Please stop writing about my life. I would have liked to have kept my personal life private. I am happy to have made it through. Until you have experienced what I have experienced in the past year, I really don’t think it’s fair to sit back and comment on the destructive train wreck that you have witnessed called my life. My heart is broken. I am not writing anything on this website. So whomever is pretending to be me on here, please cut me some slack. I know I have had it better than some. The best thing I can do is be kind to them. Please allow me that courtesy as well. I am sorry your life was turned upside down too. I don’t know the extent and unless you were the one person behind all of this, you don’t know the extent either. Please don’t judge me. I do know right from wrong. i am trying to be a better person and i would like to be a better person. At this point in time I am just really tired. Please just let me rest. —Thank you.
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2013.
Right-o!
Somebody call a Priest this Bitch needs the Last Rights. (:
Survivor? You are still delusional!
Deja vue all over again
SELF-REFUTING PROPOSITIONS & TAUTOLOGIES
“I am not writing anything on this website.” Thank you
In the act of writing something on this website while denying that he has done so, Thank you has uttered a self-refuting proposition. The content of the proposition contradicts its utterance. The consequence is not only to render the assertion self-contradictory but it is also to demolish any philosophical credibility the speaker might claim to possess. He has descended into incoherence. But can anything more be usefully said about self-refuting propositions? I believe that there can be.
At one level self-refuting propositions raise the issue of the indeterminate relationship between the assertion of a proposition and its veridical content. There are propositions which are evidently true. For example, I could say, “I am writing this at 7:52AM” which, as a matter of fact, is true. But all propositions need not be truthful. Indeed, some might actually be falsehoods. For example, I might say, “I am writing this at 8:52AM” which would be false although it would be true in Halifax which points to the fact that the truth or falsity of propositions is not simply a matter of the relationship between their content and their assertion but can, to some degree, be empirically verified. But our concern is with self-refuting propositions. Is there a global self-refuting proposition which is self-refuting “tout court,” that is, across the board. I believe that there is.
It was the 17th. century French philosopher Rene Descartes who famously claimed that to deny his “Cogito ergo sum” (“I think therefore I am”) would constitute such a global self-refuting proposition. In other words, one could not have a thought and then coherently deny that the thought had a thinker. Of course, the fact that a person had a thought which necessarily entailed having a thinker presupposed that the thinker existed prior to having that thought. So the full unpacking of the Cartesian “Cogito” should result in its reformulation to the effect that, “Sum, ergo sum,” (“I am therefore I am”). In other words, one could not rationally deny one’s own existence.
However, there is difficulty here with the re-formulated version. “I am therefore I am” is a tautology, that is, the “definiendum,” that which is to be explained, is logically contained in the “definiens,” the explanation itself. It’s like saying, “A bachelor is an unmarried man” where being “an ummarried man” is what it MEANS to be “a bachelor.” Does Descartes”Cogito” therefore reduce to tautology and, if it does, to an incoherence of a comparable degree to that of the self-refuting proposition and, if so, does it thereby demolish any philosophical credibility the speaker might claim to possess?
You must decide.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
The crazies are out in force!
Seems to me that you are making your life other peoples’ problem. They have every right to comment on your bullshit if it is affecting them.
Nobody is pretending to be you and even if they are, why do you care, you idiot? It’s ANONYMOUS. Nobody is dragging your name through the mud because anything containing names is NOT PUBLISHED.
Stop being so selfish. You are not the center of the world. You are not the center of anything.
News flash. Sitting staring out a window like a little emo bitch and wishing upon a star doesn’t change anything. Getting off your ass and making changes in your life IS. And that requires work, dedication, research. Effort.
I’m sorry. But i’m sick and tired of people going on about how HARD everything is when they haven’t even tried yet.
Nobody is going to do this for you op. Not your parents. Not your friends. Not the government. YOU need to do this. There is nobody else so stop feeling sorry for yourself, you privileged emo, and actually start figuring your shit out. Because i will NOT abide by a generation of adults expecting MY hard work to service their uselessness.
If you think you’re going to die, get your ass to one of the FREE FUCKING HOSPITALS peppering this country and start making an effort to fix the hot mess you clearly are.
Don’t know what the circumstances are surrounding this bitch but if you are on a path to be a better person – pay no mind to people out to derail it.