you post or if you just parrot what others say. the sokal affair is an interesting case in this regard. my goal isn't to own you or anything btw. 

    OK but what does the sokal affair have to do with me or anything I've said

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    9 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

    yeah i guess i'm just prejudiced against anything related to freud and psychoanalysis, because his concepts are unfalsifiable. maybe these french philosophers were logically consistent in their reasoning and came up with interesting solutions to philosophical problems or whatever, i don't know. i'd need to read their stuff to find that out (which i'm not gonna do). but at the end of the day, are deleuze and guattari's concepts falsifiable? that's what i'm interested in. 

    Deleuze and Guattari aren't logical philosophers.  Poststructuralism isn't concerned with the truth, it's about finding ideas that produce interesting results.  Logic can always be used to support completely disparate and conflicting beliefs about reality, but what's more fruitful is analyzing these beliefs themselves, and how they act against human society and against each other.  They call this kind of thinking schizoanalysis.  Logical systems always break apart at the seams, but schizoanalysis transcends logic, it adapts and repeats eternally.

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    Wow, a lot of responses.  Obviously I'm not very good at summarizing philosophy, because this passage makes a lot more sense in the context of Deleuze and Guattari's ideas.  I'm not scared of schizophrenia because of what it is but because people who have it are incompatible with "normal" society and become victims because of it.

    Edit:  I'm going to try not to attempt any more summaries of philosophical concepts anymore.

    7 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:

    iirc oedipus complex is an unconscious urge to fuck one's mom, resulting in dad envy + every mental illness.  so oedipus censorship would be suppressing the unconscious incest urge... and apparently the author's saying ppl with schizophrenia don't do that.  He's calling them all mom fuckers.  That's what I got from it, anyway.  (As if mental illness didn't already have enough stigma attached to it...)

    See, this is an example of how the passage makes more sense with prior knowledge of D+G.  Their claim is that the Oedipus complex isn't a natural part of human development, but that it's actually something that happens as a response to socially enforced repression.  That's why the word Oedipus is used the way it is in poststructural philosophy.

    Edit:  oops I already broke my rule

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    Since the neuroticization of schizophrenia is the molecular reproduction of capital, by means of a reaxiomatization (reterritorialization) of decoding as accumulation, the historical sense of psychoanalytic practice is evident.

    Schizophrenia is characterized by a recurring denial of the signifiers that are enforced by whatever power structure is in place.  Psychotherapy is a practice of turning people into tools that serve the current social hierarchy.  Schizophrenia is unwieldy in this setting because it constantly finds a way to escape from the prescribed treatments.

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    Schizophrenia is the pattern to Freud’s repressions, it is that which does not qualify to pass the screen of Oedipal censorship.

    As said above, psychotherapy is repressive and schizophrenia is adaptive and uncontainable.

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    Far from being a specifiable defect of human central nervous system functioning, schizophrenia is the convergent motor of cyberpositive escalation: an extraterritorial vastness to be discovered.

    Schizophrenia is a microcosm of human advancement, but on a much faster timeline.  Schizophrenics aren't broken, there just ahead of the rest of humanity, if we consider that human progress is characterized by the formation of different assemblages and the simultaneous dissolution of former ones.  Psychotherapy is a fascist police force over the minds of advanced individuals who have progressed too far beyond the socius.  Instead of trying to shackle and drug schizophrenics we should be learning from them; they're the prophets of cyberspace.

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    ... it is the end that is the commencement. 

    And that end

    is the very one [celle-meme] 

    that eliminates

    all the means

    This part is just a quote from an Artaud poem.  The connotation here is that it's best to accelerate the processes that are bringing us to a certain end instead of trying to resist them.

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