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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:50 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:09 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:45 pm
Mmm, I remember watching that Episode.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:48 pm
Skip_dAnconia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYXbseapIY Have you ever read anything by Iris Murdoch?
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:29 am
No. But I heard she too had some bullshit biography written about her just like Ayn Rand.
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:28 am
Well I was reading her work "The Sovereignty of Good" for my moral psychology class at the time of being invited to this guild and I was surprised about how ironic it was to read her while re-evaluating objectivism since they contrast so drastically, especially on the issue of self-interest.
Weird, too, how Murdoch was also into writing philosophical-influenced fiction novels.
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:16 pm
The sound has recently decided it refuses to cooperate on my computer, so I can't really hear either of the videos, but just the title of this thread when I saw it made me think to myself something which amounted to "WTF?" If anybody wouldn't mind, could you post roughly what is going on in the two?
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:11 pm
bluecherry
The sound has recently decided it refuses to cooperate on my computer, so I can't really hear either of the videos, but just the title of this thread when I saw it made me think to myself something which amounted to "WTF?" If anybody wouldn't mind, could you post roughly what is going on in the two?Stephen Colbert is saying things like "What did I tell you about sharing a cookie? It rewards the weak!" and a lullaby: "go to sleep... go to sleep... it's in your ratiooonal self-interest.... And the pretend son of him in the other video is going on a tirade about how it's in his self interest to push the button on the vending machine rather than leaving the change for the next guy (duh) and "It's like a free candy bar for egoism" (kinda patent nonsense biggrin )
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:48 pm
Ah, ok. This specification is appreciated.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:46 am
You are aware that Stephen Colbert as he appears on television is a character, right?
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:53 am
Perfect Imperfection v2.0 You are aware that Stephen Colbert as he appears on television is a character, right? Yes, this thread is about the character. The real Stephen Colbert is a democrat and a practicing Roman Catholic. This obviously means he's delusional and self-hating, right guys?
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:52 pm
Actually, I'd think him doing a character like the one he plays on TV in consideration of how he is as a real person and that he's on an obviously comedic show doing an extreme parody version of a Republican just means he is using humor to attempt to continue to further his own actual argument via a method similar to reductio ad absurdum. So if you mean him playing a character which is not how he is in real life, this doesn't directly make that statement so at all. If you just mean about actually being a Democrat and a practicing Roman Catholic than that's another story and one that has been talked about in great lengths so I need not get into here. If anybody does want to hear bout it a link about such stuff already explained in detail can probably be dug up.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:45 am
Such a long-winded way of sayinig "satire." Yes, the real Stephen Colbert is a humorist. The character he plays on his show is a device of satire. The Stephen Colbert outside of his show and character is, in fact, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic.
My comment of being "delusional and self-hating" was a sarcastic comment about being a Democrat and Catholic. Not engaging in satire.
Do you Ayn Rand fans enjoy Voltaire?
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:41 am
I loved reading Voltaire's Candide....
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:58 pm
Actually, I've currently got a project for one class on Voltaire's Candide.
EDIT: Hey wait! OoO I just checked the member list and it looks like you've (*points to above post*) been promoted. Perhaps now you've got the authority to wander around all by your lonesome in the empty uncharted forest. lol
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